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.
This is the second series of Prof. Kumar’s lecture on engineering maintenance which deals with the How’s, Who’s and Where’s of maintenance activities. It follows after the first series that dealt with the Why, What, and When aspects.
CONTACT PATCH, the area of a car’s tyre that is in direct contact with the road surface at any given point, directly affects the quality of the ride. What is the ‘CONTACT PATCH’ for your business? Where does the proverbial ‘rubber hit the road’ in your business?