It’s Time to Lean In and Start Building a High-Reliability Culture
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
As management guru Peter Drucker famously said, "Culture eats strategy for breakfast." No matter how well-crafted your maint... Read more.
How MTTR Insights Drive the Shift from Reactive to Proactive Maintenance
MTTR (Mean Time To Repair) is the average duration needed to restore a failed system or component to full functionality after a breakdown.
As with MTBF/MTTF, "a... Read more.
A Fresh Look at MTBF and MTTF: Emphasizing Data Granularity
At first glance, Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) seem obvious. Hold on, though. Not so fast. To be clear, MTBF/MTTF is a relat... Read more.
The 10 Elements of Great Asset Management Leadership: A Personal Reflection
After 35 years in the asset management game, I’ve learned that leadership isn’t about perfection—it’s about progression. It’s about making tough decis... Read more.
Overall Materials Effectiveness: The Key Metric to Optimize MTTR
Overall Materials Effectiveness (OSE) is a leading indicator that drives proactive behaviors, which in turn drives asset reliability.This OME discussion centers... Read more.
Overall Scheduling Effectiveness: The Metric That Powers Maintenance Success
Overall Scheduling Effectiveness (OSE) is a leading indicator that drives proactive behaviors, which, in turn, drives asset reliability.What OSE Is and Why It's... Read more.
Overall Planning Effectiveness: A Leading Metric for Reliability Improvement
Overall Planning Effectiveness (OPE) is a leading indicator that drives proactive behaviors, which in turn drives asset reliability.What OPE Is and Why It's Imp... Read more.
Overall Electrical Effectiveness: Key Metrics for Balanced Electrical Systems
Overall Electrical Effectiveness (OELE) is intended to drive behaviors that ensure the electrical pathways for plant equipment are balanced, aligned, and unrest... Read more.
Overall Vibration Effectiveness: Building Reliability Through Metrics
Overall Vibration Effectiveness (OVE) is a leading maintenance metric that measures the proactive management of vibration-related factors impacting machine reli... Read more.
Overall Lubrication Effectiveness: How to Achieve Lubrication Success
Overall Lubrication Effectiveness (OLE) is a leading maintenance metric that evaluates the timeliness of lubrication PMs, contamination control, and lubricant h... Read more.
Precision Maintenance: Design and Rebuild Parts for Reliability Success
Precision maintenance requires a combination of skills, practical work instructions and methods, correct and properly calibrated tools, and the right parts in t... Read more.
Smart Combustion Management: Reducing Costs and Carbon in Industrial Operations
Energy consumption is a significant cost for most manufacturing and process plants. It's also the primary source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. When invento... Read more.
Threaded Fasteners: Plant Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices
Have you and your team included threaded-fastener management in your proactive maintenance and plant reliability goals? You should. And sooner than later. The r... Read more.
The Reliability Paradox: Why Great Organizations Create Their Crises
Humans are funny. One might assume that the big prize of increased profits and safer, more environmentally responsible operations would motivate enterprises to ... Read more.
How a Why-Why Culture Helps Plant Reliability and Safety
I've always been amazed by plant-floor workers' knowledge and problem-solving capability. Skilled and knowledgeable tradespersons and operators know what's happ... Read more.
Overall Inspection Effectiveness: Reducing Downtime Through Proactive Actions
My approach to Overall Inspection Effectiveness (OIE), as well as the other leading metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), is to present them as a perce... Read more.
How to Achieve STO Success with Clear Precision Work Instructions
Precision-work instructions are valuable for bringing in a successful shutdown, turnaround, or outage (STO) event. The goals for a successful STO event are clea... Read more.
10 Critical Behaviors That Drive Precision Maintenance Success
Executing equipment maintenance is as much about behaviors as it is about skills. Think of a skill as knowledge about HOW to do something, while behavior is rel... Read more.
