Every procedure your team builds should live at the machine — not in a folder. Every reliability engagement produces documents.Optimized PM procedures. RCA findings. Equipment working principle guides. Planning templates.
If you’re fixing the same failure twice, you never fixed it the first time. There’s a failure mode more expensive than any breakdown. It’s the breakdown that keeps coming back.
Your PM program is probably not optimized.That’s not an insult. It’s a structural reality.Most PM programs were built by copying OEM recommendations, inheriting tasks from a previous planner, or reacting
Ask a technician what causes a bearing to fail.Most will say: “It just wore out.”Ask them what the operating temperature should be. What the vibration signature looks like before failure.
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