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Redefining Reliability Through Lean Practices

The concept of reliability changes from business to business. No one definition is correct because reliability needs change from one business to the next. However, personnel in charge of a reliability program should have a clear answer to what reliability means to them. This article helps define what reliability means to an organization, shows where flaws can develop in the program, explains how reliability responds to evolving business needs and demonstrates how lean principles can relate to these processes.

Leadership for Reliability

Reliability - A Holistic Effort

The foundation of any great reliability effort is the reliability culture within the organization that sustains it. Everybody within the organization must be aligned with its ultimate goals and mission for the reliability effort to succeed. Therefore, the mission and values must be clearly communicated, with reasonable expectations for compliance.

Asset Condition Management

Design Maintenance Systems (DMSI)

DMSI is known for having the most comprehensive and flexible operator based reliability, asset basic care, and mobile inspection solution in the industry. MAINTelligence InspectCE^TM is used at hundreds of sites worldwide.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

DNV GL Software

DNV GL are now the world's the leading technical advisor to the global oil and gas industry, and a leading expert for the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Bigfoot CMMS

Bigfoot maintenance software, produced by Smartware Group, is a powerful, yet easy-to-use solution that is quick to learn to give you quick results.

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.

Leadership for Reliability

The True Value of Reliability

In the current economic climate, only the strongest businesses are likely to survive. That means companies who perform reliably with a healthy cost level and, therefore, are able to build a competitive advantage over weaker performers. This also allows them to maintain a positive margin even in a depressed market, while others fall into red figures.

Leadership for Reliability

Does Your Company Need a Maintenance Culture Intervention?

Let’s face it, most companies need a culture intervention – something like a 12-step program. This article will explore behavioral issues that are often at the core of a culture of neglect and mediocracy. It borrows much from management science, leadership principles and conversations with individuals working in the field of maintenance reliability.

Work Execution Management

Lessons Learned from Mt. Stupid

IMC-2015 RAP Talk - 19:50
by Joseph Paris, Founder of the Operational Excellence Society

Each of us belongs to a community, or network. The individual members of a network have a shared commitment and affinity to the kernel. As such, they will behave in a predictable manner since there is nothing to gain by any individual changing their position unilaterally. In reality, to disturb the predictability never even crosses the mind of the members.

Applying Game Theory and the Nash Equilibrium, this session will investigate the circumstances under which change takes place – and when it does not. We will discuss the creation of an effective disruptor and how it can be deployed in a controlled and sustainable fashion. We will also touch on the human dynamics aspect of the Dunning-Kruger Effect which states that a person will pursue a path out of ignorance and with great confidence until it is glaringly apparent that the path is wrong, at which time their confidence deflates before the process of rebuilding can occur.

Leadership for Reliability

What is Total Productive Maintenance?

By Jordy Byrd

You're only strong as your weakest link. While trite, the phrase embodies what manufacturing plants and processing facilities have worked to overcome for years: How do you plan for; and prevent broken equipment in your lean machine?

Download Label & Poster Creation Software at GraphicProducts.com

Beaverton, OR - Users can now download Graphic Products’ design software, which support DuraLabel and Echo printing systems. The innovative visual communication software included with various printers, and designed for general safety and regulatory compliance, as well as educational and administrative functions.

5 of the Most Helpful Lean Manufacturing Tools

By Matt Wastradowski, copywriter with Graphic Products

Lean manufacturing incorporates various methods-including Kaizen, 5S, and Kanban-to improve production and efficiency by maximizing resources. The core goal of lean is to find better ways to do things so they require less effort, less time, and fewer resources. Numerous lean tools and concepts exist to help organizations achieve these goals. But the following five concepts stand out for their ease of implementation, usefulness, and potential for dramatic change.

5S Methods Enhance Green Manufacturing

By Jordy Byrd, public relations specialist with Graphic Products

Manufacturing industries play a tug-of-war between the public and private sectors, each demanding the fastest, cheapest, and highest-quality products - with the lowest environmental impact.

Cap-and-trade emissions policies, paired with limited natural resources, have changed the face of modern industry. As a result, lean companies, particularly those with established 5S systems, are one step ahead of the green curve.

Leadership for Reliability