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on Maintenance Reliability

A listing in reverse chronological order of these article series:

  • Usman Mustafa Syed — Aasan Asset Management 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

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When To Use Stainless And Alloy Steel In Place Of Plastic Or Carbon Steel Items

When To Use Stainless And Alloy Steel In Place Of Plastic Or Carbon Steel Items

When To Use Stainless And Alloy Steel In Place Of Plastic Or Carbon Steel. There are many times when it is false economy to use carbon steel and plastic items. It is often better to use stainless and alloy steels instead. They last longer and deliver a lower life cycle cost.

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Human Factors in Human Error Prevention

Human Factors in Human Error Prevention

Understanding and Using Human Factors for Human Error Prevention and Mistake Proofing Gets You a Great Safety Advantage

There are many businesses around, even national and international sized companies, who have done an OHS risk assessment for their operations and still have poor workplace safety performance and lousy safety statistics. Clearly they got something seriously wrong when they undertook their operational health and safety (OHS) risk assessment process.

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Self-Leadership Part 1

Self-Leadership Part 1

Let’s do a quick recap of where we’ve come from. First we had to figure out where you are on your journey to success, in a totally honest way, which we covered in the chapter of Self-Awareness.

Next we had learned how to hold ourselves accountable for what got us to where we are today. We discussed how to create a personal development plan to map out our different responsibilities in life, what those mean in specific, day-to-day terms, and how to monitor and measure our success on aiming for and achieving those goals.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, ReliabilityXperience

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Rate of Occurrence of Failure

Rate of Occurrence of Failure

The Rate of Occurrence of Failure (ROCOF) curve is the sum of all the individual component failure curves across the service life of an asset. As shown below, it looks like a bathtub, giving it the nickname, a bathtub curve.

Equipment reliability is malleable by choice of policy and quality of practice.

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Why Total Productive Maintenance Is The Answer To Reliability-Centered Culture

Why Total Productive Maintenance Is The Answer To Reliability-Centered Culture

Despite their shared emphasis on maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) are not competing strategies.

Manufacturers can create a powerful synergy to leverage the strengths of each if they understand their respective strengths. Such a combination leads to exceptional reliability, cost-effective maintenance, and improved corporate culture – if implemented successfully. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, CMMS and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: RCM, Total productive maintenance

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Surprising Insights from Simple Run Charts

Surprising Insights from Simple Run Charts

The late quality guru W. Edwards Deming advised graphing the process variables and the process outputs across time on a run chart (a time-series plot) to identify uncertainty and variability. When the run charts are used together, they help to identify the times and causes of poor results.

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Is it Time to Kill Your Organization to Build a Better One?

Is it Time to Kill Your Organization to Build a Better One?

Every organization and organism’s performance is limited to the capability of its design. If you want better business results, then get or build a new organization with systems designed to naturally deliver the outcomes and profits you want. Nothing else you do will ever work as well!

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Failure Modes of Lead Hull Sheathing Explored by the Royal Navy, 1670-1690

Failure Modes of Lead Hull Sheathing Explored by the Royal Navy, 1670-1690

Preservation and repair are as old as sailing, but a written record of how this was managed has not always survived. One failure mechanism that has affected wooden vessels for centuries is shipworm – a mollusc that drills deep holes into the hull. 

Shipworm was common in the Mediterranean, so there is a long record of means to combat it. A shipwreck in Kyrenia has been dated to somewhere between 384 BC – 288 BC. The hull was covered with hammered lead sheathing to protect it from shipworm. Archaeological examination concluded that over its lifetime, the ship had received four major repairs, and in-service modification. The Kyrenia ship first sailed with no sheathing, but wooden sheathing was added. Later, lead sheathing was used. (Steffy p. 95)  Archeologists have also observed the use of oche on ship hulls in the Mediterranean and debate if the purpose was preservation of the hull. Several Greek and Roman ships with lead sheathing have been studied. By 1514, Spain was using lead sheathing. An Englishman who had served the Spanish crown sheathed a small English squadron with lead sheathing in 1553. (Wilkinson p. 132)  In 1624, Monson wrote in Monson’s Tracts that the Spanish and Portuguese used lead sheathing, but that it was “not durable” so not in use in England.

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Filed Under: Articles, History of Maintenance Management, on Maintenance Reliability

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Two Ways to Get High System Reliability

Two Ways to Get High System Reliability

There are only two ways to get high system reliability if you want a highly reliable system. Equipment in an operation can be configured in series or in parallel. In series, one item connects sequentially to the other. In parallel, each item is arranged as a companion, where one duplicates the other.

A series arrangement needs exceptionally reliable individual equipment to get a highly reliable system. A parallel arrangement can form a highly reliable system even if individual equipment has poor reliability.

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by Doug Plucknette Leave a Comment

The 6 Things I Learned as a Manufacturing Reliability Consultant

The 6 Things I Learned as a Manufacturing Reliability Consultant

In 1999 I left a 19-year career at Eastman Kodak to start my own Manufacturing Reliability Consulting Company. Looking back 23 years I really had no idea what I was getting into, but I was confident that I had something to offer companies that other consultants didn’t.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Maintenance Backlog Work Order Scheduling using Queuing Theory

Maintenance Backlog Work Order Scheduling using Queuing Theory

Your maintenance backlog is a queue of work orders. You can manage maintenance backlogs more effectively by applying queuing theory.

When maintenance work order time estimates are close to actual times, queuing theory can be applied to schedule the most effective arrangement of your maintenance backlog.

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Create Your Organization’s ISO 55001 SAMP

Create Your Organization’s ISO 55001 SAMP

PLANT WELLNESS WAY EAM METHODOLOGY USES THE ‘IONICS’ STRATEGIC ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR BUILDING AN ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

SIMPLY FOLLOW THE INDUSTRIAL AND MANUFACTURING WELLNESS BOOK TO CREATE YOUR ORGANIZATION’S ISO 55001 SAMP

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Filed Under: Articles, Life Cycle Asset Management, on Maintenance Reliability

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How Humans Matter in Reliability

How Humans Matter in Reliability

In this episode, we talk about the more personal (or human) aspect of equipment Reliability. Who is responsible for Reliability? We know the answer is “everyone” – from top management to the experts who operate and maintain our machines. So it’s vital that we understand one another’s perspectives and responsibilities. We discuss how invisible obstacles can personally affect us – Comfort, the Prison of Perfection, Overwhelm, Our Thoughts, The Voices, and Fear. Fear can be the deadliest one of all. In this episode we discuss a simple – yet powerful technique – to manage fear. When we properly manage the obstacles, we free ourselves up to become more productive and effective equipment custodians.

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Filed Under: Articles, Everyday RCM, on Maintenance Reliability

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

The Differences between Proactive Maintenance Strategy and Plant Wellness Reliability Strategy

The Differences between Proactive Maintenance Strategy and Plant Wellness Reliability Strategy

Many people believe Proactive Maintenance is the ultimate physical asset management strategy—but there is one better strategy. To get world class reliability at the least cost there must be no maintenance. Only a “wellness” paradigm can achieve that result.

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by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Pumping Abrasives With Progressive Cavity, Helical Rotor, Eccentric Screw Pumps

Pumping Abrasives With Progressive Cavity, Helical Rotor, Eccentric Screw Pumps

Often used to pump slurries, helical rotor pumps (also known as progressivity cavity pump, eccentric screw pump, mono pump) use a spiral rotor to move a chamber full of product through the pump. When moving slurries it is critical that the rotor wipes the rubber or elastomer stator firmly, else fine particles get between the rotor and stator and rip material out. This article discusses a major operating problem when the wrong size rotor was used in a stator.

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