What is In and Out in 2018: The Maintenance and Reliability Edition
Out In
ISO 55000 No Standard*
Finance driven spare parts* Maintenance driven spare parts management
Price based spares Risk-based spares
Managing KPIs […]
Learn to Speak Finance
The Key To Gaining The Ear Of Your Executives
As a maintenance professional, you spend a lot of time explaining how a proper maintenance & reliability program will improve uptime, safety, etc. But why is it that there is a hard time gaining support for the improvement initiatives? Well, senior executives are focused on how the company is being a measure of performance from the shareholders, financial analysts, or owners. Most of these measures are financial in nature, and while there are others, the primary measures are financial.
So with the senior executives focused […]
Be Audit Ready: How to Ensure Your Maintenance Program Can Stand Up to Regulators
When was the last time you were involved with a regulatory body? I can remember a time when a millwright was involved in an incident in our maintenance shop. He was using a 20″-disc grinder when the piece of steel he was grinding got caught and pulled his hand into the grinding wheel. He was off for a quite a few weeks, but he did not sustain any long-term injuries.
Well the next day, the Ministry of […]
Building a Recommended Course of Action
How to Translate an Assessment into an Action Plan
An assessment was performed and many opportunities identified, but it has been three months, and nothing has changed. Does this sound familiar? As discussed in a previous post, the goal of an assessment is to identify gap to best practices and provide the basis to develop a plan to move forward. However, many times an assessment is performed, the results put into a binder and put on the shelf (does this sound like your RCM initiative?).
Plant Hexcellence™ – Proactive Maintenance
“Ensuring our Assets are managed in the most cost effective manner”
Proactive maintenance is key to successful organizations’ long-term strategies for managing costs and equipment. Using modeling, analyses and audits in conjunction with proactive maintenance measures can ensure smoother operations, resulting in less downtime and money saved.
Proactive maintenance is usually reserved for those organizations who have worked their way up from being reactive and fire fighting. […]