World Productivity Day 2024 is on Thursday, June 20, 2024: what is world class maintenance?

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World class maintenance is in a broader sense is a combined effort of top management to bottom level staff by adopting the good maintenance practices as the case may be.

Preventive maintenance, predictive maintenance and corrective maintenance in true sense [ I mean real approach on day to day basis] is key to World class maintenance.

Purpose of World class maintenance is to ensure maximum equipment MTBF [mean time between failure] with proper planning , scheduling and execution of the all maintenance operation.

Result of adopting World class maintenance is reduction in down-time,reduction in in-process inventory and least deviation in final product parameter.

Read about "WCPM" [World class productivity management],TPM,TQM.

Best thing to adopt the principles of 5'S and Kaizen.

[5S is the name of a workplace organization methodology that uses a list of five Japanese words which, transliterated and translated into English, start with the letter S. This list is how it should be stored and most importantly how the new order will be maintained. This decision making process usually comes from a dialog about standardization which builds a clear understanding, between employees, of how work should be done. It also instills ownership of the process in each employee.]

Major results of Kaizen are Elimination of waste (muda) and incorporation of efficiency,tidiness

orderliness,cleanliness,standardization,sustaining the discipline.

Lot of work required to be done timely to achieve the objectives of world class maintenance.

One more point I want to add here to analysis of the maintenance activities using why-why analysis like tools and implementation of its end results so that the root cause of the problem can be sorted out and proper long lasting solution is achieved.

In short, objective of world class maintenance are:

Reduce Handovers

Reduce Setups

Reduce Throughput time

Quicker turnaround of inventory

Less WIP

Quick response to customers.

google the term "world class maintenance" for what you wanted in detail.

Why limit immigration these days?

Immigration is limited for neither economic reasons nor for taxes. It is limited to stop the national identity from changing too fast.

According to free trade economics, free migration maximizes world productivity, which in turn raises wages, lowers unemployment, and affords us more social programs.

Notice every one of these misinformed people who claim restricted immigration is to save the economy contradict themselves by wanting free migration within the U.S. The same fundamentals must apply internationally and nationally. Any small town in the U.S. could be overrun my economic migrants within the U.S., but they are not because the economy self regulates where we live and work.

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Hey "youarewrongbobisright", I wish you would allow email to save the embarassment: the U.S. Census predicts the U.S. will hit 400 million, not 600 million by 2050, the same year non-Hispanic Whites will become a minority, which explains all this lobbying for more restricted immigration.

edit: Yes, your 440 million for 2050 figure is up to date, with 2050 being the year that non-Hispanic Whites become a minority in the U.S. You are still wrong to claim restricted immigration protects the economy. According to free trade economics, restricted migration only hurts the world's economy, so you are still sadly mistaken.

I agree with you that generally, world population growth should be slowed, but migration restrictions and the resulting poverty is not the way to do it. Ironically, poor people have far more children, so because your ideas help keep people poor, you are helping deplete the world's resources, which are sold on world markets.

Hey GoGo Girls, you accuse immigrants of being undereducated and poor. What is undereducated anyways if not most of our families, yet they all work, don't they. How much education does a cook, truck driver, or painter need? GoGo Girls, I suppose you are naive enough to suggest we don't need these jobs done, that we only need doctors, lawyers, and engineers.

Those "undereducated" workers displace Americans up the wage scale by doing jobs that have to be done, so their contributions are not just direct tax-wise, they are indirect.

what can we do to eliminate world hunger?

A World Without Hunger May Be Within Reach

Development of food biotechnology, if strategically targeted, can help nourish the poor in developing nations, according to Channapatna S. Prakash, Ph.D., a leading expert in agricultural biotechnology.

"Agricultural development will be critical in meeting future world food needs, reducing poverty and protecting the environment," says Dr. Prakash, professor of Plant Molecular Genetics and the director of the Center for Plant Biotechnology Research at Tuskegee University in Alabama."To further increase agricultural productivity equitably in an environmentally sustainable manner in the face of diminishing land and water resources is a highly challenging task."

"Science has brought profound benefits to humanity, especially in the past century and has doubled the lifespan of people even in the poorest countries. Continued applications from science, especially those that target poor countries in their ability to produce more food in an environmentally sustainable manner, is going to be critical in the future," Dr. Prakash asserts.

Developing countries can produce more food from crops enhanced through biotechnology and achieve the following:

Diminish crop loss from pests and diseases

Decrease amounts of fertilizer and pesticides used

Stem destruction of tropical rainforests and enhance biodiversity

Increase shelf-life of food by curtailing spoilage

Improve food quality and nutrition

Strengthen crops to better tolerate adverse conditions such as drought and poor soil

Boost local food production

Bring profitability to farming through novel products; including industrial and pharmaceutical products

Approximately 774 million people go to bed hungry nightly, and nearly 30,000 people-half of them children-die every day due to hunger-related causes. By 2020, the number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa is expected to increase dramatically, according to Dr. Prakash.

We are helping to eliminate nutritional deficiencies through biotechnology. Biotechnology can expedite the development of new varieties and enhance marginal crops like millet, plantain, grains, legumes, cassava and sweet potatoes that are important staples in the developing world.

Development of high-yielding grain varieties has improved conditions in parts of the developing world by creating an enhanced, affordable food supply and boosting incomes for millions of farmers. It has also reduced the incidence of famine and starvation despite the population growth in the past few decades. Nevertheless, insecurity regarding food supplies and malnutrition persists in much of the developing world, according to Dr. Prakash.

Biotech corn, already widely used in the United States, produces its own protection against the corn borer. Research is under way on sweet potatoes that protect themselves against viruses, and on rice, beans, cassava and other staple foods with enhanced natural tolerance to diseases, pests and physical stresses, says Dr. Prakash.

"We are also helping to eliminate nutritional deficiencies through biotechnology. Biotechnology can expedite the development of new varieties and enhance marginal crops like millet, plantain, grains, legumes, cassava and sweet potatoes that are important staples in the developing world," comments Dr. Prakash." In 1997, the World Bank Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research estimated that biotechnology could help improve world food production by up to 25 percent."

Golden Rice, which is genetically fortified with vitamin A, may soon address vitamin A deficiency, a condition for which 200 to 400 million children are at risk. About a half-million children lose their vision yearly as a result of vitamin A deficiency, according to Dr. Prakash. People living in poverty are especially at risk for vitamin A deficiency because they have access to very few fruits and vegetables and consume mostly rice. Golden Rice will eliminate at least a part of this problem without changing crop patterns, eating habits or implementing expensive logistical interventions.

Biotechnology can partially help eliminate hunger by simply increasing the availability of locally grown, affordable food. Technology can help reduce hunger, poverty, malnourishment and micronutrient deficiencies, while potentially empowering people." Biotechnology by itself will not eliminate hunger or poverty," Dr. Prakash cautions. "It is only a tool that, along with other options, can be a powerful element of change and can help catalyze developing nations to advance."

"The challenge of the future is helping policymakers move forward. Information, hope and optimism will provide a base for responsible change. The first step will be the biggest challenge. The elements that are needed to put policies in place in food biotechnology are money, technical expertise, biosafety and intellectual property laws, and mechanisms to facilitate technology transfer and generation," concludes Dr. Prakash.