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I’ve worked in the plant maintenance industry for years. How did KPI’s look in those days? Here is an example KPI in 1988: ”Keep the machines running”. Fresh out of engineering school and thrown into the corporate engine, my life was all about keeping the conveyor belts running. That was the priority (and still is, but said differently) at [...]
08/26/2010 11:53 AM
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I recently spent some time helping a well-known yogurt manufacturer improve their visibility into their daily maintenance process. Their CMMS product is 10 years old, not updated with the correct patches, and the reporting software is equally as ancient. The manager in charge of maintenance performance seemed less stressed this time as compared to last. During [...]
07/21/2010 06:11 PM
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As our training staff combs through North America teaching folks how to use MP2 CMMS Software I can’t help but notice a pattern of success we are teaching that I feel will benefit folks using any type of CMMS Software. The advice I have to share is succinctly stated in the title of this post: [...]
05/10/2010 10:02 PM
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There has been a shift in behaviors shown by both consumer and B2B shoppers with respect to their due diligence process, decision-making, and purchasing actions. During the past several years, these standard marketing and sales cycle steps have taken on more of a self-service approach. During the upcoming year 2010, more than ever before, people will be using Google Search, [...]
12/14/2009 10:01 AM
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I’ve talked with more than one client recently who had this idea, which prompted me to ask around and see if there is a trend going recently that might warrant some exposure: The burden of tracking IT assets (computers, servers, hardware and related serial numbers, peripherals, components, etc) is being handled at some companies using [...]
11/12/2009 04:17 PM
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“My facilities personnel are busy people. They need to be out in the field getting work done … not sitting in front of a computer.” This familiar complaint has been repeated by my many facilities managers for quite sometime. Their plea for help usually goes unanswered like someone yelling into a canyon and [...]
08/14/2009 10:16 PM
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Go frugal with energy consumption to manage your facilities trouble free in the long run.
08/14/2009 10:04 PM
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These days many companies are scaling back on expenditures of any kind. And, why not? It just makes sense. Obviously, the severe economic downturn has impacted organizations across the United States and the Globe. Capital conservation has become the rule and cutbacks are inevitable. Yet, this is the just the kind of environment that completely [...]
08/09/2009 02:23 PM
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I do quite a bit of training on MP2 CMMS across North America. As I visit sites and work with maintenance teams, there are some similaritieis worth sharing. Regardless of whether the maintenance business I am working with is tasked to maintain assets within either Manufacturing or Facilities, the underlying challenges remain similar. My point today [...]
08/09/2009 01:45 PM
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CMMS Advice is a blog dedicated to centralizing information for folks interested in learning more about CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management Software), or on a larger scale EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) Software. The format of this blog will be a free-form mixture of opinions, articles and whitepapers with CMMS or EAM as the central common thread. [...]
08/05/2009 04:01 PM
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