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Changing the Work Environment for Data Collection

People have a nasty habit of not asking for help when they need it, as we often tell ourselves “I’m sure I can figure it out” or “This other person knows how to do it so I’ll wait for them to do it.” Unfortunately, this can make implementing change in the work environment a challenge.

“Then use data!” a diligent reader of my content cries. Well, yes, most changes need to be backed up by data, but sometimes the data can only be collected through change. It’s one of those nasty loops the world keeps throwing at you. You need the experience to get the job, but you need the job to get experience. You need the data to make the change, but you need the change to collect data.

In my experience as a Reliability Engineer, I remember implementing a rule that went like this: “No work order, no purchase order.” This meant teams could not purchase anything without first booking it to a work order. It was so we could collect data to see where the money in our plant was going. Everyone who was affected by this rule had agreed to follow it, thus I was under the impression that they knew how, and felt comfortable enforcing it strictly.

It backfired.

Gill was a guy. A productive guy. He submitted a purchase order. But no work order. So he wasn’t approved. His order was for some contract workers to come in and complete some tasks before he could continue on with his job, so he was pretty upset when he followed up with me. I explained to him the purchase order wasn’t approved because there was no work order attached, and after some heated back-and-forth he finally confessed, “I don’t know how to do it.”

I was shocked. Later on, I asked everyone else if they knew how to attach work orders to their purchase orders. No one did. In all honestly, if everyone saw it as that much of a struggle, I could’ve removed the rule and let everyone only submit purchase orders because that would’ve been familiar and easy, but I knew collecting this data was important, and I was going to fight for it.

First, I helped Gill out with his work order, and the contractors were able to come in on time. Then I taught everyone else how to do it. I used team meetings to regularly show people the value of the data we were collecting when they followed the rule, and they found imputing data into the system rewarding.

There are two lessons here:

  1. Fight for your data – I had to stand my ground, insist on the new rule, and troubleshoot when it was ignored.
  2. Collect data about collecting data – Do your co-workers fully understand what you’re asking of them? Instead of asking, “Can you do it?” start asking, “Can you tell me how it’s done?”

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Who Cares?

No one… yet.

I’ve discussed assessing the alternatives before and I’ve stressed the importance of getting other people to care about the helpful and/or necessary changes you want to implement. Now I will teach you how to do that.

Not everyone will be as passionate about their work as you. Many maintenance folks expect to go in, complete the same processes, and get paid. They take comfort in their risk-free routines, so asking them to change it disrupts that sense of comfort, and they resist you. So how do you change their mind? You need a secret weapon. You need…

People skills.

Many of you may have felt the urge to jump into the nearest bush, or in your natural habitat, hide under your desk, or more realistically, stop reading. But you’re still here, so I commend you! As a reward, I will tell you the key to getting people on board with your ideas.

If you want people to risk stepping out of their comfort zone to implement your ideas, they need to trust you and be willing to listen, and this comes from a positive relationship. Make them like you, relate to you, respect you. How do you do that? And how much interaction would that take? It doesn’t actually take that much. Humans can make connections incredibly quickly. What you need to do is get them talking. Find out their interests. Find a point where you can relate, latch onto it, then segway to the thing you are trying to implement.

Here is an example from my career. There was this guy who always believed he had “been there, done that”, and didn’t think there were many options beyond his personal experience. I wanted to introduce him to a product  known as Torque Check to make sure our machines were held together as securely as possible with no loose bolts. This was a process meant to spot and solve a potential issue undetected by current methods, and it would change his routine. So I struck up a conversation with the guy, and found out he was fascinated by car mechanics. Similarly, I happened to love plane mechanics. So we bonded over our similar interests, and I eventually brought up Torque Check, a product applied by plane engineers before the plane is flown. I asked if he would be willing to try it on our machines. He resisted at first, but when I pointed out how reputable aircraft engineers are for their reliability, he decided to give it a go. He soon found how torque check made his job easier, and he introduced it to others, making their jobs easier as well. Thus a change was successfully implemented.

There you go. Maintaining a plant has always been and always will be a team effort. One individual cannot always solve a problem on their own, so if you have a solution that could benefit the team, you owe them that knowledge. Good teams communicate; good teams care enough to listen. Make sure all these interactions resemble teamwork discussion, and you’re golden.

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Publish or Perish

What is the most important aspect of great teamwork? Cooperation? Coordination? No, those are just symptoms and synonyms. The most important aspect is communication. Everyone needs to know what is going on if they are to find and fulfill their role or come to agreements. In large companies, you can’t inform everyone of your plans and actions in person due to everyone’s busy schedules (including your own), but you can communicate with masses via writing. If you want to successfully implement an idea, you need to publish, or you’ll perish.

Allow me to define the word “publish” for the context of this article. I don’t mean professionally publishing a book or academic material for public consumption. I mean communicating with the people in your company via emails, noticeboards, and articles on the company intranet or newsletter.

“But if I’m constantly sending people emails, won’t they get mad at me?” Yes. At first. Until they see the value in it.

To offer an example, an engineer and myself were crafting a prototype for a tool to measure temperature. It had some neat features like magnets and Wi-Fi connectivity, but we failed to explain that the first few, well, several emails. My colleague and I just worked on it and I sent group emails asking for thoughts and feedback. People weren’t too happy receiving emails about some prototype they didn’t understand. Upon this realisation, I explained it, and continued updating everyone on our project. At first I had one intrigued respondent, then it slowly grew until I was going back and forth with several curious people at once. One struggling business unit asked for 25 of these gadgets to improve the collection of their data. I was thrilled to oblige, then emailed the entire unit to let them know the product was going to be implemented in their area.

So let’s consider the two paths my colleague and I faced.

Publish – Our product is recognised, appreciated, and implemented on a sizable scale in our work environment, assisting in the collection of valuable data to improve the plant.

Don’t Publish – Valuable time, energy, and resources is dedicated into a product that no one cares about, it isn’t implemented to its fullest potential, collecting data on temperature remains a harder task than it needs to be, and any issues related to its collection persist for longer or are never solved.

So what will it be:

Publish?

Or Perish?

 

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Changing the Status-Quo

Many people have this habit of falling into a routine and are afraid to change or step outside the norm. But they also like following trends, and it takes bravery to start them. The rapidly expanding and evolving technology landscape requires that Reliability Engineers everywhere evolve with it, leaving no room for routine. Not everything can be fixed by the tools in your shed, like how not every problem can be fixed by the resources in your Reliability toolbox. Sometimes you need to venture out for something new. Is it daunting? Yes. Worth it? Definitely.

Two important questions

  1. What can we do about this problem, and how can we stop it from reoccurring?
  2. What else can we do?

I pop these both, one after the other, at every problem-related meeting. The first question usually has people think within the box, but the second one shoves them out of it, turns them towards a greater world of possibility. Inside the box, you can only “react” to problems when they find you. But outside the box, you can be proactive, ambushing your issues.

How do you know if you need to look for alternatives?

An aging plant will always find new ways to break, and “the way we’ve always done it” won’t always be a sufficient solution. Reliability Engineering should not be about repeating procedures. It should be problem solving.

If alternative solutions are necessary, you’ll observe the following:

  • Reoccurring problems
  • Previously unseen problems arising
  • Solutions suggested by your peers are repetitive
  • A need to save resources
  • A need to further increase plant output

How do you start looking for alternatives?

  • Consult the internet – By far the most obvious. It’s okay to not have all the answers, especially since they could be one search away.
  • Asking “dumb” questions – Yes, they may be embarrassing to ask, but you won’t get any answers by holding them in. What matters more anyway? Solving the problem, or avoiding a small moment of vulnerability?
  • Joining an industry group – One of the best ways to access valuable human resources. These are communities, and most communities are always willing to help their own. Someone may have experienced the very same issue and gained useful wisdom from it. Just put yourself in a position where you can potentially intercept that person.
  • Using Bisset’s Formula – Partially discussed in the previous blogpost. Make sure your plant is smooth, clean, cool, dry, correctly lubricated, and not overloaded.

My advice on how to implement these alternatives is the same as what I have preached previously many times. Get your team actively involved. Convince them that change is necessary, that it is worth it. Make sure they share your enthusiasm for the exciting and new, and together you can make revolutionary improvements to your plant.

 

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Curing Problems

Last blogpost I talked about introducing important habits to your workplace. This week I will further explain why this will help you solve your problems. Think of it this way, your plant and/or machines are sick, and if you arm your colleagues with knowledge and good habits, they become the immune system created to eradicate “diseases” and “heal” what is broken and/or “infected”.

Human bodies are massive, and infections can hide, but less so if there are armies of leukocytes (white blood cells) stationed everywhere. Infections can also be tough to beat, hence why so many leukocytes are used. And some infections are so unfamiliar that leukocytes don’t know how to deal with them initially and thus need to learn how to. That is what you want your colleagues to be, an army of leukocytes learning to search for, recognise, and solve problems in order to keep the plant healthy together.

If you try to explain a concept in an overly complex way, it will pass through them like a ‘ghost’. You need to find a simple, memorable ways to explain it. This is a skill had by all great leaders. A guy called Wayne Bissett once told me you should run your plant “smooth, clean, cool, and dry” Short. Sweet. Roles off the tongue. People love it. If we do run our plants smooth, clean, cool, and dry, it won’t vibrate itself to bits, it won’t build up foreign contaminants, it won’t overheat, it won’t corrode your water ingress, and it will live a long life. The solutions to four major issues summed up in four words only. These simple, snappy phrases can help experienced people make clearer sense of what they already know, and explain it to those who are new.

Another thing I like about that phrase is how it can relate to RCA. It tells us exactly what a healthy plant should look like, and encourages us to ask the following question when searching for problems. Is the smoothness, cleanliness, coolness, and/or dryness being disrupted in some way, and by what? See how well that statement fits in many contexts? See how these simple, four words branch off into something else? That’s what you want, a core idea that people can use as a launching point. If they notice the four signs of healthiness being disrupted in some way, our leukocyte workers know to find a disease that needs attacking.

Allow me to demonstrate how best to communicate issues and ideas to your colleagues in a few sentences. Imagine you have a oil breather being used in a situation it is not suited for. According to our RCA, it allows in too many contaminants. Let’s call this one Breather X. We decide that Breather X is not working and decide to replace it with Breather Y which will allow our plant to run cleaner. Simple enough to explain right? I once heard someone say that people who truly understand something can simplify it. If you’re trying to explain something but can’t do so coherently, perhaps it’s a sign that you don’t understand the subject matter well enough, so you should ensure that is not an issue before you pass that knowledge on.

In summary, to cure defects, we need to effectively summarise and standardise what we do. Gaining a shared understanding is the first step towards implementing improvements across the plant. Make sure those standards are easy to understand, so they can be properly practiced. I will never stop stressing the importance and effectiveness of consistency and communication in the workplace.

 

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Learning a Natural Habit

In the previous blogpost I introduced you to Root Cause Analysis and the 5 Whys. These processes are most effective when being used by your whole team. I briefly touched on this in the last blogpost, but will elaborate on it here. How do you encourage your workplace to adopt new habits like the 5 Whys and RCA?

One of the ways I did it was by teaching our trusts and trades how to do the 5 Whys, so as to implement it at every level. We chose the 5 Whys because it’s a simple, easy-to-understand process that perfectly encapsulates RCA. We tailored our explanation to all three maintenance groups, ensuring they understood it in terms and analogies that were relevant to them.

To elaborate, we did a workshop for each group, where we each found the cause of a problem by working through the 5 Whys process as a team. It started out in groups where they worked with the instructors who offered hints and guidance, and then split them into pairs to work independently. Then we checked to see if they found answers that would lead them to a solution to the problem.

From there, we asked supervisors to check if the 5 Whys process had been completed on breakdown work orders. If they discovered something during the process that no one else knew about, new protocol commanded further investigation. Team meetings involved people sharing their 5 Whys process and results so all workers could understand the problem from all known angles thus far, allowing for an equal, confident understanding among them. This meant that machines were actually fixed rather than “held together” by means that only hid or treated the symptoms.

Through this method, we made RCA and the 5 Whys the norm by introducing it as a simple, yet integral part of the workplace. In summary, teach everyone the habit until they are confident with it, then actively encourage them to use it, then make it necessary to workplace processes. Note, they should find the habit helpful before you make it compulsory, otherwise they’d be wasting their time with a process that will not improve their work. This is about people adopting the same habit to work smoother together, after all.

Want to learn more about learning useful habits and implementing them into your workplace? Peter Horsburgh teaches that and more in his Extraordinary Reliability Engineer course. If you’re interested, you can register at our Eventbrite page here.

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How to be a Reliability Detective

Gilbert the Reliability Detective
The Pain

So you have a problem, a recurring issue, and you don’t understand why it’s happening. Maybe your machinery isn’t as durable or efficient compared to other plants. Maybe your co-workers keep complaining after you think you’ve solved it. Something is wrong, something is causing this, and you don’t know what. No matter how far you try to stretch your brain, a reasonable conclusion never surfaces. Well, detectives never get far on sheer guess work. They need clues, evidence, and so do you. But how do you find them? There are two strategies. Root Cause Analysis, and the 5 Whys, both of which I will briefly outline here.

Root Cause Analysis

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a process used to determine the source of a problem. As I say in my book, it’s incredibly useful in Reliability because it helps you fix the issue at its source, rather than applying Band-Aid “solutions” just to cover the symptoms. As useful as this process is, many overlook it. They guess the reason behind a problem, or they formulate a solution without thinking about the core issue, and they work from there. Sometimes these guesses are spot on, or near the mark, but not always, and you shouldn’t rely on them. If you’re wrong, problems will persist. Instead, find your clues. Analyse data and trends. Monitor machine behaviour. Talk to your colleagues for suggestions on what to do, and ask for their observations. You’ll find things you can link together, that will lead you to the root cause. Don’t know RCA yet? Learn it and introduce it to your colleagues. You can find RCA tools for purchase online as well. Here is some to start with.

Asking Why

One excellent strategy to arrive at your root cause is to ask “why?” five times. Like RCA, this is a habit you need to introduce to your workplace. So how does it work?

  1. When you encounter a problem, ask why it occurred.
  2. Once you know, ask why that is the case.
  3. Repeat the above steps three to five times, jotting down any ideas that come to mind.

Allow me to reiterate the importance of educating your colleagues on this process. A team of people asking why casts a wider net to catch your problems more effectively than you alone. How do you introduce this process in the workplace? I personally recommend doing a hands on workshop. Tailor examples to each group you educate so they can best understand it. Ask the supervisors of said groups to check if the 5 Whys process has been used on any breakdown orders. This is a simple RCA process, and if you employ it right, you’ll soon discover how valuable a process it truly is.

So there are your two strategies to lessen the pain of not knowing the issue. Hopefully now there will be less guesswork and more clues that connect. RCA and the 5 Whys are like your spy glass, or your fingerprint dusting kit. So go forth, Reliability Detectives, and find your culprit –I mean– root cause!

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Chronic Issues – Plotting Trends

Problems always leave traces.

I’ve discussed chronic issues multiple times in previous blog posts. As a refresher, chronic issues are large problems that manifest from numerous small and easily missed issues. There are two basic steps to identifying your chronic problems. You need to find these smaller issues and look for trends between them. Allow me to elaborate on both these steps.

Finding the Dots

As said in a previous post, a lot of little issues are symptoms of a larger problem, the unknown chronic disease. You’ll need a fine, widely cast net to catch these smaller issues. If you miss them, or deem them too inconsequential to deal with, they will continue to build until you have a real mess. It’s like allowing hairs to wash down the drain in the shower, and then when it gets blocked, having to fish out the gunky wad months later. But what exactly do you look for? Well, do you ever find yourself encountering several small issues that constantly interrupt your progress? They’re like bricks slowly building to create a barrier between you and your goal. It’s frustrating, I know, but on a sunnier note, you’ve found your dots.

Connecting the Dots

Now we get to the fun part; plotting trends. As part of your loss elimination process, routinely check for chronic issues across the site. You can do this monthly, quarterly, or annually, so the trends have time to develop. (Side note, if someone comes to you outside the meeting room to discuss a potential chronic problem, pay attention. These issues aren’t always easy to find, so listen to them and analyse information when it’s freely served to you.) I recommend grouping common types of failure together (Eg. Electrical, mechanical) across sights. Then it’s easier to spot which ones have the greatest negative impact. My favourite way to do this is creating 3D plots of all the groups together. I can add to it as I gain more data, thus highlighting any rising trends. If something is getting worse, like rapidly increasing cost, you know where to act. When spotting chronic issues, plotting trends is essential. Since most issues are small, they fly undetected by Pareto. Therefore you must brush through the whole plant with a fine-toothed comb. Do not allow the little things to grow big. Do not allow the wall to build. Once you’ve found your chronic issue, you’ll know what you need to fix. Hooray!

 While some problems make themselves known like a slap to the face, chronic issues are more “passive aggressive”. Hints suggest something wrong, but an obvious answer refuses to present itself, and it can be agonising. Knowing how to identify these problems is key since, as we all know, you can’t fix a problem if you don’t know it exists.

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The First Habit – Identifying Problems

Steps to success: Find a problem – Solve it.

Not sure what the five habits are? Read this blogpost to find out.

As I’ve said before, you can’t fix a problem if you don’t know it exists. That gives us the first step towards success in Reliability – Identifying problems. How do you do that? I’m here to dish out the answers. I’ll tell you where to look, what to find, and how to understand them in this very blogpost.

What’s the problem?

First off, finding problems is the foundational step to having your plant work to its greatest capacity. Look for the largest problems first. According to economist Pareto, 20% of your problems waste 80% of your time. Since you should always aim to get the greatest production out of the smallest investment, it is most common to locate an issue by looking for increased/increasing trends in cost and downtime. This has helped me track down larger issues in the past, and thus our team were able to get them fixed before they caused major damage.

How do you know if you have a problem?

While it is tempting to fix the first obvious issue you see and be done with it, that mindset distracts you from the wider scope. First, you need to understand if and where you have a problem. As a Reliability Engineer, you should always be searching for issues even if they aren’t immediately apparent. “But Peter!” you cry. “Where do I start?” Yes, I was rather vague when talking about trends in cost and downtime, but for a detailed list, check out the ‘5 Habits’ book.

How do you know what kind of problem it is?

Identify what part of the plant needs the most improvement, and then work on that. There are two common ways problems present themselves:

The chronic problem.

Symptoms include numerous smaller problems making a bigger one. If you don’t realise all the little problems you’re having are part of a big problem, you’ll get an even bigger problem, like a systemic shutdown.

The ‘Big Bangs’.

It’s almost as literal as it sounds. These problems are fast, obvious, destructive, and unexpected. They require instant action.

Here are some strategies to combat these problems. I identify the top three worst problem machines, then begin with the first. I check records for downtime and lost production capacity to do this. The team should have regular meetings to discuss defect elimination or continuous improvement.  You need time and room for this work. Other things can cause you to loose focus and drop the ball on this task of identifying problems. You will be back to where you started if this happened. And if nothing is going wrong, keep improving the plant to form the habit. If you aren’t struggling to stay afloat, it’s time to swim and get ahead.

Congrats! You’re about to take your first step towards improvement as a Reliability Engineer. If you know where, how, and what problems to search for, you’re doing just fine. But as mentioned before, this is only the first step. For more information, look out for future blogposts and check out the Extraordinary Reliability Engineer course available for registration on Eventbrite to learn more about future steps.

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Five Habits of Great Reliability Engineers

Good habits lead to great success.

In my years as a Reliability Engineer, I have discovered five habits that help me work to my fullest potential. These are all responses to the five common mistakes of a Reliability Engineer discussed in the previous blog post. By employing these habits, if you haven’t already, your ability to find, understand, and solve problems will greatly improve.

Habit 1 – Identify problems

You can’t fix a problem if you don’t know it exists, which is why you must know how to identify them. And many problems do like to appear non-existent, floating just below the surface. The key to being a successful Reliability Engineer is to always assume something is wrong, and do everything possible to assume your suspicions are correct. But how? First, ask the following questions:

  • Does your plant have unforeseen failures?
  • Where is money spent?
  • Are production targets being met?

Don’t dismiss anything as “bad luck” or “just the way it is”, because many of these things are problems waiting for a solution. To locate your problems, find data and evidence. It could be related to production and maintenance costs, production downtime, maintenance overruns or maintenance schedules. Once you found your issues, my suggestion is to address them biggest to smallest, and begin to dissect your first problem.

Habit 2 – Find the cause

Knowing the cause of a problem is essential to fixing it. There’s a difference between treating symptoms and treating the disease. You might be able to fix a machine when it breaks, but whatever broke the machine in the first place is still around, and will break it again. I used to work at a pump station that was operating too fast, and the company brought the cheapest Variable Speed Drive (VSD) available to slow it down. A year later, the bearings in two pump units failed. After a practical dissection, we found out these bearings had been fluted by electrical currents emitted by the flimsy VSD. From there we only needed to contain the stray currents and insulate the bearings to eliminate the problem. If you can figure out the root cause for machine breakage, you can design your solutions. It’ll save you a lot of work and expense in future.

Habit 3 – Assess the alternatives

Organizations talk about continuous improvement and one of the keys is assessing the alternatives. In my experience, no one does that enough. People repeat the same actions for months, maybe years, and their methods eventually become outdated. Do the same problems arise even after you solve them? Are your meetings monotonous and disengaging? Does accounting complain about a particular maintenance cost? Yes? Assess the alternatives. Look beyond what is immediately presented to you. I was able to check the tightness of bolts on machinery using an aviation engineering product called “Torque Check”. Improved methods, tools, software, and communication become available at a rate faster than ever seen before. Pay attention to these changes, think outside the box, learn from others outside your field, and you may find a more efficient and effective way to maintain and improve the plant.

Habit 4 – Decide with data

Found a solution or opportunity for improvement? Want to implement it? Better have data to back yourself up. People won’t care unless they know the benefits. I’ve observed as others ignored the problems Reliability Engineers found. I once observed the work management of some reliability engineers who kept finding problems, but they never recorded them. Naturally without proper data, no one cared. I started doing weekly meetings where I used data from sources outside the inspections to illustrate how more problems were finding us than we found them, and improved the inspection process my colleagues underwent. Within weeks, they found far more problems than they did with the initial method. Armed with reliable data, solutions were finally implemented, with other colleagues in full support of the adjustments. Change is ignited by passion, so get anyone important to care.

Habit 5 – Implement by facilitation

Note that a Reliability Engineer is one cog in a network about more than just Reliability. You must work with others in your company but outside your field. I’ve had to implement systems where I don’t have the technical know-how, so I needed help from others. The catch is that I do not have authority over those people, because they work in their separate departments. By facilitating them, I can get things implemented with more permanence. Once I had to implement a new system and needed the help of several people working in non-reliability positions. To make it a success, I knew facilitating clear and constant communication was paramount. First, I introduced the project to all the relevant people individually, and then re-introduced it at a formal meeting. We had a Gantt chart to track who needed to what and by when, and when any problems arose, I made sure to contact whoever was involved to ensure they were creating a solution. In the end, through much teamwork, we finished the project that I could not do on my own, and I’m sure everyone was proud.

Good habits are key to any successful career, and these five habits for reliability engineers are no different. You’ll find problems easier to find gain a deeper understanding of said problems, as well as find new and efficient solutions never considered before by you or your colleagues. You’ll find yourself endlessly improving yourself and your plant, and receive much satisfaction in return.

For more information on adopting these five habits to solve your problems, you should take a peak at our Extraordinary Reliability Engineer course taught by the highly experienced Peter Horsburgh. Registration for the event is free and available on Eventbrite.