Planned Maintenance BOARD

How about your own ideas.

Or, hire a consultant who knows planned, or preventative maintenance, instead of asking people to do your work for you.

I would include a big beer party to get acquainted with the product.

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Thanks Lyn.

My ideas: Calender Mionths (Vertical on LHS of Board) Vs Machine Name horizontal on the top part of the board.

A consultant sounds a fair tip. Will have to snoop around here for one.

A beer party is inevitable. Why not one today. :)

I don't know what your background is........ You can do some investigating on this,....... But also talk to your maintenance people....... May also help if you give them some type of criteria also.........

One would be prioritizing and catatorizing the equipment...... Such as, if this piece went out of service..... What will it effect?, Will it shut the line down?........

Once you start, you'll find there is plenty to work off of....

Thanks phoenix911

I am from a mechanical engineering background, and still attached with the engineering department. This PM board will be or should be for "Periodic Maintenance" Board. What happens is I introduce on our canning packaging line, and the PM cards will be placed on each calender Vs Machine "Slots".

I will assist greatly for external audits, especially towards Preventive Maintenance programs practised on the floor. At current, we have PM schedules in the CMMS system, but due to less knowledge of setting up trigger points/levels, we are going to proceed on the PM board to at least continue our PM activities for the line.

The line operates everyday, and the machines are quite new, yet we will anticipate wear/tear as they are prone to be.

If the machines are quite new...... The owners manual has some miantence and trouble shooting sections....... Review these as a starter.

If I have time This weekend, I'll see what I have for preventive maintenance.

Here's a blurb that might give you some idea's....

http://www.reliableplant.com/Read/22250/coors-planning-scheduling

Please excuse me for asking a silly question. Why do you need a committee or board? I'm not asking if planned maintenance should be performed, it certainly should. I'm wondering why multiple people should form a board to decide on planned maintenance. Democracies are an inherently inefficient method on deciding how to do anything. Now a board of all of your departments to decide which individual will be in charge of taking their planned maintenance proposals and prioritizing them sounds like a good idea. That individual may wish to choose others to assist them in deciding but that should be up to them.

I understood the board not as people or persons, but a task board as in with sticky notes and the like....... And to do this with the required task experts help.

A PM Board is similar to a whiteboard or blackboard. I meant it that way. Not about a group of people....

That's what I thought,..... Being in project management, on large new projects, we sometimes have a 'Kill Board'............... If that was people, we'd have trouble filling it........... Come to think about it,....... Maybe not... ;)

Some type of hard material like wood. He did say in the board not on it.

Here they have a webinar, check it out.......

http://www.globalspec.com/events/eventdetails?eventId=408&frmtrk=dart&dartid=30306855&evtsrc=dart&cid=IAN

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not a good idea.... and I'm not going to tell you why! Failure is on the board!!

My comment is based on experience! Take a look at how others conduct their PM!!

Come back with a few other suggestions.... learning curve!!

Why re-invent the wheel when there is so much refined software available to do the job better and more efficiently than a home-brew system that will suffer through many modifications and snafu's to achieve the same level of efficiency?

A manually updated white board seems very primitive by today's standards.How will you generate and track your work orders? Why not schedule,print and track the work orders,as well as parts inventory,maintenance work hours per machine,downtime,repair cost,spare parts inventory,CROP for parts,etc?

Are you simply interested in the packaging line,or do you want to include the whole process?

How about the whole facility?In the future you may find value in a Sigma 6 professional,or acquire the training for yourself to enhance your value to your present of any future employer.

Here is a link for you to review many options in mature maintenance software.

http://www.softwareadvice.com/cmms/preventive-maintenance-software-comparison/

Good luck.

Yes there are a lot of software out there, but that is not where you start.

You do have to review what is the best software to match and configure to your needs, and first you have define at least the majority of your needs first...........

Our company does a test on it....... With its PM software, time keeping, costing. This has been a expense, but it saved us from choosing a software not suiting our news and instead choosing one that better fits and configs to our needs.

The link I provided is a link to reviews of many such software programs,some with hundreds of favorable feedback responses.

Of course, applying common sense, one must evaluate the needs of their particular situation,just as with any purchase,whether hardware or software.

I have no vested interest in any of these links, and merely present them as resource for comparison and evaluation of options.

I suggest the OP review all options to find the best fit for his situation.

There is no "One size fits all" in this case.

The hint to get Moubray's RCM is good if you have any maintenance history to base your predictions on, but since this is all new and you seem to have no other experience that would give you some problems.

Sugges that you look into "Asset Management" as a general concept and link that with criticality and serviceability observations based on the facility as it is constructed.

This will help you determine which items get "no planned maintenance", which get "monitored" for deterioration and which get "planned/scheduled maintenance.

Good luck, since if you are the champion for this in the organisation the others must be really struggling witht he concepts.