Reliability Tips

Maintenance Managers – Do you have a clear path forward?

II recently visited a couple of plants where I asked the same question to all people I met.  The question was “What are the most important things for this plant to improve upon in order to improve equipment reliability?” 

If the maintenance managers in these plants would have:

• Had a vision (painted the picture of where to go)
• Had a plan
• Had communicated their future vision and the improvement plans continuously
• Had some acceptance from their people around their plans

the answers from the individuals would have correlated pretty well with the managers’ vision.  The question is, do you have a vision (could be a list of best practices)?  Do you have an improvement plan? Is that plan well communicated and accepted?  If not, I think you will have a hard time to get people to improve in the right direction.

Tor Idhammar, IDCON  

For information about creating a vision and an improvement plan for reliability call Tor at +1 91 847 8764 x105.

If you rather read some more, I suggest the following articles.

Leadership in maintenance part 1 to 4:
What constitutes world-class maintenance part 1 through 6: