“Seeing the Invisible” by John Kravontka, and published by the Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership (GBMP).
This introduction to the series talks about How to read a Single Point Lesson Plan.
This series will look at how to get out of the breakdown mode, and how to use countermeasures to approach world class maintenance. The series touches on Safety, 5S, TPM, Maintenance Excellence, with Lubrication Excellence, and Predictive Maintenance, OEE, Setup Reduction,, Energy and Environmental.
This was a terrific interview conducted by Davis Visco president of The 5S Store.
The interview discussed how TPM raises output and finds lost money.
If you want to understand how world class maintenance can improve your companies output and save money this is a must see interview
They discuss Operator Ownership, Maintenance and Operator Partnerships, TPM Focused Improvement Events, Contamination, Lubrication, Seeing the Invisible, Maintenance Histories, OEE, Maintenance Skills, Critical Equipment ,Critical Spare Parts, Equipment Improvement Teams, and Early Equipment Management.
T.his is a worthwhile look.
Rusty
Getting Your Equipment Running Safely, Productively & Reliably
Published May 30, 2013
This insightful interview from the President of Fuss & O’Neill Manufacturing Solutions – John Kravontka provides first hand insight into the mistakes, challenges and key principles needed to move from a mindset of keeping equipment running, to running at the highest and most efficient level. According to John, there are 5 pieces of the puzzle that everyone needs to know. He notes, “Operators treat equipment like a rental car, rather than as a valued piece of equipment that they actually “own” for which they take responsibility.” Get ready to take notes on the importance of setting standards and making your process easy, effective and trackable against daily operator performance. Also, click here to view this helpful PDF that illustrators the 5 pieces of this puzzle as detailed in this video. John is a masterful teacher of this view of the TPM process, so look forward to more contributions from him and his team at Fuss & O’Neill.
