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Home » Articles » on Maintenance Reliability » Page 15

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

by George Williams Leave a Comment

Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Event Rates

Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Event Rates

Last time we discussed Alarms in the Opportunities for Maintenance and Reliability series. This week we will be discussing event rates. What is an event rate? Watch George break it down!

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by André-Michel Ferrari Leave a Comment

Concurrent Failure Analysis and Prevention

Concurrent Failure Analysis and Prevention

Concurrent or simultaneous failures can happen with redundant or spared systems. This means that both spared equipment can fail at the same time leaving the operator with no production output. For example, we have two alternating pumps operating in a parallel configuration. Each one acts as a spare and at any one time can take over if the other one fails. This article is based on a question I was asked during a recent industry presentation. I thought the example was interesting and informative enough to share with the Maintenance and Reliability community.

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by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

The Future of Production is Endless Risk Free Operation

The Future of Production is Endless Risk Free Operation

 The world needs plant and equipment that are reliable and fault-free for decades. Yet Maintenance can only keep machinery working by replacing broken and at risk parts. Even industrial asset management only aims to lower the cost of plant and equipment ownership. Neither methodology has the capability to deliver what mankind needs in future. Before the end of this century both disciplines will die-out because intelligent production machines will be made that are completely reliable and maintenance-free for their entire lifetimes.

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Filed Under: Articles, Life Cycle Asset Management, on Maintenance Reliability, Uncategorized Tagged With: Maintenance program

by Nancy Regan Leave a Comment

The moment I applied RCM principles on my own body…

The moment I applied RCM principles on my own body…

In this video, we use RCM principles to decide if I should accept the consequences of failure or visit the dentist to eliminate the Failure Mode.

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by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Stop Committing Industrial Suicide on Reliability Cliffs 

Stop Committing Industrial Suicide on Reliability Cliffs 

 Equipment and machinery reliability grows as machines are made more accurately and components kept in more perfect condition. Finesse and refinement practised on equipment parts extends equipment life by months, sometimes many months. Once you reach superb precision and work quality control your reliability growth bounds forward by years at a time. Conversely, when assembly accuracy is poor or parts’ environments are degraded you lose reliability at a rate of years at a time. In fact, the rate at which you lose reliability when component health is lost is as if you threw your machine from a cliff. Many industrial companies blindly commit industrial suicide daily by leaping off ‘reliability cliffs’. 

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by George Williams Leave a Comment

Opportunities for Maintenance and Operations: Alarms

George will be discussing basic opportunities for Maintenance and Operations. This is an 8 part video series that covers things such as eliminating nuisance alarms, looking into event rates, and how we develop PM Routes. This first video covers Alarms. What does opportunity look like from an alarm perspective? In most plants, it’s likely you have some type of building automation. Systems and Alarms can go through what is called a Pareto Analysis. Watch to learn more!

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by André-Michel Ferrari Leave a Comment

Dependency Concept in RAM Analysis

Dependency Concept in RAM Analysis

Assets or components in an operation can be dependent on each other. The network of equipment contributing to the operation output is complex and intricate. A RAM model helps account for the complexities including dependencies.

The fundamental purpose of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) modeling is quantifying system performance, typically in a future interval of time. A system is a collection of items whose coordinated operation leads to the output, generally a production value. The collection of items includes subsystems, components, software, human operations, etc. For example, an automobile is a system. Its sub-components being the drivetrain, engine, gearbox, etc. In RAM models, it is crucial to account for relationships or dependencies between items. This helps determine the final output of the system. In various industries, RAM models have proven to be effective as cost avoidance or decision-making tools, as well as their ability to confirm or counter stated assumptions by internal stakeholders.

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by Mike Sondalini 1 Comment

Design for Reliability by using Design-out Maintenance to get High Reliability Equipment

Design for Reliability by using Design-out Maintenance to get High Reliability Equipment

Design-out maintenance is a root cause failure elimination category where the solution is to design for reliability and intentionally create highly reliable equipment through an engineering design change.

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I am a design engineer and am considering plant improvement as a more proactive activity for our department. Being in design I am interested in design-out maintenance solutions and the role they play in maintenance cost reduction. Particularly where design out solutions are used for failure elimination.

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by Nancy Regan Leave a Comment

Do you want to bring your own goals alive…?

Do you want to bring your own goals alive…?

After 23 years, I finally figured out that achieving our own personal and professional goals is similar to how we achieve our Reliability goals. Crush the Obstacles and Bring Your Goals Alive. Watch to find out more…

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by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

 Getting the Utmost Value from your Maintenance Audit, Maintenance Review and Maintenance Report 

 Getting the Utmost Value from your Maintenance Audit, Maintenance Review and Maintenance Report 

 Is your Maintenance at 100% performance in delivering all the six business purposes shown in Figure 1? 

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by Ramesh Gulati Leave a Comment

Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices: Maintainability

Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices: Maintainability

Lets talk about Maintainability!

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by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Fix a 50,000 Dollar per Year Problem for 2.54 using ACE 3T 

Fix a 50,000 Dollar per Year Problem for 2.54 using ACE 3T 

 ACE 3T analysis is a new problem inquiry tool that lets you find simple answers to difficult problems. It does not ask you to use Lean process assessment tools or apply Six Sigma statistical analysis. You only need to use your eyes and a spread sheet to explore the details that expose the simple options to solve your problem. 

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by Nancy Regan Leave a Comment

Is RCM too Difficult to Implement?

Is RCM too Difficult to Implement?

Absolutely not. This is one of the biggest misconceptions of the RCM process. Discover why it is often wrongly believed that RCM is too difficult to implement.

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Filed Under: Articles, Everyday RCM, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

by André-Michel Ferrari 4 Comments

Operational Data – An Untapped Goldmine

Operational Data – An Untapped Goldmine

It is becoming more apparent that companies are treating their operational data with the “respect” deserved. About time and if not, then they should start now. Operational Data is typically stored in the CMMS (Computer Maintenance Management System) or historical records repositories.

Data is knowledge. Data is power. Data is the basis of good decision making.

This article also suggests that data could be revenue generator. Therefore, a company’s data is akin to extracting gold from a mine. Like gold, data requires hard work to get and hold on to. Yet, it is highly lucrative when exploited, refined, and traded. The organization running the equipment generates the Operational Data. It can also be generated by a third party. In the following paragraphs, we see the untapped opportunities data and historical records can offer.

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by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

People in Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management Need a Vision AND the Map to Get There

People in Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management Need a Vision AND the Map to Get There

 It’s easy to lose your way in maintenance, reliability and enterprise asset management. Without a vision you are aimless. Without a map you are lost. To get maintenance, reliability and enterprise asset management success you must have both the right vision and the correct path to it. 

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