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Systematizing Your Asset Management Operation

In the movie Deliverance, Burt Reynolds's character says, "Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything." That statement is never truer than in discussions about asset management. When you're focused on what you already know, it's easy to miss a better way of doing things

Asset Management

Is outsourcing the answer to improving municipal service delivery?

Asset management giant Pragma sees independence as important for success

The majority of metros and municipalities in South Africa don’t know how to translate the ‘what’ into the ‘how’ with regards to co-ordination and management of their asset care function and should consider outsourcing as either an interim or long term solution to the situation. This is according to Dean Griffin, head of consulting and partner at the leading asset management firm, Pragma. Recently, the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality reappointed Pragma Africa to operate their Asset Care Centre within their Electricity directorate until June 2013. For the last five years 14 Pragma staff members have been placed at the metro looking after the high and medium voltage distribution assets, totaling approximately 62 000 maintenance significant items, with a total replacement value of R24 billion.

Leadership for Reliability

The Vanishing Workforce and How to Deal With It

For over 10 years, the country has seen a shift in the workforce. Older workers, known as baby boomers, have begun to leave in droves before younger replacements are trained or, in some cases, even onboard. You keep hearing, “jobs, jobs, jobs,” but what should be heard is, skilled workers, skilled workers, skilled workers. That’s right, there is a worker shortage more than a job shortage. Why, you may ask? There are several reasons, but more importantly, very little is being done to solve the problem.

Leadership for Reliability

The Human Factors’ Influence on Maintenance Reliability Management

Human factors play a vital role in influencing maintenance reliability management in an organization. This article presents some specifics on the influence of culture and leadership in the process and chemical industries.

Motor Testing - Which Road Will You Take?

by Dave Humphrey, Allison Transmission, Indianapolis, IN

Introduction

Allison Transmission, General Motors Corporation is the world leader in design, manufacture and sales of commercial-duty automatic transmissions, hybrid propulsion systems, and related parts and services for on-highway trucks, buses, off-highway equipment and military vehicles. Aside from its primary location in Indianapolis, IN, Allison Transmission, part of GM's Powertrain Division, has International regional offices in The Netherlands, Japan, China, Singapore and Brazil and is represented in more than 80 countries via its 1500-member distributor and dealer network.

The Total Motor Maintenance (TMM) concept is a strategy that is used every day from motor inventory and delivery, to testing and reliability of motors.

tales from the shop

The Foundation for a Successful Reliability Journey!

Our story goes way back to the very beginning of our journey, to the inception of an idea that we can be better at what we do, that there is more to learn and a better way of doing business.

Leadership for Reliability

A Vision of Enterprise Reliability

Looking Into the Future of the Industry

by Dennis Belanger

What is the ultimate vision for enterprise reliability? If you’re like me, occasionally you find yourself drifting off into a day dream. One of the recurring day dreams I’ve been having for the last 10 years involves this question. I often lapse into deep thought, pondering, “How is all of this reliability and maintenance stuff supposed to work?

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High Operational Autonomy + Low Financial Autonomy: A Formula for Failure

By Ron Moore

Background and Introduction
During a recent meeting, a mid-level manager with a large petroleum company was asking my opinion about which manufacturing and industrial companies were the best in the world. My reply was that most large organizations had manufacturing plants that covered the spectrum ranging from very poor to excellent, but none that I had direct experience with stood out to me as being consistently excellent in their manufacturing practices across the board, that is, in most all plants. As part of that discussion, he also asked "How much autonomy do site managers have (in the organizations you've seen)?" I had to think for a moment, at which point I said, "They have very little financial autonomy, and nearly complete operational autonomy, a recipe for highly variable performance, and ultimately, failure." I'll explain my view.

Work Execution Management

Is Wrench Time Worth Measuring?

Wrench time, or tool time as it’s called in some countries, is an often touted measure for determining maintenance productivity since it’s intended to measure the actual time technicians spend working with their tools at a given job. Typical numbers observed are 25 to 35 percent, meaning technicians typically spend 65 to 75 percent of their time not working or, at least, not getting the work assigned done. Is this a valid measure or conclusion? Is it useful to measure wrench time? The answer is yes, if properly done, as well as a resounding no, if not properly done, which happens more often than not!

The ABC’s of Failure – Getting Rid of the Noise in Your System

Leadership for Reliability

Don't Just Fix It - Improve It!

For the past 40 years, I have observed many companies; including DuPont (where I spent 27 years) pursuing planned maintenance with the standard tools of planned maintenance: inspections, planning, scheduling, materials procurement, CMMS systems, etc. with the same results.

Asset Condition Management

VibrAlign Introduces the Live Advice Feature for the ONEPROD HAWK Machinery Diagnostic Tool

VibrAlign introduces the Live Advice Button for the ONEPROD HAWK machinery diagnostic tool. Now the HAWK not only empowers mechanics to instantly diagnose the health of their rotating assets, it gives them a way to directly connect with experts in vibration analysis to verify the HAWK's findings and recommendations, to better understand complex diagnoses with multiple issues, and to gain confidence in the power of this ground breaking new tool.