The Role of HOP in a Holistic Reliability Engineering System

When Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) is often first introduced to a manufacturing plant, the majority of departments (outside of some Safety departments) have never heard of it. Based on their past experience, their first inclination is “this is a corporate acronym we will be forced to roll out (yet another flavor of the month program)”.    Coming from the Reliability Engineering field, when they hear of a new acronym, this is what goes through their minds..."How is this going to impact our department and the current strategic plans we have in place?"

This presentation will focus on what Reliability Engineering actually is, and why they should be welcoming HOP. Even though HOP traditionally remains within the confines of Safey, its principles are very much in alignment with field-proven Reliability and RCA efforts.

By its nature, Reliability Engineering is a proactive function. Its role is to focus on tomorrow, and not…