Bill Barto
10 Minute Talk
How to Show and Tell Your Progress
Many people are visual learners. They can see slopes and lines and changes from before to after on a graph better than they can grasp a narrative description – especially if the results can be shown on a single slide or handout. Bill Barto shows how to make simple graphs in Excel…
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Five Minute Facts
Don’t Expect Them to Know Your Metrics – Learn Theirs
You want to be recognized for your reliability work, but senior management may not understand the metrics you use, such as MTBF. To show your progress, you must speak their language. Bill Barto gives an example from his experience with theme parks…
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Five Minute Facts
Boldly Proclaim Your Reliability Progress
You deserve recognition for your reliability successes. If your program is being overlooked, you will need to take the initiative and ensure the rest of the plant – and senior management – is aware of what you are doing…
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Two Minute Tips
Checklists, Ignorance and Ineptitude
According to Atul Gawande's excellent book "The Checklist Manifesto", failures only happen because of two things: ignorance or ineptitude.
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Articles
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility
Based on comments from my last post, I picked a "Joe's Dope Sheet" that focuses on management. I hope you enjoy!
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Two Minute Tips
No, You Cannot Borrow My Truck
In 1951, the US Army began publishing PS Magazine. The idea was to publish a magazine about Preventive Maintenance that soldiers would actually want to read. They found an artist named Will Eisner and his company began creating artwork for the magazine. Eisner believed that comics had teaching potential and convinced many talented artists to help him. Each month contained a single-frame comic and an accompanying limerick called "Joe's Dope Sheet". Every month followed the story of Joe, a soldier who ignores preventive maintenance and learns of its importance in the end.
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Five Minute Facts
Probability and the P-F Curve
Often when talking with Maintenance and Reliability professionals, a popular topic of discussion is how frequent a particular inspection task should be performed. This also comes up often when discussing Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO). In this post, I'd like to present a risk-based approach to calculating the proper frequency of a On-Condition Inspection task.
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Two Minute Tips
Belling the Cat and RCFA
I'm a big fan of Aesop's fables. I use them with my kids to remind them to always tell the truth (The Boy Who Cried Wolf) and to appreciate the things that they have (The Dog and the Shadow). I thought it might be interesting to use some of the thousands of fables that Aesop wrote to discuss maintenance and reliability principles. This is my first post in hopefully a long series.
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Webinars
A Novel Way to Determine On-Condition Task Intervals
Typically, the frequency of on-condition, or condition based, maintenance tasks is based on some anecdotal or historic precedent or maybe just on the smallest frequency we can perform the work (e.g., weekly or monthly). But with a little bit of information and a few estimates, you can calculate the optimum inspection frequency. This presentation will walk through all the steps for this alternative approach.
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