This session defines and raises awareness of the roles, responsibilities, and cultural changes required to achieve Reliable Manufacturing® excellence. Participants examine the sources of most machine failures, review what best-in-class performers do today, and understand the profitable results that come from a higher-skilled, more engaged workforce. Delivered through presentations, live demonstrations, and field observations, the session provides a practical foundation for beginning the path to Reliable Manufacturing®.

Why This Training Matters

• Builds leadership awareness and organizational alignment
• Connects reliability improvement to bottom-line business results
• Defines what “good” looks like across the four reliability pillars
• Establishes the case for structured skill development and investment

Who Should Attend

• Corporate and senior leadership
• Area/line managers and superintendents
• Maintenance and operations supervisors
• Leaders responsible for reliability initiatives

What You’ll Be Able to Do

Reliability Awareness & Alignment

• Understand Reliable Manufacturing® principles and the improvement journey
• Recognize the sources of most machine failures and their business impact
• Review current practices against best-in-class benchmarks

The Four Pillars of Reliable Manufacturing

• Articulate the value of precision maintenance, operator care, and condition monitoring
• Understand the roles and responsibilities required to sustain reliability
• Recognize how skill development drives workforce engagement and results

Path Forward & Implementation

• Develop asset strategies and define work-system essentials
• Create an improvement plan that qualifies people, quantifies value, and reports progress
• Identify early wins and communicate success to leadership

Session Outline

• Foundations of Reliable Manufacturing® — defining Reliable Manufacturing®, the improvement journey, how machines fail, symptom vs. source, and the case for hard-skills training
• Reliable Manufacturing through Precision Maintenance — today’s craft technicians; how misalignment, unbalance, and assembly errors reduce life-cycle performance; the value and costs of Precision Maintenance®
• Reliable Manufacturing through Essential Operator Care — operator engagement, working on the P-F curve, and the value of the right routes, tools, and training
• Reliable Manufacturing through Condition Monitoring — asset condition assessment, roles and responsibilities, and understanding the value
• Bringing It All Together — asset strategies, work-system essentials, building an improvement plan, and sustaining results

Format

• Presentations, live demonstrations, and field observations
• Reliability observation notes for a current-state assessment

Participants Are Expected To

• Engage in presentations, demonstrations, and field observations
• Complete reliability observation notes for current-state assessment
• Identify improvement priorities for their facility or organization
• Support the path forward with sponsorship and advocacy

Ready to register? Use the booking form on this page, or call Vincent Asselin at (438) 887-4817.