What Life at Sea Teaches About Reliability
IDCON’s Owe Forsberg shares how years aboard merchant ships shaped his reliability mindset and how these insights power his approach to maintenance excellence.
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 the people behind.
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.
The Challenges Along The Road To Reliability
It is always difficult to convince comfy executives that there is benefit to be had by pursuing changes. Bruce Hawkins shares a business case of a company and leadership team who he worked with who found the benefits to be greater than expected.