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What Happens When Failure Codes Are Set Up Incorrectly?
When failure codes are set up correctly, they can help you gather valuable information pertaining to your company’s assets that promotes preventative and efficient maintenance. This information can be applied to work orders and used for reliability analysis. However, when your failure codes are not correctly set up in SAP or Maximo this can impact your assets, your maintenance operations, and your ROI.
- Rhiana Safieh
- HubHead Corp
Checklists, Ignorance and Ineptitude
According to Atul Gawande's excellent book "The Checklist Manifesto", failures only happen because of two things: ignorance or ineptitude.
- Bill Barto
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Asset Management System Implementation Objectives
We need to develop an efficient, robust, and reliable asset management system in order to enable asset management, which is defined as the coordinated activity of an organization to realize value from assets. We need the AMS to…
- Ahmed Kotb
- TRANSCO
Keeping Track of your BoM Building Progress
Sometimes, asset-intensive companies work with a third-party contractor to assist with a BoM building project. There are quite a few reasons for this. For one, building BoMs are expensive. Much time, resources, and expertise are required for successful completion, and not every asset-intensive company may possess the required expertise. In this case, it would make sense for these companies to outsource their BoM building rather than embarking on a project without adequate resources.
- Adanna Anyalachi
- HubHead
How to Maintain an Efficient Workforce During the Pandemic and Beyond
Workforce efficiency is key to success in a market facing labor shortages and skills gap issues. Factor in a global pandemic, and most companies have had to reimagine how they meet staffing requirements, asking questions like: What are the current recruiting and staffing challenges? Should we partner with an outside firm to help support recruiting needs? How is COVID-19 impacting the way business is done?
- Caroline Campbell Burgreen
- Allied Reliability
Advantages of the Infravision-Application for Your Business
In many cases, electrical safety does not yet receive the attention it deserves. Most factories work with some kind of control, but this does not provide the desired data to ensure a high level inspection. In addition, working methods and the associated output can vary quite a bit per location. Especially if a company has several branches, spread over more than one country.
- Chris Kramer
- I-care
Confused About the Wireless Vibration Sensor Options Available in the Market? Keep in Mind These Key Aspects to Make the Right Choice.
There are various types and brands of wireless vibration sensors in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) market. The increased number of wireless sensor options with different properties have brought complexity to potential customers. . This text aims to present an overview of the wireless vibration sensors and make it easier for the reader to perform market research and ask the right questions to make the right decisions.
- Can Uslu
- PdMechanics
It’s 2021, and You’re Still Struggling to Keep Up with EAM/CMMS Fundamentals
EAM and CMMS systems are essential to the survival of asset-intensive companies. In a highly digitized era, this is not novel information. The key to extracting the full value from an EAM or CMMS system is managing it properly. Even though EAM/CMMS systems have been on the market for a long time, many companies still struggle with the basics of maintaining their systems.
- Adanna Anyalachi
- HubHead
No, You Cannot Borrow My Truck
In 1951, the US Army began publishing PS Magazine. The idea was to publish a magazine about Preventive Maintenance that soldiers would actually want to read. They found an artist named Will Eisner and his company began creating artwork for the magazine. Eisner believed that comics had teaching potential and convinced many talented artists to help him. Each month contained a single-frame comic and an accompanying limerick called "Joe's Dope Sheet". Every month followed the story of Joe, a soldier who ignores preventive maintenance and learns of its importance in the end.
- Bill Barto
- RELIABILITY CONNECT