The RELIABILITY Conference 2016 - RAP Talk - 19:38 by Jack Nicholas, Author
In this informative RAP Talk, Jack Nicholas stresses often overlooked processes and procedures that address management. In particular, the relationship between policies, processes, plans, procedures and work instructions are illustrated. In addition, how situations where procedures aren’t followed and lead to problems should be handled. Case studies and other sources are presented to emphasize important lessons that were learned, sometimes in very difficult and important ways.
Editor’s note: From 1996 to 2000, the author had the privilege of doing a greenfield construction and start-up of a chemical plant in Asia. Part of the land was still being reclaimed from the ocean when he arrived. This article describes how he and the work team developed work processes to do things in the way they had always wanted to do them.
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