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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