“People are our most valuable resource” is most probably the correct political statement to make, but is this true? I do not think it is
Lean manufacturing including lean maintenance has long been a concept both in the United States and in Europe. Lean Maintenance in Manufacturing & Delivery of
What is a World-Class Maintenance? And what plant was the first world-class maintenance organization? Since 1972 I have been bench marking maintenance organizations all over
The cost of maintaining the status quo is enormous. The status quo affects each and every one of us every hour of every day, at
Developing and Retaining Future Craft Skills is often mentioned that this is a future crisis; my observations tell me that the crisis is here now
As an option to reduce plant costs, you may be wondering whether you should contract your maintenance work. This may have some merit, depending on
The Productivity Simulation Make One Team Out of Operations and Maintenance The Productivity Simulation is a tool for building the partnership between operations, maintenance and
Professional Connections A collection of companies and organizations helpful for reliability and maintenance management. RISI is the best positioned and most authoritative global source of forest
A Dictionary for Reliability and Maintenance The definition of Maintenance is the act of maintaining, the state of being maintained, care or upkeep of machinery,
First I like to tell you about myself and from what perspective I write this article. My world is process industries such as Iron, Steel,
One of the reasons many reliability and maintenance improvement initiatives fail to deliver sustaining results is lack of team work between and within departments. It
What is reliability worth in dollars to your plant? Do you know? If not, it is a good idea to figure out how much a
I recently visited a couple of plants where I asked the same question to all people I met. The question was “What are the most
Sustainable improvements to the maintenance function can be achieved the same way as any other successful change in an organization. For change to be successful,
Perhaps you, or one of your management team, feel that a better way of setting maintenance work priorities is needed. This usually happens because it
It is often said that “what gets measured gets done”. And getting things done, through people, is what management is all about. Measuring things that
One universal measurement of maintenance performance, and perhaps the measure that matters most in the end, is actually maintenance costs. Unfortunately, maintenance costs are often
Preventive maintenance is generally considered to include both condition-monitoring and life-extending tasks which are scheduled at regular intervals. Some tasks, such as temperature and vibration
All maintenance management processes you implement in your plant come down to a change at the frontline (hourly and first line of management) at some
Mahatma Gandhi was once asked what he thought of western civilization. He replied that he thought it would be a good idea. The same though
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