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)…
A broken clock is right exactly twice each day. But did you ever think about what “right” really means? …
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…
Lack of Basic Maintenance Skills Threatens Equipment Reliability Our vocational-technical education infrastructure has been decimated over the past 30 years.…
I had just finished a conference presentation on NASCAR Racing: a Model for Equipment Reliability and Teamwork when I was…