SIRF Roundtables Blog

Thank you all who attended the SIRF IMRt Masterclass - Asset Management - Measures that support business objectives and attract investment in Maintenance and Reliability event last week.

Thank you to all for attending the Common Interest Work Group (CIWG) on Getting the best from Maximo CMMS - Implementing Process Safety with Energy Australia.

March 23rd, We have had an informative Industrial Maintenance (IMRt) event on Improving Energy Productivity.

Welcome to our September 2021 Newsletter. A lot has happened at SIRF Roundtables in a month.

Do you have Workers or Problem Solvers ?

Above: AGV's can help with Criteria 9!

It’s been a while since I last wrote about one of my passions, Lean Layout Design. Previously I’ve written about Four Levels of Workplace Design and Eight Principles of Lean Layout, and at the end of the Lean Layout piece I teased two more articles explaining the 18 Criteria for a Lean Layout. Well, I’ve finally taken the time to put my thoughts together, and this is part one, the “front nine” of those 18 criteria. But first, a quick review:

Our sincere thanks to Daryl Davis , General Manager of Ductmakers for his excellent Masterclass on People Development and People Management  for SIRF this Tuesday

Some years ago, as a young engineer promoted into the role of Reliability manager for a large site in a regional country town, I received an email from someone about a meeting about reliability and it was at Qantas at the airport. Not sure I really fully understood what reliability really even meant at the time… so I thought why not attend… if anyone knows something about reliability it must be Qantas as their planes don’t fall out of the sky!