I’ve spent years studying why manufacturing plants lose production time.
The data keeps pointing to the same place.
It’s not the machine.
It’s the method. It’s the man. It’s the missing procedure at 2am when your most experienced technician is on leave and someone who’s been on the floor for 6 months is staring at a failing asset with no guidance.
My PhD research confirmed what plant managers already feel in their gut — the majority of production downtime traces to man and method, not machine failure.
The machine gets blamed.
The real problem never gets fixed.
And the same failure happens again next month.
This is why I built SquareMethods.
And why I designed a reliability curriculum that addresses the problem at every level — from foundational equipment knowledge to optimized PM strategies, root cause analysis, and maintenance planning.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be walking through each layer.
Because if your plant is still reactive, it’s not because your team isn’t trying.
It’s because the system isn’t set up to help them succeed.
That changes.
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