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Are you being ruined by efforts? Does your maintenance and reliability strategy really support defect elimination and incident avoidance?

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  • Tuesday, 27 November 2012
  • 00:00
  • Duration: 18 mins
  • Publication date: 27 Nov 2012
  • Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Asset Management 2012

About the session

This presentation discusses the problems of "best effort", and asks whether a "best-effort" maintenance and reliability strategy is really the best way to support defect elimination and incident avoidance.

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    Michael Whittaker

    Management Resources Group Inc. (MRG), Senior Consultant

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