Asset Productivity Videos
AR & VR: Benefits for Asset Maintenance and Reliability
In this video Tara Holwegner interviews Dirck Schou (CEO of Taqtile) and Bob Fei (President and CEO of Life Cycle Engineering) about the exciting potential for mixed reality devices and software to address a significant challenge faced by the military and manufacturing: the search for skilled workers to fill positions as experienced employees retire.
Next-Gen Mobility: Using Augmented Reality for Equipment Maintenance
Rich Jansen, Senior Fellow of Reliability Engineering, explains how augmented reality(AR) can be an effective tool for training today’s workforce on complicated equipment maintenance procedures. The narrated video shows an example of AR enabling a technician to access and follow instructions for a complicated procedure.
MRO Storeroom Management eLearning (eMRO)
Watch our video and learn how our MRO eLearning couse combines MRO standards and decades of best-practice benchmarking into a performance-driven, self-paced online solution.
In Search of Operational Excellence: Why is Achieving Operational Excellence so Difficult?
In this video Ron Moore, author and recognized authority on Operational Excellence, and Bill Wilder, Executive Director at Life Cycle Engineering, discuss why it is so difficult for manufacturers to achieve Operational Excellence
In Search of Operational Excellence: The Toyota Production System
In this video Ron Moore, author and recognized authority on Operational Excellence, explains why it’s so important to eliminate defects and create stable, standardized processes.
In Search of Operational Excellence: Why Work Management is so Important to Business Performance
In this video Ron Moore, author and recognized authority on Operational Excellence, explains why planning and scheduling are essential and the business benefits to be gained by adopting best practices
In Search of Operational Excellence: Six Sigma and Standard Work
In this video Ron Moore, author and recognized authority on Operational Excellence, explains how using Six Sigma and standard work can reduce variability in your processes, and create the reliability you need for continuous improvement
In Search of Operational Excellence: Developing a Reliability Improvement Plan
In this video Ron Moore, author and recognized authority on Operational Excellence, describes the steps to creating a Reliability Improvement Plan.
In Search of Operational Excellence Introduction with Ron Moore
In this video Ron Moore, author and recognized authority on Operational Excellence, answers four questions he is often asked by manufacturers seeking to improve operating performance:
What does Operational Excellence look like?
What does it require?
What’s it worth?
What are world-class benchmarks?
eLearning Reliability Centered Maintenance (eRCM)
Bill Wilder explains how eRCM integrates our Risk-Based Asset Management course with the prevailing Reliability Centered Maintenance standards into a performance-driven, self-paced online solution.
Boost Performance with Planning and Scheduling
If less than 90% of the maintenance work on your assets is planned in advance, then you could benefit dramatically from the portfolio of resources we’ve developed to help organizations implement planning and scheduling best practices
Asset Management Plans: An ISO 55000 Building Block
With the increased adoption of the ISO 55000 Standard for Asset Management, released in early 2014, more and more companies are contacting us and asking for help in understanding the standard and developing an ISO-compliant asset management system.
Reliability Centered Maintenance eLearning
Bill Wilder explains how eRCM integrates our Risk-Based Asset Management course with the prevailing Reliability Centered Maintenance standards into a performance-driven, self-paced online solution.
RCM is Still Good for Business
Tara Holwegner explains how Reliability Centered Maintenance is still as relevant as ever and cites four reasons to continue using RCM as a strong foundation for your maintenance and reliability programs.
Maintenance Management Certification
Achieve your Maintenance Management Certification (MMC) from one of the country’s top engineering schools. You will learn practical skills that can be applied on the job right away, demonstrate your commitment to building a solid maintenance program, and increase your value to your organization.
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Course Preview
A course preview of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Create a Culture of Reliability by Developing These 4 Key Competencies
Bill Wilder, Director of the Life Cycle Institute, describes the four competencies required to achieve Reliability Excellence.
Cycle Counting for Storerooms
Doug Wallace, Materials Management SME at Life Cycle Institute, describes the basics of an effective cycle counting program, and explains how it can benefit your storeroom processes and improve the reliability of your inventory balances.
Improving Plant Performance with Leading Metrics
Dave Berube discusses improving plant performance by focusing on leading metrics. Don't focus on lagging indicators. Focus on leading indicators (new behaviors) to achieve better results, to get better performance, to achieve more profit.
Maintenance Supervisor Coaching
Dave Berube discusses how to coach a Maintenance Supervisor. The three areas of focus for a maintenance supervisor are Job Safety, Job Quality and Job Efficiency. LCE uses a coaching card to maintain focus on these three areas. If you would like a copy of a coaching card, please email us at info@lce.com
Maintenance Work Planning: 5 Elements to Consider
Tim Kister, Senior Planning and Scheduling SME at Life Cycle Institute, explains the 5 elements of work planning that planners frequently give limited attention and detail.
Management of Change vs. Change Management
Dave Berube discusses the terms Management of Change vs Change Management. Often times these terms are used incorrectly. "Management of Change" refers to the technical side of change. "Change Management" refers to the people side of change.
Meeting Increased Market Demand Through Reliability Excellence
Operational stability, powered by Reliability Excellence, helps businesses build sustainable, world-class performance. In a competitive climate, on-time deliveries of high-quality products can be a differentiator and can lead to increased market share. In this video, Randy Heisler, explains the questions you should ask to determine if you have the operational stability in place to meet market demand.
MTBF Metric: The Pitfalls of Its Misuse
Bill Barto discusses the pitfalls of relying solely on the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) metric.
Operations-led Reliability
Bruce Wesner discusses his presentation "Operations-led Reliability" at Reliable Plant Conference 2011. The four main themes were operator care rounds, loss elimination, implement standard work and autonomous maintenance.
Using an A3 Problem-solving Tool to Achieve Reliability Excellence®
Randy Heisler explains using an A3 problem-solving tool and three wave thinking to achieve Reliability Excellence.
Using an A3 Proposal as a Problem-solving Tool
Randy Heisler, of Life Cycle Engineering, explains using an A3 proposal, as a problem-solving tool. A simple way, for any member of an organization, to solve problems and propose solutions.
Using Kitting for Maintenance Repairs
Al Emeneker discusses using kitting for maintenance repairs, specifically planned work kitting and crash kits.
What RCA Tool is Best for Operators?
Carl March, Reliability Subject Matter Expert, with Life Cycle Engineering, presents a novel approach to an age old RCA tool for operators - "Should-Actual-5 Whys" This installment is a part of a series of informative video lessons called 'Reliability Made Simple.'
