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Here is a simple checklist of 31 simple maintenance management tips that you can use to improve your operation. Use it as a guide to start you thinking which maintenance management improvement strategies to use to lower your maintenance and operational costs without spending a lot of money.
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In today’s fast-paced and highly competitive environment, team meetings can often feel like a necessary evil. They can be messy, complicated, and sometimes a complete waste of time. However, in this episode, we reveal how to turn these often-chaotic gatherings into cohesive, productive, and efficient sessions.
One of the primary focuses of this episode is the application of Six Sigma, continuous improvement, product development, and project management strategies to team meetings. The podcast discusses how successful facilitators utilize similar techniques to transform the way ideas are generated, examined, and prioritized. By breaking down the process into discovery, examination, and prioritization phases, team meetings can become a fertile ground for creativity and actionable decisions.
In addition to these methodologies, the podcast provides real-life scenarios to illustrate how these techniques can be applied. For instance, it discusses how to break down an FMEA into manageable parts and conduct separate meetings for each part. This ensures that each aspect of the FMEA is thoroughly examined and that the team can focus on specific issues without being overwhelmed by the entire process.
Overall, this podcast episode provides a comprehensive guide on how to transform team meetings. By focusing on discovery, examination, and prioritization, and utilizing tools like affinity diagrams, tree diagrams, and fishbone diagrams, teams can ensure that their meetings are productive, collaborative, and efficient. The episode also emphasizes the importance of staying organized and breaking down complex issues into manageable parts, ensuring that every team member’s input is valued and that actionable decisions are made.
Carl and Fred discuss reader questions on FMEA detection, a subject which can be challenging and confusing. Detection is a key part of FMEA during product development as well as in operation. This podcast will discuss some of the “knottiest” challenges with understanding detection in FMEA.
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Invisible threads are the strongest ties Friedrich Nietzsche
Key Teaching Principle # 2 is the instructor maintains a genuine connection with each of the students.
Our scientific knowledge has accelerated so rapidly that we sometimes forget the importance of human connection to our well being.
Key Teaching Principle # 1 is the instructor demonstrates a solid understanding of fundamentals, speaking directly to students, and not reading slides.
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.” Plato
“Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent, and not enough time on what is important.” – Steven Covey
FMEAs take time and cost money. If time is wasted, FMEAs will be unsupported and ineffective.
In this article, I’ll lay out some tips to keep FMEA in-meeting time as short as possible, without reducing the quality of results. Many of these tips are based on lessons learned from doing FMEAs the wrong way. This is not a complete list. I’m sure you have other lessons learned to save time, and would love to hear from you.
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovator has for enemies, all of those who have done well under the old conditions, and luke-warm defenders in those who will do well under the new.”
– Niccole Machiavelli
This quote is appropriate when we seek a paradigm shift towards a proactive culture, after spending our careers trained to become the best ‘react-ors’ or responders, we can be. I encourage you to read this lengthy article to the end for a surprise and to ask you a couple of questions about your experience with reliability. [Read more…]
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is without doubt the most effective method to determine your failure management policies, yet it is sometimes seen as an expensive and time consuming endeavor used to produce what some (mistakenly) believe they can get from manufacturer recommendations and other sources. The naysayers see it as a “gold plated” approach to a relatively simple challenge – produce a decent maintenance program.
They couldn’t be more wrong! And that error, could get them into a lot of trouble if circumstances align against them. [Read more…]
… is the world’s leading method for identifying maintenance and other activities required to sustain reliable performance of physical assets. Previously I discussed the various maintenance approaches you can use. This method (RCM-R®) is a structured approach to making those choices. If you want a proactive maintenance program that really works, then Reliability Centered Maintenance is the most thorough approach you can take to get there.Since the 1970’s RCM (generic) has been responsible for huge improvements in airline flight safety – crash rates today are 1 / 120th of what they were before RCM, and the costs of aircraft maintenance programs are way down. We are all comfortable flying in safety. That would not be the case had RCM not come along. [Read more…]
Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) is a tool that can not only help an organization in effectively & efficiently meeting its Maintenance Works Management requirements but is also a vital source of equipment Reliability & Maintenance (RM) data. [Read more…]
Standards provide guidance, a common language, and a bit of confusion. Using the right standard and using it well can help your reliability program. Using standards poorly will harm your ability to create reliable products.
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