| In
this Issue: |
| Our Maintenance
Resources Column . . . |
|
FOCUS ON RELIABILITY
|
| Read this month's feature article |
| What
Is Root Cause Failure Analysis? |
| written
by Robert J. Latino |
| Root Cause Failure Analysis or RCFA as
it is sometimes called, tends to have a different meaning depending upon
who you ask. To put it simply, it is a method or series of actions taken
to find out why a particular failure or problem exists and correcting those
causes. |
|
|
?Instead
of doing it over, let?s get it right the first time?
New
technology provides easy to use tools to increase troubleshooting quality |
| written
by Susannah Knott President - PERFECTIMM INC. |
| Every day, and everywhere we look, there
are changes in how business is done. What is driving these changes? New
technology that allows us to find new solutions to old problems. |
| Y2K
- Who's Ready and Who's Not? |
| by
John E. Bender, Manager Engineering Training, FM Global |
| The point of this paper is to encourage facility
engineers to plan contingencies for service interruptions even though major
problems seem unlikely at this time. Test your own Y2K compliance by completing
the included survey. |
| TPM, The First Step
In Lean Manufacturing Implementation |
| by Enrico Mora, TPM Online |
| TPM is a discipline
comprised of most of the key ingredients of the Toyota Production System,
now known as Lean Manufacturing. Read this article and learn more about
this approach. |
