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Equipment Failure Codes

What is a failure code? Quite simply, it is a code that illustrates why an asset failed or the reason that the asset failed. Codes can be a number which is cross referenced to a list of actual code descriptions or more conveniently a series of alphanumeric characters that are a logical abbreviation of their descriptions. However, with modern database technology and available disk space, the full

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Unlock the potential of Analytics for Planning, Scheduling and Work Management

For registration please click on the link below https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/168370295 Maximo manages large amount of work orders challenging to prioritize ,plan and schedule work order with constraints like labor availability, materials ,tools, services and asset availability .These may impact your operations ,maintenance ,reliability & engineering in one or many ways like: - Pending

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Maintenance Approaches - Proactive and Reactive

Maintenance can be broken into categories – Proactive and Reactive. Proactive is further divided into two classes- Preventive and Predictive while Reactive can be split into – Corrective and Emergency. Reactive maintenance, the easiest approach, the oft-used approach, the out-of-sheer-habit approach. But look closer and you will find that the worst thing that a company can do is spend a lot of time

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You can avoid some expensive burn-outs if you opt for preventive maintenance and not reactive maintenance

WE will cross the bridge when it comes. That’s a nice philosophy to have in life. But not in a plant. Certainly not with machines. Every machine comes with a suffix called maintenance attached to it. That’s why the term called AMCs (Annual Maintenance Contracts) is a highlight of many a sales negotiation talk too. And yet, maintenance is orphaned once the machine gets out of the crib. The crying

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Your Assets Need Care

Exercising 20 minutes every morning is better than a heart-transplant. Won’t the same common sense apply to your maintenance and reliability? Have you thought about it? It seems intriguing and yet so true. As engineers lost in the iron-clad world of engines, assembly lines, tool-boxes, turbines and metal all around; it’s easy to forget what machines are all about. It’s easy to forget that just

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A driving lesson for operations and maintenance

Picture this. Personnel from a plant are driving along a road in an automobile. The maintenance manager is driving blindfolded. Sitting beside the maintenance manager is the mill manager who is peering in the rear view mirror. In the back seat, the production manager is urging the maintenance manager to proceed at top speed while simultaneously warning him about a flat tire. This situation is obviously

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Webinar - "Maximo data analysis and reporting for asset reliability and maintenance"

More than 200 Maintenance and Reliability professionals attended this webinar on Maximo data analysis and reporting. The webinar covered the different aspects of Maintenance and Reliability and also showcased some real life reports like, PM performance, RCM, WO management, Failure Analysis, MTBF, MTTF, RCA , cost analysis and many more. To view the recording of this webinar please click http://

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