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Food Engineering April 1, 2005 Olin Thompson	Something broken this way comes An estimated 35 percent of indirect cost in a food plant is due to maintenance. Can you foresee upcoming equipment failures? Predictive and preventive maintenance software can help keep your plant running.
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Food Processing September 2013	MRO Q&A: When Is Condition-Based Maintenance Worth It? What can you tell me about condition-based maintenance? Is it more economical than preventative maintenance?
Food Processing August 2010	MRO Q&A: What are the do's and don'ts for food industry maintenance? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants.
Food Processing September 2010	MRO Q&A: Where and how does a preventive maintenance program fit in with our normal routine maintenance program? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants.
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.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Basics of Lean Maintenance When properly applied to maintenance processes, lean strategies can remove waste and improve equipment performance.
Food Processing September 2013	MRO Q&A: What Is a Good Volume of Capital Projects? My maintenance guys really love working on capital and improvement projects, but I am getting behind on my PMs and I am over my budget because of the projects. Any suggestions on changes I can make?
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?
Food Processing August 2010	MRO Q&A: What is your method for stopping line downtime? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants.
Food Processing October 2010	MRO Q&A: Why Do Good Plants Go Down? From a macro perspective the top three major shutdown threats for a food plant could be summarized as: a catastrophic event, a facility's internal operational failure or a facility's external operational failure.
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 February 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive maintenance.
Food Processing August 2008 Bob Sperber	Predictive Maintenance Environment in Food Processing Plants Provides Early Warning System Maintenance is moving from preventive to predictive mode with condition monitoring, maintenance system upgrades and the promise of easier integration.
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 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?
IndustryWeek March 17, 2010 Jonathan Katz	Bargain Machine Maintenance Improving maintenance using data analysis, project-flow adjustments and retooling rather than buying new.
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.
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 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 June 23, 2010	Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2002 Samuel Greengard	Maximum Return Manufacturers such as Volvo are using asset-management programs to put the brakes on breakdowns and maximize equipment management.
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.
Food Engineering December 1, 2008 Richard F. Stier	Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits.
Food Processing January 2012	MRO Q&A: The Pros and Cons of Using a Contract Maintenance Service Given the right situation, contracting for maintenance services can be very effective in allowing you to focus on your main competency: making food.
IndustryWeek February 15, 2012 Jill Jusko	TPM Delivers a Maintenance Fix Laminations saw an opportunity to improve its maintenance activities. Total Productive Maintenance provided the solution.
Food Engineering July 2, 2007 Kevin T. Higgins	5th Annual Replacement Parts and Components Survey: Processors Take a Cost-Driven Approach The role of purchasing managers in the spare parts and components process clearly is growing.
Food Processing April 2010	MRO Q&A: Sanitizing, Standardizing Your Maintenance Program MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	By The Numbers: Of All Firms Responding to the IW/MPI Census of U.S. Manufacturers Measuring continuous improvement programs of U.S. manufacturers.
Wall Street & Technology June 22, 2004 Jim Middlemiss	CIO Challenge: Maintenance Costs On average, IT maintenance eats up more than $6 out of every $10 in the IT budget.
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...
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Food Engineering July 1, 2005 Joy LePree	2005 Replacement Parts and Components Trends Survey: Speed It Up! Food processors speak out about the importance of faster replacement parts delivery, offering a recipe of actions that suppliers could take to make them more satisfied customers.
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.
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.
Food Processing August 2010	MRO Q&A: How and where can I benchmark downtime and uptime in the bagged salad industry? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants.
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.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Culture Counts 'When you embark on lean, you're not just trying to engage the hands of your employees. You want their hands, their hearts and their minds,' Mike Fitzgerald, director of lean and reliability services for Advanced Technology Services Inc. asserts.
Food Processing March 2012	MRO Q&A: A Reasonable Figure for Maintenance Downtime Downtime numbers are as unique as the process you are trying to run. The most important facet of downtime is getting everyone affected in agreement of the reasonable expectation.
Food Processing November 2009	MRO Q&A: Where can I access a maintenance and sanitation SOP? MRO Q&A is a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants.
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.
IndustryWeek April 15, 2009 John Teresko	Maintenance Outsourcing As a Global Strategy Last year, Lockheed Martin selected a single source for comprehensive global maintenance services. Shouldn't you?
Food Processing September 2011 Greg Flickinger	How Snyder's-Lance Transformed its Plant Into High Performance Work System Snyder's-Lance developed a culture of continuous improvement at the Charlotte manufacturing site to deliver the numbers with near-zero capital investment. You can, too.
Food Engineering July 1, 2009 Kevin T. Higgins	Replacement Parts Survey: Processors Remain Cautious in an Era of Uncertainty More than a third of industry professionals surveyed for the 2009 Replacement Parts and Components Trends Survey say their programs have been disrupted, with potentially serious consequences down the road.
IndustryWeek January 19, 2011	Rooting Out Manufacturing Waste Hidden waste may not be visible, but ignoring it can be costly.
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.