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Maintenance and reliability improvement: People make the difference
Many of us may have gravitated to the maintenance and reliability industry because of the desire to work with machinery. I was trained in engineering and understand how machines operate and work. Machines behave in logical ways. They all follow the mechanical and electrical laws of nature. Engineers
In safety and reliability, zero is possible
One of the best reliability books I have read is “Making Common Sense Common Practice” by Ron Moore of the RM Group. Ron and I have become business associates and friends over the years. He has served as a reliability advisor and member of Cargill’s Maintenance and Reliability Steering
Developing the professional maintenance manager
In today’s environment of “lean”, TPM, reliability excellence, RCM, integrated maintenance/operations teams, new technologies and constant pressure to make maintenance more effective and elevate it to a prominent value-added position, the maintenance manager must become a business unit
One plant’s solution to the Sweet 16 dilemma. What’s yours?
My prior article posed the proposition that, to some employees, the typical organizational chart more closely resembles the bracketed final 16 college basketball teams when rotated 90 degrees with the perceived behavior of management
Is your plant organization ship shape? Probably not.
You are in the engine room of the USS Lincoln. Your job as an oiler is to perform the cleaning and lubrication routes for the steam turbines. You are watching a control panel that monitors all of the ship’s mechanical functions. You have trust that the folks up on the bridge are in agreement about
Help employees get the most out of their career, their life
“Rex, your maintenance leadership mentoring program caused four employees to leave the company!” That was the response when I gave an update on the successes of a program that was celebrating its ninth anniversary with the success stories of graduates and mentors. There are two important
