Building a Reliability Culture
Laying The Groundwork for a Successful Change.
It turns out that you have been deploying the right reliability tools and maintenance practices, but the organization’s culture was preventing or hampering the results. This is a common scene played out in many organizations, but there is hope. The culture change will be a long road, as cultures are not changed overnight.
In the previous article we covered the warning signs of a culture that may be impeding your reliability efforts. If you have determined that your culture is impeding your effort, there are some […]
Regardless of how good a maintenance & reliability program is setup and managed, there will be failures. This is partly due to the maintenance program itself, where the focus is on the consequences of the failures, not the failures it self. This approach allows most organizations to manage large facilities will a minimum of staff and cost.
A failure has just occurred on a critical asset in your facility. The result was 2 hours of lost production, but it could have been worse. The last time that the equipment failure occurred it took 5 hours to repair. Why was the failure repaired in less than half the time than the previous occurrence? How can we ensure that we learn from this failure and the team’s performance to improve the plant performance?