The Ins and Outs of Maintenance

Guide to failure metrics

MTTR, MTBF, or MTTF? – A Simple Guide To Failure Metrics

Asset performance metrics like MTTR, MTBF, and MTTF are essential for any organization with equipment-reliant operations. Only by tracking these critical KPIs can an enterprise maximize uptime and keep disruptions to a minimum.

Tracking the reliability of assets is one challenge that engineering and maintenance managers face on a daily basis. While failure metrics can be very useful in this context, to use them effectively, you need to know what meaning hides behind their acronyms, how to distinguish between them, how to calculate them, and what does that tell you about your assets.

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Implementing total productive maintenance (TPM) with CMMS
Choose best maintenance software

A Quick Guide For Choosing The Best Maintenance Software

How many times over the last year did a critical piece of equipment break down unexpectedly? How many hours of productivity were lost due to an emergency repair? How many preventive maintenance tasks were missed due to a scheduling oversight? Do you know how many work orders were submitted, actioned and resolved over the last 6 months and if any of them are still opened?

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Limble CMMS wins 2 awards

Limble CMMS Wins 2 Awards In The Maintenance Management Software Category From Directory for Business Software

In the recent months, we were in touch with several top sites that have a maintenance management software category to see if they would like to review and feature Limble CMMS  in that category.

That is how we got in touch with guys at Finances Online and asked if they would consider adding Limble CMMS to their list of maintenance management software. 

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Reactive maintenance to preventive maintenance

How To Switch From Reactive Maintenance To Preventive Maintenance – Complete Transition Guide

Making the switch from reactive maintenance to preventive maintenance can save thousands to millions of dollars, extend the life of your critical assets, and relieve your team of the stress and anxiety of dealing with frequent unpredictable equipment failures.

Despite the widely proven benefits of switching to preventive maintenance, around 60% of facilities are still relying on reactive maintenance as a major part of their overall maintenance strategy.

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Enterprise technology project pitfalls

Organized For Success? Avoid These 5 Enterprise Technology Project Pitfalls

The continuing challenges of a volatile economy require middle market manufacturing companies to streamline their operations as much as possible.

Unfortunately, most companies are burdened with a resource-intensive process when selecting and implementing enterprise technology. Compounding the challenges are the never-ending demands of customers, a complex supply chain, increasingly competitive market conditions and other scenarios that consume scarce time and resources.

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Reasons to use Computerized maintenance management system

31 Reasons Why You Need A Computerized Maintenance Management System

Many businesses turn to maintenance software for help when they have the need to optimize their maintenance operations through the efficient work order management system or problems tracking their inventory levels.

While those are perfectly good reasons to try out a CMMS, the benefits of a fully utilized computerized maintenance management system reach far beyond that.

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CMMS and Maintenena Statistics and Trends 2018 - Infographic
Biggest losses in a warehouse

Where Do the Biggest Losses Occur in a Warehouse?

Has your business recently suffered losses in your warehouse operations? Are you beleaguered and unsure of where to turn? While there are many sources of losses in the warehouse, there are a few areas in particular that are primary culprits. By addressing these areas in question, your organization can see a sudden uptick in profitability by amending issues in these problem areas.

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Risk-based maintenance (RbM)

Implementing Risk-Based Maintenance (RbM) | Broken Down in Layman’s Terms

Have you ever asked yourself if you’d be able to save time and resources by not spending your already limited resources on assets that don’t need it?

Do you wonder if you’d save time and money by creating a maintenance strategy for particular assets?

Our guide to Risk-Based Maintenance (RbM) will show you step by step in layman terms how to quickly analyze the most efficient way to use your maintenance resources while improving reliability, reducing costs, and increasing equipment integrity.

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