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Maintenance has always seemed simple to be a simple process to me, understand what you want your system to do, determine the ways it can fail, and develop a series of tasks to mitigate the effects of each failure. Develop a plan and do it. Some like to believe it's common sense and others, well they have a difficult time getting their arms around the concept of a sound maintenance strategy.

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Anyone who reads newspapers or magazines, or watches even a small amount of TV is aware of the movement to be Green. Nearly every company in the world wants to be seen as Green, we all want to produce more and use less energy.Those of us in the world of manufacturing reliability have been Green all along; some of us have recognized that for years, we just have never waved the flag as providers of

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The job of a RCM Facilitator is one that takes a substantial amount of patience and discipline. The structure of the RCM process requires discipline, if you want good results you must have the discipline to stick to the process leading your team through each step and pulling them back when human nature encourages them to jump from step 3 to step 7. Reminding the team each time they take a new

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Reliability Centered Maintenance - It's a seven step process so it should be very simple, just follow the seven steps, do a little RCM Blitz and the next thing you know the reliability of your equipment, people and business will improve over night.I wish were that simple. Seems like every time I hold a RCM Facilitator Training event I have someone in class that believes that he/she can run

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Reliability Centered Maintenance, there are almost as many methodologies as there are letters in the alphabet. I have always thought RCM Blitz was the best choice when it came to RCM, fast, efficient and effective. A process that is both thorough and easy to use. The problem has been for the past eight years how do you deliver this message as a one man show?Well, today I'm pleased to announce

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I don't know about you, but I always like a good training course. A dynamic instructor, well thought out and well laid out training materials, solid real life training examples and interactive class examples. Combine all of these things and your now attending a course where you can really learn how to apply a structured process and improve your business. When I started Reliability Solutions,

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My goodness there is a number of different RCM methodologies in the marketplace today. Most claim to do something more in less time for less money. Some claim to a lot less RCM for less time and less money. There is even one process that claims RCM means resource consuming monster! At Reliability Solutions, Inc., the only thing we have ever claimed is RCM Blitz was designed in a way that

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Reliability Training, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, a successful manufacturing equipment reliability effort managed by leaders, these are all things companies hope for as they begin to learn about manufacturing reliability efforts and form organizations to support the effort.If you don’t think companies are beginning to understand what reliability can deliver to a

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Still recovering from RCM2007 in Honolulu, Hawaii. What a location! The hotel was beautiful the beach was hot and sunny; Hawaii is a beautiful location, unless of course you’re having a maintenance conference. Attendance was low this year, about one third the number who came to RCM2006 in Vegas. Once again the people from reliabilityweb did an outstanding job at planning the event and it came

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Well friends it's that time of year again. Each year I promise to hold a couple of RCM Blitz public training events and each year I say that we should be doing more of these. If you are interested in Reliability Centered Maintenance and RCM Facilitator Training just click on any of the highlighted links and they should direct you to our registration page.Once again we will be holding the event

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Very few people can read a book and become a RCM Facilitator. I have met several who have tried, none who have actually pulled it off. I'm not saying it's impossible, there may in fact be a few bright and talented people who have the knack for leading groups and the discipline to pull it off.At Reliability Solutions, Inc. our RCM Facilitator Training course combines lecture and classroom

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People involved in maintenance tend to be gadget people. We like new things, cell phones, i-Pods, and computers. We also like to play with new software often believing that some new maintenance software package somehow make the leap of actually performing the work instead of just storing and sorting data about it.People just getting started in RCM can have the same beliefs about a given RCM

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Getting the word out to companies around the world on the benefits of RCM Blitz is challenge we face each year. As a small company we often have to rely on trade magazines and the World Wide Web to help attract people to our RCM Facilitator Training events. Our best forum for communicating the benefits of RCM comes each year at the Reliability Centered Maintenance managers forum scheduled and

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At Reliability Solutions, Inc. we work closely with our customers to ensure their people become certified as RCM facilitators by attending our RCM Facilitator training and mentoring. Trained and certified facilitators understand the RCM process and the importance of adhering to a methodology to ensure the success of each analysis.I recently visited with a customer who informed me that they had

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I spent almost an hour on the phone yesterday with a perspective client talking about RCM. They have tried to implement RCM twice in the past five years and both times the effort failed. They want to try again knowing that if they fail this time, they won't get the chance to try again. They made the decision that this time instead of just calling one of the big names in RCM they would do some

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My friends think I'm a nerd! I told them recently that I write a blog about my company Reliability Solutions, Inc. , my product RCM Blitz and about RCM Facilitator Training. This was the conversation one night at dinner with clients and fellow consultants at IMC2006. The conversation went something like this:Doug - Hey, I was wondering are any of you guys blogging about your business or

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Each year I attend about six conferences with hopes to accomplish two things; first is to present a RCM Blitz case study with one of our successful clients, the second is to meet some new potential clients and answer some pressing questions they might have about Reliability Centered Maintenance.In December I attended IMC2006 (International Maintenance Conference) in Daytona Beach, Florida.

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Some companies seem to have a tough time getting started in RCM. Some think about starting, they attend conferences, listen to presentations and then make a list of reasons why it won't work for them. Some get started, they set up training and may do one or two analyses and then fail for any number of reasons. Then their are other companies who attend the conferences, develop a plan for

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Just released in the October issue of Uptime magazine, in a listing of the top 10 Reliability Solutions providers, Reliability Solutions, Inc. ranks as number one for excellence in Maintenance and Reliability Services!The only place to get RCM Training, RCM Facilitator Training and the best RCM process in the world RCM Blitz is at Reliability Solutions, Inc.

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As we provide RCM Facilitator Training around the globe we are often asked about different RCM software providers. Which RCM software tool is the best? Easiest to use or most cost effective? Software seems to excite people, the more functionality the software has, the more people tend to like it or "need to have it".In reality, the software or RCM Database your company is using will have little

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While Implementation may be the graveyard to many RCM programs, it is also the key to having a successful initiative. At Reliability Solutions we work closely with our clients to ensure they understand the task at hand when it comes to implementing the tasks developed in their RCM Blitz analyses. The first thing you need to complete the implementation of your RCM analysis is a plan. Who will

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One of the most important features of a good RCM Training program is the module on RCM Implementation. The worlds most experienced RCM practitioners regardless the methodology will tell you the graveyard of most RCM efforts is implementation.At Reliability Solutions Inc. we have focused our RCM Training and Database to ensure our customers develop a complete implementation plan that prioritizes

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When it comes to RCM Training, at Reliability Solutions, Inc. we know the best RCM is not always the fastest!If there is one thing I know for certain it is this; the day man first learned to walk, he wanted to run. The drive to move faster and do things in less time will always be a part of mankind and who we are. Once we learn to make something we need to make it faster and as soon as we begin

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Anyone who even remotely involved in sports as a participant or a fan can relate the excitement of being number one. For me it has been a long, long time as both a participant (my football team in high school 1978) and fan (Raiders last Superbowl win 1985). Today however I find myself experiencing the same feelings as my company website has climbed to the number one position on several searches

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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

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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

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For some reason most companies don't recognize the need for manufacturing equipment reliability until they are overwhelmed with emergency and demand maintenance work. They struggle each day to meet production schedules and then begin to put off scheduled maintenance shutdowns in order to try and meet the production schedule. In attempting to meet the schedule they run harder, faster and longer

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Someone once told me that you know when you have made it in life when someone tries to copy you or something you invented. I guess I have officially made it. I'm also trying to feel good about the fact that someone has copied material that took me years to develop, and decided to offer it up to companies around the globe without consulting me first.I guess I should feel honored! For some

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Drive, determination and discipline. Three traits one must have to successfully implement RCM at their plant site. One of the most difficult things to understand and accept is the fact that you are not going to start a RCM effort and see results over night. While RCM Blitz is fast, efficient and effective it can not be turned on and off like a light switch.RCM takes time, and because of this

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I have had the pleasure over the seven several years to work with clients in both the Mining and Oil and Gas industries. In these same seven years in the United States we have seen the price of gold jump from $279.00 USD an ounce in 1999 to above $700.00 an ounce last week, and the price of crude oil has gone from $20.00 USD barrel to above $70.00 per barrel in 2006.It's no longer a secret that

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In almost every RCM analysis I facilitate there comes a moment in time when you see someone on the team come to realization that this RCM process is going to make a difference. The best part about facilitating the process is you get to be a witness to that moment several times a week. Once each person makes that realization you can feel their excitement in the room, and as a facilitator you

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Hello!A few times each year I try to set aside some time to plan public training events for Reliability Solutions, Inc. course offerings. You would think after almost seven years in business I would have this process down to a science. Not even close!There are several dilemas. Where should we hold the courses? What Hotels seem to do the best job at holding these events? How many rooms should we

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Reliability Centered Maintenance is reliability tool that is gaining in recognition and use in the world of manufacturing maintenance. In the past ten years the tool has grown from being a one or two presentation subject at maintenance conferences to having a tool that now has a world-wide conference that is just about Reliability Centered Maintenance. RCM2007 sponsored by ReliabilityWeb in

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Every Reliability Centered Maintenance methodology uses some type of decision logic to help lead the RCM team to a sound maintenance task that will mitigate the specific failure mode the team is working on. In most methodologies the decision logic ends with the statement "No Scheduled Maintenance". In reality "No Scheduled Maintenance means "Run to Failure" for this is a failure mode that can not

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Measure twice, cut once. This is what the sign read in our Apprentice Training shop at Eastman Kodak. Anyone who has worked for a living in the trades understands the true meaning behind this phrase. The intent is to your company save time and money by doing things right the first time. The sign really could be posted on the wall of every shop, every office and every conference room in every

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The Beauty of RCM BlitzI'm often asked as I train facilitators or present at various reliability conferences; "How did RCM Blitz come to be?" Truth is I enjoy being asked this question more than any other. I'm proud to answer that RCM Blitz was developed as a result of recognizing a need. I had been to a few other training events for other methodologies and we had even tried to launch an effort

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Welcome to my Blog - Reliability Solutions! The Blog name is titled after my company Reliability Solutions, Incorporated. Reliability Solutions, Inc. is a small consulting firm I started in December of 1999 after leaving Eastman Kodak Company. Six years later we have leveraged our success to expand to four consultants working in the United States and two in Europe. Reliability Solutions, Inc.

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