Standards? We Don’t Need No Stinking Standards

Wednesday, 10 July 2019 by James Kovacevic

How Your Organization Can Benefit from Standardization

Imagine if every day you had to relearn a process or use a different CMMS.  Chances are you would get virtually nothing accomplished, leaving your plant operating poorly.   Now we all know that we having to relearn a process every day or using a new CMMS is not practical nor is it rooted in reality (not to be confused with the Rooted in...

Staying Safe During the Summer Heat

Friday, 21 June 2019 by Ashley Larrimore

Today is the FIRST day of summer! During increased heat and humidity in many places, following these simple summer safety recommendations can help you ensure 

Highly Motivated Ignoramous

Thursday, 02 May 2019 by Bill Leahy

In 1995, McArthur Wheeler robbed two Pittsburgh banks in broad daylight making no noticeable attempt to hide his identity. Video tape of the robberies were broadcast that evening on the 11 o’clock news. Within an hour Mr. Wheeler was arrested. While in custody police showed him the surveillance video. Mr. Wheeler was stunned, and continually mumbled “but I wore the juice.” Apparently, Mr. Wheeler...

Seek first to become effective, then focus on efficiency.

Friday, 19 April 2019 by Rick Clonan

Best practice preventive and predictive maintenance programs possess two distinct characteristics. They are effective at identifying failures and they efficiently use resources while doing so. Many programs are not seen as value added to the organization because they fail in one of these two areas of focus. Identifiable failures continue to negatively impact asset performance even though...

Upcoming Conferences - March 2019

Friday, 01 March 2019 by Ashley Larrimore

Can you believe it's already March? That brings us to the next round of conferences and events! Eruditio team members will be at a number of events coming up and we hope to see you there!

Getting out of Day to Day Muck

Monday, 25 February 2019 by Bill Leahy

“Don’t Half-

two Things,

Whole-

One Thing.”

Getting Better Starts with Selecting the Right Metrics

Friday, 25 January 2019 by Rick Clonan

I have recently started hearing a common question regarding metrics.

12 Days of Shutdown

Wednesday, 19 December 2018 by Jon Bailey

Graduate of the Month: August 2018

Tuesday, 21 August 2018 by Madelaine Hallman-Kenner

We want to congratulate our graduate of the month for August…Mr. Robert Gilliam!

Distance, Direction, & Motivation: Win the Training Resource War the Army Way

Thursday, 12 July 2018 by Bill Leahy
At the beginning of every reliability course I poll my students. My favorite prompt, borrowed from Darrin Wikoff, is “In a word, capture the greatest constraint to achieving reliability?”. We go around the room and note each response onto a flipchart and add chicken scratches for duplicate answers. Over time I have found it typically looks like Figure 1. Thirteen out of eighteen responses (72%)...