PCA's VP of Operations, Dan Moss, headlined a lively podcast episode of Maintenance Disrupted Friday, June 11, entitled Journey to Reliability: A Roadmap for Success by Dan Moss. Hosted by Blair Fraser,
PCA is celebrating a very big anniversary this year. Forty-five years in business is extraordinary! Consider all the technological progress and economic, political and social swings that PCA has endured since 1976. Companies do not survive as long as they used to. Today, the average age of companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 is less than 14 years and has declined steadily from an average of 61 years in 1958. PCA has achieved a milestone that many of today’s elite companies never will.
Reflections on My First 30 Days Inside PCA by Bob DiStefano, Chief Operations Officer, Performance Consulting Associates It has been a month since I exited retirement and joined PCA as the Chief Operations Officer. I must say I am excited, energized and happy working here, and I already know it was a good decision. [...]
Achieving maximum equipment reliability is a journey, and just like any other trip, it requires a functional roadmap to ensure arrival at the desired spot through the most expeditious route. In this month’s blog, PCA Director of Operations Dan Moss draws a parallel between the roadmaps his family used for childhood vacations and the roadmaps that PCA helps its clients develop to ensure the desired outcome.
As demand for U.S. manufacturing rises and falls, optimizing inventory levels becomes even more important to effective planning and scheduling. If your plant personnel aren’t excelling at inventory management, read this article, in which PCA Director of Operations Dan Moss provides sensible strategies to help alleviate the strain.
Volumes have been written about how plants and other facilities are impacted by poor inventory management — and in particular, excess inventory of all types. Obsolete inventory is one of the culprits, and tackling it poses two specific challenges.
At the recent SMRP Conference in Louisville, PCA’s booth was approached by attendees looking for inspiration. We engaged in several days of thoughtful discussions about the future of maintenance and reliability and saw a lot of interest in our new Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences Industry Playbook.
With the advent of Industry 4.0, facility management may be reevaluating or extending the role of the reliability engineer (RE). Given its process-centered, highly technical focus, Industry 4.0 presents a perfect opportunity for REs to shine. Nevertheless, in my opinion, organizations that assume the majority of the RE’s work will be process centered are making a grave miscalculation.
Profit margins for forest products industry firms are volatile, at best, due to raw materials availability and pricing, competitive pressures and market forces. PCA helped one paper mill gain a measure of predictability — and save $1 million per year — by moving to best practices machine parts purchasing.
Earlier this month, PCA Associate Jim Clifford shared a true story of storeroom staff mismanagement that illustrated how just one bad personnel decision can snowball into a big problem (with corresponding significant financial loss.) Here, the author expands his tale to discuss the damage that non-committal employees, whether in the storeroom or outside of it, can do.
