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Issue 1.04 ~ July 2011

Dear Maintenance Professional,

In this issue's Discovery Points, we'll introduce you to Lean for Maintenance with a free whitepaper that will give you insights on lean techniques you can use to improve the efficiency of your maintenance program. In our Product Spotlight, we'd like to let you know about a tremendously effective way for your organization to experience the benefits of planning and scheduling. Our Work Management Simulation Bootcamp, hailed as the top training event by the world’s largest pharmaceutical corporation, is geared towards enabling management, maintenance and production groups and even corporate departments like purchasing to experience the benefits of applying industry best practices to work planning and scheduling.

We've just completed a new video Executive Summary that effectively captures our corporate philosophy and gives an overview of our products and deliverables. Please take a look and let us know what you think.


In This Issue:
Discovery Points: Lean for Maintenance
Product Spotlight: Work Management Simulation
Corporate News
Reliability Fusion™ 30-Day Trial
Conferences and Events
New Video: LAI Reliability Systems Executive Summary

We'd like to invite you to watch our new Executive Summary introducing LAI's products and services. In our 36+ years of reliability consulting, we've discovered that of all the maintenance services we provide, there are four distinct disciplines that have the greatest impact on your bottleneck. This video introduces our approach to freeing up labor and maximizing reliability.

Did You Know?

LAI's TPM Satellite Lube CenterSM offers a low cost solution to storing lubricants and cleaners as well as providing necessary storage space for supplies where you need them most – by your equipment. Click here for more info...


Reaching Out to You

Need to find out more about LAI Reliability Systems, Inc. and our family of great Lean Maintenance Management products and training? Please give us a call at:

1-800-993-2828

Visit our Website

For more information about LAI Reliability Systems' set of lean maintenance solutions, visit our website at laireliability.com.

Lean for Maintenance

As a maintenance and reliability professional, are you being asked to deliver reliability with reduced resources? Today’s economic conditions demand greater levels of reliability and increased maintenance productivity with an ever-increasing focus on reducing costs. In order to survive, an organization’s plans must turn to optimizing maintenance capacity as a means to achieve their goals.

Continuous improvement processes such as lean and its tools have been the methods of choice for most organizations over the past 10 years. Although the business sides of these companies realize tremendous improvements, many maintenance processes are left to be a part of someone else’s lean event or simply made “leaner.”

LAI invites you to download our lean maintenance whitepaper, "Asset Reliability through Maintenance Efficiency" to help you answer your questions about how applying lean techniques to your maintenance program can improve efficiency.



Work Management SimulationSM

One of the most powerful training experiences you’ll ever attend is our Work Management Simulation, where all groups within your organization work through a reactive maintenance environment struggling to deliver equipment reliability.  The discovery is priceless and you’ll gain new insights into Planning and Scheduling.


Work in China and Ireland

We've been globe-trotting to opposite sides of the world in the past month to share our expertise in PM Optimization and in solving maintenance program problems through lean maintenance management initiatives. In another global communication initiative through the World Wide Web, we've also got our Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts up and active (see the bottom of this page for more info). In brief...

  • Tibor Jung visited the Peoples Republic of China during the month of June to conduct Work Management SimulationSM training exercises for manufacturing managers from Suzhou, Singapore and other areas of China. Click here to find out more...
  • A tip o' the hat to Mike Visocnik as returns from his "Irish National Tour," where he has been working at multiple sites for a major client on their Work Management Planning and Scheduling initiatives. Click here to find out more...
  • Visit the LAI Reliability Higher Maintenance Blog for LEAN Maintenance tips, discussion, optimization techniques and more LAI news. We'll be regularly adding to the blog and welcome any comments or thoughts about it.
  • To check on back issues of the Higher Maintenance eNewsletter, click here to visit our Newsletter Archive.

Reliability Fusion™ 30-Day Trial

We're offering a free 30-Day Trial of our awarding-winning software suite, Reliability Fusion™. As an independent software solution for your PM Optimization, Work Management or Operator Care needs, Reliability Fusion™ will do everything you need and fills in the gaps in your CMMS.  In addition to its core capabilities, it can communicate your optimized process with Maximo, SAP or Datastream. Call 1-800-993-2828 today for a live demonstration.



We now have accounts setup at Facebook and LinkedIn to keep in touch with our friends and acquaintances in the Reliability community. Our YouTube.com channel is also now active to share maintenance management tips and products and services announcements. Click on the icons below to visit these accounts or look for the icons on our website.


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