Was it a good start-up? How to measure the start-up effectiveness of a production unit.
How to measure the start-up effectiveness of a production unit
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Mar 233 min read
A 9 3/4 mindset going into your shutdown
Imagine your production line is winding down after a productive month, and now it is time to allocate time for your monthly repair turn...
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Feb 254 min read
When to use an extra life
If you grew up in the 80s or 90s, you most likely know what the green mushroom provides the gamer in Mario Brothers. If you played the...
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May 14, 20234 min read
Your outage's duration shouldn't be divisible by eight all of the time.
Could you walk into a manufacturing facility and get an accurate read on the maturity to plan and execute planned outages with a single...
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Aug 14, 20224 min read
A crispy approach to dehydration
Manufacturing and summertime mean one thing, it’s hot. Most people might complain about how hot it is after mowing a quarter-acre yard in...
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May 24, 20224 min read
Concierge, we need ice under the overhead crane please.
Summertime brings beaches, vacations, warm air, and outages. Outages, for some of us, are the time of year when we shut down assets and...
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May 17, 20225 min read
Cheers... to the last outage.
WIthin all forms of manufacturing, outages exist. They are either planned or unplanned and they could exist at some periodic interval....
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Mar 3, 20223 min read
Did we get a good deal trading production time for scheduled maintenance?
Regardless of whether you have production units that are reliable or unreliable, I would like to propose a different type of performance...
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Jan 13, 20222 min read
You know Murphy? So do I.
In manufacturing, we reference things like “Murphy will get you” or “Murphy’s Law” when describing unpredictable results and scenarios...
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Jan 5, 20222 min read
Implementing COVID preparation into your outage planning. Alabama’s Coach Saban might have it right.
In a recent article on AL.com, The University of Alabama’s head football coach, Nick Saban, was interviewed talking about bowl...
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