What is Reliability Excellence (Rx)?
Reliability Excellence 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.
Fundamentally, Reliability Excellence focuses on:
Operations-led reliability
By the very nature of their jobs, equipment operators have a closer connection with the equipment than the maintenance department. Building a partnership between operations and maintenance, in which operations owns the equipment and maintenance provides reliable capacity, creates the optimal balance between operations and reliability.
Proactive culture
Time, money and resources are applied to preventive and predictive efforts, not just spent on corrective and repair activities. Problems are researched to find the root cause and solutions focus on correcting the source of the problems vs. treating the symptoms.
Metrics-based performance
Establishing meaningful, quantifiable metrics enables a plant to measure performance and document improvements.
Continuous improvement
Promoting the philosophy that excellence is a process, not a pre-defined level of performance, leads to implementing processes and tools that support continuous refinement and improvement in both equipment reliability and operating capacity.
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