SquareMethods, built from data.
I didn’t build SquareMethods from a theory. I built it from the data. Before I built SquareMethods, I spent years ...
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Close Reliability Loop with SquareMethods
SquareMethods: Know it. Optimize it. Analyse it. Execute it. Deploy it at the machine. Most reliability interventions fix one thing. ...
Procedures for machines should live on the machine.
Every procedure your team builds should live at the machine — not in a folder. Every reliability engagement produces documents.Optimized ...
Great strategy. Poor execution. Expensive failure
A great maintenance strategy executed poorly is just an expensive failure with extra steps I’ve seen plants with excellent PM ...
Fixing it, First Time Right.
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 ...
What does innovation mean to you?
We often think innovation means building something from scratch. But in reality, many problems already have solutions. They’re just not ...
The First Biography of Dr Christian Okonta
Getting to Know Dr Christian Okonta. Professional Overview Dr Christian Okonta is a distinguished industrial engineer, technology entrepreneur, and innovation ...