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The Markle Foundation and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate a Skills-Based Labor Market

With $25.8 million grant, Microsoft Philanthropies joins forces with Markle to enable American workers to connect with businesses facing a shortage of skilled labor in an era marked by technology disruption.

Leadership for Reliability

The Fundamentals of Reliability Leadership

IMC-2016 RAP Talk - 33:24
by Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO and Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com

In this RAP Talk from IMC-2016, Terrence O’Hanlon talks about shifting the context of your work and doing the best you can do with the circumstances you got handed. What he provides are the building blocks to instead create the outcomes you want regardless of the circumstances. To be a reliability leader is about creating a new future that wasn’t going to happen anyway. Join O’Hanlon as he “jolts you awake” about reliability leadership.

Leadership for Reliability

Discovering Valuable Trends in Machinery Reliability

Much can be said about trends that relate to equipment reliability in one way or another. Like everything else, they come and go randomly. Just like carbonated water, trends that are reduced to the flavor of the month can fizzle out and disappear rapidly. Trends probably always existed in all fields of endeavor and have been observed for years in the field of machinery reliability improvement. This article focuses on some recent ones that are on relatively solid ground and should be of interest to you.

Leadership for Reliability

Renishaw Developing the Next Generation of Manufacturing Professionals With Greenville Tech

Pilot program aims to address manufacturing “skills gap” with hands on training and real-world experience working with top tier suppliers in the aerospace, power generation and automotive industries.

Asset Condition Management

Raising The Flag For Change

IMC-2016 Learning Session - 46:25
by Paul Monus, BP and Felicjan Rydzak, Felix Consultancy

This talk is about leadership of defect elimination that build on a lot of the discussions happening around maintenance and reliability. The presentation uses the Lima Refinery story as a backdrop to it. Twenty years old now, it has a lot of lessons that have been extensively studied and written about. After Paul talks about the story, Felicjan gives a system dynamics lesson that offers some insights about the social network and social structures that were involved in Lima.

Leadership for Reliability

Leadership - What Is It? How Do We Use It for Operational Excellence?

IMC-2016 RAP Talk - 22:01
by Ron Moore, Author

In this RAP Talk from IMC-2016, Ron Moore discusses leadership—one of those things that’s kind of hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Moore outlines some of the leadership models he’s learned from the several books he’s read throughout the years on the subject. But what he primarily wants to share with the audience is what he thinks leaders should do and the behaviors they should present.

Leadership for Reliability

Training: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

IMC-2016 Maximo Learning Zone 32:44
by Jill Owen, General Motors

Training is one of the key components of success for any company. You can have the best maintenance system in place but if your user community doesn’t understand how to use it, you are doomed to fail. Therefore, it is imperative to understand what business problem you are trying to solve, the importance of training the users to support the maintenance strategy, and how to monitor that the training was successful while focusing on developing an environment of continuous learning. At General Motors, we have faced many obstacles in developing a training strategy for Maximo that aligns with our Global Maintenance Strategy. We have developed different methods of training over time to provide our plants the best chance to be successful. This session will provide insight on how General Motors develops training, what methods we use to deliver the material, how we track progress, and encourage feedback.

Leadership for Reliability

Best Leadership for Reliability Program (Uptime Award Winner) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Syracuse

IMC-2016 Uptime Award Winner Presentation - 43:16
by Rob Bishop, Bristol-Myers Squibb

At IMC-2016, Bristol-Myers Squibb Syracuse were awarded Best Leadership for Reliability Program at the Uptime Awards. In this presentation, Robert Bishop gives an overview of their award-winning program. A summary of maintenance and reliability in Syracuse, the continuous learning they’ve put into place, best practices, and areas for improvement are also discussed.

Leadership for Reliability

The Evolution of Performance Measurement

In the current environment of ever-increasing demands to deliver exceptional results with limited resources, leaders are placing greater emphasis on performance measurement. Performance measurement is defined as the process of analyzing information to determine the progress toward a desired outcome for a given organization.

Leadership for Reliability

6 Successful Strategies for the Not So New Challenges of Today

The challenges facing any industry sector today are the same that existed decades ago and were delineated at many conferences and meetings. They are still the same challenges because acting on preexisting ones would have added to the workload.

Leadership for Reliability

Principles of Measuring Performance

Engineer and management consultant Joseph M. Juran said, “If you don’t measure it, you don’t manage it.” It’s a fairly accurate statement. But, another question might be: “If you do measure it, does that help you manage it?” Far too often, experience shows that it does not, for a host of reasons. Some of these include: having too many measures leading to complexity and confusion about what’s important; a lack of focus; measuring the wrong things; not measuring things that are truly important to the business; having measures that are in conflict across functional boundaries; or not displaying the measures prominently or, if displayed, not keeping measures current, resulting in employees considering them unimportant (after all, if you don’t keep the measures current, how important could they be?).

Leadership for Reliability

Steps for Designing an Asset Management Model

Define and agree on needs: The first step toward a successful design of an asset management model is to recognize within the core of the organization that there is a need to define a management model to orient and guide the company’s activities.
Define functions: The objective is to identify the functions of integral asset management and the strategic objectives necessary to align with business objectives. In this phase, the vision and mission of asset management are reviewed. A common error committed in this stage of the process is not involving all levels of the organization. Consequently, the vision, mission and strategic objectives of the new management model are not shared by all levels and its implementation becomes traumatic, slow and costly.
Define processes, people and technology: Once the functions are defined, you must review the business areas associated with processes, people and technology in order to support the functions and strategic objectives that have been established.
Define the evolution of the processes: Once the strategic objectives are defined, the macro processes and business areas that will be part of integral asset management must be defined in a process map. This map must be followed by the organization in order to achieve evolution and continual improvement of each of the business areas. This means that programs, projects, action plans and tasks must be defined in a way that allow continual evolution of the organization within the defined framework of evolution (i.e., the integral asset management model).
Support tools: At this point, an asset management model exists that will serve as a guide for the management of assets. However, the philosophical model and the definition of processes of improvement are not, in themselves, sufficient enough to achieve effective transformation of the management of assets. In this sense, joint techniques and basic tools are required to guarantee a correct understanding and implementation of the process of transformation, as shown in Figure 15.

Figure 15: Critical integration factors for success (Amendola, 2011)

Tip from The Ingredients for by Luis Amendola

Leadership for Reliability

An Asset Manager’s Guide to Harvest Management Commitment

The Uptime article, “An Asset Manager’s Guide to Building a Meaningful Company Vision,” explained why it’s essential to have a company vision at the department level in order to gain collaboration and create excitement among department level managers. Next, this article explains why it is crucial for the enterprise asset manager to guide department level managers toward an understanding of how to translate their vision into a top level, order of magnitude for change. In other words, a company vision is only good if it can be sold to the executive level team of your organization.

Leadership for Reliability

WorkTech names Eric Grimes Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Work Technology Corporation (WorkTech), a leading provider of workforce management software, announced today that Eric Grimes has been named vice president of sales and marketing.

Leadership for Reliability

New Industrial Operations Analytics Software Advances Manufacturing Industry

Enterprise Data Management (EDM) for Manufacturing from Sightline Systems equips quality and process engineers with advanced, real-time analytics to proactively address costly challenges

Leadership for Reliability

Positioning Your Company for a Trump Administration: 5 Steps Manufacturing Leaders Should Take Now

If President Donald Trump is able to renegotiate trade deals to be more U.S. friendly during his first 100 days in office, it is both good and bad news for American manufacturing. On the one

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Steven L. Blue is the President & CEO of Miller Ingenuity, an innovative company revolutionizing traditional safety solutions for railway workers, and author of the new book, American Manufacturing 2.0: What Went Wrong and How to Make It Right.

For more information, please visit www.SteveBlueCEO.com, www.milleringenuity.com

leadership for reliability

The Markle Foundation and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate a Skills-Based Labor Market

The Fundamentals of Reliability Leadership

Discovering Valuable Trends in Machinery Reliability

Renishaw Developing the Next Generation of Manufacturing Professionals With Greenville Tech

June - July 2017

Raising The Flag For Change

Leadership - What Is It? How Do We Use It for Operational Excellence?

Training: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Asset Criticality Helps Industry Weather Springtime Maintenance

Best Leadership for Reliability Program (Uptime Award Winner) - Bristol-Myers Squibb Syracuse

April - May 2017

The Evolution of Performance Measurement

6 Successful Strategies for the Not So New Challenges of Today

Principles of Measuring Performance

Steps for Designing an Asset Management Model

February - March 2017

An Asset Manager’s Guide to Harvest Management Commitment

WorkTech names Eric Grimes Vice President of Sales and Marketing

New Industrial Operations Analytics Software Advances Manufacturing Industry

Positioning Your Company for a Trump Administration: 5 Steps Manufacturing Leaders Should Take Now