Kumar says that every item is unreliable in the sense that its failure is inevitable whether sooner or later, even with the best design, construction, maintenance, and operation.
The purpose of this article is to send a clarion call of creating a balance between the benefits and disadvantages of innovation we seek to master and introduce to our communities in pursuit of better, faster, cheaper and robust quality products and processes for the benefit of humankind.
How diligently do we monitor and measure lead time, cycle time, downtime, set-up time, run time, mean-time-to-failure, dock-to-dock time and other variations of time-based measures?
What every student of leadership agrees on is that there is no right leadership style. It all depends on the context and the situation – called situational Leadership.
Many experts talk about Artificial Intelligence that will soon surpass our own intelligence. On this one I beg to differ, collectively we cannot be less intelligent than our own creation.
Kumar describes Reliability as ‘an integral part of design, operation, and maintenance for most engineering systems/assets. The concept of reliability discipline deals primarily with two types, namely hardware reliability and software reliability.
Manage Basic Team Dynamics and Techniques (for Continuous Business Improvement) is a 4-day Skills Programme that addresses five performance areas (PA’s).
Sondor believes in empowering their staff, strives to enable them to develop their capabilities, and reach their potential through appropriate training. They signed up staff members to complete ODI’s NQF3 in Production Technology (Competitive Operations) learnership, facilitated by Gerald McKinnon.