Things to Think About and Do in 2012: Reliability

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!