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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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 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 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 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?
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 June 23, 2010	Lean for Machines Applying continuous-improvement strategies to maintenance can help your plant run like a well-oiled machine.
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.
HBS Working Knowledge July 7, 2003 Jim Heskett	Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement? We tend to think of improvement in the productivity of labor and capital like safety; one can't have too much of it. But is that always the case? Is the U.S. in fact experiencing untimely increases in productivity now?
HBS Working Knowledge July 28, 2003 Jim Heskett	Summing Up: Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement? There was a wide divergence of opinion on this column.
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 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: 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.
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 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.
Food Engineering December 1, 2008 Richard F. Stier	Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits.
IndustryWeek December 14, 2011 John Frehse	The Overtime Lie How corporate strategy is holding hostage millions of dollars in profit.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2005 Doug Bartholomew	Operations: New Ideas For Smooth Systems A move to outsourcing and a shift toward enterprise resource planning software for maintenance applications are among the key trends taking place in the market for maintenance, repair and operations software.
BusinessWeek April 22, 2010 Tom Keene	Tom Keene: A Chat with JPMorgan's Bruce Kasman A talk with JPMorgan Chase's chief economist about the economy and the outlook for jobs in the U.S.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Basics of Lean Maintenance When properly applied to maintenance processes, lean strategies can remove waste and improve equipment performance.
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 March 2012	MRO Q&A: Assigning Numbers to Maintenance What is a reasonable ratio of plant maintenance expense to plant sales output?
HBS Working Knowledge July 14, 2003	Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement? Readers Respond
Insurance & Technology June 1, 2006 Poniatowski & Wichser	A Better Metric For IT Efficiency Even the most efficient IT function can't be considered excellent unless it's doing the things that really matter to the company.
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.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jonathan Katz	Efficiency Boosts Productivity Increased employee output increases productivity.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2004 David Drickhamer	You Get What You Measure Manufacturers have been measuring productivity for a long time. You know what it means; you know what it looks like. Is it time to look a little deeper?
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.
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 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?
IndustryWeek August 1, 2007 John Teresko	PLM's MRO Opportunity PLM can manage inventory, procurement to maintenance.
BusinessWeek October 20, 2003 Gary S. Becker	The Productivity Boom Is Just Warming Up In the past, productivity almost always fell during recessions because both labor and capital were underutilized as output sagged. But the apparent paradox of the past few years is that labor productivity has grown even more rapidly since 2000 than in the '90s.
Food Processing September 2009	MRO Q&A: How Can Plant Managers Keep up with All the Changes Happening in Every Area of Food Plant Operations? Welcome to MRO Q&A, a Food Processing series addressing maintenance, repair and operational issues in food plants. We've assembled a panel of plant operations experts to answer any question you have on plant-floor issues.
CIO December 1, 2002 Susan H. Cramm	The CIO's Green Mile Ease the pain of your budget presentation
The Motley Fool June 4, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Spend a Little, Save a Lot It's easy to neglect regular maintenance on things like your home and your car. But even though paying for upkeep is a constant drain on your checkbook, that slow trickle of money will hopefully prevent an avalanche of costs from crashing down on you.
The Motley Fool September 17, 2010 Ed Salwin	Why the Stock Market Can Go Up Forever It's a thing called productivity.
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.
CFO December 1, 2006 Edward Teach	A Productive Debate Significant or not, the gap between pay and productivity is a subject that won't go away, particularly now that control of Congress is passing to the labor-friendly Democratic Party.
Food Engineering February 1, 2005 Richard F. Stier	It's a food plant, not a garage Many food plant operators and managers hear "plant safety audit" and think about the processing area. But one of the most common problem areas is actually the shop and/or maintenance department. Here are some guidelines to make sure yours passes muster.