| RELIABILITY --- THE PROFIT FACTOR |
High maintenance costs and less than optimum equipment and process reliability are major concerns in today's manufacturing facilities.
Implementation of programs to improve reliability are often short-lived and expensive. Why? Because employees don't understand the programs, don't see how they fit together, and don't see how they relate to the work they do. The result: partially implemented programs that improve equipment reliability only at the expense of much higher maintenance costs.
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"After playing the game myself, I saw this as a powerful tool to help change the way we think and act about our business."
-Brian Johnson,
Reliability Team Leader
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company
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With The Manufacturing Game®, we have proven that higher reliability can be attained while lowering both maintenance costs and operational losses by addressing the need for organizational change. We have found that in order to make a significant change in reliability and cost, everyone in the organization needs to see their work differently and do their work differently.
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The Manufacturing Game® Workshop is a two-day acceleration of the "real world" experiences in the life of a manufacturing facility. It teaches the principal of systems thinking --- of how the actions of one area impact the function of another; and profitability of the whole. Through the "virtual world" of The Manufacturing Game®, participants are able to experience in one day, what could take years to experience in the "real world."
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"We have been deliberating why, in spite of dedicated efforts of a large group of talented people over a period of years, we remained stuck in the reactive mode."
-Paul Monus,
Senior Project Manager
British Petroleum
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