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Mainnovation

Mainnovation is a management consultancy company specialized in Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management, with offices in the USA and Europe. It is our mission to professionalize asset management organizations in such a way that they create tangible added value for the company. We carry out our mission through the Value Driven Maintenance® (VDM) methodology.

Leadership for Reliability

ATS SkillPoint Study Reveals Manufacturing Maintenance Training Correlates to Increased Performance

Advanced Technology Services, Inc. (ATS), the single source for optimizing assets enterprise-wide through manufacturing maintenance, industrial parts repair and world-class IT managed solutions, today announced the results of their technical maintenance training study. Results indicated that optimized maintenance training is "very relevant" to achieving operational excellence and can generate a ROI as high as 127%.

Asset Condition Management

Audit it. Improve it! Processes and KPIs for a Successful Condition Monitoring Program - Part 1

The RELIABILITY Conference 2016- Workshop Course
by Alan Friedman, Author - 90:39

Sometimes people go to work and do their jobs taking measurements and writing reports, often with great care and skill. Their reports and recommendations then travel into a deep abyss from which they never return and are never heard from again. Sound familiar? This situation is unfortunately a common one in the condition-monitoring world. Machine condition reports are generated to help the planners plan but the planners never look at the reports. They might not know how to interpret them or they may simply choose to ignore them. A healthy machine might be replaced on a PM schedule even though there is nothing wrong with it. A machine might failure catastrophically even though there was plenty of evidence was available to predict the impending failure.

It is important to be certain that reports reach the people who need them and that the reports are understood, valued and utilized. This comes under the “right reporting” component of a successful program. What is also needed is a process of follow up and review to verify the reports are accurate and the program is providing the benefits it should. In this sense, “right follow up and review” is directly linked to “right goals.” This is the part of the process where you determine if your goals are being met. If they are not, then make appropriate changes to the program to evolve it or improve it.

This short course will also discuss KPI’s to measure to insure you are getting the most from your vibration monitoring or CM program.

Leadership for Reliability

Dealing with Negativity - Learning Points

Learning Points:

✔ Change – these are events or physical happenings – they are external.

✔ Transition – this is moving from one state or stage to another. This is how we deal with change. This is the psychological process that people go through as they deal with change and this is where it is determined whether the change was good or bad – this is internal.

✔ To create change, you need to challenge the status quo and discover that change is sometimes a result of the challenge.

✔ Persistence is a simple way of winning people over. Once they see that you believe in what you are doing and that you are going to continue to do it, they will come on board.

✔ Find partners everywhere you can -- suppliers, sister plants, even competitors if there is a common benefit.

✔ Don’t reinvent the wheel. When you find a solution, look for other areas in the organization where you can use that solution.

✔ Benchmark with yourself. How are you doing compared to before you started on the journey? Compare like equipment to identify ‘bad actors.’ Compare the performance of your people to identify the opportunity for training or advancement.

✔ Ensure that decisions and involvement are made at the lowest organizational level possible, as close to the problem as possible. Involvement encourages interest and interest encourages solutions.

✔ Don’t forget to review the roadmap and communicate your progress to everyone involved.

Tip from People: A Reliability Success Story by Cliff Williams

Leadership for Reliability

A Journey to Shape Reliability Excellence at Bristol-Myers Squibb: Part 4

This fourth installment shows how the Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS) was able to train and certify more than 200 employees as certified reliability leaders (CRLs) in just one and a half years. The series began in Uptime’s December/January 2016 issue with the initial implementation of Uptime Elements at BMS. The second installment in the February/March 2016 issue explained the alignment of the framework with the sites, while the third installment in the April/May 2016 issue covered the role of the central corporate strategy. These all supported the culture that led BMS to 200 CRLs.

Leadership for Reliability

The 3 Pillars of World-Class Maintenance

All operations managers know the great importance of being able to meet their organization’s increasing expectations for reliability, lower costs and higher uptime. Admittedly, some do try to build a differentiator by focusing exclusively on building and tracking financial key performance indicators (KPIs). Nevertheless, this is merely a subset of what a world-class maintenance system is really about.

Leadership for Reliability

TPC Trainco’s New 4-Day Maintenance Management Course Aims to Transform Facility Maintenance Practic

The leader in live maintenance training expands its seminar schedule to offer training in maintenance planning and predictive maintenance management in four US cities in 2016.

Leadership for Reliability

Leadership Principles of Dr. W. Edwards Deming

The RELIABILITY Conference - Keynote Presentation - 59:00
Joyce Orsini - Author, The Essential Deming: Leadership Principles

Fordham University professor and Deming expert Joyce Orsini draws on a wealth of previously unavailable material to present the legendary thinker's most important management principles in one indispensable keynote.

This keynote reveals Deming's unique insight about:

• How poor management infects an entire organization

• The critical importance of management on producing quality products and services

• Improving management in any company

• The effective management of people--the manager's single most important task

• How to educate workers into critical thinkers

• Ways to preserve statistical integrity while dealing with real-world problems

Work Execution Management

Elements for Transformation

The RELIABILITY Conference - Uptime Elements Forum - 39:58
by Jeff Shiver- Managing Principal, People and Processes, Inc.

As we automate more and more, the standard of maintenance is dependent on our effective execution of the necessary work to ensure that your assets continue to do what the user expects. Recognize that effective work execution is not a cafeteria plan. Each element is interconnected and foundational to ensure reliability. Weak elements and missing links can not only jeopardize the journey to reliability but more importantly, kill or injure people. Join Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CRL as he demonstrates the six key elements necessary for work execution. In addition to identifying the elements and their links, Jeff will explain the consequences and benefits of ensuring this holistic work execution foundation for the journey for reliability.

Leadership for Reliability

People Are Your Challenge… People Are Your Opportunity

Have you ever wondered why the promotion you recently made just isn't working out? He or she was our best millwright or engineer but they are really struggling as managers. They seem to be able

... Cliff Williams, CRLPrincipal Advisor Maintenance and Reliability

Leadership for Reliability

Deciphering the Myths: Some Observations on Improvement Tools and Strategy

It’s not easy trying to convince people to use a more comprehensive approach to achieve reliability and operational excellence objectives. Managers need to focus less on maintenance and more on operations, design and procurement. Eliminating the defects in these areas will naturally result in fewer failures, lower costs, higher production and, not surprisingly, a far more efficient and effective maintenance organization. If you focus mainly on maintenance, you will only do work that you shouldn’t be doing in the first place more efficiently. But if you focus on the other areas, working as a team aligned to a common purpose while giving an appropriate level of attention to maintenance, you will be far more successful in having a reliable plant. This article attempts to convince people to apply this comprehensive approach by addressing certain myths.

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ATS SkillPoint Study Reveals Manufacturing Maintenance Training Correlates to Increased Performance

Force Field Analysis

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Audit it. Improve it! Processes and KPIs for a Successful Condition Monitoring Program - Part 1

Dealing with Negativity - Learning Points

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Finding Something in Nothing

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A Journey to Shape Reliability Excellence at Bristol-Myers Squibb: Part 4

The 3 Pillars of World-Class Maintenance

Training for Excellence: How Adults Learn

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TPC Trainco’s New 4-Day Maintenance Management Course Aims to Transform Facility Maintenance Practic

Leadership Principles of Dr. W. Edwards Deming

Things to Think About and Do (2016)

Elements for Transformation

Initiative Overload: A Misalignment Issue

People Are Your Challenge… People Are Your Opportunity

Deciphering the Myths: Some Observations on Improvement Tools and Strategy