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What is a Criticality Analysis? How does it Work?

Understanding The Risks Allow Effective Mitigation Plans To Be Put In Place

Where is your biggest risk to the site?  If you can’t answer that, than your maintenance program is most likely not adequate.   As previously discussed, an effective maintenance program must align with business and its needs.  A criticality analysis allows the site to understand where there are risks that must be managed.

A criticality analysis is a systematic approach to evaluating potential risks, therefore consequences that can impact the business.  The criticality analysis has defined criteria that outlines the potential consequences so that they can be evaluated, categorised and prioritised.  […]

By |2018-01-24T03:55:41-05:00September 7th, 2015|Asset Criticality, Equipment Strategy|1 Comment
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Is Your Maintenance Program Aligned With The Business?

Providing the right level of service to production will ensure the profitability of the business.

Cost of ReliabilityUsing a Business Needs Analysis will ensure that your maintenance program is on the same page as the goals of the business.  Often times the two are not aligned, which leads to excess costs for the business, reducing the ability to be profitable.  For example, does your operation require 99.9% reliability?  It would be nice but that level of reliability is extremely difficult & costly to achieve.  Think of the various industries that require that […]

By |2018-01-24T03:49:11-05:00August 31st, 2015|Business R&M Strategy, Identification of Business Needs'|Comments Off on Is Your Maintenance Program Aligned With The Business?
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A Smarter Way of Preventative Maintenance

4 Simple Steps to Improving Profitability through Smart PMs

23. Judit KleinHow did the PM routines come to be in your business? PM routines are often the result of a failure and the maintenance department being told to implement a PM to prevent it from happening again. The PM is hastily put in place without much detail or thought. Fast forward a little ways in time and soon you have a monster of PM program, in which you struggle to execute on time. Overtime increases to complete all of the PMs, yet […]

By |2018-01-24T01:15:07-05:00August 24th, 2015|Equipment Strategy, Lean Maintenance|Comments Off on A Smarter Way of Preventative Maintenance
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Are You Driving The Wrong Behaviours?

Use a Balanced Scorecard to Ensure the Right Behaviours are Embedded in Your Organization

This post is the third of a miniseries on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). If you haven’t already, please go back and read the first post on what is a KPI and the second post on leading Vs Lagging KPIs.

seesawAs already discussed, KPIs can be a great tool to measure progress, predict future performance and hold personnel and teams accountable. In order to use KPIs to accomplish these objectives, the KPIs need to be aligned with […]

By |2018-01-24T00:57:08-05:00August 17th, 2015|Key Performance Indicators, Performance Management|1 Comment
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Leading & Lagging KPIs, What Is The Difference?

Using Leading & Lagging KPIs Can Make The Difference In Driving Performance, By Allowing You To See Into The Future.

This is the second part of a mini series on Key Performance Indicators. If you haven’t already please read the first post of this series on KPIs.

KPIs are often used to measure the past performance of a process, but did you know that they can be used to see into the future and predict the performance of the organization?

22. FutureKPIs can be used to measure past performance, or predict future […]

By |2018-01-24T00:43:17-05:00August 10th, 2015|Key Performance Indicators, Performance Management|3 Comments
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