How much is ignorance costing your organization?
www.mpactlearning.com
Posted 10-04-04
Ignorance is more serious problem than what's identified
during the Tonight Show street interviews of pedestrians
for answers
to commonly known questions.
Studies have proven that approximately 70% of equipment failures
are self induced. Maintenance operations currently perform
at levels between 10-40% efficiency. Organizations typically
operate in the very expensive reactive mode and not the optimal
proactive mode. Businesses strive to achieve their performance
goals but yet continually fall short not due to customer demand
or competitor strength but simply due to obstacles of their
own creation.
Ignorance is a very expensive, unstated problem plaguing business.
Numerous companies literally are closing their factories and
receiving numerous lawsuit penalties due to product defects.
In addition many companies are losing market share not because
of the lack of sales or product quality but because of the
lack of manufacturing capacity. These results are often not
because of employee laziness, apathy or criminal intent. Many
times they literally just do not know any better method to
conduct themselves.
Ignorance is not just on the production floor.
Business executives have the ultimate influence in organizations
performance and direction. Maintenance is critical component
for a company to deliver capacity and quality. However, how
many actually truly understand the value of maintenance? How
many have actually attended a proactive maintenance seminar?
Daily CFO's reject personnel training programs and other capacity
enhancements initiatives due to short term costs. They typically
do not fully comprehend long term value provided. Although
they have good intentions of saving the company money, unknowingly
many are literally restricting their companies growth and ability
to fully achieve their business objectives.
"
The society that scorns excellence in plumbing, because it
is a "humble" activity, and tolerates shoddiness
in philosophy, because philosophy is an "exalted" activity,
will not have good plumbing nor good philosophy- neither its
pipes nor its theories will hold water." John Gardner
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