“You mean we’re going to have to work on the equipment before it breaks down?” “What a novel idea,” you…
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)…
And Change the Culture Along the Way “Here it comes again: another new maintenance program. I wonder how long this…
Decline in Technical Education a Serious Threat to U.S. Manufacturing Capabilities How can we continue to ignore the decline of…
I had just finished a conference presentation on NASCAR Racing: a Model for Equipment Reliability and Teamwork when I was…
A conversation overheard in a restaurant last week: “Did you hear about the ‘Auto Service Center’ here in town? No…