Creating a New Partner with Reliability Centered Operations
by Paul R. Casto, CMRP
To optimize both maintenance risk and cost, the interrelationships between reliability, maintenance and operations must be considered and leveraged to capitalize on the strengths of each. Reliability Centered Operations (RCO) is an approach that optimizes these relationships through the application of a maintenance strategy built from failure analysis that will yield more expansive and cost-effective risk reduction tasks.
The Manufacturing Game has developed a short 16-question survey based on Joseph Campbell's concept of a Hero's Journey.The survey is designed to facilitate the story writing process, and it guides the writer through the writing process. They provide this survey to maintenance and reliability professionals for their own use. Clients may opt to use the written story internally or share their success with others by approving it for publication in external publications such as the our quarterly TMG newsletter or a monthly magazine like Uptime Magazine.
See the list below for the 16 questions in the survey, as it relates to writing about Action Team successes.
The Manufacturing Game has been using the art of storytelling for many years now. Our philosophy is that story telling is a powerful way to transfer learning, increase motivation, encourage teamwork, and teach communication skills in order to lead change.
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Check decisions and planned activities for "rightness" before implementing them. Use the questions below (or similar ones supplied by your organization) as your litmus test. Answering "no" to one
..., a unique and powerful resource for employees at ALL levels. It provides practical information to guide individual actions, decisions, and daily behaviors. And it will help your entire workforce understand that, when it comes to business ethics, everyone is responsible ... everything counts!
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Step 2 - Identify the specific changes that are necessary to accomplish the business results identified in Step 1. Again, this list should be detailed and fairly extensive. Each item listed in Step 1 may have three to five or more specific changes. Examples would be 'perform root cause analysis on 100% of failures' or 'maintenance schedule compliance of X%.'
... - Identify the specific behaviors that are associated with the changes identified in Step 2. This will also include behavior changes for executives, managers, supervisors and employees. Again, there will be multiple behavior changes for each specific change identified in Step 2.
Any new training that occurs in your plant, video it, archive it for future reference and in the break room have a monitor to show these training videos of your equipment on a loop so the
Make every step in the hiring process a test. In addition to any skills tests your organization may use, build in ways to test things like initiative, responsibility, and interpersonal skills.
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Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine invited thought leaders in the maintenance and reliability community to contribute a single page communication directed toward creating a new idea or action on the part of the readers, the maintenance and reliability professional community at large.
The Reliabilityweb.com team is busy preparing for the Reliability 2.0 conference (www.maintenanceconference.com/reliability) so we thought it would be a good time to bring you some tips to get that might help you get the most out of this and other learning events.
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Leaving my comfortable Operations home I ventured into the unknown land of Maintenance and Reliability. Upon entering this new land I discovered a completely new language that included terms like preventive maintenance and predictive maintenance. Early on even the differences between planning and scheduling were not obvious to me. People that I met along the way acted as a guide to me as I also became exposed to the strange culture of Japanese Total Productive Maintenance and MIT's computer modeling that uses System Dynamics. During this deep dive into learning, a new language was discovered in the stable domains of reactive, planned, precision, and world class and in addition defect elimination was discovered as the means to move up the domains. As new tools were created to achieve the precision domain we became aware that people already had more tools than they could use. I learned from a foreman that what was needed was a way of integrating initiatives into one program that people at the factory floor could implement easily. This challenge led to the development of a board game that could give everyone participating in it the same experiences that I had in my quest for understanding and implementing all of the best practices we found in the worldwide benchmark at DuPont. I reached the land of the precision domain at the Lima refinery where they recognized that reliability requires more than maintenance. Their invention of "Don't just fix it, Improve it" enabled them to reach the precision domain in an achievable way for western cultures. My travels continue.....
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