Articles and Talks

The following articles and talks are available by E-mail. Please give us your name, position, and company/organization and your requested article or talk will be sent to you. Use the 'Contact Us' form to complete your request.

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List of Articles and Talks

1. Maintenance Self Examination
   A 20-question questionnaire that lets you rate your maintenance organization and compare it to other companies and organizations.
   
   
2. Maintenance Productivity
   An evaluation matrix that lets you rate utilization, methods, and performance to determine your maintenance "hands-on-tools" time and compare it to other companies and organizations.
   
   
3. Organizing and Staffing the Maintenance Department
   Examination of roles, responsibilities, line and staff functions, span of control, and productivity for the Maintenance Department.
   
   
4. Maintenance Training
   Discusses the importance and need for personnel training in maintenance management, planning and scheduling, stores and warehousing, information systems, mechanic and technician skills, and equipment knowledge.
   
   
5. CMMS - Birth to Maturity
   The Journey: selection, justifying, installing, bringing it on-line, implementation, care & feeding, maturity.
   
   
6. What Does a Plant Engineer Need to Know About Maintenance
   Discusses establishing objectives and standard performance measures, developing departmental relationships, establishing a planning and scheduling system, implementing a reliability based P/PM program, having the right materials, and doing more with less.
   
   
7. Measuring Maintenance Performance
   Covers elements of an effective "closed loop" maintenance management system, methods of measuring performance and ìstandards of excellence,î reporting of results to management and workers.
   
   
8. Developing an Effective Preventive Maintenance Program
   Basic requirements; records, files, and reports; responsibility; selection of equipment; implementation.
   
   
9. Materials Management and Inventory Optimization
   A review of methods such as automatic reordering, vendor stocking and consignment inventories, integrated suppliers, bar coding and inventory optimization. Performance measurements, indices, and "Standards of Excellence" are cited.