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  • 1.  Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-04-2019 08:06 PM
    One of my clients is developing a slogan for their Reliability Department and is looking for examples. Anyone have a slogan that they use or have a recommended slogan?

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    Richard Overman, Ph.D., CMRP, CMRT, CRL
    President
    Core Principles, LLC
    Middleburg FL
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  • 2.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-05-2019 11:43 AM

    Rich,

    The slogan used by Submarine Maintenance Monitoring and Support Program (1971-1993) was "Proving Endurance". 

    Best regards,

    Jack Nicholas



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    Jack Nicholas P.E. CMRP, CRL, IAMC
    Author and Former CMRP Exam Director
    Jack R Nicholas, Jr.
    Gettysburg PA USA
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  • 3.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-06-2019 08:00 AM
    On my sub, the USS George Washington Carver, SSBN-656, our slogan was 'Strength through Knowledge'.  I would submit that this is applicable to a maintenance organization.

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  • 4.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-06-2019 12:27 PM

    David,

     

    I appreciate your input. I trust you are doing well.

     

    Thank you,

    Rich Overman, Ph.D.

    CMRP, CMRT, CRL

    President

    Core Principles, LLC

    +01 904-655-0780

     






  • 5.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-06-2019 12:28 PM

    Jack,

     

    I appreciate your input.

     

    Thank you,

    Rich Overman, Ph.D.

    CMRP, CMRT, CRL

    President

    Core Principles, LLC

    +01 904-655-0780

     






  • 6.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-05-2019 03:34 PM

    Richard, If you want to keep it simple but  inspire the workforce team  consider...

    Mission: Never do the Same Job Twice (stop addressing symptoms and getting good at chronic repairs)

    Vision: Fix it for the Last Time (eliminate the root causes but avoid Gold Plating)

    These simple guides can alter behaviors and create a very proactive culture. They are easy to remember and fit nicely into visual displays.

     

    Mike Barkle,CMRP, CRL |Sr. Reliability Engineer

    757.229.2965 |804.239.8397 Mobile |

    mikebarkle@infralogix.com www.infralogix.com

     

    Infralogix Logo - Pres 1.jpg

    Reliability Maintenance Services

     

     






  • 7.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-06-2019 12:27 PM

    Michael,

     

    Thanks for your thoughts.

     

    Thank you,

    Rich Overman, Ph.D.

    CMRP, CMRT, CRL

    President

    Core Principles, LLC

    +01 904-655-0780

     






  • 8.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-06-2019 08:52 AM
    Good Morning Rich, 

    "Success by Community"   In my opinion,  start up reliability programs seem to miss the team effort from maintenance, engineering, production, finance,  and management to make programs as useful as possible.  



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    Adam Santoro
    Reliability Engineeer
    K & S Services, Inc
    southgate MI
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  • 9.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-06-2019 12:26 PM

    Adam,

     

    Thanks for your thoughts.

     

    Thank you,

    Rich Overman, Ph.D.

    CMRP, CMRT, CRL

    President

    Core Principles, LLC

    +01 904-655-0780

     






  • 10.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-06-2019 03:25 PM
    Maintenance and Reliability slogan.
    Any thing you cannot measure, you can not improve it. (Data are important to improve and maintain equipment.)
    2. Equipment do not just fails but humans kill me.


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    Joseph Uwoajega CMRP
    Field Service Engineer
    engrjoe2007@gmail.com
    +2348038820032
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  • 11.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-07-2019 12:41 PM
    Richard,

    see attached a poster I made for my plant/company..
    Reliability and Safety


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    Derek Brown
    Grangemouth AB
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  • 12.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-07-2019 01:51 PM

    Richard, Also, consider what Dr. W. Edwards Deming included in his 14 points for Management. Specifically ...

     

    10. Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work force asking for zero defects and new levels of productivity. Such exhortations only create adversarial relationships, as the bulk of the causes of low quality and low productivity belong to the system and thus lie beyond the power of the work force.

    1. Eliminate work standards (quotas) on the factory floor. Substitute leadership.
    2. Eliminate management by objective. Eliminate management by numbers, numerical goals. Substitute leadership.

    Mike Barkle,CMRP, CRL |Sr. Reliability Engineer

    757.229.2965 |804.239.8397 Mobile |

    mikebarkle@infralogix.com www.infralogix.com

     

    Infralogix Logo - Pres 1.jpg

    Reliability Maintenance Services

     

     






  • 13.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-08-2019 08:14 PM
    My compliments to Mr. Michael Barkle for the best suggestion of the day.

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    Jeff Wahl
    Maintenance Manager, CMMS
    Loveland CO
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  • 14.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-20-2019 04:42 PM
    Agree.

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    Joseph Kuhn
    Lean Driven Reliability - Owner
    Alcoa
    Newburgh IN
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  • 15.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-21-2019 11:08 AM
    What's so ironic is that Deming's 14 points are fundamentally slogans, exhortations and targets. If I remember correctly, he admitted this as so very late in his life and never used them again.






  • 16.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-22-2019 05:23 PM
    Derek, like this very much.  Feel you have a good thought here.

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    Michael Eisenbise
    Retired
    BP
    League City TX
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  • 17.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 08-20-2019 04:46 PM
    I'd caution you not to have a slogan, but if group really wants one --- "The Silent Service".    This is a take off the US Navy Submarine service.    The work you are doing hopefully goes goes unnoticed by most, yet production and quality continue to climb as cost decline.    Non-detect in the short term, but over time, you make a big difference.


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    Joseph Kuhn
    Lean Driven Reliability - Owner
    Alcoa
    Newburgh IN
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  • 18.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 09-25-2019 05:42 PM
    I borrowed this from another organization and I know it's a mouthful but I think it says it all. 
    Our Vision:
    To proactively maintain our physical assets to a 'World Class' standard that ensures the availability of the equipment to manufacture quality products that meet or exceed our customers needs

    Our Mission:
    Develop a proactive asset management program, focus on safety and on a reliability driven culture built on the experience and expertise of our people, both maintenance and operations, that will benefit our customers, and employees.

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    Joe Rodier CMRP
    Maintenance Planning Manager
    Suncor Energy
    Fort McMurray AB
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  • 19.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 09-26-2019 06:55 AM
    I don't like calling it a slogan. We prefer a vision. Our company spends a lot of time writing vision statement 1-2 sentences and then even more time connecting people to the vision. I would suggest brainstorming on the things you want to focus on (write down keywords) then try to arrange those into a vision statement. We bold the key words we want to connect people to. In this manner people do not have to remember the whole vision but they should be able to remember the keywords. Having a connection with the work they are performing and the vision or key words helps align the organization and ultimately change the culture.

    Keyword examples: Reduce Cost, Proactive, Maintain, Best in Class, Customers, Technology, USDT
    Vision Statement Example: Our vision is to reduce cost and unscheduled downtime with the use of new technologies. This will make us best in class by proactively maintaining equipment for our customers.
    Hope this helps.

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    David Schlicht, CMRP, CRL, NREMR
    Reliability Engineer
    Guardian Industries - A Koch Company
    Dewitt IA
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  • 20.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 09-26-2019 08:28 AM

    To start, I am a professional at this subject. I have spent a large part of my career as a strategic planner to various industries. Furthermore, thinking in terms of business and operational strategy is the beginning point to everything I do. It is the reason I took two business degrees covering all disciplines including accounting to the extent of being a CPA. I base the following on those experiences.

    Whatever you put out there must be of a nature that it will guide the short- and longer-term behavior. Directional statements are ultimately simple, but not so obvious. I rarely see good ones. They rarely make statements that have alternatives-e.g., we are going to increase our costs.

    Rather than a forming a slogan, think about forming a three-level value statement-the enterprise will be able to, by, as the result of. Building the levels is challenging and takes a great deal of thought, but your reliability department will be much better for it.

    Your thought process (https://analytics4strategy.com/trn-datadrvnmntcop) must start at the top and move to envisioning the processes to succeed at the top. Your "able to" will reflect the top. Your "by" will reflect the envisioned-or existing if they are appropriate to the top-processes. Your "as a result of" will reflect the methods and programs to succeed at the BY.

    After all of that, if you still want a slogan, one will emerge to state the entire value statement in a phrase. But don't call it a slogan or you will hear about Deming.



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    Richard Lamb
    Analytics4Strategy.com
    Houston TX
    832-710-0755
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  • 21.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 09-26-2019 09:07 AM
    ​Vision, Mission, Slogans, etc.  What is correct? 

    Senior leadership without a vision and mission around maintenance and reliability will be like a ship tossed in the sea of a Cat5 storm, buying into whatever fad being pushed on the market.

    However, on the floor, the vision and mission are just a bunch of high dollar words.  This is where a slogan comes in.  The crafts will remember a short but meaningful slogan. 

    Here are a couple -
    "Do it once, do it right" 
    "Don't just fix it, improve it"

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    Randy Riddell, CMRP, PSAP, CLS
    Reliability Manager
    Essity
    Cherokee AL
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  • 22.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 09-26-2019 09:23 AM
    As part of forming a slogan, etc., I recommend that one at least restudy the text, "Reliability-Centered Maintenance," by Moubray. I recommend it as one who has just recently done and found I was drifting considerably from the tight baseline framework of definitions of maintenance policy. I also recognize that many of the slogans I see actually call and cause suboptimality with respect to the business.






  • 23.  RE: Reliability Department Slogan

    Posted 10-02-2019 10:24 AM
    ​Stolen, but I love, "No Surprises."

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    Darrell Walker
    Manager of Maintenance and Reliability
    Amalgamated Sugar Company
    Boise ID
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