Driving need: The imperative for power plant management to operate at optimum
levels of reliability and cost.
Core issues:
- How do best practice companies continuously focus on the bottom-line
reliability impacts of resource allocation decisions, as opposed to merely the
operational process/outcome impacts
- What processes are best for continually refining key performance indicators,
and what creative approaches have resulted in effective leading indicators of
reliability outcomes
- What organizational alignments and distributions of reliability management
responsibilities produce the best results
- What means are most potent for standardizing reliability management
processes and procedures across multiple locations
- How do best practice companies sustain continuous employee behavioral and
organizational cultural change aimed at maximizing plant reliability performance
- How are senior executives kept intimately engaged in leading the pursuit of
reliability excellence
- How do best practice companies acquire/develop requisite reliability
management skill sets
- What are the most effective means and modes for identifying, evaluating and
implementing new reliability enhancing technology
- How do best practice companies effectively collect, analyze and convert
equipment performance data into actionable reliability management
decision-making information
- How are plant-floor employees continually educated and enabled to deploy
root-cause and equipment performance analysis tools
- What processes and means have best practice companies found most effective
in constantly focusing employees on reliability improvement opportunities
- What reliability-inclusive reward and incentive plans provide the greatest
continuing motivation for the workforce
- What are the best means for continuously holding employees accountable for
reliability performance results
- What processes and systems have best practice companies implemented for
capturing the best reliability/maintenance knowledge of older workers?
Best-practices companies: Alcoa, Ash Grove Cement, Cargill, Dofasco, Eastman
Chemical, International Paper, J.M. Smucker, Timken Steel, Valero Energy,
Whirlpool
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