Procedures for machines should live on the machine.

Procedure
Every procedure your team builds should live at the machine — not in a folder. Every reliability engagement produces documents.Optimized ...

Fixing it, First Time Right.

fix
If you’re fixing the same failure twice, you never fixed it the first time. There’s a failure mode more expensive ...

The workshop builds the strategy. SquareMethods makes it stick.

Your PM program is probably not optimized.That’s not an insult. It’s a structural reality.Most PM programs were built by copying ...

You cannot optimize maintenance for a failure mode you don’t understand mechanically.

Ask a technician what causes a bearing to fail.Most will say: “It just wore out.”Ask them what the operating temperature ...

Most plants don’t have a machine problem.They have a knowledge problem.

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 ...