Since the late 90s, maintenance team leaders have struggled to make their teams more efficient and “World Class.” Root Cause Analysis is essential to understand when and why these inefficiencies began. Leaders need to change their mindset about where to find future maintenance associates, focusing on the MT (Maintenance Team) Factors: MT Factor #1: The…
In my experience, there are three major influences on culture: Easy efforts to improve the culture positively include ensuring that corporate, plant, department goals are clear, posted and understood, that communication occurs frequently at all levels, and that appropriate personnel are involved at the right level for decision making. Speaker:Lee McClish – Director, Maintenance and…
What do you do first when implementing a new CMMS? Here’s our top tips for how to prepare your operations for a CMMS system.
The skills shortage in America may put $1 trillion in manufacturing GDP at risk over the next decade. Forty percent of Canadian manufacturers face labor shortages, with that gap expected to become 60% within five years, and most industrial employers search for more than 6 months before filling vacancies. Add to this the surge of…
By:Ankush MalhotraPresident at Fluke Reliability It should come as no surprise that at Fluke, gathering data—measurement—is in our DNA. But perhaps the most critical data we collect is about ourselves. What do we stand for? Why do we do what we do? I am privileged to lead the Fluke Reliability organization within Fluke Corporation. Our…
Why is it difficult to enact the changes that leaders want? It’s not a rhetorical question. For leaders and project managers everywhere, implementing the change they’ve ordered is frequently the most challenging part of the job. In his October 2020 webinar with Fluke Reliability, titled, “Actually implementing a change,” leadership expert Tom Moriarty identified two…
In presenting on leadership strategies to improve culture and performance among maintenance and reliability teams, leadership expert and consultant Tom Moriarty uses neuroscience to explain that successfully enacting change is often harder than people expect it to be. Moriarty titled his Accelix Best Practice Webinar, “Productive leadership: How to create the culture and performance you…
Humans can and do learn throughout our lives. That means people can learn new behaviors, form new habits, and achieve culture change. What is productive leadership? It is the result of a leader being provided with direction and requirements—and then applying leadership roles, attributes, and skills through sources of power to influence behaviors and accomplish…
Learn what the IIoT is, what its benefits are and how to get started with deploying an IIoT program in your facility.
Join us at the 22nd annual Maintenance and Reliability Conference! MARCON 2018, which will be held March 12-15, 2018, at the Knoxville Convention Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. Our subject matter experts will be at Booth 9 in Ballroom A showcasing Fluke’s prestigious line of maintenance and reliability software tools and sensors. Make sure to stop by to learn…