Risk, reliability, projections, and experience must be brought together to understand current business needs and future functions. Investment in technology must be used to satisfy those needs. These new processes often require a paradigm shift in order to be successful. This paradigm shift necessitates that we implement new processes and modify or eliminate old processes. Resistance to change is quite often the largest barrier to successful implementation of new technologies and procedures.
People resist change and tend to trust familiar practices more than new ones.
Reliability analysis Reliability analysis is a business practice that will make your business more competitive. The goal of analyzing installed assets is to uncover the reasons, symptoms, causes, and effects of equipment unreliability to get a handle on unexpected equipment failures. If the decision-makers in the company do not accept this concept, there is virtually no probability of success for the program. This is not to imply that this should be the only criterion used to make these decisions, but that reliability analysis can be used to modify this approach to improve reliability. Some companies track failure data separately, simply to report on reliability.