In early 2015, Steve Landis, the MRO Guy, interviewed Phillip Slater about his background, career and the evolution of SparePartsKnowHow.com. In this comprehensive interview Phillip discusses his early experiences as a maintenance engineer and the events that led him on the path to being the Founder of SparePartsKnowHow.com. Phillip
Phillip Slater Wins National Logistics Leadership Award
Leadership in Logistics Education Award In 2012 the Logistics Association of Australia announced Phillip Slater as that year’s winner of the Kim Rothwell Leadership in Logistics Education Award. Phillip Slater is a spare parts management specialist, consultant, author, and Founder of SparePartsKnowHow.com. Kim Rothwell, is a life member of the
Excess Spare Parts Inventory: Deal With It
One of the issues that arise with spare parts management in every industry is the management of excess inventory. This is particularly so with engineering spares, used to provide operational support to maintenance and production. With these spare parts there is often a high number of items that are used
Repairable Spare Parts Decision Making
Recently I was helping a company develop a suite of spare parts management policies. The process for this involves reviewing the company’s existing policies and then working with their nominated team to improve these or develop new polices, using ‘tried and tested’ generic policies as the starting point. The Repairable
Spare Parts Criticality
How do you determine spare parts criticality? Most companies don’t really understand criticality and see it as a single dimension issue. But that is just not right. For access to this post, and all of our content, join using the button below. If you are
The Flip Side of Accountability
[grwebform url=”https://app.getresponse.com/view_webform_v2.js?u=uY&webforms_id=14719202″ css=”on” center=”off” center_margin=”200″/] Establishing appropriate accountability is one of the key actions required for achieving lasting success in any management activity. This is especially the case in activities aimed at creating lasting change in the way things are done – like in an inventory optimization project. To achieve lasting and sustainable inventory optimization