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Paul Lachance, Smartware Group Inc.

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Lean Maintenance March 14, 2012

CMMS contributes to total productive maintenance initiatives

When a manufacturing organization embarks on a total productive maintenance (TPM) project, especially maintenance operations, it is critical to get the feedback from any/all people impacted, down to machine operators. So often we hear about utopian desires from upper management related to maintenance operations. TPM would be much more successful if people working “in the trenches” are included in the design, implementation and intended outcomes of the project. This stretches way past the maintenance staff to equipment operators themselves who could be “deputized” to handle elementary quality control and preventive maintenance tasks. CMMS should be the operations management, planning, analysis and audit technology component of any plant TPM strategy.

By Paul Lachance, Smartware Group Inc.
Asset Management December 1, 2011

When rolling out CMMS, make sure everyone gets involved

Enterprise-level CMMS promotes superior maintenance operations across the organization by sharing PMs and other best practices.

By Paul Lachance, Smartware Group Inc.
Lean Maintenance November 17, 2011

Scheduling preventative maintenance – timing is everything

CMMS Intelligence allows maintenance teams to reduce preventative maintenance and achieve maximum uptime.

By Paul Lachance, Smartware Group Inc.
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