When all work requests are high priority (1 or 2) the result is a reactive work environment. This is a common occurrence for organizations that have not clearly defined their priority guidelines for work requests. If this is your reality how can you break the cycle? Here are a few ideas:
Are your work requests all high priority (1 or 2)? Read More »
Pre-operational checklists are not “new”, “sexy” or exciting. What they are is the leading foundation of a safe, highly efficient, reliable and cost-effective mining operation!
Pre-Operational Checklists Reinvented: Data Driven Reliability in Mining Read More »
There are many reasons why many reliability and maintenance management improvement initiatives do not generate the return of investment they can deliver. From my 58 years working in the field of operations and maintenance with many different organizations, I have found some common reasons, which I will share with you throughout this series of articles.
I’ll summarize these two reasons for you and then give you more details. I’m going to tackle the first point in this article. Lack of long-term consistent leadership can be illustrated in the chart below: Here is a scenario I’ve seen at many mills & plants over the years: Many years ago an organization started
In Part 1 of this series on maintenance leadership, I explored two points:
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For a competitive advantage, an organization must have a basic development for a Reliability and Maintenance Strategy. Following the best Reliability and Maintenance strategies maximizes operations output and minimizes cost per unit.
Is your Reliability and Maintenance Strategy Lacking Individual Development? Read More »
You can develop, document, and preach your improvement plans as much as you want, but if those plans do not result in better front line maintenance performance, you have just wasted money and time. T he front line of maintenance includes supervisors, planners, craftspeople and operations; all others in the maintenance organization exist to support
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An obvious resource is to use for early detection of problems is training your operator in basic inspection techniques. You may have heard of the terms TPM or Autonomous Maintenance, in reality it’s all about engaging your operators in caring and inspecting equipment. Who can better detect problems? They should be in tune with subtle
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Is your Preventive Maintenance Program on a summer break or does your team perform the critical essential care tasks year-round? An effective Preventive Maintenance program must be executed consistently regardless of the season!
In poorly performing mills it is typical that production, maintenance and engineering organizations work in silos without much cooperation. The traditional view in these mills is that the maintenance organization delivers service to its customer which is the production organization and the engineering organization is called “the black hole” where requests for drawing and other
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