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
The Business Value of Maintenance Planning
The Business Value of Maintenance Planning
Introduction to Maintenance Planning Best Practices
Introduction to Maintenance Planning Best Practices
Maintenance Work Management in the Digital Age; What is the Future M&R Worker to Do?
Bob DiStefano, PCA’s Chief Operations Officer (COO), is a life-long maintenance and reliability professional expert and seasoned executive manager with 42 years of experience. Holding degrees in both Management and Engineering, he began his career in the US commercial nuclear power industry where the consequences of equipment failure were unacceptable, and his best practices of maintenance and operations were honed over 10 years.
Don’t Trip Over Your Spare Parts on the Way to Digital Transformation
About the Presenter: HP “Red” Slater joined Performance Consulting Associates as a Senior Associate. Slater uses his extensive reliability, maintenance, and facility engineering expertise to help clients gain maximum efficiency from their maintenance and asset management operations.
Webinar: When Critical Assets Go Down, Will You Be Prepared?
Webinar: When Critical Assets Go Down, Will You Be Prepared? Operational excellence was hard before, but it's even harder today because supply is uncertain. If a critical asset goes down, are the needed parts available in the storeroom or even from a supplier? How are firms addressing these risks? Join PCA & [...]
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.
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.
From Bills of Materials to Preventive Maintenance Optimization, New Field Engineering Services Are Here
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).
Gain Control of MRO Inventory
Gain Control of MRO Inventory PCA's own Jim Clifford explains in this recent article in Efficient Plant Magazine, how in the average company, disorganization—from faulty procurement practices to lax storeroom management—can be so deeply ingrained that it’s accepted as a cost of doing business. In the modern era, where margins are shaved razor [...]