Mildew on roses makes no wine.
I try to make time daily to walk up and down production lines. I learned early on to use all of my senses during these walks to indicate...
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- May 14
- 4 min
Your outage's duration shouldn't be divisible by eight all of the time.
Could you walk into a manufacturing facility and get an accurate read on the maturity to plan and execute planned outages with a single...
- May 7
- 3 min
Follow-up investigations with binary classifications
Generally, there are three steps for an organization to be effective at problem-solving, but many groups may implement just two. The...
- Apr 16
- 6 min
Which asset management metrics should you start with?
You just left college life and joined your first maintenance and reliability team. With eyes as wide as saucers on day one, you quickly...
- Apr 9
- 5 min
What is compliance when doing PMs?
Too frequently, I have seen departments measure the effectiveness of their asset management by pontificating their PM Compliance....
- Jan 1
- 4 min
Complacency after commissioning shut this production unit down.
I have not been writing for about two weeks. What has been a mission over the last year to create a personal therapeutic habit has...
- Dec 26, 2022
- 5 min
Where is it? I don't see it.
I have been rethinking what an asset is in a variety of contexts. Historically, I have rigidly treated the definition of an asset as...
- Oct 2, 2022
- 4 min
Stop gerrymandering the asset hierarchy
Malcolm Gladwell in Season 3, Episode 7 of Revisionist History, talked about his 12 Rules For Life. I was so moved by this podcast, that...
- Sep 4, 2022
- 4 min
Layers of protection, and still mismatch errors.
A statistic I came across the other day indicates that 6.3 billion prescriptions were dispensed in the United States in 2020. Combine...
- Apr 16, 2022
- 4 min
Tina Fey could be your consultant for your feasibility analysis.
Tina Fey has been referenced as using an activity that gets you in the mindset of creativity and invigorated imagination for improv. It...
- Apr 9, 2022
- 4 min
If the data says shoot right, then shoot right.
Using numbers and estimates to predict outcomes can either be a hobby or a profession. This data is the fingerprint of what has happened,...
- Feb 1, 2022
- 4 min
Rethink our view towards single-points-of-failure.
The new James Webb Space Telescope claims to have 344 single-points-of-failure (SPOF) or single components that could disrupt the...
- Jan 13, 2022
- 2 min
You know Murphy? So do I.
In manufacturing, we reference things like “Murphy will get you” or “Murphy’s Law” when describing unpredictable results and scenarios...
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