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by Nancy Regan Leave a Comment

Should RCM Templates be used

Should RCM Templates be used

Maybe. Great care must be taken if any kind of template of failure mode library is used to complete an RCM analysis.

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Filed Under: Articles, Everyday RCM, on Maintenance Reliability

by Sanjeev Saraf Leave a Comment

Pipeline Incident Data

Pipeline Incident Data

Below is summary (annualized average) of 20-year pipeline incident data from 1990-2009. [Source: Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration,PHMSA] 

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Filed Under: Articles, on Risk & Safety, Operational Risk Process Safety

by JD Solomon Leave a Comment

How Does a Readability Formula Help My Business Writing?

How Does a Readability Formula Help My Business Writing?

How much should you pay attention to readability scores generated from tools like the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Formula? As a technical professional, you probably should pay careful attention. But remember, while improving the Flesch-Kincaid score is important for accessibility and readability, balancing this with accurately conveying the technical information is essential.

What’s readability?

Readability is a quality of your business writing. People will be able to understand your sentences easily if your text’s readability is high. If the readability is low, people still might understand what you’re saying, but reading your text is likely a draining experience, but people may still understand it.

Big words and complex sentences aren’t bad. Using too many of them demands much more concentration from your reader. Big words and complex sentences are also harder if someone’s first language is not yours or the reader has some form of visual or hearing impairment.

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Filed Under: Articles, Communicating with FINESSE, on Systems Thinking Tagged With: business writing, FINESSE, readability, technical writing, writing tips

by André-Michel Ferrari 2 Comments

Introduction to Barringer Process Reliability

Introduction to Barringer Process Reliability

Barringer Process Reliability – Your factory performance on a single page!

Barringer Process Reliability (BPR) was developed by Paul H. Barringer, a fellow reliability engineer “extraordinaire” and an outstanding mentor for myself and countless others in this field of practice.  BPR highlights operational issues. Not addressed and mitigated, those could have significant revenue impacts. A BPR analysis uses the Weibull probability plot which happens to be a very well-known tool in the field of Reliability Engineering. On one side of a sheet of paper only, the BPR plot can tell the true “story” on the operation.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, The Reliability Mindset

by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment

Failing Project: Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

Failing Project: Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

Guest Post by Malcolm Peart (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

“Too many cooks spoil the broth” goes the Elizabethan poet George Gascoigne’s proverb.  Although only written down in circa 1575 it had probably been around for many years beforehand.  It is still used today and, far from being archaic, it’s become more and more relevant despite mankind’s predilection towards efficiency and effectiveness.  But why?

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by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

RCM – 10 Myths Debunked

RCM – 10 Myths Debunked

Article first posted at Conscious Reliability by James Reyes-Picknell, Jesus Sifonte, and team.

What do you know about Reliability Centered Maintenance?

James Reyes-Picknell

Despite its well-documented successes, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) has always drawn a lot of discussion and controversy. Much of it is because of a lack of understanding and “myths” generated to discredit RCM as a viable business solution. Here we attempt to fill in some of those gaps in understanding and debunk some of the myths.

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Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Tips on Maintenance Job Priority Rating 

Tips on Maintenance Job Priority Rating 

 To help select which work orders to do first in situations of resource shortage many CMMS provide calculations for maintenance work order priority. Deciding maintenance work priority is a risk decision. The presence of risk totally changes the way to allocate maintenance job priority if you want to compare situations equally1. When you work with risk you cannot use a linear priority scale. Using linear priority ranking gives the wrong order of importance for doing maintenance work.

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Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance Management, on Maintenance Reliability

by Sanjeev Saraf Leave a Comment

Boiler NESHAP Rules Postponed Until January 2011

Boiler NESHAP Rules Postponed Until January 2011

EPA announced that the promulgation of National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for industrial, commercial, and institutional boilers and process heaters is postponed to January 16, 2011. The regulation, commonly referred to as Boiler MACT, will affect approx. 13,500 boilers at various facilities deemed to be major sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).

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Filed Under: Articles, on Risk & Safety, Operational Risk Process Safety

by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment

Future of Quality

Future of Quality

Guest Post by Dianna Deeney (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

The current state of the quality profession is affected by shifting business infrastructures and changing definitions of brand quality.

Businesses need to react and change against external pressures like increased frequency of consumer communications, the availability of big data, expanding regulations and standards, and the expectations to innovate quickly. The quality profession is at risk of losing its effectiveness in the overall business operations if it does not proactively change with the business.

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Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety

by Mike Sondalini 1 Comment

Physics of Failure Analysis for Roller Bearing Failures 

Physics of Failure Analysis for Roller Bearing Failures 

 A tutorial explaining the Physics of Failure method applied to regularly failing roller bearings in a dewatering press. After three years of exhaustive efforts to solve the cause of the bearing failures it was decided to test Physics of Failure Analysis with the aim of finding a lasting answer. 

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Filed Under: Articles, Life Cycle Asset Management, on Maintenance Reliability

by Joe Anderson Leave a Comment

Exemplary Maintenance Leadership

Exemplary Maintenance Leadership

The Backbone of High-Quality Operations

In the world of industrial and manufacturing enterprises, where precision and reliability are paramount, maintenance leadership stands as the unsung hero. Behind the scenes, these individuals and teams are the custodians of high-quality operations, ensuring that machinery hums with efficiency, downtime is minimized, and standards are not just met but exceeded. Let’s take a closer look at the essence of exemplary maintenance leadership and why it’s the cornerstone of a well-oiled operation.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, ReliabilityXperience

by Nancy Regan Leave a Comment

Should RCM be Applied to all Assets?

Should RCM be Applied to all Assets?

Really? I don’t know any organization that has the time, money, and other resources to do so.

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Filed Under: Articles, Everyday RCM, on Maintenance Reliability

by Larry George Leave a Comment

Kaplan-Meier Estimator for Renewal Processes?

Kaplan-Meier Estimator for Renewal Processes?

The New-Products manager asked me, “Your actuarial failure rate estimates (from vehicle registrations, bills-of-materials, and automotive aftermarket store sales) are for dead-forever parts with at most one failure. What if auto parts could be renewed or replaced more than once?” Chagrined, I wrote a spreadsheet program to estimate actuarial rates for renewal processes, without life data. But what is the corresponding estimator from grouped, cohort renewal counts like the Kaplan-Meier estimator for grouped, cohort failure counts?

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Filed Under: Articles, on Tools & Techniques, Progress in Field Reliability?

by Sanjeev Saraf 1 Comment

API 752, 3rd Edition: Changes In Facility Siting Standard

API 752, 3rd Edition: Changes In Facility Siting Standard

The third edition of API 752, “Management of Hazards Associated with Permanent Buidlings” came out in late 2009 and there are a few major revisions to consider.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Risk & Safety, Operational Risk Process Safety

by Karl Burnett Leave a Comment

Ten Books About One Failure Mode

Ten Books About One Failure Mode

Failure of Ship Hulls Due to Rot

British oak forests provided the wood to build the fleets that fought the Seven Years’ War, American Revolutionary War, French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars. New trees had to mature for 80-120 years for shipbuilding. By the early 1800s, three-quarters of British oak forests had been harvested to fight a half century of naval wars. Additionally, a scourge of dry rot reduced the service life of Britain’s main battle ships from the historical 25 years to less than 7 years. Britain had a severe national security problem – the Timber Crisis.

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Filed Under: Articles, History of Maintenance Management, on Maintenance Reliability

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