Don’t Let Dirty Data Derail Your Greenfield Projects

A greenfield project should provide a fresh start. You won’t be encumbered by past mistakes or the habits of previous operations....

Get Your House in Order

Learn strategies for cleaning messy data and discover how effective data management can extend the mean time between failures from months to years....

Ensuring Successful CMMS Adoption — Critical Factors

In 2008, an Atlanta-based company with a network of North American paper mills began searching for an enterprise-wide computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)....

Eliminating Failures and Paving the Way for Proactive Maintenance Support

During his 40+ year career with two paper companies and an energy company, Bob Anderson, now a PCA Consulting professional, implemented system-wide changes that eliminated...

Seven Words You Shouldn’t Say in Maintenance

When I was a teenager, my neighbor had a recording of George Carlin’s “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television.” We listened to it...

Change Management Best Practices — Avoiding Friction and Realizing a Strong ROI

Before embarking on a major transformation initiative, business leaders must lay the foundation for a successful transition through proper change management....

Getting your Storeroom “Back to Basics”

If your storeroom is not up to where it should be, the efficiency and effectiveness of your maintenance teams will suffer....

Detailed Maintenance Planning, Clean Master Data Help Combat the Brain Drain and Assure Uptime

Clean Master Data and planned maintenance avoids expediting and saves frustration, time and money....

Practical AI: The Path to Top Quartile Reliability

According to some predictions, AI will permeate all facets of life, making it easier to do everything, including maintenance....

Despite all of the Technology, the Basics are Still Important

As I look back across my career in maintenance and MRO materials, it seems that the things people hire us for really have not changed....

The Human Side of Reliability

While there is a growing body of proofs regarding the right technical approach to boosting reliability, the best technical solutions are nothing if they leave...

A Journey to Reliability Excellence: Summary and Conclusions

The journey would not have been complete or the objectives of our mission fulfilled if one of them had been left out....
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New Field Engineering Services: Bills-of-Material Development

August 3rd, 2021|Categories: Blog|

The primary objective of the BOM review and creation process is to expedite the kitting process. BOMs help storeroom personnel find the right parts in the right condition, quantity and time required to support the work schedule. BOMs are a critical enabling component to a top-quartile work management process.

New Field Engineering Services: Preventive Maintenance Optimization

July 23rd, 2021|Categories: Blog|

Top performers in reliability, as measured by high asset availability and low maintenance cost, perform relatively fewer periodic preventive maintenance tasks like overhauls. They focus their efforts on the work that needs to be done because a failure is known to be developing instead of trying to catch a failure that may or may not be there. PCA’s new PM Optimization service helps clients become more efficient by weeding out poorly targeted PMs.

From Bills of Materials to Preventive Maintenance Optimization, New Field Engineering Services Are Here

June 22nd, 2021|Categories: Blog|

Since joining PCA in late 2020, I have been reaching out to our clientele, asking if there is anything else we can do for them to boost their facility’s performance. Two items that kept coming up were bills of materials (BOMs) and preventive maintenance optimization (PMO).

Listen to PCA Podcast, “Journey to Reliability: A Roadmap for Success by Dan Moss”

June 16th, 2021|Categories: Blog|

PCA's VP of Operations, Dan Moss, headlined a lively podcast episode of Maintenance Disrupted Friday, June 11, entitled Journey to Reliability: A Roadmap for Success by Dan Moss. Hosted by Blair Fraser,

The Secret Sauce Behind 45 Years in Business

June 9th, 2021|Categories: Blog|

PCA is celebrating a very big anniversary this year. Forty-five years in business is extraordinary! Consider all the technological progress and economic, political and social swings that PCA has endured since 1976. Companies do not survive as long as they used to. Today, the average age of companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 is less than 14 years and has declined steadily from an average of 61 years in 1958. PCA has achieved a milestone that many of today’s elite companies never will.

Reflections on My First 30 Days Inside PCA

February 8th, 2021|Categories: Blog|

Reflections on My First 30 Days Inside PCA by Bob DiStefano, Chief Operations Officer, Performance Consulting Associates It has been a month since I exited retirement and joined PCA as the Chief Operations Officer. I must say I am excited, energized and happy working here, and I already know it was a good decision. I would like share some of my early impressions as a PCA “inside man.” PCA has very deep-rooted customer relationships PCA uses a streamlined approach to performance improvement based on deep intellectual property PCA has achieved sustainable results by focusing on people and knowledge transfer PCA’s business model supports a culture focused on quality of life by allowing individuals to take on the amount of [...]

Journey to Reliability: The Roadmap for Success

February 14th, 2020|Categories: Blog|Tags: |

Achieving maximum equipment reliability is a journey, and just like any other trip, it requires a functional roadmap to ensure arrival at the desired spot through the most expeditious route. In this month’s blog, PCA Director of Operations Dan Moss draws a parallel between the roadmaps his family used for childhood vacations and the roadmaps that PCA helps its clients develop to ensure the desired outcome.

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