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THE RELIABILITY SECRETS OF NORTH AMERICA’S MOST
PROFITABLE STEEL MANUFACTURER: A CASE STUDY OF
DOFASCO INC.
All North American
steel manufacturers face the same challenges: foreign
competition, rising costs and falling prices. Dofasco
responds to the challenges better than anyone; they are
North America’s most profitable steel company.
How does Dofasco
do it? Can you become your industry’s most profitable
firm by applying Dofasco’s reliability secrets?
More...Click
here to read THE RELIABILITY SECRETS OF NORTH AMERICA’S
MOST PROFITABLE STEEL MANUFACTURER (569k pdf)
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Moving from a Repair-Focused to a Reliability-Focused
Culture
By
Sandy Dunn,
Director, Assetivity
Pty Ltd
Summary:
This paper will discuss the
five key elements required to successfully transition
from a traditional, repair-focused organizational
culture, to a proactive, reliability-focused culture,
and reap the rewards of increased performance of both
equipment and people.
• Ensuring a Long-Term
Strategic Focus
• Aligning Reward Systems with Strategic Goals
• Better Integration between Production and Maintenance
• Creating Opportunities for Teamwork and Organizational
Learning
•
Strong, Committed
Leadership
Based on our experience,
most culture change initiatives will fail without all of
these elements being present.
Introduction:
Most maintenance organizations are looking to move
their culture from a repair-focused culture to a
reliability-focused organization – but what are the
characteristics of each of these types of culture?
More...Click
here to read Moving from a Repair-focused to a
Reliability-focused Culture (105k .pdf)
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Managing Availability for Improved Bottom-Line Results
by Bill Ketter, CMRP
During the past five to eight
years, the role of maintenance manager has evolved from
merely keeping equipment running to that of physical
asset manager. The goal of the physical asset manager is
to maximize profits by managing physical assets in a way
that provides the optimum level of physical
availability. This paper provides a framework for
managing availability goals to help meet the financial
goals of an organization.
More...Click here to read Managing Availability for
Improved Bottom-Line Results (281k pdf)
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Reliability Improvement For The New Millennium
By Chris Traianou, Senior Reliability Planner
Western Australia’s Water Corporation
Within many large scale plant based industries,
maintenance costs can account for as much as 40% of an
operational budget. The maintenance effort is therefore
easily identified at a corporate level as a source of
savings. Costs in maintenance can be cut in either a
beneficial, or a detrimental manner. The best business
outcome would be to both reduce costs and optimise
current maintenance effort to increase reliability. It
is in this environment that Western Australia’s Water
Corporation (covering the vast State of Western
Australia), has embarked on a project-based reliability
improvement initiative.
More...Click here to read
Reliability Improvement
For The New Millennium (100k pdf)
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The Errors in Availability
By Daryl Mather
Availability is a good measure of effectiveness. However
it is not the only measure and is not a very good
indication when taken in isolation. Although there are
various forms of measuring effectiveness, a combination
of both availability and MTBF will provide a more
accurate form of measurement.
A further, and even more
accurate measure is that of Mean Time Between Fault (as
opposed to failure). Basically measuring the average
time between required maintenance interventions of the
equipment.
More...Click here to
read
The Errors in Availability (32k
pdf)
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