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Professional Development & Growth

The key to growing your knowledge and career

qtq80-OjQuRs To increase your knowledge, you need to learn new things, try new things and generally push outside of your comfort zone. One of the key components of growing your knowledge is knowing what is new and happening in Maintenance, Reliability, and Asset Management.

I recently had the privilege to attend and present two papers at the Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professional’s 2016 Annual Conference in Jacksonville. This premier event was 5 days long. The conference had 3 Days of workshops and […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:56-04:00October 24th, 2016|Business R&M Strategy, Capability, Capability, Knowledge, People, Competency, Knowledge Management|Comments Off

STOP! Break the Reactive Cycle with Roles & Responsibilities

The key to driving performance to new heights is Roles & Responsibilities.

Your planner is putting together a scheduler to 8:00pm on a Friday night for Saturday morning. Your storeroom doesn’t have the parts you need and you maintenance supervisor is running back and forth. On top of this, you are unable to meet your maintenance goals, preventing the organization from achieving its goals.

Depending on your organization, you may walk into this type of chaos every morning, and those that don’t, chances are you did at some point.

So what separates the […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T05:53:55-05:00November 16th, 2015|Business R&M Strategy, Identification of Business Needs', Organizational Management, People, Roles & Responsibilities|Comments Off

Run to Failure is a Viable Option

How Allowing Equipment to Fail, Will Improve the Uptime in your Facility.

Often times the maintenance team is focused on preventing failures in the facility. All failures need to be addressed and no failures are acceptable. This mindset may be holding back the uptime in your facility. How is this? After all, if we strive to prevent all failures shouldn’t uptime improve?

Most organizations do not have the resources to prevent every single failure and as such, resources are often pulled from failure to failure. When the organization focuses on the […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T05:38:57-05:00November 9th, 2015|Business R&M Strategy, Equipment Strategy, Identification of Business Needs', Reliability Centered Maintenance|Comments Off

Is Your Maintenance Program Aligned With The Business?

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

Using 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 James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T03:49:11-05:00August 31st, 2015|Business R&M Strategy, Identification of Business Needs'|Comments Off

What Is A Key Performance Indicator (KPI)?

Identifying the Right KPI for Your Business is Critical to Managing the Performance of the Business (Part 1)

“What gets measured, gets done” and Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are critical to measuring the performance of the organization and business. So what specifically is a KPI? According to the Professionals Guide to Maintenance & Reliability Terminology, a KPI is a vital indicator which is used to evaluate process performance. KPIs are used to represents a measure (or set of metrics) focusing on those aspects of organizational performance that are the most critical for […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T00:27:07-05:00August 3rd, 2015|Identification of Business Needs', Key Performance Indicators, Performance Management, Process Metrics|Comments Off