In this video we touch on all 7 steps of the RCM process as we introduce one of the most important aspects of the application of RCM…asking the people who really know!
[Read more…]“Springing” into action with RCM…
on Maintenance Reliability
A listing in reverse chronological order of these article series:
- Usman Mustafa Syed — Aasan Asset Management series
- Arun Gowtham — AI & Predictive Maintenance series
- Miguel Pengel — Asset Management in the Mining Industry series
- Bryan Christiansen — CMMS and Reliability series
- James Reyes-Picknell — Conscious Asset series
- Alex Williams — EAM & CMMS series
- Nancy Regan — Everday RCM series
- Karl Burnett — History of Maintenance Management series
- Mike Sondalini — Life Cycle Asset Management series
- James Kovacevic — Maintenance and Reliability series
- Mike Sondalini — Maintenance Management series
- Mike Sondalini — Plant Maintenance series
- Andrew Kelleher — Process Plant Reliability Engineering series
- George Williams and Joe Anderson — The ReliabilityXperience series
- Doug Plucknette — RCM Blitz series
- Robert Kalwarowsky — Rob's Reliability Project series
- Gina Tabasso — The Intelligent Transformer Blog series
- Tor Idhammar — The People Side of Maintenance series
- André-Michel Ferrari — The Reliability Mindset series
No data = No Reliability Program? Fallacy!
I have often heard employees complain they have no data to initiate a proper Reliability Improvement Program. This is not always true. And to no fault of theirs. They just don’t know how to use what they already have in terms of records. If you are running an operation, you should at least have production records – i.e. how much you are producing on a daily basis. If you don’t have this, then maybe you should not be in business at all. This article looks at ways to initiate a Reliability Program using the Barringer Process Reliability (BPR) methodology. The greatest advantage of this methodology is that it only requires productions records as an input. That is how many units of production the plant produces on a daily basis. For example, the barrels of crude oil processed per day in a refinery. Or the hectoliters of beer brewed in a brewery daily.
[Read more…]Impact of Maintenance Strategy on Production Efficiency and Quality: A Comprehensive Analysis
In the intricate landscape of modern manufacturing, the efficiency and quality of the production system are paramount. These two pillars underpin a company’s competitiveness, profitability, and customer satisfaction. A critical factor influencing these metrics is the maintenance strategy employed. This research delves into the profound impact of maintenance strategies on production efficiency and quality, exploring various approaches, their implications, and real-world case studies.
What Does it take to Create a Reliability Culture?
Many managers think that high equipment reliability needs a reliability mindset. They think you need the right beliefs and values to get reliability. Reliability requires both correct thinking and correct behaviour, but behaviour is by far the most important. Your plant and machinery will deliver outstanding reliability only if their parts are not heavily stressed. Reliability is the result of properly doing the right actions to the parts in your machines—the right belief comes later, once the evidence is in. You make your machines and equipment reliable; you do not think them into being reliable with a good attitude. You do not need to have the right mindset to get highly reliable machines; you only need to deliver to your machinery parts the right environment for high reliability. If reliability is mostly the result of the behaviours that you do, it means that great reliability can be created everywhere.
[Read more…]Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Balanced Air
In this video, George discusses how clean, dry, well balanced, and consistent air can be a huge opportunity for continuous improvement in a facility. If you’re looking to improve the efficiency and reliability of your facility, you won’t want to miss this!
[Read more…]Value Driven Maintenance the Plant Wellness Way
Value Driven Maintenance is a financial modelling method to pick maintenance process improvements. Used alone VDM gives you a “starry-eyed” view of maintenance savings. Once you combine VDM with Plant Wellness Way system-of-reliability analysis you get practical solutions.
[Read more…]“Gnaw” on this…served with a side of RCM…
I have a service that regularly monitors my home for termites. Using RCM, let’s determine if this Condition Based Maintenance task is both technically appropriate and worth doing.
[Read more…]The Evolution of Maintenance Practices
- What is Maintenance?
- An Historical Perspective of Maintenance
- Equipment Reliability
- Reliability and Maintenance Strategy
- The Ongoing Evolution
- Effective Maintenance – DuPont Maintenance Study Results
- Making the Transition from Reactive to Strategic
- Discussion
1. What is Maintenance?
A definition: Maintenance describes the management, control, execution and quality of those activities which will reasonably ensure that design levels of availability and performance of assets are achieved in order to meet business objectives. [Read more…]
Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Design Rates
Today we are going to look at Design Rates. Often times our equipment are not running at their designed rate. Most of which are operational issues. For example, we tend to slow down a line, to present less problems, but it lowers the target rate. How do we identify an actual opportunity?
[Read more…]Interpretation of Moubray’s Failure Patterns
Failure Patterns according to Moubray
In his book Reliability Centered Maintenance1, John Moubray highlights 6 patterns of failure. However, one needs to be careful about how those patterns are interpreted and used. Or misused. These 6 failure patterns are as follows:
- A: Bathtub Pattern
- B: Age Related or Wear Out Pattern
- C: Fatigue Pattern
- D: Initial Break-in Pattern
- E: Random Pattern
- F: Infant Mortality Pattern
Plot a Distribution Curve of Maintenance KPIs
MAKE USE OF A PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION CURVE OF MAINTENANCE KPIS TO SHOW WHETHER YOUR MAINTENANCE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT EFFORTS ARE WORKING. A KPI PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION CURVE GIVES NEW INSIGHTS INTO YOUR MAINTENANCE PERFORMANCE.
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Using a distribution curve of maintenance KPIs as a new maintenance performance measure was what we recommended to this Maintenance Manager.
[Read more…]A Biohazard and Achieving Goals
Advice to Managers on Getting Most Value from Workforce Training
The purpose of training your people is to develop capabilities the business needs and to add value to your people so they feel that they have greater worth. But the most important benefit of training is often lost because managers do not get their newly trained people to improve the system of work with their better knowledge and skills.
Everyone needs training to reach their highest potential. Training introduces new ideas and new ways that make us more effective people. There is one vital issue managers need to keep in mind about training if you want to get the greatest returns from the investment in time, money and commitment. Only training put to use returns value and only training of value is of use.
[Read more…]Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: No Part Replaced
This informative video provides valuable insights into how we respond to operations and help them improve their processes. By pulling data out of the CMMS, we can identify areas of opportunity and provide recommendations for improvement.
For example, by analyzing the data, we can see where operators may need training, or where improvements can be made in the incoming raw material process. Our goal is to provide practical, actionable advice that can help you maximize your resources and achieve success in your manufacturing facility.
[Read more…]Building a PF Curve Using Life Analysis Concepts
Definition of a PF Curve
A PF curve is a graphical tool used in the field of maintenance and reliability. It essentially illustrates a component’s health degradation over its lifetime. As well as a visual guide on when to conduct appropriate action to minimizes operational risks related to unplanned failures. It is essentially a planning tool.
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