On The Floor

Develop Continuous Improvement Muscle Memory

Q : Is a Kaizen event or coaching kata best for continuous improvement? A : There are many tools available to perform continuous improvement, but the one that will make your facility most successful requires a process that enables the entire workforce to become problem solvers. To discuss this requires a few definitions/explanations.

Maintenance • On The Floor • Reliability

Bad Systems Beat Good People

5 months ago

Q: Do you have metrics or KPIs? A: Metrics are detailed measures that feed and supplement KPIs (key...

On The Floor • Reliability

Manage Your Groundhog Day

6 months ago

Q: How important is resilience in driving reliability results?

On The Floor

Precision Maintenance Drives Uptime

7 months ago

By Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) and Tim...

On The Floor • Training • Work Processes • Workforce

Outsource? Internalize? It Depends.

9 months ago

By Dr. Klaus M. Blache and Dr. F. H. (Skipper) Yocum Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and...

ON THE FLOOR

Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.

On The Floor

ON THE FLOOR

Develop Continuous Improvement Muscle Memory

Q : Is a Kaizen event or coaching kata best for continuous improvement? A : There are many tools available to perform continuous improvement, but the one that will make your facility most successful requires a process that enables the entire workforce to become problem solvers. To discuss this requires a few definitions/explanations.

On The Floor