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IndustryWeek November 1, 2003 John Teresko	Digging For Gold Enterprise asset management (EAM) delivers much more than a maintenance solution. The EAM approach also facilitates the use of asset performance data to support corporate decision-making and business performance.
IndustryWeek August 17, 2011	Five Common Lean Maintenance Missteps How to avoid the five most common mistakes made by manufacturers on their journey to lean maintenance.
IndustryWeek July 22, 2009 Steve Mehltretter	Consider This -- Making MRO Inventories Play by the Rules Well-managed maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) inventory can reduce costs and improve service levels.
Food Engineering April 2, 2007 Wayne Labs	Savvy Maintenance Strategies For food processors, a savvy plant maintenance strategy begins with hard questions based in reality. What does it cost when a part fails in your production line? How critical is it to your business?
IndustryWeek January 1, 2007	Manufacturing Matters, But Who Can Deliver? Mature organizations are shifting from reactive to proactive strategies when it comes to capital and human asset productivity.
Food Engineering March 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins	The Business Case for Better Maintenance It seems a stretch, but a plant's maintenance department can be a profit center.
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IndustryWeek September 19, 2008 Adrienne Selko	FedEx Streamlines Maintenance The new solution will help FedEx increase the efficiency and consistency of aircraft maintenance and repair and overhaul shops.
IndustryWeek April 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Operations: Maintenance Miscues The consequences of missed or ignored equipment maintenance can range from lost production to costly and perhaps even fatal safety mishaps. Here's what you can do to keep costly breakdowns at bay.
Food Processing September 2010	MRO Q&A: Why hasn't predictive maintenance developed faster in food & beverage plant operations? A look at the factors that must be present for a plant to have sufficient benefit from predictive maintenance to justify the investment in measurement equipment.
Food Engineering February 1, 2005	Is preventive maintenance worth it? For many businesses, a planned maintenance strategy is critical. Yet nearly 68 percent of the respondents to a survey of the food and beverage industry say they allocate less than half of their maintenance budgets for preventive activities that reduce equipment failure and plant shutdown.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2007 John Teresko	Profiting From Proactive Maintenance In addition to safeguarding production schedules, proactive maintenance adds new efficiencies and revenue potential, too.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2001 John Teresko	Maintenance's New Player: The CIO Manufacturing's wealth of IT data is being parlayed into new maintenance-management strategies...
Food Processing May 2009 Bob Sperber	CMMS Software: Will Work for Food Maintenance software starts out as a generic tool; can become a critical instrument for safety and compliance throughout the plant.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Maintenance Seers Predictive maintenance tools and strategies diagnose problems before they begin.
Food Engineering December 1, 2008 Richard F. Stier	Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine.
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IndustryWeek April 15, 2009 John Teresko	Outsourcing Machine Tool Maintenance Even small and medium-sized companies are finding strategic benefits from third-party maintenance approaches.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2002 John Teresko	Factories Of The Future -- Plant-Floor Strategy The most crucial investment for the factory of the future will be made not in hardware or software, but in understanding how manufacturing technology provides new options to power business success.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Basics of Lean Maintenance When properly applied to maintenance processes, lean strategies can remove waste and improve equipment performance.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Will AAR Air It Out? Aircraft service outsourcing should be a winning idea for the coming years. Couple the drop in the stock price and the ongoing growth of the business, and these shares actually do look a little cheap
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IndustryWeek February 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance.
National Defense October 2010 Peter M. Steffes	Should Defense Overhead Reduction Plans Consider Maintenance Depots? As the Defense Department studies ways to squeeze more efficiency from the military's overhead accounts, experts have suggested the maintenance and repair depots could be an obvious target.
IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 Glenn Nowak	ERP For Me Industry-specific manufacturers need industry-specific enterprise resource planning systems.
CIO January 28, 2011 Stephanie Overby	How British Airways Made Money From IT British Airways leverages business process management changes into a new revenue stream.
Food Processing August 2005 Mike Pehanich	MRO strategies mean money in the bank Redundant purchasing and poor inventory management have cost companies millions of dollars for generations. But there are mountains of savings waiting to be found in maintenance, repairs and operations costs.
Food Processing June 2012	MRO Q&A: TPM as a best practice? Q: I have heard the term Total Productive Maintenance as being the "best practice" for maintaining equipment. Can you help me understand what it is and how it differs from regular maintenance?
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Food Processing July 2012	MRO Q&A: What is the standard for how much work can be done in a normal shift? The honest answer is "it depends." You can go out to the web and find theoretical "wrench time" values in different types of industries, but they can only be used as guidelines.
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IndustryWeek June 17, 2009 Josh Cable	Analyze This In an age of abundant information, business analytics can help manufacturers turn their data into a competitive advantage.
Food Engineering January 21, 2009	Demand for Energy and Commodities Drives EAM The worldwide market for enterprise asset management software is expected to grow at a compounded annual growth rate of 6.5% over the next five years.
Food Engineering July 18, 2006 Kevin T. Higgins	Standardization: The next frontier Standardized parts could lower costs and inventory requirements, but food-plant maintenance teams aren't interested in just rock-bottom options.
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