Below is an excerpt from ReliabilityWeb.com's E-Book: Things to Think About and Do in 2012.
“One word and only one word holds the key to maintenance
success—reliability.” John S. Mitchell
Improved reliability, locating and eliminating the cause of
failures is the only way to move from a reactive to an effective, proactive
organization safely meeting every mission requirement. Initiating and or
improving planning and scheduling won’t do it for you.
Neither will implementing preventive or condition based
maintenance. The latter will, however, provide some of the awareness and
information necessary to move into a reliability based work culture.
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a terrific albeit expensive exercise;
however, it won’t do a thing toward improvements that really matter unless the
results are utilized to improve reliability.
Perhaps most important, only optimum reliability will
provide the assured availability and cost effective business results mandated
for assured success in today’s competitive manufacturing and production
industries.
So think reliability and not simply equipment reliability
but a definition expanded to include data, information and documentation, the
organization and decision processes and of course processes and practices.
Reliability is the what to do; how to do it can only be detailed in
conferences, a book or tow; far more than one word!
