Life Cycle Asset Management

Why Build a Quality Management System?

A business management system needs a quality management system built to make customers happy.

Every company already has a business management system they use to deliver products or services. If you want to be a more profitable business, you need to continually create a better management system.

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It took a long time to understand why a business in the same market did better than other businesses. Every one thought it was due to better marketing, or access to more capital. But it was not. It was simply that one business had products that better suited customer needs. The best product always gains most market share and makes the biggest profits. Which is why a business management system needs a quality management system that improves their products.

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A risk management risk matrix can trick you into leaving high consequences uncontrolled and convince you it is fine to do nothing to reduce the impacts of failure. Whether you think a bad event cannot happen has no standing in Law. The likelihood of an adverse event is unimportant; only the resultant severity is how the Law will gauge your risk abatement efforts. Did you do ‘reasonably practicable’ risk control?

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A certain Operations Manager started inventing production KPIs in order to measure reliability from a production perspective. So he got together his colleagues and they came up with this formula.

Reliability = Good Production / (Net Production Hours + Nominal Speed)

When asked to define ‘good production’, I was told that it was the saleable production remaining after losses such as speed losses, first time quality, downtime, change overs, etc. were taken off.

After 3 years of running TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) across 3 factories, they made the following observations. The mean time between failure (MTBF) of equipment in all 3 factories increased. The production volumes increased. However the Reliability remained flat. How can this be? Something is not right. Is the above formula incorrect?

Is there a better way to calculate Reliability from a production perspective?

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 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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The likelihood of component failure reflects the operational risk present. By reducing the likelihood of component failure to zero, zero operational risk is achieved.

Operational Risk is a mathematical formula, with variables that can be manipulated and controlled to reach the desired outcome. Below are three equations related to operational risk that you can use to change your future.

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You will find example process diagram layouts with the most effective flowchart templates to use, what to include in them so that the flow chart drives business results and personal performance (and you will be surprised at how easy they are to create). With the right layout and the inclusion of ACE 3T (Target-Tolerance-Test) quality assurance standards your process flowcharts and procedures will drive business and workplace performance. First it is necessary to layout your flowcharts so it is totally clear what must happen in a process or procedure, who is responsible to make it happen, and how their performance will be measured. 

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THE BUSINESS RISK EQUATION SHOWS YOU HOW MUCH YOU WILL LOSE FROM ANY FAILURE EVENT

THE COMPLETE BUSINESS RISK EQUATION EXPLAINS WHAT INFLUENCES YOUR CHANCE OF SUCCESS IN BUSINESS

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Risk = Consequence x Opportunity x Uncertainty of the Opportunity

One of the most important business equations of them all is the full form of the business risk equation shown above.

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Which critical spare parts you carry in the maintenance store always revolve around how much risk your company is willing to bear. It is purely a risk based business decision. Look at the economics of the risk decisions available and go with the biggest chance of success.

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I have a question about critical spare parts determination that I always have a problem with. I do not know if this topic is included in the online preventive maintenance training I and my team of engineers are doing with you, that’s why I am asking the question.

How can I determine which are the critical spare parts that we have to keep on stock?

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 Let a Plant Wellness Way EAM System-of-Reliability halve your Annual Maintenance Costs 

The Plant Wellness Way is business paradigm to create world-class performance and results in any operation by the correct selection and use of engineering, operating, maintenance, and reliability strategy and practices. 

The six IONICS steps are used to develop lifecycle asset management, reliability improvement and maintenance management strategy and activities needed for endless operational excellence. Simply identify where you are in the above process map, come in at that point, and then continue on through the process to the point where your answers are available.

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When equipment working parts are operated within their precision quality standard zones, world-class reliability is guaranteed.

The figures below demonstrates the importance of setting precision quality standards to achieve outstanding equipment reliability. It comes from a conference presentation on the production equipment reliability improvement in a steel mill in Australia.

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 Use Ben Franklin’s Distribution Curves for Performance Monitoring and Fast Improvement. Ben Franklin used statistical analysis to change his life. By measuring his ‘gaining of Virtue’ he quickly became rich and famous. You can change your business performance in the same way. But be cautious – Franklin’s method changed his behaviour forever.

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Getting excellent enterprise physical asset utilization and maximum asset performance needs business-wide and life-cycle-long coordination and cooperation.

By coordinating and merging business-wide data and asset historical performance records into useful asset information, you can make timely and informed decisions that safely and profitably maximize the performance and value contribution of your enterprise physical assets

To go down the path of getting operating asset optimization it is necessary that you first identify what measures will be used to determine the “optimal asset utilization” state.

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Asset reliability assessment when buying running and used operating plant and equipment. Aging asset reliability assessment can be done quantitatively if all past component stresses are know, or it is down qualitatively when only operating and maintenance history is available.

I am a developing reliability professional and often read your articles. I was wondering if you could give me a bit of advice about the subject of aging asset reliability assessment for operating assets?

Can you please share your thoughts on reliability assessment for a thermal power plant, and its importance in acquisition of a running ageing plant. Is it a common practice to look at this aspect prior to acquisition and is it practical? And if so, how do we go about it?

Thank you for your advice.

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Understanding ISO 55001 clauses is vital for building a compliant ISO 55001 Asset Management System. Understanding ISO 55001 clauses is easy with a logical flowchart.

The meaning of the contents in the ISO 55001 asset management standard must be correctly interpreted and properly addressed in your asset management system

To fully understand the implications of an ISO 55001 clause, it is necessary to strip each sentence, phrase, and sub-point down into its logical elements

Learn how to turn the text in an ISO 55001 clause into a logical flowchart that lets you fully appreciate the implications and build the correct application in your asset management system.

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Advice on the Key Duties and Responsibilities of the Modern Engineering Manager Role

The duties of the engineering manager role usually include capital project management and maintenance management, two vital aspects that must be done exceedingly well in an industrial operation.

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