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• Build and benefit from a skill-based pay system

  By George Simonoff and Bob Kazar, The Wonderful Co.

  Editor’s note: George Simonoff, CMRP, and Bob Kazar, CMRP, serve as director of reliability and director of reliability systems, respectively, at Los Angeles-based The Wonderful Co. Kazar additionally was chairman of SMRP from 2015–2016. At a reliability conference in Las Vegas last spring,…

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• Applying reliability principles at the plant and at home

  By Thomas Wilk, editor in chief

  This month marks the first anniversary of my wife and I becoming homeowners for the first time.It took a little longer than expected to hit this milestone – for example, my little sister bought her first home nearly 25 years ago – but at least the delay gave me a lot of time listen and learn…

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• Get your reliability game running: Know where you are and where you're going

  By Victor Foster, CMRP, Lucite International

  This is part 1 of the Plant Services' August cover story. My company, Lucite International, is a global player in acrylics manufacturing, and we pride ourselves on always setting our standards high. However, in 2015, our reliability program was not meeting our high organizational standards. Over…

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• Get your reliability game running: Plan for the future

  By Victor Foster, CMRP, Lucite International

  This is part 2 of the Plant Services' August cover story. My company, Lucite International, is a global player in acrylics manufacturing, and we pride ourselves on always setting our standards high. However, in 2015, our reliability program was not meeting our high organizational standards. Over…

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• How mobility is reshaping asset management best practices

  By Sheila Kennedy, CMRP, contributing editor

  Plant professionals are most productive when they are up and about – not tethered to a workstation. Mobility is a natural element of Industry 4.0 and asset performance management (APM) 4.0 because it fosters proactive activity through constant connection to information. Mobile enterprise asset…

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• Lessons in manufacturing workforce management from 'Thomas and Friends'

  By Christine LaFave Grace, managing editor

  I have an almost 2-year-old son at home, and this sweet kid has a passion for trains unlike anything I could have imagined for a kid not old enough for preschool yet. We live a few blocks from a rail line, and he and I walk down the block, up the next street and down a big hill almost daily to…

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