Improving equipment and people productivity in the mining industry

There is often confusion among those new to maintenance management and reliability improvement regarding the difference between availability and reliability.

Experience tells us that, in practice, there are several barriers that inhibit the success of implementation of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) practices.

If you can't measure something, then you can't improve it. If that is the case, then how can we measure the productivity of our maintenance managers?

Using a value driver tree to estimate Economic Value Added can help reliability and maintenance managers build a business case for improvement initiatives.

When you are in the reactive maintenance "death spiral", it takes a major change of approach to break out of it - not just fixing the symptoms of bigger...

It doesn’t matter where in the organisation structure you are, you have the capability to influence others - and this is at the core of leadership.