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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.
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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?
IndustryWeek July 1, 2008 Jonathan Katz	Maintenance Seers Predictive maintenance tools and strategies diagnose problems before they begin.
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 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 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 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 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 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?
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 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 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 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 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.
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 September 1, 2007 John Teresko	The Evolution Of Smart Machine Standards Efforts of all the "smart" machine initiatives anticipate substantial change in the future of machine controls, but substantial advances are an established industry pattern.
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 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.
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 June 23, 2010	Basics of Lean Maintenance When properly applied to maintenance processes, lean strategies can remove waste and improve equipment 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 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 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 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?
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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 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 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.
InternetNews January 14, 2011	Google Looks to Prove It's Rock-Solid on the Cloud Google claims its Service Level Agreement for Google Apps is an 'Industry First.
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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 August 1, 2007 John Teresko	PLM's MRO Opportunity PLM can manage inventory, procurement to maintenance.
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 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 January 1, 2007 John Teresko	More Machine Intelligence Industrial market sectors are already commercializing intelligence systems.
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 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.
IndustryWeek January 1, 2007 John Teresko	Making Machine Tools Smarter The new challenge for machine tools is mass customization. Now with a shortened time to market and greater product variability, an added challenge becomes one of making the first part correct. The solution: making the machine tool smarter.
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 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.
Food Processing October 2012	MRO Q&A: Legislation on Food Plant Maintenance Issues Where can I find information on legislation on food plant maintenance issues?
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