Nine Minutes of Knowledge
Root Cause Analysis of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster and the Texas City Refinery Explosion
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster and the Texas City Refinery Explosion had many things in common. Both companies had been recently recognized for high safety standards, but reliability failures caused environmental and safety disasters…
- Alan Ross
- Electric Power Reliability Alliance EPRA
The P’s and E’s of Motivating Workers: Which Are More Effective?
Michelle Henley goes into detail about direct motivating factors (the P’s) and indirect motivating factors (the E’s) and what they mean for workers facing a need for culture change…
- Michelle Henley
- TMG Frontline Solutions
What Really Motivates Workers to Change
It’s easy to get people to admit that things should change, but getting them to commit to changing themselves is challenging. This is where motivation comes in, defined as “factors that activate, direct, and sustain goal-directed behavior…"
- Michelle Henley
- TMG Frontline Solutions
Collaborating within Virtual and Multi-Disciplinary Teams
A panel of three experts on Rob Kalwarowsky’s podcast answers listener questions about collaboration and challenges with different types of teams…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Using Modern Software to Help with Manufacturing Standard Operating Procedures & Compliance
With Computerized Maintenance Management Software, or CMMS, monitoring compliance is simple. Manufacturers can automate SOP completion and preventive maintenance operations to enhance the quality of products..
- Nick Haase
- MaintainX
Utilizing the Ishikawa Technique as Part of the Root Cause Analysis
In this very brief presentation, the Ishikawa technique, also known as the fishbone technique, will be described as a tool that can be used to determine the root cause of the problem or failure.
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
C&W Services Drives Asset Reliability-Based Culture Change at Pharmaceutical Client
C&W Services implemented Petasense’s Asset Reliability & Optimization system as a key piece of changing the reliability culture at a major pharmaceutical company. The results were dramatic, with 31 failures avoided in the first few months and zero unplanned downtime during the first half of 2019...
- Ken Madsen
- Petasense
A Brief Introduction to Pareto Analysis (the ‘Bad Actor’ List)
Pareto analysis is one of the simplest yet most powerful techniques you can use to find out which items of equipment are consuming your resources. In this brief presentation, we will explain the benefits of the technique, and briefly, how you use them.
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Trick Question: Do You Want Value or Low Costs?
If you can’t sell all you can produce, then reducing costs is often the only way to improve margins, but that simplistic accounting perspective is not always the case. Cost control is often thought to be key to attaining profitability, but in the case of maintenance it can get you into trouble...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset