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Building A Strong Reliability Culture For Your Maintenance Department

Building A Strong Reliability Culture For Your Maintenance Department

A reliability culture is a set of values, attitudes, and behaviors that promote the consistent delivery of high-quality products and services. It is a collective effort involving every team member, not just the team of reliability engineers. Proactive organizations prioritize identifying and eliminating reliability issues early in the production process. In contrast, reactive organizations only take action after failures occur, which can result in costly consequences, such as product recalls. [Read more…]

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The Leader of Maintenance Excellence: The Maintenance Manager

The Leader of Maintenance Excellence: 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 across the department.  This post takes the next step of breaking down the individual role of the maintenance manager to help you on that journey. [Read more…]

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Are You Driving The Wrong Behaviours?

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. [Read more…]