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Reliable Plant Anniversary Edition | www . reliableplant.com 17 45%, and that is the equivalent of increasing your team's productivity by 35%, all without hiring anyone. By implementing a robust, effective process, your work environment also becomes less reactive. Teams finally find the time to get rid of those recurring problems, your people are less frustrated and start to see the benefits of a reliability-based culture, and those early warnings from your CBM program will get the attention they deserve. If you want to know where your gaps are when it comes to main- tenance planning and scheduling, then you can utilize a maintenance and planning scorecard that provides personalized feedback and recom- mendations on how to improve. ACHIEVING SUCCESS WITH CBM Let's be clear, planning and scheduling are essential prerequisites before you implement a CBM program — without them, your CBM efforts will fail. But there is, of course, a great deal more to consider when creating an effective CBM program. You must: • Understand the failure modes and consequences of the equipment you're managing so you can make a sound decision about what CBM solution is appropriate. • Understand the condition-monitoring techniques you are plan- ning to use. • Train team members to use the equipment, analyze the data, and make robust recommendations on when and how to intervene. • Consider if you need to implement new software solutions. • Manage the implementation of your CBM program as a project with a clearly-defined scope and success criteria. FINAL THOUGHTS CBM is essential to creating a reliable plant because most failure modes are not age-related and can only be effectively managed with CBM. e problem most organizations face, however, is that they operate in a reactive maintenance environment and are unable to effectively deal with the "weak signals" that CBM provides. Implementing CBM too early is a waste of time and money. To make CBM successful in your organization, you first need to have a stable working environment in place so that you can act on the early warning signals provided by your CBM program in a timely fashion. In doing so, you effectively create a stable working environment with an effective maintenance planning and scheduling process.