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Assembling Your Production System Project Team

In our series on selecting the right team for your next project we will walk through each role, why it’s critical to the process and which of your team members show the right traits to be the ideal fit. Whether you're anticipating a smaller project or a massive overhaul, you'll need to put your team in place before any major decisions are made.

Interviews
Leaders Interview With Tom Moriarty
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Leaders Need a Personal Mission, Vision and Values

In this interview, Tom Moriarty discusses the definition of a leader as "A leader, provided with direction and requirements, applying leadership roles, attributes and skills, through personal and position power, to influence others towards achieving goals." He shares the there are two important aspects regarding the person who is a formal leadership position.

10 Minute Talk
Corporate Counter-Dependency
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Corporate Counter-Dependency: Why This Is a Problem

In psychology there’s a phenomenon known as “counter-dependency”. People with this tendency will refuse help when it is offered and won’t even seek it when confronted with a problem. Organizations that are poorer performers often exhibit this same tendency.,,

Two Minute Tips
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Reliability Training

Any real sense of reliability training returning the greatest possible value must be based upon the needs of the business and the future growth and technology, extending to every individual and department. Reliability training must not be conceived as something to improve the skills of the lowest technician but to improve the skills of every technician.

Five Minute Facts
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What is the Impact of Automation on Skilled Trades

In a few buildings in Manhattan I’ve boarded and have had elevator operators who ask for your floor and perform some manual operations. However, when you step into an average modern passenger elevator you push a button and off you go. In an effort to reduce waiting times and delays, there are systems where you declare your floor and are assigned an elevator.

Five Minute Facts
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Planner Justification

Justifying a planner position can be difficult. George Williams describes some math you can use to convince management that this position is necessary...

Two Minute Tips
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Teamwork Delivers Superior Results

There’s an old saying that “two heads are better than one”. Teamwork has been proven time and again to produce superior results. It is the basis for many successful methods like RCM, PMO, RCFA...

Two Minute Tips
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Executive Level Education in Asset Management Is an Urgent Need!

For an organization to be successful, assets must generate both financial and non-financial value, but it is the operational use of the assets that creates economic value. Therefore, asset-dependent organizations will not be successful without alignment of the various operational functions with each other and with financial functions across the asset’s life cycle.

Five Minute Facts
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Business Cases for Asset Management

Your finance people speak in terms of revenue, costs, return on investments. They see things as figures and financial statements. Somehow they need to translate your operational or functional benefits into dollars in order to truly support your ideas...

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