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.
Do all Industries have a Business Case for Asset Management?
On UpKeep's 'Maintenance Mavericks' Podcast, PCA Chief Operations Officer Bob DiStefano spoke with Ryan Chen about how all businesses experience downtime and the way that asset analysis can be used to combat the loss of productivity that downtime brings.
“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.
MRO Practices of Top Performers
Dick DeFazio describes MRO best practices observed in use at top performers.
Everybody Struggles to Manage Maintenance, Repair, and Operation
Dick DeFazio explains some of the statistics that show us how many companies struggle to keep warehouses and storerooms stocked, and inventories current.
When Critical Assets Go Down, Will You Be Prepared?
Dick DeFazio, Bob DiStefano, and Will Goetz discuss common struggles with managing MRO inventory.
Storeroom Staff Mismanagement, Pt 2: The Dangers of Indifferent Personnel
Earlier this month, PCA Associate Jim Clifford shared a true story of storeroom staff mismanagement that illustrated how just one bad personnel decision can snowball into a big problem (with corresponding significant financial loss.) Here, the author expands his tale to discuss the damage that non-committal employees, whether in the storeroom or outside of it, can do.
Lessons in Storeroom Staff Mismanagement
For personnel involved in maintenance repair and operations (MRO), how storerooms are staffed may be one of the greatest mysteries of all time. In reality, the answer is often disappointingly simple: whoever is available at that time and will not object too severely to being put in there. Unfortunately, that’s generally the worst possible course of action. In this article, PCA Director of MRO Services Jim Clifford shares a painful, real-life experience and explains why careful selection of MRO storeroom staff (and especially storeroom management) is critical to the efficient storeroom operations that help boost bottom lines.
Treating Spare Parts Storeroom as Critical Quality System & Strategic Company Advantage
In too many cases, the Spare Parts Storeroom has become the unavoidable appendage to the functioning of the Maintenance and Facilities Departments. The importance and support it should receive constantly fail to reach acceptable levels. In many other industries, this will mean either a lack of management or an increase in bad practices.
The MRO Spare Parts Storeroom: Make It a Critical Quality System
The Maintenance, Reliability and Operations (MRO) spare parts storeroom is an indispensable appendage of the Maintenance and Facilities departments. Yet, despite the clear value of a well-run MRO spare parts storeroom to ensure operating efficiency, it is rarely managed to function at optimal levels. The result is reduced productivity, excessive MRO spare parts expenses and unnecessary waste and downtime.