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.
Reliability Focused Maintenance
Many unplanned downtime incidents and catastrophic equipment failures can be traced back to deferred maintenance, poor spare parts management and a failure to engage in proactive operations and maintenance tasks. True preventive maintenance requires ongoing condition monitoring and failure analysis processes so that organizations can address minor equipment concerns before they become major ones.