If you’ve spent any time on LinkedIn or attended a maintenance or reliability conference lately, you’ve probably noticed how much attention metrics get. Everyone talks about them as if posting a chart ...

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The best, most effective, and most efficient maintenance organizations are data-driven — and so are some of the worst. In the former case, they use key performance indicators (KPIs) to help them gauge ...

Not all maintenance metrics carry the same degree of importance or value. If you focus on something such as total availability or average response time (across all equipment), you will be doing the ...

Reliability doesn’t come cheap: U.S. manufacturers spend over $57 billion annually repairing and maintaining machinery. But that’s nothing compared to how much industrial organizations lose when ...

The financial impact of unexpected equipment failure can be costly, as AK Steel Corp. shared recently. The West Chester, Ohio-based steel maker reported that an unplanned outage at one of its blast ...

Plant managers are responsible for day-to-day management and coordination of production, logistics, and maintenance. As a plant manager, you’re responsible for the day-to-day management and ...

Each fleet is going to set different KPIs around key metrics once it evaluates the effectiveness of its PM program. Reduce the number of vehicles being taken out of service during Brake Safety Week by ...

Key performance indicators provide the foundation that allows strategic planning to understand these advantages: Identifies everything that is easy to measure and count. Visibility on performance and ...

[Avionics Today 08-09-2016] Universal Helicopters (UHNL) has selected Skytrac systems to automate crew position and flight reports, and to track airframe maintenance metrics for the company’s AS350, ...