Industrial MRO

Maintenance is many times mistakenly regarded as a cost center rather than revenue producer. As a result, sometimes decisions are made without conferring with the maintenance department. Do you have a story to share about when you could have saved big bucks if asked?

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Utility communication signals screwing up your power quality. An electrical short in five miles of buried pipe. These are the things that go bump in the night inside the maintenance person's head. What is your hardest troubleshooting nightmare? How did you finally wrangle it into submission? And, did you get any kudos from the boss?

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Maintenance professionals typically know their jobs by doing them; they aren't known for sitting at a computer to write up processes and procedures. But, would your plant benefit from developing a standard procedure book? Do you send your technicians to continuing education classes and then check their knowledge through written tests?

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This month, we talk about "must do" lists, highlighting a compilation of top priority goals from more than a dozen maintenance leaders in industries across the manufacturing spectrum. But is there enough time to plan ahead, much less make a plan real? Are software systems helpful, or just another thing to attend to?

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Since the end of the recession 2 years ago, companies' have enjoyed record earnings while hiring very few new workers. Now, as stock markets around the world see losses in excess of 10%, pundits are saying we could be in for another recession very soon. Are the most recent economic woes the talk around the water cooler at work? Has your company taken any concrete steps to prepare for another recession, or are headcounts still so low, there's not much else that can be done, at least as it related to maintenance labor?

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Because of the central role that maintenance technicians perform when it comes to building control systems, lighting systems, HVAC, and many other electrical systems, the maintenance pro is also at the heart of the greening of industry. Are sustainability efforts such as cutting electrical bills and environmental stewardship affecting your daily or monthly maintenance operations? Is your company invested in meaningful greening?

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