Operational Excellence Requires a Strategic Framework — Here’s Why

December 21, 2021

When companies use fractured systems in silos to develop an Operational Excellence Management System, the resulting application proliferation makes..

Enterprise Loss Prevention and the Interface to Operations

October 28, 2021

In challenging economic times, many companies focus on optimizing existing production facilities instead of expanding or investing in new ones. The..

Failure Elimination

September 15, 2021

When organizations experience failures in their facilities, they face expensive equipment repairs, production losses, and decreased reliability. To..

Operational Performance Management

July 15, 2020

In operating facilities, millions of data points and billions of records are created daily. In fact, one terabyte of production data is being..

A Connected Workforce Drives Successful ORM

July 6, 2020

By Dan Miklovic, Founder and Principal Analysasdt at Lean Manufacturing Research, LLC; and a member of The Analyst Syndicate. In my previous..

How Do MOC and Conduct of Operations Drive a Connected Workforce Environment? (Part 2)

June 26, 2020

In Part 1 of this series, we talked about an operating environment where all of the information, history, and procedures needed to safely and..

How Do MOC and Conduct of Operations Drive a Connected Workforce Environment? (Part 1)

June 26, 2020

As stated in a previous post, Management of Change (MOC) is a core foundational element for managing operational risk well. In fact, MOC touches..

Mitigating Risk to ALARP Levels Through Operational Risk Management

June 10, 2020

By Dan Miklovic, Founder and Principal Analyst at Lean Manufacturing Research, LLC; and a member of The Analyst Syndicate. In my post, “Operational..

Operational Risk Management Taking on Heightened Importance

May 28, 2020

By Dan Miklovic, Founder and Principal Analyst at Lean Manufacturing Research, LLC; and a member of The Analyst Syndicate. Operational risk,..

Integration Alone Doesn’t Lead to Transformation

May 27, 2020

Today, the focus of many IT projects in the petrochemical world is on configuration and integration. In other words, companies seek a software..

Why Enterprise Loss Prevention (ELP) is a core element of the Intelligent Operations Framework

October 10, 2019

By David Drerup. In our previous post, I shared why MOC corresponds to the skeletal system for Intelligent Operations. If MOC is the skeleton, ELP is..

Why MOC is part of the core fabric for Intelligent Operations

September 20, 2019

By David Drerup. One of the core framework components of Intelligent Operations is Management of Change (MOC). MOC is rather like a skeletal system..