Reliability – Beyond the Power of the Workforce Terrence O'Hanlon, CMRP Publisher, Uptime Magazine and Reliability Magazine

For the past 30 years, the strategies and techniques for effective maintenance through reliability focused efforts are well documented and described in technical literature, books and industrial trade publications. Still a majority of the world’s organizations suffer from a lack of reliability, wasted maintenance effort and higher cost than should be expected.

Metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are touted as the roadmap to improved maintenance performance. Software like Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), techniques like Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) and strategies such as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) do not in themselves cause any improvement and in fact – fail to produce any positive result in the vast majority of cases.

How do some companies manage to move toward improved reliability, lower cost and more effective maintenance and happier employees?

W. Edwards Deming is best known as a quality guru however he often referred to reliability in many of his works including the 14 Points, Deming’s 14 key principles for management for transforming business effectiveness.

Join Terrence O’Hanlon, Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional, for an informative look at the fundamental requirements for Reliability based on the works of a past master.

Bio: Terrence O'Hanlon, CMRP is the Publisher of Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine. He is also actively involved with benchmarking various maintenance and reliability programs worldwide. He is a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional and is the Director of Strategic Alliances for the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP). Mr. O’Hanlon is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, The Association of Facilities Engineers and the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers.