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Things to Think About and Do (2017)

We asked some of our respected friends whom we consider to be thought leaders to look into the future, share their vision and guide us to take advantage of it to be safer and more successful.

Best-selling authors and leading subject-matter experts provide excellent interactive learning on a wide variety of subjects you can put to use immediately when you get back to work.

Work Execution Management

Defect Elimination From a CMMS Perspective

Defect elimination may be the most significant initiative within a maintenance reliability program. It may also provide the largest return on investment in terms of asset reliability and plant uptime. From a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) perspective, defect elimination can be used to focus on recurring failures and significant events, and also to address potential failures.

work execution management

Maximo Asset Management, Made Simple

This document provides insights from a maintenance perspective, the day-to-day user of the system and the information contained within it. Identifying all maintainable assets and their physical locations are critical to the maintenance function. From this functionality, data to identify the required maintenance strategies, develop logical maintenance routes and identify routine spare parts can be understood.

Asset Condition Management

ACM Project Manager’s Guide Features Complete Project Plan

Reliabilityweb.com just released the Asset Condition Monitoring (ACM) Project Manager’s Guide and, based on its contents, it’s a resource no organization should be without. For several years, I have been involved in asset management and managing condition based asset teams, but never have I seen a more complete project plan than what is presented in this guide. Not everything in the ACM Project Manager’s Guide will work for everybody, but there are sections in the guide that will adapt to every situation. No matter where you are on your asset condition monitoring journey, at the beginning or with a mature program, this guide contains information that will help to grow and sustain every ACM program.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Why Organizations Leave Money on the Table

Why are organizations leaving money on the table by not investigating failures that cost them money? One would venture to say that all manufacturing companies have failures each year that cut into their profit. The prevailing question is: What do you do when that failure occurs? Do you simply fix the equipment, get back up and running, and return to whatever you were working on at the time? Or, do you stop what you are doing and diligently try to understand why the failure occurred and put measures in place to prevent recurrence? Is the culture at your facility one that seeks to understand why something failed or is it in a mode where you need to get back up and running as fast as possible? How about your commercial team and management external to your facility? Is there perceived pressure and a lack of understanding that have driven your organization to a place where failures are not fully understood?

Leadership for Reliability

Principles of Measuring Performance

Engineer and management consultant Joseph M. Juran said, “If you don’t measure it, you don’t manage it.” It’s a fairly accurate statement. But, another question might be: “If you do measure it, does that help you manage it?” Far too often, experience shows that it does not, for a host of reasons. Some of these include: having too many measures leading to complexity and confusion about what’s important; a lack of focus; measuring the wrong things; not measuring things that are truly important to the business; having measures that are in conflict across functional boundaries; or not displaying the measures prominently or, if displayed, not keeping measures current, resulting in employees considering them unimportant (after all, if you don’t keep the measures current, how important could they be?).

Uptime Elements Crossword Puzzle February - March 2017

We hope you have been enjoying the Uptime^® Elements^TM Crossword Puzzle created by PuzzleMaster, Ramesh Gulati, author of The Uptime Elements Dictionary for Reliability and Asset Managers.

We are excited to announce a new way to interact and show off your intellectual skills at the same time. Beginning with this issue, we will not be publishing the crossword puzzle’s answers in the same issue as it appears. Answers will be published on-line 6 weeks after the issue’s release, and in this case, March 10th. That gives you a month to solve the puzzle and share it with us.

Work Execution Management

Operator Driven Reliability and Ultrasonic Inspection

Operator driven reliability (ODR) is a process that involves operators in the maintenance and reliability of their equipment. ODR selects tasks previously performed by maintenance technicians and reassigns these tasks to operators. However, ODR is only effective when operators are focused on specific tasks. Operators must be properly trained and coached in the performance of each task.

Leadership for Reliability

An Asset Manager’s Guide to Harvest Management Commitment

The Uptime article, “An Asset Manager’s Guide to Building a Meaningful Company Vision,” explained why it’s essential to have a company vision at the department level in order to gain collaboration and create excitement among department level managers. Next, this article explains why it is crucial for the enterprise asset manager to guide department level managers toward an understanding of how to translate their vision into a top level, order of magnitude for change. In other words, a company vision is only good if it can be sold to the executive level team of your organization.

Articles

Things to Think About and Do (2017)

6 Successful Strategies for the Not So New Challenges of Today

Defect Elimination From a CMMS Perspective

Maximo Asset Management, Made Simple

ACM Project Manager’s Guide Features Complete Project Plan

Why Organizations Leave Money on the Table

Principles of Measuring Performance

Do We Really Want to Be Proactive? (Part 2)

Uptime Elements Crossword Puzzle February - March 2017

The Changing Face of Asset Data Capture

Operator Driven Reliability and Ultrasonic Inspection

An Asset Manager’s Guide to Harvest Management Commitment