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FINAL THOUGHT
What's Your R&M True North?
M
Dr. Klaus M. Blache
Univ. of Tennessee
(UTK)
Reliability &
Maintainability
Center
companies closer to business excellence, i.e., what we
should do, not what we can do. "Zero downtime" is
but one example of a True North R&M metric.
What is a single R&M item that everyone and
everything at your site can align behind and support?
Once that's established, you can develop an R&M
roadmap to guide your organization through the
activities that will move it from where it is today, to
where it wants to be.
While arriving at True North (using geographical
lines on a map running toward the North pole) is
different than arriving at magnetic-north (using a
compass) or astronomical north (using stars), it's still
easy to become confused, disoriented, or misguided
when you're out in the field. The same applies to the
areas of reliability and maintainability.
You want your facility to be more efficient and
effective in bottom-line results. So here comes
reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), root-cause
analysis (RCA), failure modes and effects analysis
(FMEA), Weibull analysis, and predictive technologies with smart systems that learn. Lean isn't fully
implemented, you're using less than half your CMMS
(computerized maintenance management system)
functionality, and you're still working on getting
more benefits from the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) program that you started 10 years ago.
Most plants have some quality certification and
may be pursuing LEED (Leadership in Energy &
Environmental Design) certification. But then comes
the ISO 55000 asset-management standard. How
does that fit into your plans?
Someone in your organization needs to be the
gatekeeper of new initiatives, especially those that cross departmental
boundaries. Just as a magnetic
EDITOR'S NOTE:
compass isn't useful in the arctic
Learn more about finding
region, i.e., closer to the action R&M
your True North in Febimplementations will be comproruary at the 20th annual
mised by personal and departmental
Maintenance and Reliability
wants. You need to be able to look
Conference (MARCON)
less at the tools and technologies and
2016, in Knoxville, TN. For
more at work concepts and leaderdetails, see marcon.utk.edu/
ship to find your True North. MT
y leadership presentation starts with a
slide that states, "If you don't know where
you are going, you may get where you
are headed." That's because I continue
to see a cafeteria-style approach to reliability and
maintainability (R&M), i.e., just choosing a few
things to implement. Organizations that make the
most progress have a clearly defined R&M strategy
and vision. This includes being properly aligned
up and down the organization, with clear roles and
responsibilities for each department and level.
Many readers have heard the words, "find your
True North." Used in the lean-production arena for
about 20 years, they reflect a concept from the Toyota
Production System and practices of continuous
improvement. (While those teachings are consistent
with what is now referred to as "True North," I
never heard the term used around NUMMI-the
Toyota-General Motors joint manufacturing venture
[1984 to 2010], in Fremont, CA.) The concept is
equally important for R&M, because it affects almost
everything in your organization, including safety,
productivity/uptime, quality, inventory, and cost.
True North is an idiom that, according to
merriam-webster.com, is an expression that cannot
be understood from the meanings of its separate
words, but has a separate meaning of its own. It
translates as a concept, a belief, and a vision.
In the case of R&M, what we do as groups and
individuals to be successful will vary. Collectively,
however, True North is the ideal state that defines
continual improvement toward the greater good. It's
the hundreds and thousands of small steps that move
agenda/event-schedule/.
Based in Knoxville, Klaus M. Blache
is director of the Reliability & Maintainability Center at the Univ. of Tennessee (UTK),
and a research professor in the College of Engineering. Contact him directly at kblache@utk.edu.
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