Two weeks into a new job a decade ago, I was given the results of a third-party audit. Handed to me by the lead auditor in a nicely...

OEE, overall equipment effectiveness, remains one of my favorite key performance indicators and is commonly used throughout manufacturing...

What is your approach to solving a puzzle? I assume it starts with flipping over each cardboard-brown piece to make the patterns face up....

Mastering a presentation takes time. Intensively interrogating each slide to enhance the message of the slide deck can take months and...

Think about a recent morning meeting that you have been part of. I will assume that most of us start with safety at the forefront of this...

Generally, there are three steps for an organization to be effective at problem-solving, but many groups may implement just two. The...

Have you stopped and read ISO 55000, particularly ISO 55002 7.5.3.g? Here is what it says: The alignment of information requirements for...

I saw a commercial the other day for this “all in one” entertainment station, where you plug it into a television’s HDMI port, and now...

I am in a blogging rut. I am not finishing the blogs that I have started. I am struggling to thoroughly finish getting thoughts written...

Let's take a moment to interrogate a time-series plot in your next monthly review, shared PowerPoint slide deck, or performance boards...

My mother, sister, and I were conversing recently through Facetime while sipping on our coffee-flavored coffee of choice. And as mothers...

Take a moment and Google search PF Curves . You will find images of a positive Y-intercept curve with a negative slope that becomes more...

What does doing more with less mean to you? If measured with a rigid denominator within a rate, we simply would answer that we must...

I want you to imagine a collection of spare parts for a manufacturing facility. In this facility, spare parts have been traditionally...

I have been rethinking what an asset is in a variety of contexts. Historically, I have rigidly treated the definition of an asset as...

With the end of the year coming, there are a variety of staples that seem to exist year after year in the manufacturing world. We...

A quote I remember a mentor of mine said years ago was, if you find yourself bored, just wait 5 more minutes, something will blow up. Of...

You may have interpreted through organization surveys or transformational change exercises on the subject of safety, that the...

Recently I have been researching for examples of problem-solving that have gone wrong. I wanted to understand specific examples, some of...

Many simulation tools and references exist to find the bottleneck within the production process to find ways to increase capacity and...