Change Management Best Practices — Avoiding Friction and Realizing a Strong ROI

Before embarking on a major transformation initiative, business leaders must lay the foundation for a successful transition through proper change management....

Getting your Storeroom “Back to Basics”

If your storeroom is not up to where it should be, the efficiency and effectiveness of your maintenance teams will suffer. ...

Detailed Maintenance Planning, Clean Master Data Help Combat the Brain Drain and Assure Uptime

Clean Master Data and planned maintenance avoids expediting and saves frustration, time and money....

Practical AI: The Path to Top Quartile Reliability

According to some predictions, AI will permeate all facets of life, making it easier to do everything, including maintenance....

Despite all of the Technology, the Basics are Still Important

As I look back across my career in maintenance and MRO materials, it seems that the things people hire us for really have not changed. ...

The Human Side of Reliability

While there is a growing body of proofs regarding the right technical approach to boosting reliability, the best technical solutions are nothing if they leave...

A Journey to Reliability Excellence: Summary and Conclusions

The journey would not have been complete or the objectives of our mission fulfilled if one of them had been left out. ...

A Journey to Reliability Excellence: The Contributions of MRO and Procurement

MRO materials management and procurement was a critical part of our reliability improvement journey, and it should be considered part of every reliability program....

A Journey to Reliability Excellence: The Effects of Making Work Go Away

My plant reduced maintenance spend by $22 million per year just by making work go away. ...

A Journey to Reliability Excellence: The Critical Importance of Work Management

One of the key learnings we had is that it is impossible to implement advanced reliability solutions until the foundation is solid. ...

A Journey to Reliability Excellence: The Business Case and Executive Support

Implementing a reliability-based maintenance program has tremendous business benefits – the kind of impact that executives get excited about....

CMMS Offers Asset Predictability in Industry 4.0

With Industry 4.0 comes the first opportunity industrial organizations have had to implement a comprehensive, predictive-based maintenance approach....
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“Keep Your Axe Sharp” for Real Storeroom Savings

Abe Lincoln famously quipped, “Give me six hours to cut down a tree and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe.” A few months ago, I announced the addition of PCA’s field engineering services, which are specifically designed to help keep your maintenance management tools sharp.

2022-01-26T09:55:18-05:00January 26th, 2022|Blog|0 Comments

PCA Playbooks Drive Teamwork and Manufacturing Excellence

It’s a safe bet that most of us have heard the expression “The left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing” used to describe organizational disfunction. Just imagine the catastrophic consequences of playing a guitar in that condition!

2022-03-09T12:56:05-05:00December 8th, 2021|Blog|0 Comments

The Evolution of Reliability Best Practices and Maintenance Whack-A-Mole

Reliability is a good thing, like motherhood and apple pie. Everyone wants reliability because it means that your equipment always does what it should when you need it to; your business runs smoothly and everyone in the organization sees the benefits of increased uptime and operational performance. So it’s easy to see why the term Reliability has become so polluted.

2021-11-10T13:09:56-05:00October 14th, 2021|Blog|0 Comments
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