Software got you stuck?

Do not let RCA applications hold up your root-cause efforts.

Five questions to answer before your next change initiative

Below are five question that are crucial to answer upfront, repeatedly, and through multiple mediums.

Webcast: The Link Between Maintenance and Electrical Safety: Your questions answered

Some of the questions asked during the presentation from Shon Isenhour, principal at Eruditio, LLC, were unable to be answered during the Webcast, and Isenhour responds to those questions below.

Failure curves and P-F intervals linked and explained

Tying the two most important reliability engineering curves together to generate a better picture of failure.

Learning through application for ROI

Focus on training for a documented return on investment, rather than "training for training’s sake."

Paying for the sins of the past: Your improvement initiative is not magical

If you are implementing any improvement strategies at your site, make sure that as part of your communication plan you let people know of the success that you expect, of course, as well as the sins of the past that will still need to be worked through.

Reliability confessions

10 reliability confessions of not quite the best practice.

Starting 2016 on a course to profitability

Eight "P" processes that produce progress.

5 Ways to Improve Your Plant’s Training Strategy: Your questions answered

Webcast presenter Shon Isenhour answers more viewer questions on new training and devices as well as the best approaches for training and other best practices to consider.

Five hats for reliability engineers

As a reliability engineer, there are several different functions that come with the job. This article will point out the five different hats that a reliability engineer will wear and the one that they should avoid.

Six questions about your reliability vision that you need to answer

To drive effective change in your organization, deliver focus leadership.

Five ideas that can drive success with reliability centered maintenance and equipment maintenance plans

See these five suggestions to make sure that your reliability centered maintenance and equipment maintenance plans are successful.

Benchmarking and assessments: 8 questions that will improve your studies and results

Here are eight points to consider when assessing your performance and benchmarking with others.

Four “-isms” that might be killing your reliability

There are four "-isms" that may be running around in your plant and limiting your ability to improve up-time, quality and reliability. The first step is to recognize that they exist and then we can determine a plan to mitigate or eliminate it.

Facts and statistics on growth, skills, reliability, and manufacturing

Data to help communicate the need for both education and retention of talent in your facility.

The 10 traits of high maintenance manufacturing organizations

Seeing the Forbes article on The (Unlucky) 13 Traits of High Maintenance People made me think. What are the traits of a high maintenance manufacturing organization or facilities? Let’s look at 10 of the 13 categories from the article but in the context of manufacturing and reliability.

“Ps” for profitable plant reliability improvement efforts

I have listed nine things that I would focus on and they all start with P for ease of remembering.

Education without application is just entertainment: 3 things that can help create a return on education

Here are three ways to help your organization create a return on your educational expenses.

Two things engineers consistently get wrong

There are two concepts that consistently show up as weak areas with engineers in manufacturing environments. The first is true in-depth "root causes" problem solving and the second is relying on technical solutions rather than culture change to solve problems.

Four mitigation strategies for solving your plant’s reliability problems

How to recognize employee behaviors that can negatively impact a plant's reliability and/or product quality and do something about it.