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Maintenance Supervisors – Are They Set-Up for Success or Failure?

Is your organization proactive about training or do they opt for the “Baptism by Fire” approach? Too many facilities I visit have no formal training plans. A key position which training is often overlooked is supervision. The common misconception is that because the individual was a good maintenance mechanic or

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Controlling Maintenance MRO Inventory Materials and Spares

Companies can realize significant savings by controlling inventories of maintenance materials. Two points should be understood by all persons involved with developing and instituting a maintenance MRO inventory control system: Inventory control does not necessarily mean that inventories should be kept at a minimum and or current dollars in inventory

Materials Management

MRO Storeroom Best Practices - Are you Kitting me?

The storeroom is an integral part of an efficient and effective maintenance process. Equipment reliability, uptime, and frontline productivity rely on having the right spare parts and tools available in the right quantity when the work order is scheduled. That's why having the correct tactical and strategic processes in place

The Storeroom Roadmap

The Storeroom Roadmap Pt. 1: Introduction to World Class Inventory Management

Welcome and thanks for visiting! This is the first edition in a 12-month series of blog entries, designed to discuss and explain high level storeroom performance. It should also help create a compelling case for change at your plant or location. I’ll be writing a blog every month covering

Materials Management

The Storeroom Road Map Pt. 12: Final Thoughts

This blog series began as a 12-month effort to lay out a path to a world class storeroom. Together we’ve accomplished that. For this December issue, I’d like to offer some final thoughts and bring a few concepts home. I’ve appreciated the comments and replies as a

Materials Managemnt

Growing Your Efficient Storeroom: From Intermediate to Advanced Part II

GROWING YOUR EFFICIENT STOREROOM From Intermediate to Advanced Here we are, at the completion of the Storeroom Roadmap. This month we’ll finish discussing those practices (yellow blocks) that make our storeroom efficient at an advanced level. As a preview to next month’s blog, our last in this year

Materials Management

Training Snapshot: Materials Management for Maintenance

If you have ever you wanted to peak under the hood of Marshall Institute training content now’s your chance. I will be revealing content from our maintenance and reliability public seminars in this Training Snapshot series. This post checks out a snippet of our Materials Management for Maintenance seminar

The Storeroom Roadmap

The Storeroom Roadmap Pt. 2: Before your storeroom can be efficient, it must first be effective

Welcome back! This month, we are going to discuss the initial step of making your maintenance storeroom effective. We are often contacted by clients who tend to share a common vision and goal, asking “Can you help us make our storeroom more efficient?” “Of course we can, that’s what

Key Maintenance Activities

Can you predict and identify failure before it happens?

We recently had a comment posted on Tracy Strawn's blog post "Preventive Maintenance - The Cost of Maintaining Equipment" Khaled Ekram asked the question: "What if we could identify failure before it happens with a reasonable time in which we could order the damaged parts and recieve

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