To have reliable production, you need reliable partnerships. This means Operations, Maintenance and Engineering working together towards the common goal. So, the question is…what does
Does your team know why they’re doing preventive maintenance inspections? When your team knows why they are doing even the simplest task, this can instantly
I am all for new technology. In the late 1970s I introduced and taught technologies such as SPM and Acoustic Emission, Wear Particle Analyses with
Your Maintenance Cost is too High! The Coronavirus is spreading around the world as I’m writing this article, and many companies’ finances are shaken to
If you measure reliability by department, electrical, mechanical, process control etc. you may each have a reliability of 97-99%, and everybody is very happy on
How do you plan your family vacation? In most cases you have to check when you can take off from work, decide where to go,
I recently visited a plant in South America for an assessment. They had done some really good things in the plant over the past 2-3
We have all experienced duplicate work orders in our work order system. The problem is generally rooted in the way the current system is designed
We commonly work with clients with a high amount of “Reactive” maintenance. In the worst-case scenarios, this translates into unscheduled downtime and lost production. The
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
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!
I am asked all the time, “How many maintenance planners and supervisors do we need? It’s a great question, I”m going to use the analogy
Sometimes I think about the fact that many companies pay a lot of money for leadership and teamwork simulations…how come we sometimes have a hard time getting things done efficiently on the floor in the maintenance industry when we’re paid so well?
How often is the phrase “The ROOT Cause of the problem” used at your plant/mill? This phrase is a bit symptomatic of how Root Cause
A bearing has a random life due to a complex set of factors that determine the life of a bearing. SKF confirms that bearing life
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
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
In Part 1 of this series on maintenance leadership, I explored two points:
During a recent reliability and maintenance conference, we met several new Reliability Engineers telling us they found their job different from what they expected it
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
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