We have a new iBL Graduate of the Month. Congratulations Linda Easterwood from Mosaic for a job well done on your iBL journey!
I find it very interesting how many of the tools we reliability and maintenance engineers use within our jobs apply in a much broader sense. The obvious one is root cause analysis or RCA as it is known. It could be applied by anyone to solve nearly any problem. In fact in my workshops I have had operations, human resources, and even information technology folks learning about the processes and...
Another great Coaches Corner post from Allen Canaday: During a recent discussion with a student he asked me why the failure rate at their facility wasn’t improving. Over the last two years they had invested in the purchase of various PdM (Predictive Maintenance) technologies and trained personnel on their use and application. The facility had conducted a criticality analysis and SFMECA...
So lets talk about really solid outage planning and scheduling. Not the half-hearten effort that I sometimes see organizations pass off as planning and scheduling, we want to see the good stuff.
We have a new iBL Graduate of the Month. Congratulations Anthony Schleppy from Amazon for a job well done on your iBL Planning/Scheduling curriculum.
After his time in the US Navy as a Nuclear Machinist, Anthony started working as a Plant operator for Wabash Valley Power Association. From there, he went on to become a Maintenance Planner/Scheduler at Amazon where he started on his inspired...
Over more than ten years of consulting and training globally, I have watched a lot of companies spend an incredible amount of money to go after an organizational change in a very unsustainable way. Today's post will list three of the most frustrating and ineffective ways to make unsustainable change. Don't set out with failure as a goal or a likely destination. Problem #1: Asking consultants...
Is your reliability vision driving you forward or is it just something you hang on the wall or put on the back of your business card? Here are six questions you might use to bring your vision to the forefront and driving effective change in your organization. 1. First have you created a reliability or asset management vision? Is it clear, concise, memorable, and easily explained to anyone in...
Since we missed April's graduate of the month, we will be doing a double feature of graduates this month. First, we want to congratulate our 1st May 2017's iBL graduate of the month...Mr. Tom Wolsey of Weyerhaeuser.
Tom started his career as a millwright 20 years ago working in various industries including food, oil & gas, and forestry. He is currently with Weyerhaeuser having hired on 12 years...
The following are just a few thoughts on leadership that I keep discovering... Feel free to add your own in the comments. Be Prepared: If we as leaders show up without preparing or with the appearance of being unprepared then we create a bad experience for the team or group from the start. Do not let thank you be a set of words heard only once per year: They are simple words that mean a...
Having spent the better part of the last 15 years educating people from all over the world in topics like reliability, problem solving, software, and leadership, there is one thing that I have noticed. Many companies are buying a lot of expensive entertainment. Why? Ask yourself this simple question: Of the last three training sessions you attended, did you actually use what you learned to make a...
