Raising awareness of reliability

Entire industries have spawned from the concept that awareness is an effective catalyst for action. A classic example is wearing a step tracker throughout your day to count how many steps you have taken. These wearable step-counting devices were created with the premise that if you see how many (or how few) steps you have taken in a day, you will be naturally motivated to increase or improve that number. You may layer gamification on top of awareness to further incentivize goals, but it seems that awareness alone is enough to inspire action when the desire is already there.

So, when our goal is supporting production systems and improving their reliability, it follows that we may create the conditions for transformative action just by raising awareness of the performance of systems. To this aim, anything at all we can do to raise awareness of the state and trends of our production systems will trigger a series of actions that will have a positive...