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Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 14, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 1999
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Vol 14, No 1, Asset Management and Maintenance Strategy - Alan Wilson, Marketing/Project Manger, Project Management Group
Asset maintenance policies should offer various options in line with the plans for the future of the organisation two years or more ahead. A maintenance response is looked for which should have been thought through and proposed in a pro active way as in other parts of the business. This paper recommends a sector process for reviewing maintenance policies and for choosing the best practices for making those policies happen.
An industrial example is given which illustrates the need to include all possibilities for what they can deliver. It is argued that the expectation that a single commercially-promoted practice (such as RCM or TPM) will be a panacea for all ills, can lead to difficulties. The importance of implementing co-ordinated practices and targets which are fit-for-purpose is stressed, and examples of this are put forward.
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Vol 14, No 1, The CMMS Technology Revolution, Why Best of Breed will still be Best - Russell Mulcahy, Technical Director, Engica Technology Systems International
New component-based architectures, particularly those following the three-tier (or n-tier) model, is set to revolutionise how best-of-breed CMMS software will function in an environment that increasingly craves integration, customisation and Internet connectivity. This article will show how forward-thinking software solution providers are approaching the issues raised by this new architecture and present an overview of potential real world applications.
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Vol 14, No 1, Health Service Estates Management Policies for the next Millenium - Douglas Ward, Site Operations Manager, Guys Hospital; Ian Kennedy, Managing Director, WM Engineering Ltd
Faced with the twin challenges of improving performance and reducing budgets, in 1996 Guys hospital embarked on a project to achieve a major turn-around of its estates management operation. This involved structural changes in estates management policy combined with a move from a labour based to an asset based maintenance operation. The introduction of an integrated maintenance management, help-desk and engineering finance system, and the implementation of condition based maintenance facilitated major reductions in plant life cycle costs. This paper describes the process by which department performance was enhanced while annual operational costs were reduced by £2.5 million or twenty seven percent.
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Vol 14, No 1, Maintenance of Robots in Automated Production. Part 2 - Analysis of Failure Modes and Selection of Condition Monitoring Parameters - Andrew Starr, University of Manchester; Richard Wynne, Sheffield Hallam University
This is the second part of a report on the study of failures in industrial robots and of the maintenance methods used. The first part, published in the last issue (Volume 13, Number 5, December 1998) described the plant, and presented a critical review of existing maintenance and collection methods were analysed, and the limitations of such systems were discussed. The paper concluded with a brief resume of the results.
This second part details the results of the failure history study. Robots from different sites and manufacturers are compared, and generic observations are drawn. It is shown that robot failures accounted for 20% of total breakdown time, of which 45% was caused by positional errors and 25% by failures of drive components. The problems of selecting condition monitoring methods for robots are then discussed, before reviewing measurement methods. Some initial field trials, which have indicated that repeatability is a good indication of machine condition, are briefly discussed.
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Vol 14, No 1, Streamlined RCM in the Nuclear Industry - Colin Bookless and Michael Sharkey; Engineering Department, Hunterston Power Station
The Maintenance Optimisation Tool (MOT) is the streamlined version of RCM that has been developed by British Energy and used in their power stations to optimise the maintenance of plant systems. After briefly outlining the background to this development a flowchart is presented of the basic MOT procedure. A typical example of its application, one that yielded an overall saving of 57% in annual maintenance and production hours, is described. Other benefits from the use of the MOT process are listed.
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Vol 14, No 1, Web Warehousing, Next Generation Integrated Supply - Stuart Diesel, Hydraulic Equipment Supermarkets Ltd, Gloucester
Over the last fifteen years, streamlining supply channels has yielded significant cost savings for larger production-based companies. Typically, significant investment is made in developing sophisticated infra-structures for reducing the no added value content of business transactions which is commercially justifiable when economies of scale are present. The power of the internet as a communication channel opens up some exciting opportunities for business-to-business applications, allowing these streamlining processes to enter the domain of small batch production companies and Maintenance, Repair and Operation (MRO) requirements. The significant reduction in entry cost, widespread availability and high level of compatibility associated with the internet mean that innovative industrial distributors can now offer services to small and mid-sized companies that would previously have been reserved for large production companies dealing directly with component manufacturers.
The authors company (HES, a fluid power distributor based in the UK) has developed a service, Web Warehousing, which allows companies to manage their MRO stock or small batch production requirements on our website. The result is a low risk, low cost, yet very powerful service that is creating a lot of interest in the industry.
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Maintenance Online : Maintenance & Asset Management Journal : ABSTRACTS : VOLUME 14, NUMBER 1, FEBRUARY 1999
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