Asset Productivity Customer Success
Lansing Board of Water and Light Prepares for ISO 55000 Certification
The Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL) is a municipally owned public utility providing drinking water, electricity, steam and related services to the Greater Lansing area in mid-Michigan. To accomplish its mission – providing safe, reliable, and affordable utility products and services – BWL embarked on a transformational journey to improve its operating performance by learning and adopting asset management best practices.
LCE Partners with MTA Long Island Rail Road to Manage Obsolescence
The M7 railcar vehicle is mid-way through its intended service life. The Obsolescence Management (OM) Program provided LIRR Maintenance of Equipment (MofE) Department with the knowledge, strategy, and processes to prepare for potential obsolescence issues due to the unavailability of parts. The program was designed to help the railroad become proactive in tracking and reviewing parts for potential obsolescence
LCE Partners with MTA Bus Support Fleet Services
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Bus Support Fleet Services (SFS) recognized a lack of maturity in their maintenance organization and the need for a more granular approach to managing their diverse fleet of assets and associated inventories. The SFS organization did not include a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler discipline and recognized inefficiencies in the lack of sufficient corrective and preventive maintenance job plans.
LCE Helps New York’s MTA and LIRR Improve Asset Management Across all Track Departments
Since 1834, Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) has been the busiest operating passenger rail system in North America, with uninterrupted service since 1834. The LIRR network contains over 124 stations, 1,000 passenger cars, 700 miles of track, and serves 80-100 million riders each year. LIRR’s parent organization, New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), is an extremely asset-intensive organization with an asset registry valued in excess of $1.0 trillion.
What’s In a Name? How Storeroom Optimization Eliminated Excess MRO Inventory
Imagine you’re a maintenance professional in a global manufacturing organization. You need to place a large order for spare parts for your equipment but due to the disarray of your materials storeroom, you have no way of knowing those parts are already in stock. Picture this happening over and over again for many years, driving up the cost of your MRO inventory.
U.S. Sugar Corporation Keeps the Train Moving with Reliability Excellence
The U.S. Sugar Corporation is located in Clewiston, Florida, and farms over 187,000 acres of land to produce an estimated 70,000 tons of raw sugar each year. What makes this particular operation unique is their private agricultural railroad, which is the largest short line in the United States and is used to transport all of its sugar cane production across 120 miles of track to and from various factories and refineries.
Reliability Fuels Success for Food Manufacturer
Even for a successful food manufacturer, asset maintenance and reliability must be closely monitored to ensure the business is maximizing production capabilities. For one worldwide company, opportunities to improve overall maintenance effectiveness were being missed due in large part to the lack of a planned weekly schedule, a lack of fundamental training, and a breakdown in communication between the operations and maintenance departments.
Minnkota Improves with LCE
Minnkota Power’s Milton R. Young Station began commercial operation in 1970 with one generating unit, adding a second generating unit in 1977. In 2012, Life Cycle Engineering (LCE), an industry expert in reliability engineering, was asked to conduct a business assessment of the Young Station. After speaking with several Minnkota employees, it was evident maintenance best practices had slipped over the years, resulting in a shift toward a more reactive maintenance philosophy.
Grain Export Facilities Improve Reliability
A global corporation with two large-scale grain export facilities in North America unloads river barges and trains with grain and then redistributes into the worldwide commodities market on container ships. Both export sites, each consisting of roughly 150 employees, transfer grain consisting mostly of corn, soybeans and wheat.
Truck Manufacturing with World-Class Operations
A goal for most automotive manufacturing operations is to increase speed and efficiency while keeping costs as close to the floor as possible. However, for one of the world’s leading truck manufacturers, this group didn’t just want to improve efficiency, they wanted to be recognized as a world-class leader in this category.
