ATS

MAY 14, 2024

Downtime splits into two types: Planned downtime: This is where time is made available in the production schedule for tasks such as machine inspections and maintenance. Cleaning and operator training are other reasons for planning downtime. Develop training plans and ensure progress and attainments are recorded.

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ATS

APRIL 5, 2024

Making this all happen, consistently, is the job of the manufacturing process control plan. This blog explains what a process control plan is and why every manufacturer should use one. It also reviews the main steps involved in developing and putting a plan in place. What is a process control plan?

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Gary Mintchell

MAY 6, 2024

Highlights: Partnership seeks to reduce technology integration, maintenance, and upgrade costs in the process automation industry. It supports the OPAF and O-PAS goals of reducing integration, maintenance, and upgrade costs in the highly fragmented and largely proprietary process control technology market.

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ATS

APRIL 30, 2024

For example, consider the maintenance technicians who see the potential for machine health monitoring systems. This ranges from people working on the plant floor and the maintenance technicians who keep the machines and lines running, to operations managers, the quality function and even sales teams. The four steps are: 1.

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Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 23, 2022

Focus on Maintenance Management. I have worked with a number of maintenance and reliability media companies. They have all been embroiled in discussions of the comparative value of maintenance strategies: Reactive (run-to-failure), Preventive, Predictive, Reliability-centered. They were wrong.

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Metrology

AUGUST 23, 2022

Maintenance can be a complex undertaking, requiring thorough planning and an astute understanding of a facility’s risk profile. Maintenance does not occur in a. The post Enabling Predictive Maintenance Through Robotic Inspection appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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iBASEt

APRIL 17, 2024

Thanks to the United Nations climate change conference in November 2022 (COP27), the issue of sustainability should be on every business strategic plan. A key area of focus should be the careful management of maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) activities.

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ATS

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Share Whether you’re operating preventive, condition monitoring or predictive maintenance, the actual tasks still need planning and organizing. If you’ve ever asked, “What is a maintenance planner?” because you think it might be the role for you, or if you want to improve how maintenance is done, this blog has the answers.

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ATS

JANUARY 5, 2024

Share When it comes to maintenance strategies, condition-based maintenance (CBM) and predictive maintenance (PdM) might initially seem like two sides of the same coin. This is why, before we go any further, we’ll define each maintenance strategy and how it works in detail. Let’s dive in!

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Canadian Manufacturing

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Despite this, 19 per cent of Canadian businesses surveyed still rely on run-to-fail maintenance. It is part of a report that provides insights into how businesses currently manage maintenance and how they can reduce unplanned downtime. The findings demonstrate the importance of equipment reliability and maintenance.

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Mold Making Technology

MARCH 21, 2024

The Mold Maintenance Center of Excellence carries on the legacy that former owner Steve Johnson created with his hands-on and lecture mold maintenance workshop. It took about six months of planning and hard work to bring the vision to reality in January 2024. Source, all images: Beaumont Technologies Inc.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

PFMEA in manufacturing supports plant maintenance operations by identifying priorities for servicing and repair. Prior to process startup: Performing a PFMEA at this point can support the maintenance team in developing appropriate preventive maintenance strategies. Management should develop plans to mitigate these failure modes.

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ATS

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Share Timely maintenance of production equipment is critical in manufacturing facilities. If corrective and preventive maintenance are not performed in a timely manner, it can lead to equipment failure, which in turn can result in unplanned downtime, late product delivery, a dent in your reputation and even a hit to your bottom line.

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ATS

MARCH 18, 2024

Clearly, maintenance has a big role to play if the aircraft part manufacturing industry is to satisfy the demand from aircraft operators and air travelers. The problem is though, downtime, planned or unplanned, cuts into availability, so more preventive maintenance won’t necessarily help. This is where measurement comes in.

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ATS

MARCH 26, 2024

Share Machine maintenance is an expense that eats into margins. For manufacturers in food and beverage, predictive maintenance provides a way to meet this challenge. Predictive maintenance is about anticipating when machinery needs attention based on history and data from condition monitoring sensors.

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Gary Mintchell

AUGUST 1, 2022

solution helps increase end user equipment uptime and satisfaction while reducing OEM service and maintenance costs.”. Users can apply data analytics and tools to troubleshoot and fix equipment, predict failures, plan maintenance and make informed business decisions in areas such as R&D.

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E&T

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The latest Audit Scotland report has found that the Scottish government is faced with a combination of reduced capital budgets, higher costs and increased maintenance requirements that would make it unable to afford the cost of delivering its public sector infrastructure plan.

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ATS

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Share Maintenance is key to extending asset life, but servicing and repairs are only part of what’s involved. The practice of enterprise asset management encompasses maintenance but takes a broader, cradle-to-grave approach. MRO: Servicing, routine maintenance and repairs require materials and replacement parts.

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ATS

MARCH 20, 2024

Downtime can be planned or unplanned. Planned downtime is time used for preventive maintenance. Downtime can be addressed by moving to a predictive maintenance strategy. Integrate maintenance with process optimization in manufacturing Process optimization is an essential continuous improvement activity.

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MEM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It helps with compliance and consent flows, avoids pipework rupture caused by excessive pressure, and will support Anglian Water to efficiently implement planned maintenance work. The need to spend a considerable amount of maintenance time on the older pumps prompted Anglian Water to explore the latest maintain-in-place technologies.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The collaboration will see Dassault Systèmes and MEMKO provide virtual twin workflows for composite components in Australia’s plan to embark on the manufacturing, and maintenance of aircraft and spacecraft. Dassault Systèmes is poised to become a catalyst for Australia’s overall technological progress.

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ATS

APRIL 5, 2024

Share Predictive maintenance minimizes machine downtime while extending life and reducing costs but requires data about their health and activity. Uses include: Predictive maintenance: Machine condition data can drive a maintenance strategy where work is done just before it becomes necessary. What is machine data?

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MRPEasy

MARCH 15, 2024

Referring to both manual and software-supported systems, it covers functions from inventory management and production planning to quality management and maintenance. Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) is essentially the integrated management of a manufacturing business. What is Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM)?

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E&T

JANUARY 17, 2023

Under the terms of the contract, valued at around €3bn (£2.7bn), Siemens Mobility will design, manufacture, commission and test the locomotives and provide 35 years of full service maintenance. Deliveries are planned over a period of 11 years.

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Gary Mintchell

JUNE 14, 2023

When I probed into industrial use cases, the only surprising thing was anticipated benefits from “predictive maintenance.” In addition to use by operations staff, maintenance and services staff can more easily find root causes and other diagnostics leading to faster time to repair. This assumes close linking to the “digital twin.”

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E&T

JANUARY 24, 2023

This enables predictive maintenance – a key building block of a smart grid – to reduce outages, plus other grid edge technologies, and smart meters to control domestic energy usage. First, because unnecessary maintenance, refurbishment or full replacement can have very high carbon impacts.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 13, 2024

Each January Boral delivers a planned shutdown at its Berrima Cement Works facility in NSW – an event Coates Industrial Solutions has supported for 27 years with equipment hire, on-site tool stores and experienced personnel. The collaborative effort ensured maintenance works could continue safely and on schedule.

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NCMS

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

NCMS is assisting the Department of Defense in seeking industry partners wishing to meet during the DOD Maintenance Symposium 2023 to discuss the Department’s plan for Regional Sustainment Framework intended to bring MRO for military weapon systems closer to the point of need.

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ATS

MARCH 5, 2024

Share Maintenance affects more than just machine availability. The purpose of this blog is to let the maintenance department know how they can influence FPY and why they should seek out opportunities to do that. The maintenance function should implement a planned maintenance program to detect and correct for wear in machine parts.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

OCTOBER 10, 2023

“Our key role is to reduce downtime for the equipment and give all the components the best chance of surviving to the design life or next maintenance period,” says Daniel McEvoy, one of Motion’s Reliability Engineers. This allowed the site staff to focus on the maintenance and repair.”

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ATS

AUGUST 8, 2023

CAFM software provides the infrastructure to facilitate asset monitoring, maintenance planning, work order management, compliance tracking and more. In this blog post, we will explore how CAFM systems can help you to enable more efficient maintenance and operations. What are common capabilities of CAFM software?

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AU Manufacturing

AUGUST 4, 2022

Boeing Defence Australia (BDA) has begun a major maintenance project that would overhaul the Royal Australian Air Force’s (RAAF) fleet of P-8A Poseidon aircraft— a major coup for the company and a first-of-its-kind in Australia. .

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Manufacturer's Monthly

JUNE 20, 2023

Back to basics – A need for a Total Productive Maintenance perspective Many of you reading this would’ve heard the terms “proactive”, “preventative” or “predictive” maintenance. Planned Maintenance (PM) Involves developing a maintenance plan based on the actual and/or expected condition of the equipment.

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Manufacturer's Monthly

AUGUST 16, 2023

UGL, a member of the CIMIC Group, has won a contract with the Department of Defence to provide strategic advice, planning, supply management, operations, and maintenance for the Australian Defence Force’s (ADF) fuel network. UGL managing eirector Doug Moss said: “UGL’s history in Australia dates back to 1899.

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Canadian Manufacturing

MARCH 25, 2024

(CadRI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Sojitz Group announces that it has successfully reached a 23-year rail fleet maintenance, repair, and overhaul agreement with ONxpress Operations Inc. OOI), the official operations and maintenance service provider for Metrolinx’s GO Expansion – OnCorr project. CadRFS) (est.

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Robotics Automation News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

These prestigious contracts highlight PickNik Robotics’ continued expertise in developing cutting-edge technologies for autonomous robotic manipulation, utilization, and maintenance, as well as integrated mission planning and execution for space […]

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