Webinar recording from 1/18/2024 as we discuss how to ensure we see the value from our assets by defending them, having the right strategy and people to ensure they run reliably.
[Read more…]Defender of Assets
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
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!
[Read more…]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.
[Read more…]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!
[Read more…]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
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.
[Read more…]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!
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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[Read more…]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.
[Read more…]Preview to RCM and Oil Analysis
What oil analysis tests should you do and how often do you do them? In this live, Sanya Mathura and Nancy Regan give you a preview to their upcoming Live!
[Read more…]31 Sure Ways to Lower Operating Assets Maintenance Costs and Improve Reliability
Here is a simple checklist of 31 simple maintenance management tips that you can use to improve your operation. Use it as a guide to start you thinking which maintenance management improvement strategies to use to lower your maintenance and operational costs without spending a lot of money.
[Read more…]Predictive Maintenance Demystified
Explore the future of maintenance with our latest release: “Predictive Maintenance Demystified🚀🔮 In this video, we unravel the world of Predictive Maintenance and how to understand the concept and its benefits.
[Read more…]Asset Lifecycle Management for Zero Defects and Zero Risks
Every physical asset has a lifecycle starting at conception through to its eventual disposal and site remediation. In each phase of the lifecycle errors can occur that cause defects within the asset. In operations with hundreds of assets there easily can be tens-of-thousands of defects. Each defect is a risk that eventually contributes to breakdowns, losses, wastes, safety incidents during operation, and shortens the asset’s service lifetime. Eliminating thousands of defects and risks forever is what Plant Wellness Way EAM does for its users
[Read more…]How to Succeed at RCM (Part 3): Successful Planning
A longer video from Nancy with an introduction to the reliability centered maintenance, proactive maintenance, plus the anatomy of a well-planned RCM program.
[Read more…]Calculating when to Economically replace Assets
Optimum replacement time – Theory
The optimal asset replacement time calculation has one goal, and that is to calculate the lifetime of when assets should be operational as to have the lowest possible operating cost over its lifetime.
This means balancing two opposing forces, namely the increasing operational cost and unreliability of the asset as it ages, with the decreasing effective cost of ownership. [Read more…]
