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6 | July - August 2019 | www . machinerylubrication.com ML AS I SEE IT strategy patterned after e Toyota Way/Production System. He refers to long-term thinking, the importance of top-down leadership and the need to align reliability to the broader organizational objectives. Closely related are employee engagement (culture), action plans, metrics, compliance assessments, training, proce- dure-based work and much more. is all underpins the ideology and principles of asset management, and as such rightly deserves the top spot in the transformational change chart. ICML 55 Elements: Management (12), Skill (1) Kaizen, TPM & CBM Many books and thousands of articles have been written on these subjects. ey are the cornerstone of all modern concepts in maintenance and reliability. Moore points out that one of the main benefi ts of kaizen and TPM is that they are not isolated thrusts but are instead broad-based. ey can alter culture and aff ect the activity of people from the plant fl oor to the CEO. As such, you enable deep and widespread transformation, improve- ment and benefi t. e strategic and tactical elements that facilitate transformational change from these philosophies are numerous. ese include: • Standardization of work practice • Visual systems and Inspection 2.0 • 5-S and autonomous maintenance • Cleanliness and orderly work environment • Operator asset care • Overall equipment eff ectiveness (OEE) • PM optimization • Training and continuous learning • Motivated staff involvement • Continuous improvement Moore refers to condition monitoring and predictive maintenance as "sophisticated inspection." is is exactly what is happening. Sensors and instruments serve as data collectors. Software and algorithms aid in problem detec- tion, diagnosis and prognosis. As always, there should be a root cause emphasis (proactive maintenance) that is paired with predictive maintenance for early fault detection. As condition-based maintenance (CBM) moves increasingly online and toward the industrial internet of things (IIoT), the human element fades or diminishes. Portable data collectors and human analysts are over- taken by real-time sensors, predictive analytics, etc. e velocity of these trends is real and unstoppable. While Industry 4.0 is the buzzword that keeps being mentioned, references are already being made to Industry 5.0. ICML 55 Elements: Lube Tasks (4), Tools (5), Inspec- tion (6), Lubricant Analysis (7), Waste and Energy (9-10), Contamination Control (11) RCM, RCA & Six Sigma Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is the core reliability platform for many organizations, and for good reason. It has produced powerful and prominent tactual methods, including failure modes and eff ects analysis (FMEA), criticality analysis (failure probability and consequences), the P-F interval and life expectancy. However, as Moore explains, RCM should not preempt the foundational elements of the fi rst two major steps (asset management, TPM, etc.). Some have viewed RCM as too technical and diffi cult to mainstream 45% of lubrication professionals say their organization does not have a system to manage change in their lubrication program, based on a recent survey at MachineryLubrication.com