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Overall equipment efficiency : achieve higher product quality

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We’ve finally arrived at the third leg of the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) journey: product/output quality. At this point, if we’ve been calculating the first two components of OEE correctly, we should have accurate measures of equipment availability and the performance of that equipment when it’s operating, which is typically expressed in terms of total […]

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Overall equipment efficiency : achieve higher product quality

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We’ve finally arrived at the third leg of the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) journey: product/output quality. At this point, if we’ve been calculating the first two components of OEE correctly, we should have accurate measures of equipment availability and the performance of that equipment when it’s operating, which is typically expressed in terms of total

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Preventive maintenance best practices: how much should you be doing?

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When companies come to ManagerPlus looking for our maintenance management software and expertise, it\’s not because they aren\’t familiar with preventive maintenance. The vast majority are already performing routine oil changes, replacing HVAC filters, lubricating heavy machinery, performing safety inspections, etc. In most cases, what they need is for us to assist them in performing

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Preventive maintenance best practices: how much should you be doing?

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When companies come to ManagerPlus looking for our maintenance management software and expertise, it’s not because they aren’t familiar with preventive maintenance. The vast majority are already performing routine oil changes, replacing HVAC filters, lubricating heavy machinery, performing safety inspections, etc. In most cases, what they need is for us to assist them in performing

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How to minimize maintenance management labor cost?

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ABCs of Advanced Maintenance: Schedule Compliance Ratio In our last installment, we looked at the first key metric you should calculate when evaluating your maintenance operations: Maintenance management Cost as a Percent of RAV (Replacement Asset Value). In broad terms, this metric indicates whether you\’re spending too much on maintenance. So let\’s suppose you\’ve used

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How to minimize maintenance management labor cost?

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ABCs of Advanced Maintenance: Schedule Compliance Ratio In our last installment, we looked at the first key metric you should calculate when evaluating your maintenance operations: Maintenance management Cost as a Percent of RAV (Replacement Asset Value). In broad terms, this metric indicates whether you’re spending too much on maintenance. So let’s suppose you’ve used

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Maintenance benchmarking with cmms: how does your company compare?

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ABCs of Advanced Maintenance: Maintenance Cost and Replacement Asset Value For many companies, efforts to streamline maintenance operations tend to follow a “fire, ready, aim” progression. Management wants to see improvements, but everyone has a different idea about how this should be accomplished, and pretty soon there are a dozen different initiatives underway with no

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Maintenance benchmarking with cmms: how does your company compare?

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ABCs of Advanced Maintenance: Maintenance Cost and Replacement Asset Value For many companies, efforts to streamline maintenance operations tend to follow a “fire, ready, aim” progression. Management wants to see improvements, but everyone has a different idea about how this should be accomplished, and pretty soon there are a dozen different initiatives underway with no

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3 ways facility management software helps keep clients happy

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  Occupancy is always at the top of every facility owner’s list of priorities—keeping current clients happy while attracting new business is the key to profitability. The key to client happiness is, in turn, a function of facility condition and overall costs. This is where facility managers and maintenance personnel come into the picture. They

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3 ways facility management software helps keep clients happy

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  Occupancy is always at the top of every facility owner’s list of priorities—keeping current clients happy while attracting new business is the key to profitability. The key to client happiness is, in turn, a function of facility condition and overall costs. This is where facility managers and maintenance personnel come into the picture. They

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