Manager and Leader
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Greg and Fred discuss the importance of management and leadership. They cover the similarities and differences between the two.
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by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment
Greg and Fred discuss the importance of management and leadership. They cover the similarities and differences between the two.
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Maintenance management software increases uptime and productivity, lowers maintenance costs and extends the life of equipment and optimizes inventory usage—provided that it integrates seamlessly with existing systems. One of the toughest aspects of managing this software is CMMS integration. If your CMMS doesn’t communicate smoothly and easily with your accounting, inventory, human resources, purchasing, and other systems, it can reduce response times and lead to an increased chance of error. [Read more…]
by Karl Burnett Leave a Comment
British writers often marvelled at the quality and longevity of Roman roads, wondering how modern engineers and governments could hope to imitate their success. The fascination with Roman roads continues, and an excellent overview by Richard Brushi is available on Medium.com.
[Read more…]by James Reyes-Picknell 1 Comment
I approach problems with computer systems in a fairly critical way, but I am not anti-CMMS/EAM technology. I am, however, anti-waste. All too often I see a lot of time, effort, and money going into technology that simply doesn’t provide a return on the investment. When it comes to Maintenance data – it is often problematic and unfit for many of its intended purposes. Aside from helping to administer work orders, these systems often provide little business value. Does a small saving in administrative cost and time really justify the millions often spent on these systems?
[Read more…]by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment
A robust Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Process uses a Scheduled Work Crew capacity planned days ahead with planned jobs. And it has a small Quick Response Crew of people capable to handle any random job.
A great Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Process design separates reactive work from jobs that can be planned and scheduled. This article explains how to re-engineer a maintenance planning and scheduling process to handle reactive and planned jobs.
[Read more…]by Robert (Bob) J. Latino Leave a Comment
Most associate the traditional application of RCA, with some type of undesirable outcome, that has exceeded a set threshold or trigger. It is at this point that a formal RCA process will be set into motion. Because of its serious nature, it will likely have the attention and support of leadership. It may also have the attention of external stakeholders like OEM’s, insurance companies and regulators. As a career ‘RCA’ professional, I must say that this traditional perception unfortunately is the norm, and not the exception in my 35+ years in this space. This is unfortunate because it suppresses the methodology’s potential, and the capability of applying a more holistic approach to preventing such undesirable outcomes in the first place. In this article my intent is to provide a different perspective of how to view ‘RCA’ in a much broader and meaningful context and coupling its use with an effective Defect Elimination (DE) strategy. While most are familiar with hindsight-based RCA, we will explore the emergence of foresight approaches as well. We will also contrast these perspectives in an effort to truly understand WHY we even do RCA, and is it worthwhile?
[Read more…][Read more…]We are facing difficulty in developing a definition of Critical Spare Part Inventory. No one is able to define it in its true essence. The situation is further confused with the difference to strategic spare parts. Any guideline or standard where we can find it ?
In the past, every Plant Manager had their own definition of Critical Inventory which changed with time. In optimization of Inventory, the first step is to establish a definition of Inventory considering all factors like production loss, redundancy, safety hazard, failure frequency, and of course, the lead time? Still I am stuck in this phase. I cannot progress, and don’t know what to do 1st, 2nd, and so forth to proceed further in this journey?
by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment
Greg Carroll has a graduate degree in Operations Research from Swinburne University. He has a certificate in Machine Learning from Stanford University and in Data Science from the University of Michigan. He has over thirty years’ experience in Enterprise Risk Management. He has applied risk management techniques to IT and Artificial Intelligence systems in mission critical environments like the Department of Defense and Victorian Infectious Disease Reference Laboratories.
[Read more…]by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment
In some industries, 40% of maintenance repairs result from original equipment manufacturing failures. And up to 35% of maintenance is traceable to design engineering mistakes. That totals 75% of maintenance costs during operation can be from prior life cycle process blunders
To get utmost operating plant and equipment reliability, you need to purposefully design and build your business processes to guarantee maximum reliability from each and every phase of the asset life cycle
[Read more…]by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment
In a previous article I explored how workers and employers should approach the future and opined that both would be better off if they each understood the motivations and tactics that the other would employ to further their interests. Workers are concerned about achieving and maintaining marketability to employers and companies are concerned about acquiring the workforce they need to compete in the markets in which they do business. I assert that understanding what’s driving the approach each side will take to achieve its aims will be crucial to competing.
[Read more…]by Larry George Leave a Comment
As I rode, I thought, how could I use reliability statistics to optimize a solar-tube production line? Then I noticed a brass glint in the scrub brush. It didn’t look like trash, so I stopped and found an old brass oil lamp like Aladdin’s. Naturally, I rubbed it. There was a flash and a puff of smoke, and out popped the genie who said, “Yes master, by the powers vested in me, I grant you three wishes.”
[Read more…]by Robert (Bob) J. Latino Leave a Comment
Does procedural and/or regulatory compliance with RCA guidelines ensure Operational Reliability? Does it ensure improved Safety? Operational Reliability involves the aggregation of Equipment, Process and Human Reliability methods and techniques.
What is the difference between troubleshooting, problem solving and ‘RCA’? Are the outcomes different when we use The 5-Whys, The Fishbone or a Logic Tree/Causal Factor Type Tree?
[Read more…]by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment
Disruption has been one of the major news items in 2022. Disruption results in risk. You can see ‘risk’ in almost every video, magazine, and blog. Russia invasion of the Ukraine. Supply chain disruption. Climate change. New business models. Reshoring. Inflation. Price of gasoline. Can you imagine $10/gallon gasoline.
Greg will answer the following:
What is risk based, problem solving and decision making in reliability engineering and quality?
What are risk PDCA, taxonomies, risk assessment, and risk management etc?
What are the two critical risk management frameworks for problem solving and decision making?
What are examples of risk assessment tools? [Read more…]
by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment
Disruption has been one of the major news items in 2022. Disruption results in risk. You can see ‘risk’ in almost every video, magazine, and blog. Russia invasion of the Ukraine. Supply chain disruption. Climate change. New business models. Reshoring. Inflation. Price of gasoline. Can you imagine $10/gallon gasoline.
Greg will answer the following:
What is risk based, problem solving and decision making in reliability engineering and quality?
What are risk PDCA, taxonomies, risk assessment, and risk management etc?
What are the two critical risk management frameworks for problem solving and decision making?
What are examples of risk assessment tools? [Read more…]
by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment
Much like the song, “Lookin’ for Love in All the Wrong Places” sung by Johnny Lee; risk management professionals need to ask the question “Are we searching for risk in all the wrong places”? Are risk professionals being deluded or deluding themselves by seeing risk based on media driven analysis; applying outmoded tools, models, etc. that no longer reflect the reality of risk?
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