January 2010

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HP Reliability: More about unreliability, global procurement and you

We quite obviously believe that reading is the key to professional growth and that Mark Twain was right in stating that the man who refuses to read is no different from the illiterate person who canno..

Bloch, Heinz P., Hydrocarbon Processing Staff

We quite obviously believe that reading is the key to professional growth and that Mark Twain was right in stating that the man who refuses to read is no different from the illiterate person who cannot read. We also know that, while technical texts can be pricey, a book costing $100 will often alert its reader to the solution to a million-dollar problem. In that case, the return on the investment would be 10,000:1. And so, it makes a huge amount of sense to put reading in your training plans and to have either a budgetary item or subsidy for books at your refinery. Reading and reliability improvements are related and should never be separated. A recent column alluded to the reliability profe

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