SAP Tips and Tricks: Put Variants and Layouts to Work
By Kristina Gordon, DuPont This month we answer the question: What variants and layouts does SAP...
Drowning In Data? Look To The ‘Stars’
Identifying and acting on the right data can transform reliability and maintenance programs from...
SAP Tips and Tricks: Understand Shift Factors And Tolerances
By Kristina Gordon, DuPont My recent article, “Maintenance Plans: What do all the fields mean?”...
CMMS Energizes Glass Company’s Maintenance Efforts
A three-step process helped a global glass manufacturer implement a CMMS in all of its facilities...
ON THE FLOOR
Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.
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The Future of Maintenance
By Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC)
SAP Tips and Tricks: Improve Efficiency with Equipment Bill of...
By Kristina Gordon, DuPont A bill of materials (BOM) is a list of items used to perform maintenance...
SAP Tips and Tricks: Manage Assets with Refurbishment Order
By Kristina Gordon, DuPont When assets need to be refurbished or fabricated, SAP offers an order...
Facilities vs. Factory Maintenance: Is There a Difference?
The common denominators boil down to assurance of reliable equipment assets and successful delivery...
SAP Tips and Tricks: Maintenance Plans — What do all the fields...
By Kristina Gordon, DuPont SAP Maintenance Plans determine how and when a work order or...
Mine Business Intelligence From Your CMMS
Your CMMS: Essential to Lean and Six Sigma
Make it easy for maintenance team members to embrace your organization’s chosen methodology.
SAP Tips and Tricks: Assign HR Mini Masters to Work Centers
By Kristina Gordon, DuPont Tracking the hours that each maintenance employee spends on a job is...
Use Catalog Profiles, Failure Codes to Analyze Assets
By Kristina Gordon, DuPont Determining why an asset failed during production is a critical...