A New White Paper - Keys to Implementing a Reliability Process

A New White Paper - Keys to Implementing a Reliability Process
Author: Darrell Carnes

Since the late 1990s more and more companies have realized the benefits of a reliability-based maintenance program. As organizations evolve and adopt a new reliability-based culture, long-time employees are taking on new roles. Seasoned mechanics are finding themselves promoted to the position of reliability coordinator with new responsibilities that include getting the reliability program up and running, reducing costs while maintaining the facility, and keeping efficiencies up. These new responsibilities can seem overwhelming at first as the new reliability coordinator questions: where do I start, how do I get employees involved, and what technologies do I use? Luckily, there is help available to get your program off to a good start. While there are numerous sources of information-books, seminars, websites, etc.-sifting through such an immense amount of information can be overwhelming. This article outlines some basic steps-communication, process development, and training on short- and long-term goals-that will help you to get started and give your reliability-based maintenance program a solid foundation.

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