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Articles: Reliability Leadership

Strong Predictive Maintenance Program Boosts UPTIME to Meet Growing Demand for Recycled Papers

Paul DeHaan and Matthew Schmandt

As the only paper mill in North America dedicated to producing coated mechanical printing papers made from nearly 100 percent recycled materials, FutureMark Paper Company is in the enviable position of having just what customers want - environmentally-friendly products that meet high print-quality standards for magazines, books, catalogs and advertising flyers.

Sunshine & Rainbows: The Journey Toward Cultural Change

By John Scott

We have all heard the old saying that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," but never did this Confucius saying ring truer than when implementing manufacturing excellence.

The Reliability Secrets of North America’s most profitable steel manufacturer

All North American steel manufacturers face the same challenges: foreign competition, rising costs and falling prices. Dofasco responds to the challenges better than anyone; they are North America's most profitable steel company.

How does Dofasco do it? Can you become your industry's most profitable firm by applying Dofasco's reliability secrets?

Three Waves to Reliability Excellence

By Gary Johnson, Reliability Manager, Alcoa, Inc. and Tom Dabbs, Managing Principal, Life Cycle Engineering

This excellent paper and others were presented at IMC-2004 - the 19th International Maintenance Conference.

What’s the FRACAS?

Failure Elimination Made Simple

by Ricky Smith, CPMM, CMRP and Bill Keeter, CMRP

How good is your organization at identifying failures?  Of course you see failures when they occur, but can you identify when recurring failures are creating serious equipment reliability issues?  Most companies begin applying RCA or RCFA to “high value failures”.  While this is not wrong, I prefer to either not see the failure in the first place, or at the least, to reduce the failures to a controllable level.

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