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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 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?
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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 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.
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.
IndustryWeek February 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Prevent Defense Take plant environments into account before performing preventive 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 September 1, 2007 John Teresko	Reaching For A Smarter Factory Machine tools that not only think, but readily communicate. Those are the ambitious goals of research initiatives that not only promise a smarter factory, but are already delivering smart maintenance.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2003 John Teresko	View Machinery As 'Functional' Is your maintenance capability able to support the growing business velocity that manufacturing technology enables?
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 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 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.
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Food Engineering December 1, 2008 Richard F. Stier	Food Safety: HACCP's most underemphasized prerequisite Electronic maintenance management programs have many benefits.
Food Processing November 2012	MRO Q&A: Decreasing Downstream Delays Too many times we have to throw away product because of the effect of downstream delays. Do you have any ideas on how to decrease these?
IndustryWeek February 1, 2009 Jill Jusko	OEE: The Heart of the Matter Measuring overall equipment effectiveness can help a plant do more of what it does best: making products.
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.
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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.
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IndustryWeek December 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Machine Life Prognosticator Georgia Tech engineering instructor develops sensor-based predictive maintenance model.
IndustryWeek August 1, 2007 John Teresko	PLM's MRO Opportunity PLM can manage inventory, procurement to maintenance.
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.
IndustryWeek March 17, 2010 Jonathan Katz	Bargain Machine Maintenance Improving maintenance using data analysis, project-flow adjustments and retooling rather than buying new.
Job Journal January 25, 2009	Career Snapshot: Industrial Mechanic At a time when companies are cutting new-equipment purchases, those with skills to extend the life of existing machinery are essential to the bottom line.
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.
National Defense January 2005 Frank Colucci	Sensors Aboard Helicopters Can Help Predict Parts Failures Health-and-usage monitoring systems (HUMS) now are in development for the Army's new UH-60M Black Hawk and Block III AH-64D Apache helicopters. HUMS help track the wear and tear of aircraft components.
IndustryWeek December 10, 2003 John S. McClenahen	Service And Maintenance Software Clicks Tools help keep customers and boost revenue.
CRM December 1, 2007 Ozgur Tuzcu	Predicting Debt One of Michigan's largest energy providers turns to Intelligent Results to analyze the state's bankruptcy-stricken population.
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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.
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.
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Food Engineering August 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins	Training: The Ultimate Plant Optimization Tool Degreed engineers certainly are needed, but the need for technically savvy operators and maintenance professionals is even greater.
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 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?
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