Reliability Engineering Team
IoTFlows
Writes about maintenance: choosing a strategy for each machine, setting preventive schedules and running work orders.
Articles
Maintenance and reliability
How to cut maintenance response time
Response time runs from a machine stopping to a technician at it. Split it into four segments, time each one, and fix the one where your slowest stops wait.
Downtime and utilization
Machine down alerts people actually act on
Set a warning and a critical time per machine from its own stop history, send each level to one person on one channel, and prune the alerts nobody acts on.
Maintenance and reliability
Detecting CNC tool crashes from shock events
Catch every CNC tool crash from the shock it sends through the machine: what a crash looks like in g, how to set the threshold and what to do after each alert.
Maintenance and reliability
Turn a classified stop into a work order in the same step
Open the work order where the operator classifies the stop, so it starts with the machine, reason, time, duration and note. Decision guide and example inside.
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.