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Life Cycle Engineering’s Five Stage Model for Change
When managing change, one of the factors that work in our favor is that even though the changes we are facing may vary significantly, change itself occurs in definable stages. One of the major distractions, however, is that even the most well-managed and successful change contains its share of surprises, missteps and setbacks which tend to disguise the underlying structured process.
Reliability Excellence (Rx) Overview
Rx is a business philosophy, driven through cultural change, that focuses on equipment reliability and process control as the foundation of modern manufacturing operations. By designing reliability into daily plant operations and creating a culture of prevention and improvement, plants can operate as safer, more productive and more profitable businesses.
Introduction to Reliability Excellence (Rx)
Every manufacturing facility wants production equipment to operate reliably. When the equipment does what it needs to do when it needs to do it, plant output and profitability is maximized. No organization wants assets to break down, to produce poor quality products, or to operate inefficiently. We want them to operate perfectly.
Three Waves to Reliability Excellence (Rx)
Three Waves to Reliability Excellence® is an established process for effectively implementing a reliability improvement strategy in manufacturing operations. This approach consists of proven maintenance, reliability and manufacturing fundamentals, planned and implemented by the local organization to provide the stability required to support manufacturing improvement initiatives. It relies upon unwavering corporate sponsorship and a well-planned and executed performance strategy implemented by the local operation, guided by qualified subject matter experts and coaches. The foundation of this methodology is a cooperative partnership between operations and maintenance in which operations owns asset reliability and maintenance is an equal partner providing prompt and effective skills, expertise and support.
Reliability Excellence® (Rx) Assessment, Master Planning and Business Case Development Process
Whether facilities are new or old, large or small, simple or complex, reliable operations require a shared set of values, common performance expectations, proven work processes and well-established measurement criteria. For these operations, reliability becomes a competitive advantage by directly impacting safety, capacity, quality and cost. Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) has developed a Rx assessment, master planning and business case development process to help clients achieve this competitive performance level.
The Excellence Model for Reaching Sustained Peak Performance
Excellence is the quality of sustained peak performance – the ability to reach a level of performance that becomes the benchmark for others and then sustain that performance for an extended period of time. Many organizations find this difficult to achieve because they are trapped in repeating cycles of high-visibility initiatives that initially yield good results followed by a drift back to pre-initiative levels. What began as new and exciting gradually becomes less glamorous and yields to the constant pull of ‘acceptable’. To help organizations break out of these repeating cycles, Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) developed a model for sustainable peak performance – an excellence model.
Key Factors to Achieving Reliability Excellence (Rx)
Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) is uniquely qualified to help you carry out your reliability improvement initiative based on more than 30 years of helping organizations like yours achieve success.
