The Art of Creating a Reliability Plan — Accendo Reliability

A plan is a road map toward a destination. It provide guidance toward a goal. The idea of a plan is to consider the path forward, the knowledge necessary to acquire, and the decisions along the way.

No plan is perfect other than those that successfully accommodate the successes and setbacks along the way. No plan can anticipate all the information yet to be uncovered, yet it can set a course to deliberately uncover what is necessary to move forward.

There is no one plan that will work within your organization. There is a framework to guide your plan development and adjustments along the way. What worked for your previous project will not quite work for the next one. Every situation and challenge is unique, thus every plan has to be unique.

Reliability Plan and Decisions

A reliability plan assists the people in your organization to make better decisions that result in creating a reliable product the meets your customs and your business objectives. A plan provides a roadmap for your team to know what is the objective what are the hurdles in knowledge or understanding that may prevent the achievement of those objectives. A well crafted plan sets out specific tasks to address the creation of the specific information that enables the entire team to make appropriate decisions resulting in a reliable product.

The essence of a reliablity plan is to incorporate the reliablity vision, understand the gaps, and provide a robust set of tasks that allow a team to set a goal, understand and learn along the way as they adjust to the available information as they consider the many priorities, including reliability performance.

Keep in mind that a plan does not create a reliable product — it is the thousands of decisions that occur during the creation of a product, from concept through manufacturing, shipping, and installation. Reliability is built-in primarily during the design phase by all the decisions concerning design concept, component selection, material selection, etc. These decisions are not all laid out in the reliability plan, yet the plan can influence all of the decisions across an organization that impact reliability performance.

Stay Flexible

Another key concept is a plan is not a fixed object once created. It has to bend, flow, or change as the information available, constraints, and…