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Reading Time: 2 minutes Maintenance tasks for indoor cycling bikes include daily, weekly and monthly cleaning, inspection, and adjustment tasks. Indoor…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Assistive devices help individuals with disabilities live a more independent life by using technology, increasing accessibility to all.
Reading Time: 4 minutes Purchase orders (PO) are created to start a purchasing relationship with an outside vendor or contractor. Any business…
Reading Time: 6 minutesStraight Line Depreciation Formulas & Examples Straight line depreciation is the most common method that describes how the value…
Reading Time: 5 minutesMaintenance management is the process of maintaining a company’s assets and resources. The purpose is to ensure that production…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe most common ISO standards to follow for manufacturing facilities are ISO 55000, 55001, and 55002.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA bathtub curve is a visual representation of the failure rate of a product or group of products over…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen it comes to equipment failure, there are a few interesting trends that we see. In particular, we can…
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn maintenance, a turnaround is an event where one or more assets are temporarily removed from service so…
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou should budget approximately 2% to 5% of your total replacement asset value (RAV). This metric, known as %RAV,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA fixed asset is one of two major categories of physical property for a company and includes those items…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome of the most common root cause analysis mistakes involve poor definitions or focusing too much…
Reading Time: 2 minutes For root cause analysis to be effective, you need to dig deep. This ultimately comes…
Reading Time: 5 minutesUtilizing key performance indicators throughout inventory control systems helps…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe collection of equipment failure data over time allows for proper asset management and …
Reading Time: 2 minutesOf the numerous RCA methods used, the one you choose depends on the depth and nature…
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn order to decide if it is time to repair or replace an asset, you must compare the current…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat is equipment depreciation and why is it important? Equipment depreciation is a measure of how much…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn asset life cycle refers to the stages involved in the management of an…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile both availability and reliability metrics measure uptime or the length of time…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat’s idle time and how does it differ from downtime? What’s idle time and how does it…
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo get the very most out of your MRO (maintenance, reliability, and operations) inventory, you need…
Reading Time: 2 minutesCriticality is a measure of how important an asset is to your process. The more critical…
Reading Time: 2 minutesOverall equipment effectiveness (OEE), the most common metric used to characterize the performance of…
Reading Time: 2 minutesMaintenance metrics are used to measure and quantify the level of achievement of a particular…
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are numerous ways to improve your equipment uptime, each of which has to do with streamlining your…
Reading Time: 2 minutesManufacturing is a bit of a different beast to facilities management, which means that the most useful metrics and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBreakdown time is downtime that results from the equipment breaking down. You’d start counting from the time the asset…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe maintenance unit cost is a snapshot of the total maintenance cost required to manufacture a…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen implementing total productive maintenance (TPM), I think it’s best to gradually phase it in.