Plant software
Planning, maintenance and shop-floor systems, and what it takes to get a plant using them.
Maintenance systems, planning tools and shop-floor data collection only pay off when the people on the line use them. This topic looks at what to ask before you buy, how to roll a system out one area at a time, and how to keep the data clean once it is in.
Comparisons here describe what these systems do without vendor price lists, which change too often to stay useful.
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Field checklist
Preventive maintenance checklist for plant equipment
A shift, weekly, monthly and yearly task list to adapt to your own machines, with notes on lockout and records.
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Field glossary
Plant floor glossary: maintenance and production terms
Short, plain definitions of the terms used in maintenance, quality and scheduling conversations.
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Working rules
About our notes: how Shop Floor Notes is written
How we write, what we will and will not publish, and how corrections work.
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Field calculator
OEE calculator for a machine or production line
Work out availability, performance, quality and OEE from one shift's numbers.