Reliability Consulting - Coaching & Mentoring

Sustained Reliable Operations

Our approach begins with developing a high level of awareness and understanding of reliability concepts with leadership and moves through all levels of your organization to ensure your employees become effectively engaged and take ownership of the assets’ health and performance.

Allied Reliability provides on-site operations management and process improvement training, coaching, and facilitation based on your specific needs, timing, and budget for your reliability journey. When doing so, Allied Reliability provides critical support during implementation, including the following:

Building a business case for change
Selecting Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and developing benefit tracking systems
Ensuring correct selection and application of tools
Driving your reliability journey forward
Developing your implementation team through Learn-Do or training and coaching your workforce
Teaching and coaching managers throughout your reliability journey to help them understand the process changes and their changing roles

Leadership and Change Management

Change management coaching is a personalized approach to executing the fundamental elements required for successful change implementation. Participants in the coaching process can expect to receive training, direction, and feedback with the aim to develop or improve upon the use of proven change management techniques and tools. Utilizing best practice change management methodology has proven to significantly increase ROI for performance improvement initiatives requiring behavior changes relating to an organization’s culture.

Reliable Maintenance Execution

We work side-by-side with your management and crew to improve the entire maintenance work cycle and the processes that support it. Allied Reliability helps your organization clearly understand and improve maintenance performance and streamline, agree to, document, and institutionalize your company’s best practices, resulting in bottom-line cost reduction and higher equipment utilization.

Reliable maintenance execution requires the creation/improvement of the following elements:

Strategy Development: The analysis of predominant failure modes and their effects, which leads to the development and assignment of proactive inspections such as preventive maintenance (PM), condition monitoring, and predictive maintenance (PdM) tasks as countermeasures.
The Maintenance Work Cycle: The identification, prioritization, planning, scheduling, preparation, execution, and reporting of maintenance tasks, as well as the assessment of maintenance task performance and equipment history.
Work Measurement and Execution: The cost-efficient and effective performance of maintenance tasks with people having the right skills and following maintenance standard work.
Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO) Materials Management: The determination of quantities of spares, storeroom management, vendor management, and repair specifications.
Lubrication Management: The identification, consolidation, labeling, and storage of lubricants.

Manufacturing Excellence

Many organizations that lack the required agility in their manufacturing process resort to building large warehouses full of finished goods in anticipation of future customer demand. This agility is achieved by reducing sources of variation, which is best accomplished through an appropriate combination of the following techniques (and in this logical order):

5S
Standard Work
Centerlining
Quick Changeover (SMED)

More than a consulting exercise, the Manufacturing Excellence consulting engagement allows for the immediate application of the lessons learned with a corresponding immediate return on the effort.

Reliability Systems Review

Figuring out where you stand – and identifying where you can improve – is the first step on any successful Reliability Journey. Allied Reliability’s Reliability Systems Review (RSR) can help by showing you what to focus on to gain the highest return for your investments and create impactful changes across the board.

Achieve success by aligning your organization to a common reliability vision, identifying areas to optimize efficiency and effectiveness, educating your team on reliability best practices, developing a detailed action plan to close the gaps, and building both an opportunity case and a business case for ROI.

During the Reliability Systems Review, Allied analyzes your production performance data, maintenance work practices, and current maintenance and reliability culture, then provides formal feedback on where your biggest gaps and most significant opportunities exist. In addition to a full report of the RSR findings, your team will have a business case for change that maps out the financial impact of uncovering the hidden potential in your asset base to help you realize a higher return and a detailed Reliability Roadmap that will close the gaps identified during the RSR, along with a communication plan for the governance structure and a list of performance metrics to measure the success of your reliability journey.

Targeted Assessments and Baselines

If you are not yet ready to undertake a full reliability journey or need to measure a specific part of your organization, consider Allied Reliability’s targeted assessment options, including:

Assessment of a specific area, line, or process
CBM Assessment or Baseline
Reliability Centered Lubrication (RCL) Assessment
Free one-day workshop to learn more about the Reliability Systems Review approach