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Lean Equipment Management

Are you spending too much time focusing on programs and activities at the expense of results?

Equipment-intensive businesses cannot compete without reliable equipment. Improvement programs and activities often take too long and require a leap of faith. Competitive manufacturers and facilities will have to find new, innovative, and increasingly flexible ways to make their equipment more reliable to stay ahead of the competition… with fewer people than in the past. Learn more



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The Business Imperatives of a Performance-Oriented Work Culture
As maintenance and reliability professionals, we know how unreliable equipment and facilities can impact the bottom line of the business. Unfortunately, equipment reliability all too often ends up as a low priority in many American businesses. What many business executives fail to recognize is that equipment and facility reliability is as important as the health, safety, environmental and quality systems to the bottom line.
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Hang Up and Drive!
Today’s cell phones allow us to do many of the tasks that previously had to be done at home or in the office. The unintended consequences associated with cell phones are increasingly dangerous. Similar distractions in today’s technology-rich, fast-paced workplace not only cause injuries but also contribute to equipment problems and failures. Equipment operation, maintenance, repairs and setups are often compromised by people who are working while distracted.
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The Racing Theme: About Our Logo

SWS Pit Crew logoMotorsports racing provides us with many models for high-performing organizations. We have learned that championship racing teams practice many of the principles our clients strive for in modern manufacturing and maintenance, from teamwork and leadership to cost effectiveness and equipment reliability and much more. Our ongoing study of championship race teams and pit crews helps us teach our clients to improve their competitiveness and be more effective in their own races.
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