Make reliability programs money driven‐‐not technology driven. Sell improvements as about time and money issues-it's the voice of business!
Use reliability tools/technology to reduce lost money issues.
Work the $Pareto list based on actual failures and the $risks of possible failures.
Discuss the top 10 $Pareto items with management. Progress is reducing $losses in months‐‐not years.
Forecast future $failures for next 3‐5 years using Crow‐AMSAA reliability growth plots.
Use root cause analysis to solve critical failure issues within the top 10 $items-Why? That's where the money loss occurs!
Sell management that reliability programs are to their advantage for changing the site culture from $failure accepting to preventing $failures with fact driven engineering effort with an empowered/enabled work force.
Encourage individual confessions of errors without punishment-look to the nuclear industry and the US Navy carriers as examples.
Empower and enable your workforce for better performance.
Describe improvements in $ not things.
Make money for the company by reducing failures and making improvements pay their way. Do it NOW!
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