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Scoring Your RCM Effort

Scoring Your RCM Effort

Like it or not we live in a society where we like to keep score. The score provides feedback; it gives those who are not involved information on the progress or success of those who are involved. The score can be delivered in an endless number of formats, the price of your company stock, net profits, unit cost of product, overall equipment effectiveness, or percent emergency/demand maintenance. In the world of Reliability Centered Maintenance RCM Guru Jack Nicholas gathered a team of experts several years ago to develop the RCM Scorecard. The result of this effort was a comprehensive tool that evaluated Key Performance Indicators at various periods before and during an RCM Project. [Read more…]

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Plant the Seeds for Tomorrow: Implementing a CMMS

Plant the Seeds for Tomorrow: Implementing a CMMS

Most CMMS’ Fail at the Implementation Phase, Don’t Let This Be You

Most organizations only use 50% of their CMMS’s capabilities.  This is for a variety of reasons, but one of the largest reasons, is that the CMMS was not setup, configured or implemented correctly.  If the implementation of the CMMS was not done properly, the usability and information in the CMMS limits its potential.

How can you prevent the implementation from failing or delivering sub-par results?  There are a few ways to ensure a successful CMMS implementation.  This post will cover the 2 main ways to ensure a successful implementation. [Read more…]

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#2 Best Job — Risk Manager

#2 Best Job — Risk Manager

“One Thing is Certain: 2017 Will Be the Year of Uncertainty for CEO’s’”

Shouted a recent Wall Street Journal article.[1]

Why?

Let’s look at the reasons at why we live in VUCA time (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity).

  • President Trump is disrupting business rules and business models.
  • Technological change is increasing.
  • Mass immigration is resulting in political divisions.
  • Climate change is real and increasing.
  • Globalization benefits are unclear due to job and work transference.

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Implementing the Right Preventative Action

Implementing the Right Preventative Action

There are two instances when you should implement preventative action. First, once a failure occurs and you would like to avoid similar future failures. Second, before a failure occurs, yet an undesired failure mechanism is likely to occur.

Like corrective action there is a wide range of possible preventative actions. The selection of the right actions requires considering customer expectations, business and legal factors, along with the technical and economic feasibility. [Read more…]

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6 Tips to Enjoy Your Job!

6 Tips to Enjoy Your Job!

I have told my own children for years now that I didn’t find the job that I loved until I was around 35. Truth is I was around 35 when I figured out what I enjoyed but I didn’t really enjoy doing it until around 4 years later when I had the courage to leave the large company I had worked at for 19 years and start a business of my own.  Working on my own I developed a product, had to market and sell that product to build a brand name.  I had to make sure that every customer engagement was a shining example of success and efficiency because I not only wanted more business, I wanted my customers to tell everyone they knew that when it came to RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance) I was not only the best bargain, I was one of the best in the world. [Read more…]

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Mandate and Commitment to Manage Risk

Mandate and Commitment to Manage Risk

Risk Exists; Therefore, Manage Risk

Every organization, business, and individual faces a relentless barrage of risk. Some risks are minor, while others may overwhelm.

We all deal with risk, manage risk, in our own way. For more than just yourself the management of risk is taking on a new level of organization and importance.

Risk exists whether or not we choose to plan, prepare, and mitigate.

The decisions concerning product reliability, and associated risks, require senior management (including the board of directors) engagement and commitment. While there is a wide array of business and societal risks the management team must address, the reliability performance of products and systems presents potentially catastrophic risks to any organization. [Read more…]

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DOE Supports World Class Quality

DOE Supports World Class Quality

This is an example of a practical DOE that was used in the development of a manual window mechanism for a truck application. A similar process can be used for current mechanical and electrical design and development projects. In this article, you will see that the DOE method:

  • is superior to the design-test-fix cycle
  • builds knowledge of which factors are important to product performance
  • quantifies the effect of a combination of factors
  • allows performance prediction

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Reliability and Risk Mitigation Actions

Reliability and Risk Mitigation Actions

Once reliability risks have been identified and analyzed, we have to do something.

Well, not really.

If the risk is acceptable to the stakeholders, then we can simply continue with the current plan and monitor or any new risks or changes in our understanding of the existing risks.

Risk mitigation is a ‘system, process, or investment to control the likelihood or consequence of a risk.’ This is according to the glossary of risk terms in ISO 31000: Enterprise Risk Management. In many cases, the risk is unacceptable and will require mitigation. [Read more…]

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Is Your Company’s Reputation Important?

Is Your Company’s Reputation Important?

5 Tips on How To Maintain Reputation & Integrity

My father taught me at a young age that your name is everything and if you want to be successful in life you have to ensure that when someone hears your name in conversation or reads your name in print that the first thing they think is positive.

The world hasn’t changed from the time he told me that over 40 years ago, in fact today it’s even more critical because we now have the internet and social media.

Good news travels fast.

Bad news travels 100 times faster!

Understanding this, here are 5 tips on what your company can do to build and maintain its reputation and integrity. [Read more…]

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Reliability Stakeholders

Reliability Stakeholders

Get to Know Your Realibility Stakeholders

Understanding the reliability stakeholders in an organization is an interesting exercise.

Who are they?

  • Executive management
  • Business unit
  • Sales
  • R&D
  • Quality
  • Manufacturing

It’s easy to look at each of those and say “They all could easily get by and appear successful even if a product has moderate to poor reliability”. You could also state that ” Reliability is a key factor to success in their role” [Read more…]