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Is the maintenance reliability improvement program you are leading tied into improving business results or is it aimed at keeping equipment running?
It is up to you to ensure that maintenance reliability is supporting the AIM of the business - so a great starting point may be to do some research about what the overall AIM of the company is.
I worked with a young...
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When I think of the fundamentals of Reliability I think of things like, Lubrication, Fasteners, Equipment Cleanliness, Basic Operator care, and so on. If a company or more realistic a person in middle management wants to make a difference in the realm of reliability the place to start is not with...
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Is the maintenance reliability improvement program you are leading tied into improving business results or is it aimed at keeping equipment running?
It is up to you to ensure that maintenance reliability is supporting the AIM of the business - so a great starting point may be to do...
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Reliabilityweb.com published an interesting article on the topic by Joel Levitt - posted here:
http://reliabilityweb.com/index.php/articles/what_do_bosses_really_want_from_the_maintenance_effort/
After reading it I wondered how many of us actually know what our bosses...
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Surprise! The FM or OM or whomever makes the decisions regarding Electrical Preventative Maintenance programs doesn't "NEED" us, our product, or our company. We know he/she does, but our job is to find out:
1. What the facility is doing now;
2. ...
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We know that " The purpose of electrical preventive maintenance (EPM) should be to recognize deterioration of an EDS and provide means for correcting them." Having said that, as an Electrical Systems Consultant or Sales Professional, how do we build value to the...
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Knowing that the profits of most manufacturing companies is directly tied to the availability of there equipment or better stated the reliability of the equipment and processes. Also knowing that the reliability of the equipment depends on the people that operate and maintain that...
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It is my contention that People are one of the building blocks of the reliability foundation. You might even go as far as to say "People are the Cornerstones of Reliability". I say that because I have been around long enough to understand that the very weight of the reliability program...
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Is there a maximum number of initiatives and roadmaps that one organization can handle at one time?
Have you ever worked in an environment where it seemed like each department had multiple improvement projects being pushed all at once?
Is there an over arching...
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I am reading the new Uptime Magazine cover article featuring SembCorp UK about their journey toward improved Reliability. It is a great story.
You can read it here if you wish
What strikes me most about this story is that technical approaches were not the...
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Terry there's something wrong with your picture - it seems that the loaders were more concened ab...
without a strategic plan that links all initiatives to a common goal, the situation is chaos. ou...
wefrahm
I have to admit that I was pretty far down the management chain in those days. My i...
I have to admit that I was pretty far down the management chain in those days. My i...
Falcon16,
I know the DOD has a reputation for overreaching. To their credit, though,...
I know the DOD has a reputation for overreaching. To their credit, though,...
"Have you ever worked in an environment where it seemed like each department had multiple improve...