Up Time Magazine- February/March 2008

effective prioritization process had been established for the Garrison facilities. excuses just don’t make sense. Below are some excuses I have heard, and perhaps your organization uses them as well. No time for Preventive Maintenance – High frequencies of emergency repair seem to take your available labor time away from preventive maintenance. To get out of that spiral, you must identify high priority assets first, and restore them to a manageable maintenance routine. Next, apply PM Procedures on a disciplined schedule. You will never overcome emergency maintenance burdens until you get preventive maintenance under control. Emergency repair frequencies keep going up for no known reason – When you have so many problems that you can’t get a handle on them, you must step back and develop a good plan to get them under control. The first step is to track all failures by using a metric called Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). This metric allows you to focus on the asset which is failing the most. You derive the metric by dividing units of time by the number of Leadership Potential problems must come to leaders’ attention, as a key to success in any organization. This did not happen in the Building 18 event. Leaders need to have a clear view of how their organizations conduct maintenance. If the Captain of the Titanic had seen the iceberg in time, he could have steered around it to avoid disaster. Instead, he didn’t know, because he couldn’t see it. Leaders need to know if the maintenance process in place actually controls how the facilities are maintained. Therefore, leading metrics, such as PM Compliance, Schedule Compliance, Mean Time Between Failure, etc. should be captured, recorded and trended. Leading metrics help you identify your “bad actors.” These are your worst performing Figure 4 - Major Steam Leak in Basement Area of Garrison Facility (courtesy of US Army) assets, facilities or equipment, as shown in your periodic and spot assessments. Identifying your “bad actors” allows resources to be allocated to the right asset at the right time. Common Sense Many times excuses for maintenance failures can be the reason the failures don’t get repaired properly. And many times these 12 february/march 2008 http://www.ilearninteractive.com http://www.ilearninteractive.com/simulators.html http://www.ilearninteractive.com

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Up Time Magazine- February/March 2008 Contents Upfront Upclose: Lessons Learned from the Walter Reed Story Information Technology: Parenting and Asset Performance Infrared: It's Alive! Lubrication: A Sense of Change Maintenance Management: PdM, Standardized Motor Testing: Being Well Connected Precision Maintenance: How to be Marketable Reliability: The Voyage of Wells Dairy Ultrasound: Two is Better Than One Vibration: Diagnosing a Cracked Shaft Upgrade: A Different Kind of Journey

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