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The Leader of Maintenance Excellence: The Maintenance Manager

The Roles & Responsibilities of the Maintenance Manager

The maintenance manager is known as the leader of the maintenance department. But what if they are unclear on where they are going or need to do? It has the potential to derail the entire department. That is why this series is going to start with the maintenance manager. Once they are clear, the rest of the team can follow.

If you followed the steps in first post of the series, you would be ready to review the roles & responsibilities […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-30T07:11:38-05:00November 23rd, 2015|Organizational Management, People, Roles & Responsibilities|1 Comment

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

Guarantee Your Performance with Basic Care

Ensuring Your Equipment Is Maintained to a Basic Level of Care

When you hear the term basic care, what comes to mind?

I remember hearing a story of a brand new packaging line that was installed. It operated at high OEE, delivering significant improvements over the old line. Within 6 weeks, the line was running worse than the original one. Finger pointing ensued, the OEM saying it was how it was maintained. With the manufacturer saying it was a poor design.

A few weeks later, a prominent government official was scheduled to visit […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T05:14:52-05:00October 19th, 2015|Autonomous Maintenance, Equipment Strategy, Teamwork, Total Productive Maintenance|Comments Off

5 Reasons Why You Need to Be Using Procedure Based Maintenance

Using Procedure Based Maintenance to Improve the Performance of Your Operation

Imagine an operation in which there are no lost time accidents, OEE is increasing and there is a plan to address the skills shortage. These sites do exist and chances are they using procedure based maintenance. Procedure Based Maintenance is simply having all maintenance activities documented in a procedure. The procedures are followed step by step when conducting breakdown, corrective and preventative maintenance.

Benefits of Procedure Based Maintenance

Procedure Based Maintenance reduces the variation that occurs […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T04:54:10-05:00October 5th, 2015|Advanced Work Planning, Knowledge Management, Standard Work, Work Management|Comments Off

Be a Leader

Applying the Dale Carnegie Principles to Build a Reliability Culture

Wesley Fryer

Building on the Dale Carnegie® Principles from the famous book, How to Win friends and Influence People, we can progress to the final set of principles.

Using his key principles as a guide, we can bring about change within our organization. In the first post, we covered how to build authentic and meaningful relationships. In the second post we covered how to win people to your way of thinking. In this last post, […]

By James Kovacevic|2016-11-09T08:44:21-05:00June 1st, 2015|Change Management, Organizational Management, People|Comments Off