Maintaining Master Data: A Critical Task for Operational Success

The quality of your master data management protocols will have resounding effects on the entire organization. Learn how to maintain it effectively....

The Importance of Master Data Management in the Operational Life Cycle

Master data management has a direct impact on the operational life cycle of mission-critical equipment. Learn why this impact matters....

Reduce Your Labor Costs with Effective Master Data Management

Did you know that effective MDM can help you slash labor expenses? Learn more about how you can use data management to be more efficient....

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....
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“Keep Your Axe Sharp” for Real Storeroom Savings

Abe Lincoln famously quipped, “Give me six hours to cut down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” A few months ago, I announced the addition of PCA’s field engineering services, which are specifically designed to help keep your maintenance management tools sharp.

2022-01-26T09:55:18-05:00January 26th, 2022|Blog|0 Comments

PCA Playbooks Drive Teamwork and Manufacturing Excellence

It’s a safe bet that most of us have heard the expression “The left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing” used to describe organizational disfunction. Just imagine the catastrophic consequences of playing a guitar in that condition!

2022-03-09T12:56:05-05:00December 8th, 2021|Blog|0 Comments

The Evolution of Reliability Best Practices and Maintenance Whack-A-Mole

Reliability is a good thing, like motherhood and apple pie. Everyone wants reliability because it means that your equipment always does what it should when you need it to; your business runs smoothly and everyone in the organization sees the benefits of increased uptime and operational performance. So it’s easy to see why the term Reliability has become so polluted.

2021-11-10T13:09:56-05:00October 14th, 2021|Blog|0 Comments

New Field Engineering Services: Bills-of-Material Development

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.

2021-11-04T15:48:55-04:00August 3rd, 2021|Blog|0 Comments

New Field Engineering Services: Preventive Maintenance Optimization

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.

2021-11-04T15:50:47-04:00July 23rd, 2021|Blog|0 Comments
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