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Why Managers Don’t Endorse Reliability Initiatives

Don Kuenzli, as a plant manager, successfully transformed two oil refineries to highly reliable and sustainable performance by creating a culture of Continuous Improvement through defect elimination. He had a vision to create "a world class facility with pacesetter performance" for these refineries. When Don shared his vision with his boss at one of these sites, he was told that they could not afford to create this level of performance. Managers often make the assumption that the best performance is gained by paying a high price. There are many benchmark studies that demonstrate quite the opposite.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Integrating Your Electrical Equipment into an Existing Reliability Program

Programs, techniques, methods and technologies that are used to integrate electrical equipment into a reliability program will be shared during this presentation, as well as to review and demonstrate success stories, culture change and failures.

Asset Condition Management

Case Study: How Waites Cemented $1 Million in Savings by Eliminating Unplanned Downtime for Buzzi Unicem USA

Minimizing downtime in the cement manufacturing industry is crucial, as each minute of operational delay can lead to significant financial repercussions.

Reliability Incident Management – Linking Incident Management with your Reliability Assurance Prog

Most organisations try to eliminate defects and investigate reliability incidents. Observations across many industries and companies lead the author to the conclusion, that this process, while very important, is one of the most fragmented and poorly executed of all.

internet of things digitalization (iot)

Leveraging AI to Improve Work Scheduling

Asset-intensive enterprises, such as utilities, often face large backlogs of maintenance work orders, which include routine preventive maintenance (PM) tasks and corrective maintenance (CM) actions to address known equipment issues.

The Analysis Advantage - Reliability Incident Management and Strategic Data Collection

Originally presented at the Reliability 2.0 Conference

Asset Management

Maintenance Strategies: Is There a Simple Solution?

No doubt you have heard these terms, read articles and attended workshops and seminars to learn about these strategies. Using this information, you’ve discovered which ones will make your maintenance program more effective, reduce labor hours, reduce costs, increase equipment availability and ultimately improve production.

Based on experience gained from being around maintenance shops for many years, visiting with people in a variety of industries and talking with maintenance professionals around the globe, the conclusion formed is: There is a right time and a right place for each of these strategies.

How Sterling Steel Increases Equipment Availability and Throughput

Sterling Steel produces 450,000 tons of wire rod for its parent company, Leggett & Platt. The long products mini mill utilizes a 415 ton Electric Arc Furnace; two Ladle Metallurgy Facilities; an eight strand Billet Caster and a single strand Rod Mill to produce the wire rod for Leggett & Platt's Wire Mills.

Work Execution Management

Do We Really Want to Be Proactive? (Part1)

As we struggle to move from reactive to proactive maintenance, maybe at some point we just need to stop and ask ourselves the basic question:

"Do we really want to be proactive in maintenance? Really? Honestly?"

BRIEFLY RESTATING THE DIFFERENCE:

REACTIVE MAINTENANCE is dealing with loss issues due to equipment malfunction that show up unexpectedly and repairs have to be done immediately, on a crisis basis, in a very inefficient, unplanned, unscheduled way.

PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE is monitoring equipment for signs of deterioration and performing the necessary repairs and adjustments, when needed, in an efficient, planned, scheduled way, before a loss issue actually happens.

Who wouldn’t want to operate in the Proactive Mode?