Lean – What it is, What it isn’t We have heard much about the concepts of “lean manufacturing” and the…
Tips for helping your improvement process endure. One of the biggest barriers to maintenance and reliability improvement initiatives is management…
How Manufacturing Leaders can Overcome the Shortage of Skilled Maintenance Employees More and more local employers are struggling to…
Your Future Depends on It For the past seven years, skilled and knowledgeable maintenance and reliability employees have been getting…
Could email be hurting your preventive maintenance programs? Working with many different types of manufacturing facilities seeking improvement programs around North…
“You mean we’re going to have to work on the equipment before it breaks down?” “What a novel idea,” you…
Data: Individual facts or statistics Information: Knowledge gained through study, communication, or research Turning data into useful information is the…
The “breakthrough strategy” discussed in my last column works. (See the “Breakthrough Strategy for Changing Behaviors” post.) Equipment becomes more…
Can you reduce equipment downtime by more than 50 percent in less than one month? This company did! All…
Overall equipment effectiveness (O.E.E.) has been used as one of the more important “maintenance metrics” since Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)…