Reliability Engineering Team
IoTFlows
Writes about maintenance: choosing a strategy for each machine, setting preventive schedules and running work orders.
Articles
Maintenance and reliability
What is a CMMS, and why start it from the machine?
A CMMS tracks work orders, PM schedules, assets and spare parts. See what it does for a plant, why hand-entered history misleads, and how to judge floor fit.
Maintenance and reliability
How to build a preventive maintenance schedule that holds
A PM schedule holds when every task has an owner, a time estimate and a booked stop. Build the task list, level the weekly hours and track PM compliance.
Maintenance and reliability
Usage-based maintenance from run hours and part counts
Usage-based maintenance makes PM due on run hours or parts made, not dates. Pick the unit, set the first interval, size the warning and keep dates where needed.
Maintenance and reliability
How to choose a maintenance strategy for each machine
Match each machine to reactive, preventive, usage-based, condition-based or predictive maintenance with a four-question test, survey data and worked examples.