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.
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!
Most people in maintenance do not really understand advanced analytics like artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Personally, I think advanced analytics have a lot to offer maintenance professionals, but I am an analytics geek.
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.
Performance Consulting Associates Inc. is currently looking to add another MRO Storeroom and Inventory Management Associate. The ideal candidate will have the appropriate years of working experience in a plant or facilities storeroom/warehouse.
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.
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.
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).
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,
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.
