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Continuous improvement is a key theme in many operating plants, and a lot of money is often spent to understand the key gaps in facilities to help optimize maintenance and/or operational goals, with the ultimate intent being the production of a commodity in the most cost-effective, safe, and reliable way.
When explaining reliability, I usually ask this question: Where is an airplane naturally located — in the air or on the ground? Some people pick the first, because an airplane is made for flying, whereas others, influenced by the law of gravity, opt for the second.
Defects are anything that creates waste, erodes value, reduces production, compromises health, poses safety risks, or negatively impacts the environment.
Why MLK Day? To mark the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., the chief spokesperson for nonviolent activism in the Civil Rights Movement, which protested racial discrimination in federal and state law.
Uptime Elements Reliability Framework and Asset Management System meets your team wherever they are. There is NO requirement for them. Uptime Elements does not fight the existing model. It simply replaces it with a more effective model that makes the old model obsolete.
The problem with this simple approach is context. Can it really be said with confidence that a rare but catastrophic event is as low a risk as a negligible but frequent event?