A Low-Risk Way to Begin Your Operations Transformation
A structured starting point that builds alignment, identifies readiness, and creates a clear, executable plan for improvement. Big Goals. Unclear Starting Point. Many organizations know what they want to improve—cost, throughput, reliability, safety, digital maturity—but struggle with where to start. Launching initiatives without alignment or readiness often leads to: That’s why IE starts differently. A […]
OEE – Frequently Used; Often Misused
Dr. Filiep Samyn Senior Operations Analyst View Profile “Are you using the right metrics?” “The goal of the business is not to show-off its efficiencies.” The Goal (Goldratt & Cox, 2004) The Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) metric has enjoyed increasing popularity because of its perceived simplicity. Indeed, it allows decision makers to understand how effective […]
The 3 Keys to Achieving a High Performing Organization
Keith Johnson VP, Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Performance Excellence View Profile To achieve a competitive edge in today’s business landscape, companies must perform at optimal levels. Many try to improve performance by pouring their efforts into the structural elements of their management operating system, such as meetings, reports, metrics and KPI’s required to manage their […]
6 Steps to Make Data Your Comparative Advantage in Aviation MRO
Mike Petsas SVP, Analysis and Market Leader View Profile Data Maturity Gaps in Aerospace and Defense Is your company on the leading edge of the data culture or a laggard? It’s not too late to catch up to other industries that have crushed the competition. If we look at major players in the tech space […]
Leadership Strategies for Sustaining Change | IE
Rob Carroll Senior Operations Analyst View Profile “If a leader has no followers, he’s just taking a walk by himself.” -John Maxwell in Becoming a Person of Influence To be a leader requires only one thing: followers. Leadership has nothing to do with rank or title. It has to do with whether others choose to […]
Great Leaders Understand the Laws of Effective Teamwork
Rob Carroll Senior Operations Analyst View Profile To achieve great things, you need a team. At Implementation Engineers, every member of our team is hired to develop a team that lives the values of teamwork each and every day. All new hires receive a copy of The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork by John Maxwell because […]
Supply Chain Value & Systems Thinking Strategy | IE
Catherine Purdy SVP, Operations & Supply Chain View Profile Many clients engage with us on how to achieve optimal performance within their supply chain. Historically, leaders have often targeted improvement efforts on areas within their span of control, or on annual supplier price reductions to achieve their targets. Yet, year after year, this approach to […]
5 Key Elements of Asset Management Performance Excellence
Keith Johnson VP, Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Performance Excellence View Profile Not a week goes by that we don’t see or read the news about a company shutting down its operation or moving to another country due to financial difficulties. It makes you wonder what could have been done differently for the company to be […]
Leadership Skills for Asset Performance Excellence | IE
Keith Johnson VP, Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Performance Excellence View Profile Being an effective leader of any organization involves many qualities which have a profound impact on reaching Asset Performance Excellence. When speaking about leadership, it doesn’t matter if you are the first line supervisor, mid-level manager, or at the executive level; great leadership skills […]
Using the R-Squared Statistic in Anova and General Linear Models
Robert Ballard Senior Operations Analyst View Profile “All models are wrong but some are useful.” – George Box The statistic R2 is useful for interpreting the results of certain statistical analyses; it represents the percentage of variation in a response variable explained by its relationship with one or more predictor variables. Common Use of R2 […]