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Maintenance Management Strategy by Physics of Failure Factors Analysis

Maintenance Management Strategy by Physics of Failure Factors Analysis

The Physics of Failure Factors Analysis for selecting maintenance strategy is a one-person exercise that identifies all ways a component can physically fail. Equally important to its simplicity is its ability to select the most effective life cycle strategies for maximising reliability. Another powerful business advantage is the failure-addressing solutions arrived at are universal solutions that apply to every other identical component, whatever equipment it is in. Do a Physics of Failure Factors Analysis for one part and you do it for all identical parts for the life of your operation. It is a highly accurate and cost-effective maintenance strategy selection methodology.

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A Big Mistake Organizations Make with Reliability Centered Maintenance

A Big Mistake Organizations Make with Reliability Centered Maintenance

Hi everyone, I’m Nancy Regan, coming to you from The Watermelon Festival in Russellville, Alabama! In today’s video, I share one of the most common mistakes organizations make when it comes to Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)—and why this often leads to failed analyses.

Using a simple analogy of growing watermelons, I explain how RCM can go wrong when the right people aren’t involved. Just like watermelons need the right conditions to grow, RCM needs experienced facilitators and equipment experts to ensure the process succeeds.

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What is the Connection between Equipment Risk and Equipment Reliability?

What is the Connection between Equipment Risk and Equipment Reliability?

When it comes to Risk we have simplified it so much that we have failed Einstein’s advice, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” It has been made too simple and missed the connection between risk and reliability.

Equipment risk has a direct impact on equipment reliability. What risks you allow your production plant and equipment to suffer will negatively impact its reliability. About 6 months ago I was playing about with the risk equation and a mathematical connection between risk and reliability revealed itself.

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“Our World,” a Book for your Children

“Our World,” a Book for your Children

Here’s one you probably don’t expect from me. A children’s book! “Our World” is intended to spark curiosity In children about the world around them. It asks questions like, where does the water in my shower come from, how does the electricity in my light bulb get there, and many more. It uses everyday childhood experiences to spark questions.

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How to Assign Preventive Maintenance Intervals with RCM

How to Assign Preventive Maintenance Intervals with RCM

Hi everyone, I’m Nancy Regan, coming to you from Key Largo, Florida! In today’s video, I’m breaking down how to determine if a preventive maintenance task is the right action to take and how often it should be done, using the principles of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM).

I’ll walk you through a simple example—changing the engine oil in my 2014 Subaru Forester—and explain how preventive maintenance task intervals are assigned based on the Useful Life. You’ll learn how to assess the useful life of your assets and decide when to perform a scheduled replacement or a scheduled restoration task. I also demonstrate this using failure pattern B, showing you the conditional probability of failure.

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Equipment Failure Probability Density Functions

Equipment Failure Probability Density Functions

Charting historic equipment failure events visually shows the Failure Probability Density Function curve for that equipment. It is also known as a Failure Density Distribution Curve.

VALUE OF A DISTRIBUTION CURVE

Failure Probability Density Function curves, Failure Density Distribution Curves contain useful information about what has happened to equipment. These curves illustrate the chance of failure of an equipment over a period. Here, our fixed variables are the equipment’s components’ material-of-construction and design. As such, the only changing variable is the operating and maintenance strategies, including work processes, used by the company.

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How RCM Transforms Your Reliability Culture

In today’s video, I’m at Lover’s Leap in Chattanooga, Tennessee, exploring how to build an effective Reliability Culture using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). A common challenge in many organizations is the disconnect between teams — Maintenance, Operations, and upper management aren’t always on the same page, which can lead to costly downtime, safety issues, and inefficiencies.

But there’s hope. By adopting a Facilitated working group approach to RCM, you can bring your teams together with a shared goal — good Reliability. In this video, I share how RCM can foster understanding amongst team members, break down silos, and create an effective Reliability Culture that leads to better performance and a solid Return on Investment (ROI).

Key Points Covered:

  • The impact of team misalignment on Reliability
  • How RCM brings Maintenance, Operations, and Management together
  • Why cultural change is a powerful outcome of RCM
  • The long-term benefits of implementing RCM for your organization
  • Don’t let your teams operate like feuding families!

Watch the full video to see how RCM can help transform your organization over time.

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CMMS & EAM Implementation Errors and What to do About Them

CMMS & EAM Implementation Errors and What to do About Them

You probably have a computerized system for managing maintenance. It might be part of your integrated management software, like Oracle, or SAP. The business cases for initial purchase of these systems often include forecast cost savings of 20% or more. Most of the time, they fall far short of that. In fact, the costs of the new system, its implementation, the staff required to support and run it, the training needed for users, can easily grow bigger than the costs you had before the system was implemented.

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A Common Misunderstanding about Reliability Centered Maintenance 

A Common Misunderstanding about Reliability Centered Maintenance 

 Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) was developed by the aircraft industry and it has now migrated into industries across the world. The aircraft industry does RCM differently to other industries. RCM fails in general industry because inherent problems in the business design of most organisations are prevented in the airline industry with business processes imposed by legal regulation. Using the RCM methodology does not instil the business disciplines needed for RCM to deliver its benefits.

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The Execution Gap: Why People Don’t Follow Through on Work

The Execution Gap: Why People Don’t Follow Through on Work

In the world of work, execution is key. It’s not just about having great ideas or making ambitious plans; it’s about turning those ideas into action and seeing plans through to completion. However, despite our best intentions, many of us struggle to execute work effectively. So, why is this? What causes the execution gap? Let’s explore some common reasons why people fail to execute work and how we can overcome these challenges. 

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What is the P-F Interval? A Quick Guide to Condition Based Maintenance

What is the P-F Interval? A Quick Guide to Condition Based Maintenance

In this short video, I explain the concept of the P-F Interval and its crucial role in Condition Based Maintenance (CBM). Understanding the P-F Interval is essential for determining how often to perform CBM tasks (and Predictive Maintenance task intervals) to catch Potential Failures before they become full-blown failures. Learn how the time between detecting a Potential Failure Condition and the point of failure — known as the P-F Interval — guides your inspection intervals and helps ensure reliability.

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Graphical Representations in Reliability Analytics

Graphical Representations in Reliability Analytics

Introduction

Reliability Engineering analytics come with graphs and visual representations providing the analyst with various types of key information. Some graphs are more popular than others. This article highlights the 4 main graphs used in Reliability Engineering Analysis.

They are Reliability, Probability of Failure, Probability Density and Failure Rate. Less common types are not covered here. Such as Contour Plots. The basis of the graphs in this article is the Weibull Distribution. In other words, all the graphs derive from this very popular distribution. The same concepts applies to other distributions.

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Controlling the Human Factor 

Controlling the Human Factor 

How to conquer the last frontier in equipment reliability, maintenance, and industrial engineering asset management: Our machines and materials of construction do not cause our equipment problems and failures. The real problem for industry is the ‘human factor’ in stopping people making mistakes. You gain control over the ‘human factor’ by providing clear and comprehensive work procedures that explain exactly how to deliver the performance required and that give users the means to check and improve their performance. The Accuracy Controlled Enterprise 3T procedure layout and content lets you provide your people with the details of how to do their work with exceptional quality, and the means to correct and improve their efforts until they are that good.

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