Maintenance Storeroom Management & Inventory Management: Why it is more important than ever for chemical manufacturers
The manufacturing industry has been under mounting pressure from growing international competition, industry consolidation, and increasing customer expectations. Chemical manufacturers aren’t immune to these industry trends and are looking for...
Overcoming Common Equipment Bill of Material (BOM) Woes
One of the simplest ways to reduce production downtime is to have a Bill of Material (BOM) for all of your organization’s equipment. If the BOMs don’t exist (or are...
Scheduled Maintenance vs. Reactive Maintenance. Which Method is Really Better?
Manufacturing equipment maintenance comes in many forms. At one end of the spectrum is reactive maintenance – waiting for a piece of machinery to break down, then diagnosing and curing...
Why Your Maintenance Strategy is Only as Good as the Data in your CMMS
Whether your maintenance scheduling and inventory control tasks depend on SAP, Maximo, Asset Suite, eMaint or another CMMS, it is only as good as the data it uses. With clean,...
How Facilities Management Data Analytics Can Help Capture more MRO Spend
Do you have visibility into your MRO spend? You may have even less visibility into it than you imagined. Working in MRO and Facilities Management Solutions, in our experience, we’ve...
The Components That Make Up a Strategic Facilities Management Program
For over 50 years SDI has worked collaboratively with our clients to develop solutions that deliver the outcomes they desire – whether that’s reducing parts consumption, saving on piece price,...
Aligning Maintenance and MRO strategies with Reliability to Support Future Growth
Posted by on Thu, 10/19/2017 According to a recent study by Hexa Research, the personal care products market is about to see explosive growth. This fragmented industry is dominated by...
Overall Equipment Effectiveness? Get the Measure of Your Production Operations!
Maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) is frequently seen as a back-room topic in many manufacturing firms. That’s why it’s often overlooked, while direct materials get the limelight. Getting the Basics...
The “M” in MRO Supply Chain Management: How Each Maintenance Category Can Boost Your Bottom Line
Manufacturing and other industries are increasingly treating maintenance, repair, and operations procedures as core functions, working to integrate the MRO value chain with other key activities. Technological advances increase companies’...
