What is a defect?

According to the Uptime Elements Reliability Framework and Asset Management System body of knowledge, defects are anything that creates waste, erodes value, reduces production, compromises health, poses safety risks, or negatively impacts the environment.

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What is defect elimination?

Defect elimination is about eliminating the things that are creating the defects.

Uptime Elements Reliability Framework and Asset Management System Terrence O'Hanlon, Reliabilityweb.com

Top Defect Elimination Resources

Here are some great Defect Elimination resources from Reliabilityweb.com to get you and your team started. The Reliability Leadership Institute [RLI] membership includes the Defect Elimination Short Course at Uptime Academy Learning Management System! Subscribe above for more details. In addition, RLI Cohorts also deal with Defect Elimination as different times of the year.

Top Defect Elimination Videos

• Becoming a High Reliability Organization Through Defect Elimination
• Creating a Shadow Network for Effective Defect Elimination
• Confidence: The Magical Element of Cross Functional Teams
• Journey to Continuous Improvement
• Defect Elimination from a CMMS Perspective
• Integration of Design for Reliability: Discover Defects and Remove Failure Modes & Shutdowns
• Discover Defect Elimination Through Effective Reliability Leadership
• Driving Defect Elimination and Continuous Improvement by Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning

Top Defect Elimination Articles

• The ABC’s of Failure – Getting Rid of the Noise in Your System
• Eliminating Defects from Maintenance Workmanship
• Why Defect Elimination Is Effective
• Get the Bugs Out With the Uptime Elements
• Eliminating the Sources of Poor Reliability: Defects
• How Does Plant Management - and Possibly Corporate Management Enable Unreliability?
• Becoming a High Reliability Organization Through Defect Elimination
• Confidence –The Magical Element of Cross Functional Teams
• Operations Versus Maintenance
• Level 5 Leadership - What Is It and How Do I Achieve It?
• The Principles Driving Safety & Reliability: A Look at the History of DuPont
• From a Different Angle: A Perspective - Defects, P-F and the Rest of the Story
• Inherent Defect Elimination
• Defect Elimination - Removing the alligators
• How High, How Far and How Fast —Assess Your Organization

Top Defect Elimination Books

• Don’t Just Fix It, Improve It! A Journey to the Precision Domain
• Defect Elimination: Left to Right & Right to Left
• A Common Sense Approach to Defect Elimination
• People - A Reliability Success Story
• Level 5 - Leadership at Work: Understanding Leadership as a Group Process, Not a Lone Hero Journey

Defect Elimination Training is part of Uptime Elements Training

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Sources of defects Terrence O'Hanlon, Reliabilityweb.com