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Ten Things a Maintenance Supervisor Can Do
Very often maintenance supervisors feel overwhelmed by the day-to-day disruptions, sometimes crises, that come to them. It would be a good idea to take a deep breath and consider what they might do to begin the process of minimizing the constant disruption...
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Ten Things a Lubrication Engineer Can Do
Lubrication technicians are often not shown sufficient respect (greasers?), when they represent the lifeblood of the equipment. When you have poor lubrication practices, you severely reduce the life of the equipment. Can you imagine the consequences of not keeping your car properly lubricated?
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Ten Things a Maintenance Planner Can Do
Maintenance planners plan the work, or do they, or are they really schedulers, or gate keepers on resources? Planning and scheduling are different activities – the first is about scope, sequence, parts, permits, tools, etc., while the second is about allocation of available resources based on priority needs.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Ten Things an Electrical Technician Can Do
Electrical technicians often lament equipment failures, particularly the lack of accurate drawings for trouble shooting, among many issues. In this session we’ll discuss things an electrical technician can do, beginning with updating and keeping drawings current.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Ten Things Anyone Can Do
Many people in plants feel powerless to take action, lamenting poor design, management support, lack of tools and training, etc. As someone said, it’s easier to get forgiveness than permission. So, with that in mind, we’ll discuss things that anyone can do, given they’ve had some experience in working in their plants.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Ten Things I Can Do as a Reliability Engineer
Over the next several weeks, we’ll be going through a series of “10 Things” that people in various functions can do to improve reliability. While these will mostly be actions that maintenance personnel can take, we’ll touch on operations in a couple. We’ll begin with actions a reliability engineer can take.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Design and Capital Projects Practices – Self-Assessment
In this session we’ll be taking participants through a “self-assessment” of their design and capital projects practices with a particular focus on designing for plant reliability. What we’ve observed is that most organizations do not use a life cycle cost approach in their capital projects, but rather lowest installed cost. This results in lower reliability, and generally poorer performance.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Stores-Purchasing Practices – Self-Assessment
In this session we’ll be taking participants through a “self-assessment” of their current stores and purchasing practices. What we’ve observed is that there is often a disconnect, even conflict, in objectives between stores (minimize working capital) and maintenance (minimize unavailability of spare parts. Both are admirable, but in conflict, so the key is to balance those competing interests for the greater good of the business.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Maintenance Practices – Self-Assessment
In this session we’ll be taking participants through a “self-assessment” of their current maintenance practices. What we’ve observed is that maintenance typically directly controls only about 10% of most losses from ideal production, and at most 30%. That said, excellence in maintenance practices is essential for a reliable plant.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT