About: Ricky Smith

Is it possible to increase reliability by simply enhancing or focusing on planning and scheduling? I don’t think so. I remember the old saying “which comes first the chicken or the egg”? Most people, including myself until a couple of years ago, would have said that in order to achieve results quickly, planning and schedulingContinue Reading

Does it annoy you that in spite of regularly performing Preventive Maintenance (PM) on your equipment it continues to breakdown?  Some may call this insanity – Continuing to do the same thing over and over, expecting a different result. If you sat down and graphed out your companies’ PM labor hours versus emergency labor hoursContinue Reading