Solutions 2.0 2015 - Essential Elements of a Successful Reliability Program

Summary of key points:

• Make reliability programs money driven‐‐not technology driven. Sell improvements as about time and money issues-it's the voice of business!
• Use reliability tools/technology to reduce lost money issues.
• Work the $Pareto list based on actual failures and the $risks of possible failures.
• Discuss the top 10 $Pareto items with management. Progress is reducing $losses in months‐‐not years.
• Forecast future $failures for next 3‐5 years using Crow‐AMSAA reliability growth plots.
• Use root cause analysis to solve critical failure issues within the top 10 $items-Why? That's where the money loss occurs!
• Sell management that reliability programs are to their advantage for changing the site culture from $failure accepting to preventing $failures with fact driven engineering effort with an empowered/enabled work force.
• Encourage individual confessions of errors without punishment-look to the nuclear industry and the US Navy carriers as examples.
• Empower and enable your workforce for better performance.
• Describe improvements in $ not things.
• Make money for the company by reducing failures and making improvements pay their way. Do it NOW!