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  • Implementation Strategy

Do Your Planners Have the Training they need to be Effective?

Are you considering the implementation of Planning and Scheduling in your Maintenance group? Maybe you have already started the process and chosen the Planners to take you forward in your Continuous Improvement Process..

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  • Leadership

Tips for Getting More from Your Team During Meetings

Senior people need to strike a balance between providing enough structure to ensure there is control and stability of day-to-day activities, while giving their team members room to make improvement suggestions, grow and expand their capabilities. One place where a leader can send a strong message of regarding this balance is during meetings with their team..

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  • Continuous Improvement

RIP Predictive Maintenance. Long Live Predictive Maintenance

Companies have been using Predictive Maintenance for 30 years using technologies like vibration, ultrasonic, thermography, oil analysis, and motor current analysis. It is only within the last five years that advances in technology have radically changed what is possible. The future of Predictive Maintenance is...

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  • Leadership

How Do You Trigger Change in Your Plant

Implementing a CMMS involves making changes. How can we convince people to buy into these changes…

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  • Precision and Proactive Skills

Why Filter Industrial Oil

As much as 70% of all premature machine failures can be attributed to contamination. To prevent these failures, it is important to purify the new oil as it comes into the facility and then keep it clean throughout its life. By establishing an ISO code cleanliness goal and maintaining it, you will extend the life of the oil and the equipment..

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  • Condition Monitoring

Rotor Bar Analysis using Electrical Signature Analysis

Broken or fractured rotor bars are found as elevated Pole Pass Frequency (PPF) sidebands of line fre- quency (LF). PPF is calculated using the synchronous speed minus the running speed times the number of poles..

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  • Asset Strategy

Protecting Your Lubricated Assets

Unplugging your computer without going through the proper shutdown steps can be a recipe for disaster. In the same way you need to ensure your lubricated equipment is idled and stored properly, allowing it to be protected against corrosion and oxidation..

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  • Work & Spares

Maintenance Planner’s Checklist (Work Order Journey)

Can we imagine an orchestra playing without a Maestro? Surely the result will be a song of ecstasy. It's the same in our maintenance department, the planner act like the maestro to plan, organize, and schedule the job..

  • Alaa Omar
  • Egyptian Natural Gas Co.
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  • Precision and Proactive Skills

Concepts of Balancing – Rotational Unbalance

Rotational unbalance occurs when there is an uneven distribution of mass around an axis of rotation. This quick tip will explain the possible causes of unbalance…

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