What’s one word that describes your state of reliability. It can be pretty telling, but you have to say the word without waiting or worse thinking about it for too long. Some examples of words that I see coming in on our Reliability Wellness check are unpredictable, fire fighting, unstable. If the word that describesContinue reading “What’s one word that describes your state of reliability?”
Author Archives: Chris Endruhn
Are your operators key contributors to Reliability?
It is always good to see where the data leads us. Gut feel and instinct can tell us in which direction to head but it is always reassuring to use data to help drive the decision making process. Our data is indicating that the greatest room for improvement in the six areas of our ReliabilityContinue reading “Are your operators key contributors to Reliability?”
Reliability, it only takes a minute to make a difference
When I think about reliability I tend to think about the complexity of some of the processes that are to be put in place. The pre work, the training, the roll out of roles and responsibilities, the metrics, tracking, coaching and mentoring. These are all very valuable items and are critical to implementing shiny new processes inContinue reading “Reliability, it only takes a minute to make a difference”
Is Your Reliability Suffering due to SCL?
Does your facility suffer from SCL and maybe you don’t know about it? It’s an insidious failure mode that might be causing you grief and you may not know about it or maybe you have just come to accept it as part of doing business. We were working with a brewery and we asked the studentsContinue reading “Is Your Reliability Suffering due to SCL?”
Inspecting Machine Bases
One of the things that we commonly see when we are working on site with customers is that equipment bases seem to get overlooked. It isn’t that they aren’t important; I tend to think that they get overlooked because they can deteriorate so slowly. There is a parallel here to road infrastructure in North America. The roadsContinue reading “Inspecting Machine Bases”