I am reading the new Uptime Magazine cover article featuring SembCorp UK about their journey toward improved Reliability. It is a great story.
You can read it here is you wish
What strikes me most about this story is that technical approaches were not the leading techniques used to create results - human approaches led the way.
The great news is that this story illustrates that you do not need to purchase new EAM software, or invest in Vibration Analysis system - at least to begin your journey - you can make HUGE strides by changing the context of your program, adding leadership direction and focusing on defect elimination.
Once you start reducing system defects that reduce overall results, and get people seeing and more importantly - eliminating these defects - you can turn your Maintenance Mountain into a Maintenance Molehill - making things like Reliability Centered Maintenance analysis, Predictive Maintenance and other valuable techniques and technologies much less challenging to implement.
In all the plants I have been to it never fails that the people who are the closest to the problem - always have solutions - if they are empowered to implement them.
At Reliabilityweb.com we call this Human Asset Management and we recommend you spend as much if not more time learning about what makes people tick as you do technical solutions. Our research shows "technical solutions" implemented without human asset management fail to sustain any meaningful improvement at least 80% of the time.
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