Maintenance Planning and Scheduling: An Overview - Reliable Plant
WEBMaintenance planning and scheduling are two different functions that, when used together, form a maintenance program. Maintenance planning can be defined as an end-to-end process that identifies and addresses any possible issues ahead of time. This involves identifying the parts and tools necessary for jobs and making sure they're available and ...
A plain English guide to modern manufacturing methods
WEBBasically, modern manufacturing methods boil down to three key concepts: Reduce waste – reduce the amount of materials, capacity and manpower wasted in the process by producing just enough product to meet current demand. Maintain quality – devise more effective manufacturing methods in order to continue making quality products despite ...
Benefits of a Smart Supply Chain - Reliable Plant
WEBPredict Bottlenecks. The smart supply chain system is both self-organizing and self-optimizing. Data from connected sensors in the factory can be integrated with data on user preferences, weather and information on other variables that enter the system. A smart system can predict a bottleneck arising from an abnormal weather event.
Fishbone Diagram Explained - Reliable Plant
WEBA fishbone diagram is a cause-and-effect discovery tool that helps figure out the reason (s) for defects, variations or failures within a process. In other words, it helps break down, in successive layers, root causes that potentially contribute to an effect. Sometimes called an Ishikawa diagram or cause-and-effect analysis, a fishbone diagram ...
Maintenance Management: An Overview - Reliable Plant
WEBMaintenance management is defined as the process of maintaining a company's assets and resources while controlling time and costs, thereby ensuring maximum efficiency of the manufacturing process. Maintenance management has gone from an archaic, tedious, handwritten process to a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) — a …
Developing a Lean Culture – an Elements Checklist - Reliable Plant
WEBPart 1 – Developing a cultural framework. A lean cultural framework is developed and sets the boundaries for a positive culture by: Establishing “guiding principles” or “behavioral expectations” for the entire organization. Linking human resources policies and procedures to the behavioral expectations and the lean vision and ...
Keys to Improve Maintenance Workflow - Reliable Plant
WEBKeys to Improve Maintenance Workflow. Regardless of what your company manufactures, two things are essential for product quality and customer satisfaction: how you manage, maintain and measure employees' work; and how you manage your equipment's performance. The road to these two goals isn't always a clear path.
J.R. Simplot Announces $460 Million Expansion in Canada
WEBJ.R. Simplot recently announced a $460 million investment and expansion of the company's operations in Manitoba, Canada. The project, which is scheduled to begin this spring, will increase the size of the Simplot facility from 180,000 to 460,000 square feet. The expansion will more than double the plant's need for potatoes from regional growers ...
Preventive Maintenance: An Overview - Reliable Plant
WEBThe ultimate goal of preventive maintenance is nothing breaking down, or zero downtime. The main objectives of preventive maintenance are as follows: Enhance asset/equipment productive life. Reduce critical equipment breakdowns. Minimize production loss due to equipment failures.
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): An Overview - Reliable Plant
WEBThe quality part of the equation is calculated as: (12,000 - 3,000 defects) / 12,000 = 75 percent Quality. Another way to look at it is 3,000 bottles / 60 bottles per minute = 50 minutes lost quality. So, to calculate the overall equipment effectiveness (Availability x Performance x Quality = OEE), we'd take 62.5 percent x 66.7 percent x 75 ...
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