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Building a Resilient Foundation- Prioritizing Reliability and Team Wellbeing
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Building a Resilient Foundation- Prioritizing Reliability and Team Wellbeing

Feeling burned out, undervalued, or overwhelmed by the constant "glug" of interruptions? The solution isn't just better maintenance—it's a change in mindset. Learn the two simple keys that transform frustration into fulfillment, empower your team, and provide the "glug resistance" your organization needs to eliminate reactive chaos.

How to Baseline Your Craft Productivity (Wrench Time)
Work Execution Management

How to Baseline Your Craft Productivity (Wrench Time)

Struggling with the 30% productivity average? This session offers a practical methodology to establish your team's baseline without resorting to individual time studies. Learn how GEMBA exercises build trust, reveal the 8 wastes in your workflow, and provide the visibility needed to drive defect elimination and improve planning.

Job Methods for Defect Elimination
Work Execution Management

Job Methods for Defect Elimination

Defect elimination starts here. Don’t just fix it—improve it.

Achieving Trouble Free Bearing Life Through Defect Elimination
Work Execution Management

Achieving Trouble Free Bearing Life Through Defect Elimination

When a machine is designed, one of the major considerations the engineer must make is the selection of proper rolling element bearings. Some of the factors to consider in selecting bearings are shaft speeds, loads (both axial and radial), the environment they will run in, how to relube them, the duty cycle, etc.

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Central San’s Improvement in Work Execution: Strategy to Tactics
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Central San’s Improvement in Work Execution: Strategy to Tactics

Our motto of: “The right maintenance, right equipment at the right time.”

The Stand SE 2 - Unlocking Reliability: Paul Monus on Defect Elimination

The Stand SE 2 - Unlocking Reliability: Paul Monus on Defect Elimination

Paul addresses the persistent challenge of achieving steady-state reliability in the industry. He explains that while technical approaches have been around for decades, the social aspects of change are often overlooked.

Reliability Radio EP 309: Tim Rice, the concept of Defect Elimination
Defect Elimination

Reliability Radio EP 309: Tim Rice, the concept of Defect Elimination

We discuss the concept of Defect Elimination, its benefits, challenges, and much more. A can’t miss episode for those looking to make truly sustainable improvements.

A Defect Elimination Journey and Lessons Learned
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A Defect Elimination Journey and Lessons Learned

We used lessons learned from the "Uptime Elements Implementation Guide" and "Don’t Just Fix It, Improve It!" books to increase our plant’s achievements.

Creating the Necessary Leadership for a Defect Elimination Culture
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Creating the Necessary Leadership for a Defect Elimination Culture

Paul Monus speaks about his work, right from the source, with Winston Ledet.

Creating Defect Elimination Culture
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Creating Defect Elimination Culture

Learning takeaways:

  • Expanded awareness about leadership requirements for a successful defect elimination effort
  • Overcoming silo working by tightening social networks
  • Systems thinking causal loops involved
It Takes a Team
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It Takes a Team

Several years of operation and maintenance data has increased the understanding of the system and failures, thereby promoting changes to increase uptime.

Taming the Process Butterfly Valves
Work Execution Management

Taming the Process Butterfly Valves

Dive into DC Water's tried and true maintenance program for replacing butterfly valves. This is a critical process, as the replacements occur in the final stage before treated wastewater enters the Potomac River. Expert mechanical maintenance manager Laura Knox shares how it is done in this presentation.

Reliability Radio EP 288: Ron Moore -Defect Elimination
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Reliability Radio EP 288: Ron Moore -Defect Elimination

In this podcast, we talk to Ron about his work on his book “Defect List: A Common Sense approach to Defect Elimination.”

Sometimes You Just Need to Start
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Sometimes You Just Need to Start

Knowing how RCM can positively affect many aspects from the bottom line to staff engagement makes starting well and getting it right the first time the goal. Starting anything should be the goal.

Taming the Process Butterfly Valves

Taming the Process Butterfly Valves

Leaking butterfly valves were preventing proper function of effluent filters at DC Water’s 380-MGD Blue Plains AWTP.

Eliminating Defects from Maintenance Workmanship
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Defects from Maintenance

Defects are anything that creates waste, erodes value, reduces production, compromises health, poses safety risks, or negatively impacts the environment.

Defect Elimination in the context of Uptime Elements
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Defect Elimination in the context of Uptime Elements

Defect Elimination means a lot of things to a lot of people. Uptime Elements offers a specific context for defect elimination [DE] as a success factor on the reliability journey [RJ].

Achieving Operational Performance Through Maintenance And Reliability
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Achieving Operational Performance Through Maintenance And Reliability

While most asset management and reliability efforts focus on reliability for the sake of the asset, this little gem focuses on bridging the gap between maintenance and operations.

Why Defect Elimination Is Effective
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Defect Elimination is Effective for Reliability

Defect elimination (DE) is one of the more straightforward factors that can render immediate and significant savings.

Becoming a High Reliability Organization Through Defect Elimination
Work Execution Management

Becoming a High Reliability Organization Through Defect Elimination

High reliability organizations (HRO) are organizations that effectively manage risks by identifying and controlling probability and consequence. Defect elimination is at the core to any organization wanting to improve or simply sustain their asset reliability.
 

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