George Williams, Founder and CEO of ReliabilityX, discusses how Weekly Scheduling helps drive improvement in the efficiency of the maintenance organization! Have any questions? Drop a comment below!
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Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Balanced Air
In this video, George discusses how clean, dry, well balanced, and consistent air can be a huge opportunity for continuous improvement in a facility. If you’re looking to improve the efficiency and reliability of your facility, you won’t want to miss this!
[Read more…]Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Design Rates
Today we are going to look at Design Rates. Often times our equipment are not running at their designed rate. Most of which are operational issues. For example, we tend to slow down a line, to present less problems, but it lowers the target rate. How do we identify an actual opportunity?
[Read more…]Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: No Part Replaced
This informative video provides valuable insights into how we respond to operations and help them improve their processes. By pulling data out of the CMMS, we can identify areas of opportunity and provide recommendations for improvement.
For example, by analyzing the data, we can see where operators may need training, or where improvements can be made in the incoming raw material process. Our goal is to provide practical, actionable advice that can help you maximize your resources and achieve success in your manufacturing facility.
[Read more…]Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: PM Route
We are back with our 4th installment in the Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations series! We have discussed alarms, rework, and event rates. Today we talk about PM Routes. What can a PM Route do if our CMMS system has the ability to manage them? How does one take advantage? Watch the video and find out.
[Read more…]Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Rework
In our first two videos we discussed alarms and event rates. Today we will be discussing rework. What is rework? How can we identify rework? George has it covered. Check it out this latest video and if you have any questions feel free to leave a comment!
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Last time we discussed Alarms in the Opportunities for Maintenance and Reliability series. This week we will be discussing event rates. What is an event rate? Watch George break it down!
[Read more…]Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Alarms
George will be discussing basic opportunities for Maintenance and Operations. This is an 8 part video series that covers things such as eliminating nuisance alarms, looking into event rates, and how we develop PM Routes. This first video covers Alarms. What does opportunity look like from an alarm perspective? In most plants, it’s likely you have some type of building automation. Systems and Alarms can go through what is called a Pareto Analysis. Watch to learn more!
[Read more…]PR S5E2: Unveiling KPIs for Organizational Excellence
Unveiling KPIs for Organizational Excellence
In this half-hour podcast, we bring you expert discussions, and actionable insights to guide you through the dynamics of KPI’s and metrics in reliability. Join us as we explore the nuanced world of reliability KPIs, shedding light on a fundamental truth: successful strategies are rooted in a deep understanding of organizational objectives. Many professionals overlook the pivotal role that alignment with objectives plays in creating a reliability strategy that truly works.
PR S5E1: Tate Murdock
Tate Murdock
Tate is an industry veteran, with a wealth of knowledge and experience in the world of Reliability and Maintenance. He has been a driving force behind Spudnik’s success, leading their maintenance department to new heights and ensuring the smooth and efficient operations of their machinery.
PR S4E8: Bryan Bieschke
Bryan Bieschke
Join us for an incredible new episode of Practical Reliability featuring our special guest, Bryan Bieschke!
Bryan is a Maintenance & Reliability Leader at Bowery Farming and the owner of Align Machine Company. He’s a true expert when it comes to maximizing machine availability and improving operational efficiency.
Bryan is a Maintenance & Reliability Leader at Bowery Farming and the owner of Align Machine Company. He’s a true expert when it comes to maximizing machine availability and improving operational efficiency.
In this episode, our host George sits down with Bryan to delve into the importance of achieving machine availability and how operational changes can solve a multitude of problems. From electrical troubleshooting to innovative techniques, this conversation is packed with valuable insights!
Duration of Job vs Labor Hours Required
by Phil Swanton
When planning and scheduling, we need to have estimated hours to be able to schedule efficiently. Without estimated hours it makes it close to impossible to know your resource consumption. To take your scheduling efforts to the next level you need to understand the difference between Duration of job vs. labor hours required to perform the tasks.
PR S04E07: Markus Rimmele
Markus Rimmele
Join us as we explore the limitless possibilities of AI, AR, and VR, and their transformative impact on making manufacturing processes better and more efficient. Our special guest for this episode is none other than Markus Rimmele, the visionary Founder of DigitalituM.
DigitalituM is a leading provider of cutting-edge digitalization tools for the manufacturing sector. With their expertise and dedication, they empower businesses to embrace the potential of AI, AR, and VR to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and boost overall reliability.
Self Ownership Part 5
This mindset I have and bring to my client’s struggling businesses did not get built overnight. It took years of conscious concentration to develop the discipline that says basically, if something goes wrong, it was probably my fault. Either I didn’t plan or predict a problem, or I didn’t solve the problem before it happened a second time; but now the burden is on me to solve it.
Luckily I have a few tips on how to develop a self-ownership mindset.
Self Ownership Part 4
The focus on attention to detail is one of the most critical portions of self-ownership. Everyone can walk by trash, but when the leader does it, it’s sending a message. The focus on attention to detail, especially in contracts, is best illustrated by the famous rock group, Van Halen.
Rock stars are able to put seemingly insane requests into what they need from the venues they perform at, and Van Halen was no different. After all, they’re the reason venues can charge hundreds of dollars per seat, they can choose to be picky.
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