Deck 9: Be Alert for Unconscious Bias, Everyone Has It

Question 1

What are the four parts of your CMMS?

A) Transactions, files, processing, output
B) Work orders, Rules for processes, Cloud, Analysis
C) Input, Editing, Queries, Standard reports
D) Sensors, Work orders, Cloud, Analytics

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Why can't you buy a CMMS and just turn it on?

A) First, build files and configuration
B) You should be able to.
C) Nobody would use it.
D) Vendors don't understand the real needs of maintenance

Answer 2

A

Question 3

What is one way to improve data integrity while also supporting great maintenance practices?

A) Have the trades own the data they create
B) Yell more, so people know you are serious
C) Conduct an audit and fire the people who don't go along with the program
D) When you catch a mistake, call the person out publicly and berate them

Answer 3

A

Question 4

In planning the goal is:

A) To accurately deconstruct the maintenance job into all the things needed to do the job
B) To get the most out of people
C) To make sure the shop meets its promises
D) To better fit the person to the job

Question 5

What are elements of the maintenance job?

A) Up to date drawings
B) Weather report
C) Number of people that day
D) When the machine is available

Question 6

The backlog is a problem if

A) It cannot be completed in a reasonable time
B) All the time because jobs must be overdue
C) There is any at all
D) It identifies work for which there is no resource

Question 7

Cleaning up the backlog is referred to

A) Validation
B) Enumeration
C) Certification
D) Auditing

Question 8

The biggest driver for planning and scheduling ROI (Return on Investment) is

A) Less wasted time since everything needed is identified (planning) and available (scheduling)
B) Fewer emergencies
C) Crews work harder since they know they are being watched
D) You save a lot of money on materials

Question 9

What are the 5 phases of the shutdown?

A) Why do it? Scope of Work and Planning, Execution, completion, lessons learned
B) Engineering, planning, scheduling, execution, completion
C) Business case, presentation to management, bidding, doing, auditing
D) Initiation, engineering, scheduling, execution, accounting

Question 10

The essential of oversight during the shutdown entails:

A) Detecting issues early enough in the shutdown that they can be fixed without time or cost overruns.
B) Managing work so that contractors don't get paid for a minute that you don't approve.
C) Being sure that if there is a problem, you don't get stuck paying for it.
D) Being a great boss to all the tradespeople on the site.