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Standardize Your Maintenance & Reliability Program

Utilizing Recognized Standards in Your Maintenance & Reliability Program

qtq80-X14vC2Imagine being able to easily share information across sites or even organizations.  Or how about utilizing a risk management framework that is recognized and agreed upon by all in the organization.  Benchmarking made easy?  Standards enable this.

Why is it organizations spend countless hours developing a framework, templates, and a procedure for a routine activity?  It provides standardization, and in turn reduces costs.  What if we could have those same benefits, without all of the hours invested up front?

This is a reality, and it involves […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:56-04:00October 17th, 2016|Adherence to Standards, Performance Management, Standard Work|Comments Off on Standardize Your Maintenance & Reliability Program

Standards? We Don’t Need No Stinking Standards

How Your Organization Can Benefit from Standardization

qtq80-zXIPOWImagine if every day you had to relearn a process or use a different CMMS.  Chances are you would get virtually nothing accomplished, leaving your plant operating poorly.   Now we all know that we having to relearn a process every day or using a new CMMS is not practical nor is it rooted in reality (not to be confused with the Rooted in Reliability podcast).  But this type of thing happens more often than you may think.

When people change positions in an organization, the […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:57-04:00October 10th, 2016|Adherence to Standards, Data Standards, Knowledge Management, Standard Work, Succession Planning|Comments Off on Standards? We Don’t Need No Stinking Standards

A 2 Step Process to Improve Plant Performance

A Simple Q&A Can Reap Improved Performance in Any Activity in Maintenance.

2 Up 2 DownA 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?

I remember reading about a […]

Driving Performance Outcomes Through Effective Meetings

Understand How Effective Meetings Can Enable Improved Plant Performance

400StockMarketChartsNothing is worse than being in a meeting that completely wastes your time.  Hopefully those meetings have been eliminated as part of the steps to making you, the maintenance professional, more effective.  For the meetings that you could not eliminate, the meetings need to be effective, reducing wasted time and delivering benefits to the business.

To make meetings effective, the meetings should follow the 3 phases of effective meetings.  The 3 phases ensure that meetings are effective, efficient and everyone knows what they are there […]

By |2019-04-19T15:50:05-04:00February 29th, 2016|Effective Meetings, Performance Management, Productivity|Comments Off on Driving Performance Outcomes Through Effective Meetings

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 […]