The Roles in the Materials Management Cycles-Part 1
The request for a material or a spare part ignites the supply chain for this part and activates the set roles involved in this process. How? Continue reading
The maturity of materials management is not only about warehousing
The 14 questions and the 8 recommendations listed here will guide you through the first step of maturity in materials management.
The real sustainability is not only ecological
The real sustainability is not only ecological. Sustainability has three (3) pillars: Environmental, economic and social. In order to reach to a sustainable industry we need to localize the sustainability understanding to every pillar of the industry.
Is there a minimum level of maintenance?
after confirming that this critical minimum maintenance level of basic care is fulfilled in a way that is acceptable by the authority who set it, you can freely upgrade the maintenance performance. Your limit is the sky, but…..
Maturity of the Maintenance cycle
The maturity matrix measures the maturity of the work management pillar through the maturity of the maintenance cycle. At the core of the maintenance cycle you can find the planning and scheduling.
The whirlpool of thoughts can sink the maintenance goals
The whirlpool of thoughts can sink the maintenance goals
Practical steps to slow down the whirlpool of thoughts and find new escapes. The thought stream in our mind can be helpful and can sink our goals. It depends on our deliberate choice to control it.What is your next step in maintenance? – I
An intro to move forward to the next step in any of the maintenance management pillars and what you need to be aware of the grid that constructs this page of life.
What happens when you have a desire to do things differently?
After you reach an awareness of the external and internal forces affecting your desire, you will have a deliberate choice of what you will do next on the track of pursuing or postponing your desired goal. Detailed explanation and tactics are in this article.
What Maintenance can learn from projects; may be proper closing?
PM closing processes mapped into clear maintenance activities with explanation and examples to elevate the maintenance processes because Maintenance is a profession, a life style and a never ending lifelong experience.
From the project’s perspective, five (5) things to monitor and control in maintenance
Those five measure and control methodologies of project management mimicked to the maintenance process are game changers in your maintenance management style.
Monitoring and controlling maintenance from project perspectives
This article had presented a framework for monitoring and controlling the maintenance process from the project management perspective. Seeing things from a different perspective widens our possibilities to streamline our maintenance career.
The unspoken part of managing execution
The manager role has more than just the mere management of doing the job. There is a lot of other streams to manage. Know those side but crucial streams from this article
How to think of maintenance tasks execution as mini projects?
The secret behind successful execution of maintenance tasks is that the execution is fulfilling the plans and achieving the intended target.
Maintenance, is it a project or a recurring job?
Starting every maintenance as a project is like repeating the wheel’s invention with every car on the production line, Read how to avoid this
Culture vs Strategy; Who wins?
The misalignment between strategy & culture will brake the forward progress toward the goals. We had demystified it with examples & solutions
Part 2: Check existing assets maintainability
The 55 Questions presented in this article together with the 33 ones in the previous one generates a survey of 88 Questions that would map the real maintainability status of the assets.
How to check existing assets maintainability?
The first Thirty-Three (33) Questions to check the existing assets maintainability. You can apply them easily while monitoring the job execution. They are designed to boost maintainability.
When possible, design for maintainability! It is worth the effort and cost
Design for maintainability comes at an initial cost that can be easily justified by the savings along the equipment lifetime. Know how to assess maintainability in this article.
Work and life as a continuous rolling processes
This article reflects the lessons learned from metal rolling process on our life and work. It allows you to see your life in a clear way but from a different prospective.
Transformers, symbolizes life and work
There are a lot of analogies between transformers and our life. Learn some transformers’ foundations and lessons learned from them into our daily life and work
