Leadership in Maintenance Articles

Looking for some practical tips for reliablity improvements? Well let me share some ideas from one of my previous experiences.

My son is 13 years old and has an iPhone 5. Now, just a few weeks before Christmas, he really wants an iPhone 6. Apparently

Many companies we work with ask us a common question, “What’s the biggest reason Reliability and Maintenance (R&M) improvement programs fail?”

Any plant maintenance department wants to be known as a cost effective organization. For the purposes of this article, “Cost Effective” will be defined as:

One of the most common questions I am asked, especially from those that are new to maintenance, is, ”How do I know that we are

Manufacturing facilities know downtime is money.  Every hour you are offline for a shutdown (SD) is costly from both lost revenue and cost of the

Does rapid change of maintenance performance exist? If change is equivalent to sustainable improvements the answer to this question is “No”. My experience has shown

A successful partnership between operations and maintenance is rooted in unified work processes.  IDCON defines work processes as something documented, executed and followed up on.

Management’s responsibility is to develop a process that the organization can follow in their daily job to execute or perform their work. Here are 4

If you want to improve production reliability in one or more facilities, it is important to have a clear picture of the goal(s). At first

We all know that in a reactive maintenance organization 60 – 70 % of crafts people’s time is wasted on finding out what to do,