I conducted an MTA introduction for major worldwide food processing company this week.  Instead of sitting though a bunch of presentations on the values of FMEA and our tools, we had them select an asset to perform an analysis.  They selected a proprietary asset that was causing more than normal downtime for their plant and processes.  This session was designed to be a combination of an introductory/education session, actual MTA (FMEA) and software training session.  We had 2 representatives from the plant (operations and maintenance) with 10 more observers sitting in from around the world.   We  started by facilitating the session and made such quick progress were able to hand the process over and let one of their observers facilitate and offer some coaching.  Results were recorded in our application as we conducted the analysis, real time.  We were then able to spend time discussing different options for implementing the routes quickly to the floor especially using some of the new slick functions in EXP Release 5.14 to speed implementation.  

Result from week;  great to see a customer get real value and quick results using our tools; we have generated lots of interest from the locations outside North America;  now working to put a plan together to engage the rest of North America and other locations around the world. 

Sometimes a one week analysis is worth a thousand words.

February 19th, 2010   David Crozier   Developments in EXP - Process & Practices   Leave a Comment »