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MANAGEMENT Personnel tasks are really necessary during shutdown,” Idhammar says. “If jobs can be moved to a weekly or daily schedule, and if some PMs conducted during shutdown can be converted to condition-based maintenance, then the amount of work and time spent during shutdowns will be reduced.” By now, companies without mobile technology already know they should have it, and those with a wireless infrastructure in place are working to make their maintenance processes more eﬃcient. According to Rich 120 Padula, president and CEO of Syclo (www.syclo.com), “ is 110 Pump curve is because mobile computing is an easy concept to grasp. 100 90 Eliminating paper and redundant processes with mobile 80 technology allows you to move data at much less cost, make 70 your personnel more productive and gather more data about 60 RESET50 the equipment.” Standardizing data capture and processes 40 also helps companies cope with an aging workforce. 30 Increasingly, productivity gains from reducing paperwork 20 System curve 10 are being exceeded by productivity gains of the assets them0 2000 4000 6000 8000 selves thanks to improved data, 10000 12000 Padula says. For example, Volumetric ﬂow rate (gal/min) when a machine initiates a work order that is dispatched automatically to a technician’s wireless device, it ensures data capture, speeds repair and reduces the risk of downtime. e mobile experience is being enhanced continually. Voice technology is reducing the number of clicks required. Syclo has a speech-enabled multimodal logistics system that combines speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities with peripherals such as bar code scanners, RFID, wireless printers, digital cameras, GPS and GIS. Imaging technology makes processes easier to perform and the results are more consistent. You can click on an equipment schematic to expand speciﬁc parts and show intended readings or record the actual readings. You can select a picture that best resembles a physical condition rather than drop-down descriptions that are subject to interpretation. And, you can store digital photos with the work history to avoid typing lengthy descriptions of equipment condition. Mobile computing also is being used to automate big project tasks, like reﬁnery turnarounds. Integrating mobile devices with project-management software replaces the paper trail and the project is completed quicker, in the correct sequence, and with greater safety and accountability. Head (feet) Compute this Top beneﬁts of mobile 6. Go mobile wo Mo rk re co pl m an pl ne et d ad ed m in ist ra Re tio du n ce co d sts Lo we rt r co ave sts l Be tte rr ca epo pa rti bi ng lit y in ve nt R or ed ies u /c ce os d ts To o s to oon te ll MIT Syclo survey respondents point to better reporting, more planned work completed, and lower costs as the top three beneﬁts of their mobile deployment. Top 10 techniques 1. Evaluate your strategy 2. Assess skills 3. Develop knowledge 4. Outsource appropriately 5. Plan and schedule 6. Go mobile 7. Be more proactive 8. Automate materials management 9. Get clever 10. Reward results to Joe Fox, director of systems and services, “ e Cooper InVision downtime reduction system automatically alerts maintenance workers within 90 seconds of an open-circuit event, with instructions on where the incident occurred, what parts are needed and what personal protective equipment (PPE) to bring. e result is a faster time to respond and reduced time to repair.” One component manufacturer experienced about 36 open circuits per year. With InVision, the drop in mean-time-to-repair resulted in potential savings of $11,875 per event, and ROI was realized in one month. Robert Holmes, marketing director for WinWare (www.cribmaster.com) says it can take 30 minutes at a large facility to get a tool or supplies, between shutting down the machine, traveling to the crib, waiting for the item, returning to the equipment and starting it up. e RESET SUBMIT advent of RFID changed all that. Now companies can place high-use items at the point of use in a secured environment, and allow automated checkouts and returns. “When you walk through CribMaster’s Accu-Port portal system, your RFID badge is authenticated automatically. As you walk Headline out, the system automatically tracks the materials you take,” Holmes explains. “All management decisions (e.g. when to order, move or calibrate) occur electronically.” J 8. Automate materials management Reducing unplanned downtime allows the maintenance workforce to concentrate on more preventive and predictive activities. One cause of unplanned downtime is short circuits and overloads that cause open-circuit events. A study by Cooper BussmannRESET (www.cooperbussmann.com) SUBMIT found that open-circuit events result in an average of 41 minutes of downtime and cost from $300,000 to millions of dollars in downtime per manufacturing site per hour. According 32 7. 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