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Calibrations
Managing the Consequences of Failure with RCM
As Responsible Custodians, we’re not in the business of predicting or preventing all Failure Modes. Watch as I explain how RCM helps with our first responsibility – Managing the Consequences of Failure. [Read more…]
You Need to Finish this Project Quickly
New Product Development is constantly under pressure to get projects done faster – to shorten the development schedule. Making the analogy from basketball to engineering projects, if you want to play fast – you are going to have to live with turn overs. Similarly with engineering, you are going to experience some bumps in the road when trying to create a speed record. [Read more…]
ISO 31000:2018 Certification: The Next Big Thing!
ISO 31000:2018 is the world’s foremost risk management standard. The Standard provides guidelines, principles, framework, and a process for managing risk.
The standard explicitly states that it should NOT be used for certification or registration. But, it is.
So, what’s going on? We can only speculate. But, here goes:
We now live and work in VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) time. More companies want to be RISK audited and certified by an independent Certification Body (CB).
And, more CB’s are working to use ISO 31000:2018 as a standard for certification. [Read more…]
PM Compliance
Let’s take a look at how to understand the PM compliance metric. [Read more…]
How to Care for our Physical Assets
Who knew that the cooking lessons my Sicilian mother gave me would teach me something about managing physical assets. Join me in Lambertville, New Jersey as I talk about how to properly care for our physical assets. [Read more…]
Design for Six Sigma
Six Sigma has been a business improvement idea for several years now. Debate has existed for some time if the concepts apply to Research and Development. This video breaks down the debate into simple terms. The answer – yes, but not always. Find out why! [Read more…]
Tiered Meetings Structure Enables Production Oversight & Support
A complex production process requires a mixture of leadership, governance and management. In this article, we’ll discuss a tiered meetings structure that can effectively enable this. Empowerment, escalation paths, accountability and responsibility are included as some key ingredients. We’ll start with the following diagram:
Trade War and Supply Chain Risk Management
For the last few months, I’ve been giving talks on the trade war between US and China. A few of these talks have been in the US. Others were skyped to China.
The bottom line is that trade between the US and China has been weaponized.
The Wall Street Journal on December 13, 2018 distilled the challenge:
“… it is questionable whether fragile globalized supply chains can thrive at all in an environment where the world’s two largest economies are disinclines to play by the rules, even their own.”
Our response is that risk (threats and opportunities) is the new lens by which end product manufacturers (brand owners) will have to view China off shoring, on shoring, and sourcing in general. [Read more…]
Sunil Part 2
Part 2 of our discussion with Sunil Kamerkar from AssetAnalytix. In this segment we discuss the culture of excellence needed to apply analytics and IIoT. [Read more…]
Preliminary Risk Assessment
Selecting Which FMEAs to Do
FMEAs take time and cost money. They should be done when a certain level of risk can be effectively addressed by the FMEA procedure. Preliminary Risk Assessment is a procedure that uses company-determined criteria to select which FMEAs to do.
“The key is to schedule your priorities.” ― Steven Covey
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Conundrum: Global Warming – Electric Demand
Guest Post by Geary Sikich (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)
We hear so much about global warming, climate change and disruptive weather these days. It is often difficult to understand what is fact, truth and valid from hype, hysteria, and hyperbole. Should we all be driving electric cars, not eating as much meat, using wind and solar; redefining our lives? Or, should we forget about it and continue doing what we have been doing since the early days of the industrial revolution? [Read more…]
Transforms
Transformations are useful techniques. Why and how would you use them? The selection process is important, as a well justified choice improves decision making and communication. [Read more…]
Perfecting Preventive Maintenance Planning With A CMMS
Equipment maintenance is a requisite for companies that seek high-performance from their physical assets. If they can leverage a well-executed maintenance strategy, such organizations should gain the expected advantages that reliable assets will deliver such as reductions in operational costs and unplanned shutdowns.
Productivity, RCM and…Vegas?
I never would have thought that a “productivity tip” also held the key to starting (or continuing) your RCM program. Watch as I explain (from Vegas!) how spending only 10 minutes a day can help you achieve greatness with RCM and with your personal and professional life! [Read more…]
