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The amount of effort required to implement a revised optimised maintenance program is often underestimated.

Let’s take a closer look at two approaches and how you can apply these to selling your reliability improvement program to senior management.

In preventive maintenance optimisation, the key objective is to review the current PM program, starting by assembling all of the tasks that it consists of.

Most organisations have some sort of investigation process, ranging from a basic incident report form through to a mature root cause analysis (RCA) process.

Let's compare reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and preventive maintenance optimisation (PMO), and determine which approach is best for you.

This video introduces the PF Interval: one of the core principles that underpins reliability centred maintenance and preventive maintenance program development.

We are fascinated by disasters, yet everyday in our workplaces, mini-disasters occur with monotonous regularity. Why should we accept that failure is the norm?

Let's explore some ways in which maintainers and maintenance management can impact on equipment reliability, and some suggestions to improve reliability via better maintenance.

Let's explore the key ways in which operations management can impact on equipment reliability, and offer some practical suggestions to improve reliability.

Let's explore the communal accountabilities that should be considered in the design phase of an asset life cycle, and the roles that different parts of an organisation play to...

Being at the tail end of the operational chain, supply can often bear the brunt of poor decisions made by asset designers, or during operations and maintenance.

There is often confusion among those new to maintenance management and reliability improvement regarding the difference between availability and reliability.

Let's discuss some of the practical issues surrounding root cause analysis implementation within organisations, and how to obtain success from these processes.

There is a school of thought, particularly among more highly qualified engineering personnel, that problem solving and root cause analysis is best performed by “experts” in their fields.

A growing number of root cause analysis processes are being supported by software. We need to be careful not to oversell the benefits of software in effective RCA.

Experience tells us that, in practice, there are several barriers that inhibit the success of implementation of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) practices.

As a general rule, we need to be very careful in using punishment as our first and primary response to any safety or reliability incident.

Let’s examine how you might estimate the costs and benefits associated with a reliability improvement program, to develop a sound business case.

Want to encourage change within your organisation? Here are some tips to build a successful environment and answer the question: "what's in it for me?"

As organisations move into the planned maintenance environment, the nature of the relationship between production and maintenance changes.

There is little point in having a strategic vision unless you actually allow your people to learn and apply their new skills.

It doesn’t matter where in the organisation structure you are, you have the capability to influence others - and this is at the core of leadership.

Reliability engineers should be focused on guidance, analysis and improvement - not on managing the day-to-day execution of maintenance tasks.

Using a value driver tree to estimate Economic Value Added can help reliability and maintenance managers build a business case for improvement initiatives.

It's ideal to embed continuous improvement of your preventive maintenance program as part of day to day business. Let's discuss how to make that happen.

Stopping a root cause analysis at human error, or at the obvious component failure level, is unlikely to prevent future failures.

Let's use the example of apron feeder maintenance to illustrate how you might develop a better maintenance strategy for your key assets.

Most maintenance organisations are looking to move from a repair-focused to reliability-focused culture, but how can we shift from one to the other?

The system was perfect. Everyone knew what to do when a component failed. Everyone knew how to determine where to send the part for repair.... then Bill left.

Let's discuss the challenges that we have observed our clients struggle with as they have implemented their APM solutions, and how to avoid falling for these same traps.

Can you make sense of your asset related data? Can you use this data to optimise your business? Integrating data from the EAM system is not always smooth sailing.