Reliability Manager at Asset Reliability and Arabian Technologies | Machinery Reliability Consultancy and Oil analysis
Twenty years ago, on the Maintenance forum at the AMP website, a post titled "What Comes First in Reliability Improvement?" featured a response from V. Narayan that remains the best answer I’ve encountered. I’d like to share it here on LinkedIn after two decades: "For any Company that thinks (or knows) its current performance is poor, e.g., that its reliability is low, downtime is high, costs are high, it is at Point A. World beaters are at Point B. The trouble is that many Companies who are at Point A fool themselves into believing they are at Point B, or least part way there. Now to the next issue. To get from Point A to Point B, you can walk or run. If the Company is the equivalent of a toddler, with few strengths,it should learn to walk before starting to run. It needs a level of maturity, get its house in order before reaching out. I think your quote applies well to such Plants, and I think there are many more of these than mature ones. The world has moved but they are still there, 50 years behind. If such a Compsny gets the basics right, viz., cleanliness, a good lub program and keeps things aligned, balanced and bolts tight, they can get rid of 50-60% of their reliability problems. You dont need RCM, TPM, Six Sigma to do this. When they have 'learned to walk', they are ready to 'run' with RCM or other tools. Let us not kid ourselves; RCM is only the front end, all it produces is a plan. You still have to execute the work according to this plan and to the right quality standards before it shows on the bottom line. Companies that have not learned to walk will falter and fall if they are just given a high quality RCM based plan. In my view, RCM is a means to an end, it is not the end. It is a great process, in the right hands. In my view, you have to earn your spurs to be allowed into the RCM world. - V.Narayan." Note: V. Narayan, was one of my mentors 20 years ago, that inspired me to enter the field of Reliability Engineering. He has also written several remarkable books on the subject. #Reliability #Maintenance #RCM #ContinuousImprovement #LessonsFromThePast
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Very well said Naseer sb!!!
Lead Mechanical Maintenance Engineer | CMRP | MLA II | VCAT I | Oil & Gas Refinery | Rotating Equipment | Turnarounds & Shutdowns
3moVery informative