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What reliability improvements are possible within 60 days?

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?

Posted by Terrence O'Hanlon on Nov 10, 2011 8:01 AM EST

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Don Fitchett

Date Posted: Feb 9, 2012 at 10:37 PM

Assemble operators, QC, maintenance and engineering to assess waste. Could be wasted motion/process, wasted time, or both caused by defects. For example quality issues may be detected automatically with high speed vision cameras, so part does not continue through process. As opposed to quality check on finished product. How to spot area of greatest return? Use TDC (true downtime cost) analysis and tracking. So area of greatest cost is first to be addressed by team.

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Sam Pickens

Date Posted: Jan 1, 2012 at 12:22 PM

Had an incident as such which in turn made a positive impact of $1.2mm to their pocketbook almost immediately and a contract for me to do their PdM program.

I was called-in on a problem area. Interview operators, make an outline, gather all data and run a vibration survey - diagnose and provide conclusions. Adopt, implement and success - get a pass to collect $200 and proceed to GO.

It takes the experienced seasoned professional to glean and screen knowing where to focus efforts to provide the quick path to success. Else, your path may be much slower.

King regards,
Sam

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