Asset Reliability @Work | Sharing insights and best practices for improving asset performance and reliability

Roger Corley, a Materials Management SME, brings 30 years of experience in Maintenance Planning and Scheduling and Materials Management to discuss how organizations are benefiting from investing in corrective maintenance instead of deferring maintenance until a shutdown period.

Discussion highlights include:

• Explaining how day-to-day planning differs from turnaround planning
• Understanding why facilities do a poor job planning routine corrective jobs
• Realizing the greatest payback is through daily routine planning
• Discussing ROI for hiring a dedicated turnaround coordinator

Additional Resources:

• Is Your Shutdown Planning Hurting Your Routine Corrective Planning? (article version)
• Roger Corley on LinkedIn

Senior Reliability Engineer, Mike Smith, explains the concept of an asset management plan, the main goal for developing an asset management plan, and highlights what he believes are the four stumbling blocks to an effective asset management plan.

Discussion highlights include:

• Defining an asset management plan
• Explaining the purpose of the plan
• Four stumbling blocks preventing an effective asset management plan

Additional Resources:

• The 5 Biggest Risks to Asset Management (SlideShare)
• Life Cycle Asset Management (whitepaper)
• Developing Asset Management Plans (article)
• Mike Smith on LinkedIn

Wally Wilson, Senior SME in Materials Management, joins the Asset Reliability @Work podcast to highlight the safety concerns and added cost of using counterfeit parts in your maintenance activities and how to reduce the risk of receiving counterfeit parts.

Discussion highlights include:

• Discussing the growing problem of receiving and using counterfeit parts
• Understanding how counterfeit parts affect equipment performance and the associated cost of maintaining those parts
• Identifying a counterfeit part
• Reducing the risk of purchasing counterfeit parts

Additional Resources:

• PoweredByRx Resource Portal
• Wally Wilson on LinkedIn

Bill Barto, a Senior Reliability Engineer, joins the podcast to convey the importance of gaining recognition for the reliability activities you perform within your facility, and he’ll do this by explaining how you can accomplish this using four simple approaches.

Discussion highlights include:

• Understanding why it's important to have your reliability activities noticed
• Reviewing survey results from 92 Reliability Engineers
• Explaining the four simple approaches of garnering more respect for your reliability improvements

Additional Resources:

• Help Your Reliability Activities Earn the Respect They Deserve
• Bill Barto on LinkedIn

Paul Borders makes his third appearance on the podcast to explain the purpose of a team charter and how manufacturing organizations use this tool during a reliability improvement initiative.

Discussion highlights include:

• Components of a team charter
• Understanding how team charters improve reliability
• Downside of operating without a team charter in place
• Governing multiple chartered projects

Additional Resources:

• Team Charters: What are they and what's their purpose?
• Paul Borders on LinkedIn

Robert Bendetti, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, explains how best to approach your financial officer when you want to take your "great idea" and turn it into a complete initiative within your organization.

Discussion highlights include:

• 5 actionable approaches to take before meeting with your FO
• Justification mistakes to avoid
• Success stories you'll want to mirror

Additional Resources:

• Budgeting for Maintenance: A Behavior-based Approach
• Robert Bendetti on LinkedIn

Learning and Performance Improvement SME, Tara Holwegner, joins the podcast to explain how education and training enable manufacturing facilities to achieve success during a reliability transformation.

Discussion highlights include:

• Defining the concept of a reliability transformation
• Explaining the role of education and training during a change event
• Talking through the "High Impact Learning" process
• Discussing how training can be customized

Additional Resources:

• Achieving Reliability Excellence through Customized Training: Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Journey (success story)
• High Impact Learning (web page)
• Rooted In Reliability (podcast)

Keith Mobley is the content creator behind the popular eNewsletter series "Reflections on Excellence" and he joins the podcast to talk about his self-named laws that are the focal point of each monthly newsletter. With over 51 years of professional experience, Keith shares a few of his observations from a career devoted to continuous improvement in manufacturing.

Discussion highlights include:

• Law #2: There Are No Silver Bullets
• Law #49: Physical Assets Mean Nothing without Empowered Employees
• "If you change nothing, nothing changes."

Additional Resources:

• Reflections on Excellence (eNewsletter)
• R. Keith Mobley's Introduction to Reflections on Excellence

Randy Heisler makes his second appearance on the show to discuss why organizations find themselves in a reactive state of maintenance and the struggle many plants face as the workforce begins to transition to the next generation of labor.

Discussion highlights include:

• Identifying processes to eliminate reactive maintenance cultures
• Managing the loss of tribal knowledge from one generation to the next
• Utilizing change management for a smooth transition

Additional Resources:

• Combining Technology, Processes, and Change Management to Address the Aging Workforce (slideshare)

The Asset Reliability @Work podcast took the show on the road to Jacksonville, FL where we attended the 2016 SMRP conference. In this short episode, we spoke with the closing keynote speaker, Robert DiStefano, to talk with him about his keynote presentation, what the future holds for maintenance and reliabiltiy, and his overall experience at this year's conference.

Additional Resources:

• Robert DiStefano on LinkedIn