Companies striving for maintenance excellence often lose their way trying to implement advanced reliability processes and technologies. Vince Lombardi said that in football, focusing on the basics of blocking and tackling is the surest way to success. The same holds true for maintenance, where the basics are called TLC – tightening, lubricating and cleaning. Studies have shown that over 50% of equipment failures stem from the neglect of routine preventative maintenance tasks. This presentation will show you how to simplify your maintenance program and dramatically increase your "wins" in the maintenance game.

Operators are your "front line of defense", making their involvement a MUST for transitioning from reactive to proactive maintenance. But "best in class" Autonomous Maintenance programs do more than just teach operators about routine care and inspection. They also train operators how to identify root cause, solve equipment problems and conduct improvement activities, thereby eliminating the causes of 40-60% of unplanned downtime. In this webinar, learn the seven steps of AM implementation and how to establish operator-based maintenance activities that contribute maximum impact to overall equipment reliability.

This session will cover the key principles used to optimize Preventive and Predictive Maintenance activities. Many PM programs fail to take maximum advantage of planned downtime. In addition, basing PM activities on OEM recommendations introduces non-value-added inefficiencies that can bloat maintenance costs by as much as 50 percent. This web cast will show how the keys to boosting equipment uptime, reducing maintenance cost, and streamlining maintenance efficiency already exist in your plant.

Did you know that wasteful maintenance practices cost U.S. manufacturers $180 billion every year? Time spent retrieving tools, looking for parts, waiting for emergency shipments, etc., eats up a lot of time, with the result that only 25% of the average work day is dedicated to "wrench time" activities which actually add value. This webcast will focus on maintenance mapping, an improvement tool derived from the spaghetti diagrams employed in lean manufacturing. The effective use of this tool is guaranteed to make an immediate, positive impact on your Mean Time To Repair metrics. No company ever has enough maintenance staff. This presentation will show you how to maximize those resources.

Make it visual! Learn how you can improve equipment performance and reliability; speed simplify routine maintenance; plus reduce equipment-specific training time by 60 to 80-percent.

In this webcast, Robert Williamson, author of "Lean Machines for World-Class Manufacturing & Maintenance" will show visual machine methods that have been successfully applied in many different industrial environments. The visual examples in this session are based on several decades of work in hundreds of facilities. As part of the webcast, Brady Corp. will also demo their new printing solution for creating multicolor gauge labels, oil level indicators and other visual controls that can be used to simplify PM's and identify operating abnormalities at a glance.

In this capstone to the series, Drew Troyer shows how an effective reliability system drives profit performance in a lean business strategy. Attendees will learn how to quantify the impact of poor reliability practices and map the dollars to the nine major loss categories. Drew will also explain how to cost justify loss elimination initiatives by translating these gains into financial metrics that grab the attention of corporate executives. You know what needs to be done. Now learn how to sell your vision to corporate leaders by highlighting the potential impact of “reliability” on corporate earnings, profits and, ultimately, share price.