Sunday, July 23, 2006

Finding the Right Balance

Developing a complete maintenance strategy is all about identifying the correct balance of the five types of maintenance. Your maintenance strategy must include the proper balance of the following types of maintenance:

1. PdM (Predictive Maintenance)
2. Preventive Maintenance (Scheduled Rework, Scheduled Rebuild, and Scheduled Inspection)
3. Failure Finding Tasks ( Put in Place to Identify Failures of Hidden Function Components)
4. Consequence Reduction Tasks (Put in Place to Reduce MTTR for Run to Failure Decisions)
5. Pro-Active Maintenance Techniques

The only way to ensure you have the correct balance of tasks is to complete a RCM Blitz analysis on your critical assets. RCM Blitz was developed with manufacturing reliability in mind and our RCM Training program includes modules on how to identify critical assets, how to select assets for RCM that will provide a return on your investment, and how to measure the success of your efforts to prove the value of your efforts.

Reliability Solutions, Inc. is the only place to get RCM Training, and RCM Blitz. RCM Blitz is the only RCM methodology that consistently delivers results!

Saturday, July 08, 2006

How to Maximize the Benefits of RCM Facilitator Training

While Reliability Solutions, Inc. offers only one RCM Facilitator Training course, several other companies offer several different versions of RCM Training. If your company is thinking about starting a Reliability Centered Maintenance effort you should take some time and does some research to ensure your company gets the best RCM Training and Facilitator Certification at a competitive cost. This training should be viewed as an investment with the expectations that your company will receive a return on that investment within six months to two years of the training.

Consulting companies who care about your company and your RCM effort will work with you to develop a plan for the selection of your facilitators, the RCM training and facilitator mentoring. The Reliability Solutions, Inc. RCM Blitz Facilitator training course is a one week event that is held on site at your plant, the course includes the RCM Blitz Database, Training Manual as well as the RCM Blitz Participant Training module and presentation for future analysis participants. Once the RCM Training has been completed, your first group of facilitators will be given one week to prepare for their first RCM Blitz analysis. Following that week they will begin their first mentored RCM analysis by presenting the RCM Blitz Participant training to their new RCM team and immediately following that training they will begin their first RCM analysis.

While some RCM Training providers are happy to provide RCM Facilitator Training without mentoring, at Reliability Solutions, Inc, we understand the benefits that go along with RCM training and mentoring. As RCM Facilitator Mentors, our people will work closely with your facilitators at times they will be leading the analysis to demonstrate proper techniques to ensure to ensure your facilitator understand and follow the RCM Blitz process. For each RCM analysis your facilitators will be ranked against our certification criteria and given feedback on areas they have excelled and areas they need improvement. For areas needing improvement the facilitators will be provided with feed back on how to improve that skill.

RCM Blitz Facilitator Certification - It's no secret that RCM Blitz has quickly grown over the last seven years to be one of the major competitors in RCM Training and Facilitation. At Reliability Solutions, Inc. we know what it takes to build a successful RCM effort. Leadership, Structure and Discipline. All of our trainers and mentors have worked for and lead successful Reliability efforts for companies who are leaders in manufacturing reliability. As a result we have developed the RCM Facilitator Certification process, this process combined with RCM training and mentoring develops successful RCM facilitators who know what it takes to lead a world class RCM effort!
If you’re interested in RCM Training please feel free to contact us by phone at 585-349-7245 by web at http://www.reliabilitysolution.com/ , or e-mail me directly at doug.plucknette@reliabilitysolution.com