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Importance of Web Maintenance

Imagine your self going to an important meeting in a tattered suit, messed out hair and incorrect information, what sort of image would you have. Do you think you would be successful? To answer the question———— absolutely no way, you would not even be considered.

Your website is your representative on the Internet; it is the reflection of your image. A tattered, messy website with broken links, incorrect content, missing metadata is also not worth considering.

The sole reason for a web site is to advertise to the world in large about yourself or your company. Imagine what sort of advertisement such a messy and un-maintained site would do. Even the best developed website needs constant maintenance and up gradation to remain at the top of the search engines and keep users coming back.
Website Maintenance is composed of six areas.
Publishing- to keep content up-to-date.
Quality Assurance-to spot errors on a site.
Feedback Monitoring- communication with website visitors.
Performance Monitoring-to measure activity on a site.
Infrastructure Monitoring- to ensure a sound technical footing for a site.
Change Control- to manage ongoing technical or other changes in co-ordination.

Maintenance & Up gradation

Website Maintenance encompasses various actions needed to guarantee the operational integrity of a site.

This means regularly checking off

Broken links.
Missing content, e.g. images.
Missing page titles.
Spelling and grammar of content.
Missing metadata.
File sizes of pages to ensure they are not too large.
Browser compatibility.
Applications are functioning correctly, e.g. online forms.
Server Side Scripting or other languages function correctly.
legal and regulatory guidelines are being adhered to
Pages conform to your organizations Web-Accessibility standard.
You should also update your site when
When your company has a value addition- like gotten a new accreditation, licensing or some sort of recognition.
New products or services-launch of a new product or a new service should be included at once for sales generations.
Completed a successful project. If you’ve just finished a project, include it on your website. Create an online portfolio, add a case study advertise it.
Added to your client list- get a testimonial from each of your successful client projects. Updating your testimonials regularly will also show clients who have visited your site your strengths.
Add an article-Writing article is a great way to keep your website Information current and to put more content on your site. Search engines choose content-rich sites, and visitors will keep coming back for new information.
Press releases- post all press releases and other information you publish about your company to your website.
Changes in your business- Any change in the company status quo should be added to you website.

My years working as a Master plumber I have seen many companies hire individuals who have little experience with plumbing. Many companies will use other workers in the maintenance department to perform plumbing work and when it comes to basic plumbing tasks like plunging sinks and toilets this is a large savings to the company.

My problem is when you have large companies who don’t hire skilled plumbers to do plumbing maintenance. It takes years to learn the plumbing trade to develop skills to master the art of plumbing, to trouble shooting, perform problem solving, and understand code compliance.

If you are new to plumbing and want to become a maintenance plumber my advice;  ask your company to send you too as many classes on plumbing that are available in your area.

Most individuals who apply for a maintenance plumbers positions have handy man skills and can unplug a sink, toilet, lavatory, make simple repairs to faucets, and other minor skills that would be required by a handy man.

Companies would profit in the long run by hiring skilled licensed plumbers. Today companies like to call maintenance plumbers by all kinds of names like maintenance engineers, building engineers, maintenance technicians, general engineers and other handy-man job tittles.

If you happen to be one of these individuals and your hired by a company I’m sure you don’t care what they call you as long as they pay you well.

The information in this article is to help you stay employed and prosper as a employee in the plumbing field.

It has taken me years to learn the trade and master the art of plumbing. There is a big difference in working as a maintenance plumber or a service plumber as apposed to working as a construction plumber.

I believe that being a construction plumber and a service plumber takes years of experience and by having skills in both areas, is key to your job growth and longevity.

My new book called “Flush Your Plumbing Troubles Down The Toilet” is available on Amazon.com and is a valuable book on what you need to know on how to save your company money by knowing and learning the information in the book.

If you follow my instructions and properly set up a preventive plumbing maintenance program, learn how to freeze water and steam lines, understand back flow, & cross-connections, estimate the time to get work done, actually perform maintenance on your hot water circulating system, use green plumbing techniques, and other crucial tasks, you will become a valuable asset to your organization and be able to stay working for a very long time.

I can assure you that companies are not doing the things I recommend in my book, and if you learn and do the things I recommend in the book you will become  indispensable.

The final phase of the Atkins diet plan is lifetime maintenance. This is the time to continue your new eating plan at a maintenance level and keep yourself at your goal weight. The habits you have created will now become a permanent way of life. During the third phase, pre-maintenance, you learned exactly how many carbohydrate grams your body can tolerate and still maintain your ideal weight. In this phase, youll put this approach into practice and learn to live with your ideal carb count on a daily basis.

During lifetime maintenance you will continue to expand your food selections and eat more carbohydrate grams than you did previously. Depending on your specific metabolic needs, you can eat some of the foods that you enjoyed prior to starting your weight loss program. If you do choose to eat these foods, they must be moderated and used sparingly.

Keeping your daily carb count right around your ideal carb count is the easiest way to maintain your weight loss. You weight may fluctuate by two or three pounds from time to time, but this is perfectly normal. This weight fluctuation is due to hormonal changes in your body.

During maintenance youll also learn how to overcome your previous bad habits. Losing weight and keeping it off means dealing with real-world situations. Youll develop coping strategies for stress eating, emotional eating and holiday eating. Youll also develop plans for dealing with eating out in restaurants. The challenges during the maintenance phase are many, but they can be overcome.

Its all about preparation. When youve followed the Atkins diet plan for a long time, youve learned exactly how many carbohydrate grams you can handle. Youve also learned what foods trigger carbohydrate cravings and which foods lead to binges. Youve developed coping strategies over the course of your OWL and pre-maintenance phases that you will have to use in lifetime maintenance.

To prepare yourself for lifetime maintenance, make a promise to yourself never to go back to your previous weight. Make the commitment by donating all of your fat clothes. This way, if you do start to gain more than five pounds, youll know that you have to buckle down and eat better. Also, write down in a journal or in a list format all of the benefits of being at your new, thinner size. Write about how much better you feel and how healthy you are. This will cement your new way of life into your mind and your heart.

Choose your lifetime maintenance weight goal range. This is a range of weight that is acceptable to you. For example, if your initial weight loss goal was to be 165 lbs, your lifetime maintenance goal will be 160 to 170 pounds. If your weight starts to creep up toward 170 pounds, then you know that you are being too lenient with your carbohydrate grams. Never let your weight vary more than 3 to 5 pounds in either direction.

Make a commitment to weigh yourself at least once a week. This once-a-week weigh in will give you a good idea of how you are doing on your maintenance program. Use that weekly weight as a guideline for your approach in eating for the following week.
In addition to these guidelines, make sure to continue an exercise program. Your metabolism depends entirely upon the amount of exercise that you are getting. Making the commitment to exercise goes hand in hand with the commitment to keep eating correctly.

By following these guidelines, you can make lifetime maintenance simple and easy.

For any manufaturing firm, the heart of the bussness relies not only on the good employees but on the reliability and efficiency of the equipments used. It is therefore important that the equipment must keep on producing the require output without any troubles or breakdown. And to maintain this, the important task of performing an equipment reliable maintenance is a must.

But what type of of maintenance task should be applied in every equipment? And what are the advantages as well as disavantages of each maintenance task?

The wholistic maintenance strategy includes: Reactive Maintenance, Preventive Maintenance, Predictive Maintenance and Proactive Maintenance.

A Reactive Maintenance is when you fix-it when the equioment fails. It include the run to fail, standby, and redundancy. The best tactic use will be standby and redundancy. Standby means that the machine will not be used until fixed. Redundancy is to use other similar machine while the machine in breakdown is being troubleshoot.

In Preventive Maintenance, is where maintenance is done at a scheduled intervals. This includes overhauls and replacements, routine checks, monitoring and checking with human senses.

In Predictive Maintenance, is where checking for machine condition. It includes diagnostic monitoring, use of predictive maintenance instruments and checking the P-F Curve. This is the best maintenance task to determine the frequency of oil change for manufacturing industries. Also for thermal monitoring and bearing breakdown.

In Proactive Maintenance, means the overall equipment improvement. It includes the addressing of the root cause of the problem, redesign or modification and improving the equipment life span. Proactive maintenance is the most cost effective task of all.

To sum-up, it is very important for any manufacturing maintenance team to know what kind of maintenance plan to implement in order to achieve full equipment usefulness and effectiveness.

In most industries, maintenance and operations hold meetings everyday to discuss what had failed, and sometimes what is done to stop it from happening. In Proactive Maintenance, it is likely to identify all failure modes which are likely to affect the asset in order to determine what will happen when a failure occurs and what should be done to anticipate prevention, detection, prediction or redesigning the equipment.

Proactive Maintenance is about analyzing why failures occur so that recurrence is finally eliminated and thereby extending the life of the part or component of a machine. Proactive Maintenance is when maintenance team or a group of cross functional team analyzes the failure with analytical techniques such as Root Cause Failure Analysis, FMEA, Kepner Tregoe, Why-why Analysis, P-M Analysis, Fault tree Analysis, etc. are used to better understand why the failure occurred in the first place.

Remember that in Preventive Maintenance, we replace the part that we think is in the process of wearing out. In this type of maintenance task, we think that replacing the part will bring the equipment back to its original condition. But we have not taken into account the need to analyze further why a certain part keeps on failing.

In Proactive Maintenance, we need to understand the following concepts:

1. Redesign or modification. Includes changing the specification of the component, adding a new item, replacing an entire machine with a different type, relocating a machine or changing the process or procedure which affects the operation of the machine

2. Safety and Environmental Aspects. Reduce the probability of failure mode occurring to a level which is acceptable, replacing a component with stronger or more reliable replacement making the failure no longer a threat to safety and environment.

3. Operational and non-operation consequences. Reduce the number of times failure occurs, reduce or eliminate the consequences of a failure (example thru redundancy) and preventive tasks is cost effective hence alternate solution is to re-design.

Before a machine is to be re-designed, we must first understand several factors to be considered. First, the failure must have involved a major operational consequence. Second, the cost of the scheduled maintenance or breakdown maintenance must be high. Third, the specific cost which can be eliminated by the design change is notable. Forth, the design should have no harmful effects which can be generated afterwards. Fifth, there should be an economic trade off study on expected cost savings when re-design is made. And lastly, the asset to stay or to be used for a long time and not will be decommissioned.

Trouble shooting as in the case of Reactive Maintenance is no longer an effective strategy. In today’s competitive works, the “Analysis” finds the real solutions. And thus, Proactive Maintenance is a must!