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Voices: Human Capital
Four steps to jump start a reliability program
Written By Tom Moriarty Plant managers and maintenance managers understand the prospects for substantial benefits from implementing a reliability-based program in their plant. Benefits include increased safety and regulatory compliance as well as increased production...
What does your crystal ball tell you?
Written By Tom Morarity The U.S. economy is like an overloaded, underpowered airplane bouncing down the runway. As it picks up speed it bounces a little, gets up in the air, then it comes down, bouncing again before catching more air. Eventually, as the throttle is...
Organizational alignment and asset reliability
Written By Tom Morarity Asset reliability is initially determined by the quality of design, procurement, installation and commissioning of physical assets. Upon commissioning, asset reli- ability becomes dependent on management focus and execution. If you believe in...
Where is biggest benefit: In-house or outsourced maintenance?
Written By Tom Morarity Either in-house or outsourced maintenance may deliver benefits, but control and stability of work management processes is the key to best value. If your organization views the maintenance function as an overhead cost, then the decision to...
Interview With Tom Moriarty
Tom Moriarty, president of Alidade MER Inc., is a natural problem solver. After retiring from the U.S. Coast Guard, he began maintenance and reliability engineering consulting. In the transition he identified organizational performance in operations and maintenance as...
Getting control of preventive, predictive maintenance tasks
Written By Tom Moriarty Many organizations have preventive maintenance (PM) and predictive maintenance (PdM) programs that are not getting it done. They’re paying too much for what they put into their PM and PdM programs. New plants or new systems always have...
Increase production capacity without adding equipment, people
Written By Tom Morarity Stockholders and corporate boards want their management teams to get every last bit of productivity and capacity from resources currently available. With regard to the maintenance function, the average plant can improve labor effectiveness by...
Voices: Human Capital
Human Capital is a monthly column for plant managers, department managers, supervisors and aspiring leaders. This column provides a blend of leadership and organizational development concepts with practical applications and insight.