Reliability Excellence (Rx) Methodology
Life Cycle Engineering's (LCE) approach to implementing Reliability Excellence consists of three waves:
Wave 1: Education and Communication
The first wave focuses on providing the management and leadership team, union leadership and key stakeholders and participants with a common understanding of the concepts, strategies and activities required to achieve and sustain reliability excellence. Activities include:
- Conducting Rx education workshops both on and off-site
- Integrating reliability improvement initiative with overall business plan
- Developing manufacturing objectives, goals and targets
- Establishing a cross-functional leadership team to sponsor the Rx program
Wave 2: Assessment, Master Planning and Business Case Development
The second wave identifies key opportunities for improvement and creates a plan to maximize the return on investment from the reliability initiative. The objective of the assessment is to examine and evaluate current reliability processes and practices as compared to industry-accepted best practices. This analysis is used to build a Reliability Excellence implementation Master Plan and a business case that supports the plan. Activities include:
- Identifying key opportunities using Rx assessment methodologies and technical reliability engineering expertise
- Developing the Master Plan for Rx implementation, including organizational resource requirements
- Quantifying the business case for Rx implementation
- Establishing the change management structure required to support implementation
Wave 3: Master Plan Implementation, Measurement and Follow-up
The final wave implements the Master Plan, including education on proper techniques, coaching on correct execution and establishing defined processes and effective measures of progress. Activities include:
- Establishing leadership and focus team structure to execute Master Plan
- Providing Rx subject matter and leading change training to accelerate work process design
- Providing asset management services to address limiting factors and infrastructure
- Supporting implementation of business processes with dedicated subject matter coaching
- Continually monitoring project progress against agreed-upon metrics and time line
- Proactively managing culture change to ensure early adoption and longterm sustainability of new business processess
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