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reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) elements, total productive maintenance (TPM) emphasis, organizational align- ment, etc. Assessments start the ADDS process. ey are proactive maintenance at their core by reducing the root causes, frequency and severity of failures. ey also seek or examine the fundamental elements of a planned, structured, and organized main- tenance and reliability program. One could say it's like doing a root cause analysis (RCA) on your overall program as well as the general state of your machines. In other words, ADDS emphasizes the need to seek and deploy la st ing i mprovement s t hat spre ad benefi ts plant-wide, not just to specifi c machines. End-to-end transformations from A DDS can lead to immediate benefi ts, but the real purpose is more long term and systemic. Can You Assess Culture? I heard someone proclaim that the best reliability programs are about 80 percent culture and 20 percent every- thing else. At f irst, this may sound ridiculous or absurd. However, the more you think about it, the more it makes sense. Reliability is a behavioral science. It's driven by the actions of people — what they do and what they don't do. Culture drives these actions, as does leadership, training and measurement. ey are very much interrelated. We've seen organizations that have a strong safety or quality culture. How do you assess and strengthen reliability culture? One of the best ways is to examine metrics or key performance indicators (KPIs) to see how they are used and presented to staff . ese should include micro metrics (the trees) and macro metrics (the forest). Some should serve as lagging indicators (what just happened), while others should serve as leading indica- tors (what's going to happen). Your metrics dashboard is also your culture dashboard. ere is a book by Ron Moore titled Making Common Sense Common Prac- tice. e theme of this book is obvious. Reliability should not be viewed as high science but rather common sense applied and sustained. is also is the central theme of the ADDS process, and it is only achieved through the completion of all four steps. The Lion and the Gazelle I'll leave you with one last thought. It is from an African proverb called " e Race of Life:" "Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: to be able to run faster than the fastest lion. If he cannot, he will be eaten. "Every morning in Africa, a lion awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: to be able to run faster than the slowest gazelle. If he cannot, he will die of hunger. "Whether you choose to be a gazelle or a lion is of no consequence. It is enough to know that with the rising of the sun, you must run. is is the race of life." ML About the Author Jim Fitch has a wealth of "in the trenches" experience in lubrication, oil analysis, tribology and machinery failure investiga- tions. Over the past two decades, he has presented hundreds of courses on these subjects. Jim has also published more than 200 technical articles, papers and publica- tions. He serves as a U.S. delegate to the ISO tribology and oil analysis working group. Since 2002, he has been the director and a board member of the International Council for Machinery Lubrication. He is the CEO and a co-founder of Noria Corpo- ration. Contact Jim at jfi tch@noria.com. Vistit Us at Booth #203 www . machinerylubrication.com | September - October 2019 | 5