Criticality assessments can be daunting even for plants with sophisticated tools at their disposal. Where to start? Which assets should you include in the assessment? This is one of the most common questions we hear. Recently, one of our customers, a large industrial facility, said that all their assets were critical. Assuming that is the case, conducting a criticality assessment…

We all know what defines critical spares, right? Those parts or components that would cause significant downtime or interruption of operations should they fail. Often, critical spares are stored at remote sites and available based on a prioritization schedule. This post looks at critical spares that neither in the storeroom nor an off-site facility. If you want help defining critical spares,…

MRO maintenance storerooms have been effective at providing everything from dust masks and gloves to repair parts to critical spares. All of them useful and necessary items in an industrial facility. This is a series that will examine what would happen if we changed our thinking about MRO storerooms and started seeing them as assets, rather than expense centers to…

If you spend time reading the social media profiles of maintenance storeroom managers, you soon learn that reducing storeroom inventory is a popular goal. The fact that it is an often-used KPI suggests the importance of reducing inventory. We couldn’t agree more. It’s important to reduce the dollar value and number of SKUs in the…

  There are many theories and a lot of good practices relating to storeroom management and more specifically, inventory management. We have written about many of these practices in this space. You can read about more about these best practices areas at the following links: Electrical storeroom assessments, what happens nextCritical spares, is your storeroom ready…

  VMI continues to be a productive technology to manage high moving items in many electrical storerooms, and for good reasons. Number one is efficiency. Electrical storeroom managers have a lot on their plates every day – from managing monthly budgets to providing the reporting their organizations expect to reconciling invoices and acting as the…

Why you should do a self evaluation of your electrical storeroom If you have an electrical storeroom that supports critical operations, chances are you’ve spent a great deal of time and money to equip your storeroom to serve those needs. You’ve reviewed the SKUs that are used on a regular basis, optimized your inventory levels…

  We are often asked what happens a week or two after a storeroom assessment takes place. To answer this question, we need to back up a step or two – and this is very important – before we develop an action plan to manage the storeroom. First, we do our homework on what is…