I would like to start a different thread on how to initiate an improvement reliability and change the culture along the way.

Much information had been written on how reliability should be performed and the strategies needed to accomplish them, but most of the time we miss one factor and that is the human aspect.

My question, how is maintenance people being treated in our plant ? Are they treated as maintenance themselves or mechanics ?

Let us not treat our people as mechanics but as maintenance. A Maintenance will use more of his mind than his hands while a mechanic will use more of his hands than his brain in addressing equipment failures,

If you can inculcate this mentality to your maintenance craftspeople, then you can move mountains. Improving reliaibility has something to do in how each and every maintenance people feel about how he or she is treated in the first place. If we can provide the proper respect and integrity for the maintenance and not treat them as repair people then expect your people to improve reliability.

My Warm Regards,

Rolly Angeles
Teacher

Thanks for your words of wisdom. I think you could be onto something there Rolly. Changing culture is a very demanding topic its easy to talk about but really hard to change. Continual Improvement teams come and go and in the end we tend to reinvent the wheel.I often go through the company folders and find that what was a problem five years ago is often still occuring now. Continual improvement must be Continuous or it all comes back to haunt you. Slow gradual changes nothing extreme or it wont work.
Cheers

Dusted

Hello Dusted,

If these words I spoke are Words of Wisdom, so let it be . . . by Paul Mc Cartney (Great old song)

Anyway, I totally agree it is a very slow process, I guess the best way to start is through education.

My Warm Regards,


Rolly Angeles
Teacher