If you are currently running a vibration monitoring program in-house or outsourcing it to a consultant, before you potentially throw any more money in the toilet, you really need to audit your vibration monitoring program and ask yourself if you are getting any value out of it.
Leadership requires a keen understanding of the operating environment, the social aptitude and emotional intelligence to communicate that awareness to the rest of the team effectively, and the operational know-how of turning strategy into execution.
When thinking of IBM and Xerox, one tends to think of paradoxical leadership. In the blue corner, we have a company - and a leadership model - that superbly enacted the attribute of adapting. In the red corner, we have a company that was highly innovative and thought-leading, yet for a period of time didn't possess the adapting attribute and suffered for years thereafter as a result.
Although playfully labeled, the bad habits that cause these deadly leadership diseases are real to anyone experiencing them. By recognizing the habits that cause these diseases you will be better prepared to prevent them from happening to you. Luckily, if you or someone you know has contracted one of these diseases there are cures for each one.
For most products (other than software-only products), any change from the original intent during development costs money (and extends schedule), and the cost of any particular change (along with the time impact caused by the change) increases with time . This increase in cost and schedule may not intuitively obvious, and as such may obfuscate the real reason that proper product development planning is so critical to the success of the product development.
This simple phrase familiar to every Nissan employee conveys a powerful truth. Any company is only as strong as the people who bring it to life. Companies do not create products, deliver services or solve problems; people do.
Management periodicals are unanimous in advocating the integration of services into core product offerings. Servitization is the term for these integrated packages of client-focused combinations of products, services, support, self-service and knowledge. 1 Historically, most of a product's value was added during the production process, which transformed raw material to a useful product. Today, value comes from technological improvement, styling, branding and other attributes that only services can create. 2, 3, 4
Currently, there is considerable excitement and growth in the fields of data analytics and business intelligence (BI). This article serves as a primer, to inform and explain their relevance in the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) domain and to illustrate some of the potential opportunities.
Understanding where to apply reliability measures is a foundational element of reliability engineering. If you want to improve a process, you need to understand the present level of reliability, where the losses or deficiencies are located and what you can do to reduce or eliminate these losses. One of the biggest problems regarding reliability measures is there are so many of them, so much so that they have begun to overlap, adding further confusion to those who are in the process of learning and applying the measures.
Sometimes an innovation comes along, that deserves the attention of executives in multiple sectors and industries. In this case, the innovator is not a single person or company. Rather, the innovators are a group of well known leading, global brands: Google, Facebook, IBM, Twitter, Microsoft and Yahoo.
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