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Management is impatient for results and wants to see results as soon as possible and long time horizons are usually not very interesting for them.
Is it possible with the right focus, support and team, to make major reliability improvements within 60 days that show improved production and OEE?
If you had a 60 days charter to focus on one production line where would you begin your efforts to improve it? What kind of team would you assemble?
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Behind every able man, there are always other able men,<b> Chinese Proverb</b>.
As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. - <b>Proverbs 27:17</b>.
No is no question about it, <b>the team is greater than the sum of its parts</b>. It is the...
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President Lynden Johnson's 10 rules for Success.
1. Learn to remember names.
2. Be a comfortable person so there is no strain in being around you
3. Aquire the quality of being relaxed so things do not "ruffle your feathers".
4. Dont be egotistical.
5. Be interested in people so that THEY get something of value...
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When new equipment is installed in your facility how do you manage getting the spare parts bill of material in a format that you can order parts? Do you use a CMMS for this function?
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Management is impatient for results and wants to see results as soon as possible and long time horizons are usually not very interesting for them.
Is it possible with the right focus, support and team, to make major reliability improvements within 60 days that show improved production and OEE?
If you had a 60 days charter to focus on...
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Face it, our day to day jobs generally keep us too busy to effectively drive changes in our organizations.
Is it possible to drive reliability improvements with an internal team or are consultants required?
Even if you know what reliability strategies and techniques to use and you have a deep knowledge of their application –...
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Next time you have a safety meeting - how about adding 7 minutes at the end where a Maintenance Reliability professional selects a topic to educate everyone on an aspect of equipment in the plant (example - discuss couplings, seals etc...) so there is a general awareness of procedure, decision criteria etc...
At the end of the 7 minutes a single...
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From Heinz Bloch workshop at Lube -2011 at the Reliability Performance Institute:
1) A clear role statement
2) A formal long range training plan
3) A journal that includes monthly summary of tasks and accomplishments
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We are beginning Lube-2011 Machinery Lubrication Conference today at the new Reliability Performance Institute in Fort Myers.
It is amazing to me how many organizations still do not practice new oil filtering, contamination control, proper training, color coded containers and grease guns etc....
We have so many conversation about topics...
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Any real CMMS application will have a parts linking to primary and sub components for part usage during work and PM Or...
by Grdon Emms
on Spare Parts
We call these "Tool Box Talks"
Had an incident as such which in turn made a positive impact of $1.2mm to their pocketbook almost immediately and a co...
I agree, it seems we always lean towards more technical training/ advancement instead of taking care of the basics....
Yes it can but it is getting more deficult to find the experience needed for the skills. Companys that have made their...