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RCM Today: More Important Than Ever

RCM Today: More Important Than Ever

Hi everyone, I’m Nancy Regan, and today we’re tackling the big question: “Is Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) obsolete?” With principles that are over 50 years old, some may wonder if RCM is still relevant. The answer is a resounding YES. In fact, RCM is more crucial now than ever.

Join me as I take you from my hotel room in Cartagena to a beautiful outdoor setting to explore how RCM principles still apply today, even with all our advanced technology. Whether you’re dealing with high-tech monitoring systems or simply relying on human senses, the core principles of RCM remain essential to achieving the reliability you need.

Discover why RCM’s focus on understanding equipment Functions, identifying Failure Modes, and assessing Failure Effects is more important than ever in today’s fast-paced, tech-driven world. Let’s dive in and see why Reliability Centered Maintenance is far from obsolete!

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 KPIs are a Big Lie About Performance Improvement 

 KPIs are a Big Lie About Performance Improvement 

 It is a mockery to use business performance indicators to manage a company or department. Using the information that shows up on the management dashboards on your screen can wreck your company. Measuring a process does not put you in control of it. A process is totally self-controlled. You always get what the process gives you. Organizational processes work well or do not because of their design.1 A business process that cannot achieve its aims is the wrong design for its purpose.

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Lifetime Reliability Solutions Change To Win Workbook

Lifetime Reliability Solutions Change To Win Workbook

Change To Win Process

‘Change To Win’ is a structured change management program used to introduce needed changes, best practices and innovative improvements into an organisation. A ‘Change To Win’ team consisting of managers, supervisors and people from the workplace is assembled to implement the changes and is responsible to plan how the organisation will adopt the changes, to trial them and then implement them into standard practice.

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What a Sniffer Dog Taught me About Reliability

What a Sniffer Dog Taught me About Reliability

In this video, I’m sharing an unexpected lesson in Reliability inspired by a highly trained Labrador Retriever at Melbourne Australia’s airport. While traveling to the Mainstream Conference in Melbourne, I encountered a situation at immigration that reminded me of the principles of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). Join me as I discuss how the training and care that made this dog so effective can inspire us to do the same for our machines so we can achieve the Reliability we require. Plus, I’ll explore why it’s crucial to ensure our equipment isn’t pushed beyond its capabilities. Let’s dive into the heart of reliability together!

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Why Enterprise Asset Management Badly Under Performs and How to Fix It

Why Enterprise Asset Management Badly Under Performs and How to Fix It

Your views on why enterprise asset management fails intrigued me. I am currently undertaking a master’s study on “Understanding the Difficulties of Developing an Effective Planned Preventive Maintenance Regime at an underground coal mine”.

My masters is based on finding the reasons why in the mining field the other methods of maintenance methodologies such as RCM, TPM, Six Sigma, etc. do not seem to get embraced by the mining maintenance teams, and there is always a weak attempt to implement them on the part of management.

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Preventive Maintenance: What It Is & How to Set the Right Intervals

Preventive Maintenance: What It Is & How to Set the Right Intervals

In this video, I’ll walk you through the essentials of preventive maintenance – what it is and how to correctly identify the intervals for preventive maintenance tasks. We’ll talk about scheduled replacement and scheduled restoration tasks, and I’ll take you along as I perform three real-life examples: changing my home HVAC filter, getting my hair colored, and an oil change for my Subaru Forester. Each task highlights the importance of scheduling based on “age,” regardless of the condition at the time.

I also explain why preventive maintenance intervals should be set based on the useful life and not manufacturer recommendations, mean time between failures (MTBF), or criticality. Understanding these concepts is key to building a strong Reliability Culture in any organization. If you have any questions about preventive maintenance, drop them in the comments. I’m here to help!

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How Predictive Analytics Can Be Used to Monitor Dosing Pump Performance

How Predictive Analytics Can Be Used to Monitor Dosing Pump Performance

In the dynamic world of modern manufacturing and industrial processes, the reliability and performance of equipment play a crucial role in ensuring operational efficiency and product quality. Dosing pumps, essential for precise fluid control, are no exception. As industries increasingly embrace digital transformation, predictive analytics has emerged as a powerful tool to enhance the monitoring and maintenance of dosing pumps. This article delves into how predictive analytics can be used to monitor dosing pump performance, improving reliability, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness.
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Improving Wind Turbine Reliability by Removing Component Failure Modes

Improving Wind Turbine Reliability by Removing Component Failure Modes

Successful Wind Turbine Reliability Strategy Requires Proactive Removal of the Causes of Failure

The reliability assessment of wind turbine models is critical when making investment in wind technology. Issues to address include: corrosion, metallurgy, structural integrity, reliability, pressure vessel construction, electrical circuits, communication networks, and more.

Develop a life cycle wind turbine reliability strategy that minimizes operationg costs by maximizing component reliability.

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Why Predictive Maintenance?

Why Predictive Maintenance?

In this insightful video, we delve deep into the world of Predictive Maintenance and unravel why it’s an absolute game-changer for modern businesses.

Discover:

  • How Predictive Maintenance predicts equipment failures BEFORE they happen.
  • The substantial cost savings it offers through optimized maintenance.
  • The path to maximizing uptime and minimizing downtime and more!
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How Our Choices Shape Equipment Reliability

How Our Choices Shape Equipment Reliability

𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝟭 of my 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗗𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲 is here! We’re starting with how the 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 we make as asset custodians directly impact our equipment 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆. Let’s build a strong foundation together!

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Enterprise and Asset Management Pocketbook

Enterprise and Asset Management Pocketbook

OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE IS A RESULT 

Operational Excellence requires a business system-of-reliability. Reliability is the chance of success, so a company built as a ‘system-of-reliability’ maximizes its operating profits and production success. The three requirements needed to create a system-of-reliability for Operational Excellence are: 

1. A defect eliminating work quality assurance system where your processes are robust and anti-fragile to disruption, and insure right-first-time results. Only if processes are built to go right every time; are anti-fragile to error; and proactively prevent causes of problems, can you reach Operational Excellence. 

2. Business-wide process innovation focused on optimizing for the highest productivity, least cost, and right quality output. Then you install the next generation of solutions for ever better productivity. 

3. Holistic, lifecycle physical asset management for stable, reliable operation with outstanding availability, highest utilization and most sustainable throughput. 

You do three phases to reach Operational Excellence the Plant Wellness Way: Design your system-of-reliability – Teach your system-of-reliability – Build your system-of-reliability. First, design a business that can be the best. Second, teach your leaders how to do the right things, rightly. Third, apply and do the right behaviours for success. 

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