executive sponsorship

How do you get the C-suite to care about reliability? Devin Hugie shares his journey from the shop floor to the boardroom, revealing why translating technical wins into financial value is the key to securing long-term support for your asset management programs.

Leadership for Reliability - 2024 Uptime Award Winner Session

Central San's reliability program has flourished not just through maintenance strategy, but by fostering a culture of leadership. Discover how their journey, which began in 2014, empowered leaders at every level to turn strategy into actionable tactics—a philosophy that earned them three prestigious Uptime Awards.

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Reliability Radio EP 331: PEOPLE ARE THE KEY TO RELIABILITY. Roger Ham and Muhammad Yusuf

Discover how Kerry Ingredients, a company that reaches 1.2 billion people daily, transformed its operations and won an Uptime Award. Roger Ham and Muhammad Yusuf Bin Nazman reveal their secret to success: a people-first strategy that secured executive sponsorship and empowered a global team to move from a reactive culture to a proactive one.

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Reliability Radio EP 304: Tom Woginrich, IBM

Value realization, use this to prove value to executives.

Reliability Radio EP 301: Kendra Mock & Jon Cameron, CRL-Black Belts, JLL

Listen to this podcast where we have a chat with Kendra Mock and Jon Cameron on their reliability journey to becoming CRL black belts to help you chart your own course towards CRL certification and beyond.

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The Support Needed to Launch, Maintain and Improve Your Reliability Strategy!

Eric Ayanegui

Tommy Cocanougher

The need for executive sponsorship when launching, maintaining and improving an effective reliability strategy is paramount. See the difference in this Tale from the Shop.

Understand Your Audience: How to explain the need for reliability in your company.

When it breaks we are the heroes who come in to fix it quickly and cheaply then go away until it breaks again. Getting both the executives and the staff to focus on 'Don't Just Fix It; Improve it' approach takes different strategies.

Selling Reliability – ROI & ROC

Victor Rioli

Anyone trying to champion reliability in industry has experienced difficulty with obtaining funding from executive management for reliability improvement, regardless if requested from capital expense (CAPEX) or operating expense (OPEX) accounts.

Making the Business Case for New Maintenance and Reliability Technology Investments

Caught up in the throes of day-to-day existence, the difficult place to be is in the lap of another after-action root-cause failure analysis, a budget review meeting or shutdown/turnaround when your organization is trying to make step-function gains and improvements in maintenance and reliability performance.

Selling Reliability? ROI and ROC

work execution management

I’ve been stressing for years that if you want to secure funding for a reliability program, you must be able to fluently speak in finance.

Show Me The Money! Key Approaches for Forecasting Capital and O&M Needs

work execution management

All facilities and infrastructure assets deteriorate with time and use. To maintain the effectiveness and value of an asset, renewal work should be performed periodically, and when the asset has reached the end of its functional useful life, it should be replaced.

Executive Sponsorship through Process Reliability

asset condition management

Even if you have good executive sponsorship, advancing that sponsorship can dramatically increase the results you achieve.

Designing, Building, and Rebuilding Your ACM

Working under the authorization, commissioning, and funding from your committed executive sponsor can yield advancements not available without it

Reliability Radio EP 277: Angela Santiago, The Little Potato Company

As the CEO of The Little Potato Company, Angela Santiago explains why she looks first for 3 things in her plants.

I Need Reliability, but How Do I Talk to My Senior Leaders?

Not managing your assets to deliver true reliability? How do you get started and get Senior Leaders engaged in the effort?

Reliability Saves It All

Safety, quality, and productivity are bound together by one common thread — Reliability.

The Toyota Engagement Equation

Are you managing your problems or are they managing you?

Roadmap to Effective Bottom Up Leadership

Reliability systems and standards rely heavily on executive sponsorship to drive change throughout an organization. However, the reality is that executive leaders have limited bandwidth and will not always be the initial drivers of change. “Bottom up leadership” can effect meaningful change, but what are the most important elements of effective “bottom-up leadership?”

Reliability: Essential for a Safe, Cost Effective, Environmentally Friendly Operation