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Ten Books About One Failure Mode

Ten Books About One Failure Mode

Failure of Ship Hulls Due to Rot

British oak forests provided the wood to build the fleets that fought the Seven Years’ War, American Revolutionary War, French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Wars. New trees had to mature for 80-120 years for shipbuilding. By the early 1800s, three-quarters of British oak forests had been harvested to fight a half century of naval wars. Additionally, a scourge of dry rot reduced the service life of Britain’s main battle ships from the historical 25 years to less than 7 years. Britain had a severe national security problem – the Timber Crisis.

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What’s in a Heading? Five Writing Tips to Make Your Text More Accessible

What’s in a Heading? Five Writing Tips to Make Your Text More Accessible

Headings are vital in improving accessibility for vision-impaired individuals by providing structure, navigation, and context. Headings make content more understandable and usable for those who rely on screen readers and other assistive technologies when used correctly.

Good Practices

It’s essential to follow good practices to create accessible text with headings.

1. Use Semantic HTML Element

Use proper HTML headings (<h1>, <h2>, etc.) to create a hierarchical structure. Avoid using other formatting (e.g., bold text) as a substitute for headings.

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When Will my Equipment Reach its End-of-Life State? – It Depends…

When Will my Equipment Reach its End-of-Life State? – It Depends…

End-of-life definition

Operators need to estimate when in the future their equipment will attain their end-of-life state. Obsolescence is another word for equipment end-of life. Once they reach this stage, equipment replacement often leads to significant budgetary expenditures. In addition, if the operation has a large number of a particular equipment types, they could all reach their end-of life at the same time leading to even greater financial impact. In industry jargon, this is known as the “Tsunami” effect. Operators need to aware and prepared in order to avoid this “wave” of consequences. Managing future cash inflow and outflows happens to be crucial financial exercise in any organization. Therefore, end-of-life management in an important financial accounting exercise. However, estimating end of life this is not always as straightforward as it seems.

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What is Conscious Reliability® all about?

What is Conscious Reliability® all about?

Article first posted at Conscious Reliability by James Reyes-Picknell, Jesus Sifonte, and team.

How it all got started

About two years ago Jesus Sifonte, CMMI, invited James Reyes-Picknell to be a speaker at a congress that he was holding in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They did not know each other, nor did they even know much about each other. They were recommended to each other by a mutual friend. At the congress, they presented their respective topics and in the evenings shared a few drinks and spoke about maintenance, reliability and asset management. They realized that they both had a shared passion for excellence and we learned about each-others’ experience.

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Don’t Get Caught Without Your Business Continuity Plans, Again

Don’t Get Caught Without Your Business Continuity Plans, Again

Guest Post by Patrick Ow (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

When the COVID pandemic stuck in March 2020, many organisations struggled with business continuity. Many were caught out without business continuity strategies or plans to overcome the likely business disruption that was brought about by COVID.

Having worked with organisations on their business continuity planning, the key challenge many organisations face in developing their business continuity strategies and plans is the level of business continuity planning and effort required. Many business continuity consultants have adopted the ISO 22301 Business continuity management systems — Requirements approach and have unfortunately over-engineered the approach as a one-size-fits-all.

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 How Your Condition Monitoring Program Will Fail 

 How Your Condition Monitoring Program Will Fail 

 and Probably Already Has 

 Predictive Maintenance strategy uses condition monitoring techniques to observe plant and equipment health. Based on the equipment’s condition you plan, schedule and perform any necessary maintenance before the breakdown. To use Predictive Maintenance most successfully you must set-up and run your condition monitoring program correctly all the time—predictive maintenance is a never ending strategy that if not done right at every step will still lead to plant and equipment failures. Learn about the many ways your predictive maintenance program will fail and you won’t even know about it! 

Keywords: predictive maintenance, condition monitoring, Con Mon

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FMEA Effect – Mitigated or Unmitigated?

FMEA Effect – Mitigated or Unmitigated?

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”  Albert Einstein

I always encourage readers to ask questions, and include a link in my article to make it easy. Asking questions is a great way to learn.

A reader recently asked, “When performing an FMEA, should the effect consider the mitigated case or unmitigated case? In this article we will look at different aspects that can be considered in order to answer the question.

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Management Tips for AI-based Reliability Projects – Part 1

Management Tips for AI-based Reliability Projects – Part 1

There’s a quote one of my previous managers had in his cubicle: “Being a manager is easy, it’s like riding a bike. Except that the bike is on fire, you’re on fire, and everything is on fire”. I chuckle every time I read it and then reflect upon the reality of dealing with project deadlines, deliverables, and performance. Reliability Engineering & Asset Maintenance initiatives have a project management aspect to them.

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From Simple Metrics to IoT: Mining’s Big (and difficult) Shift

From Simple Metrics to IoT: Mining’s Big (and difficult) Shift

It’s no surprise that the majority of Australia Mining companies don’t leverage the full use of their data to manage their (expensive) assets better. Industry seems to think this is just an adoption issue, where the term “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” comes to mind. But the reality is that there are far more underlying issues we need to consider why Mining is lagging behind other major industries such as Oil and Gas, Aviation and Power Generation, and yes.. what we do with all our data plays a big part.

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5S Workplaces Where Safety and Quality Meet

5S Workplaces Where Safety and Quality Meet

Guest Post by Bill Pomfret (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

The five in a 5S workplace organizational and housekeeping methodology refers to five steps – sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain. Safety should be the honorary sixth “S.

Many manufacturing facilities have opted to follow the path towards a “5S” workplace organizational and housekeeping methodology as part of continuous improvement or lean manufacturing processes. The term refers to five steps – sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain – that are also sometimes known as the five pillars of a visual workplace.

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Producing Zero Operational Risk

Producing Zero Operational Risk

The likelihood of component failure reflects the operational risk present. By reducing the likelihood of component failure to zero, zero operational risk is achieved.

Operational Risk is a mathematical formula, with variables that can be manipulated and controlled to reach the desired outcome. Below are three equations related to operational risk that you can use to change your future.

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