Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Kirk and Fred discussing the article that Fred recently posted and the strategy of making a spare parts and service a source of the majority of programs profit.
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TPM or Total Productive Maintenance is a partnership between all those people who are responsible for the equipment that includes maintenance, operations, and engineering departments, usually to take better care of the equipment. The goal here is to select the best assets and maintain them properly in order to get optimal performance. There are five pillars of TPM and these are:
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Carl and Fred discussing the application of Risk Priority Number (RPN) in FMEA procedure. There are limitations to the value of RPNs, and these limitations need to be known and addressed to ensure FMEAs prioritize corrective actions properly.
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Fred interviews Jim McLinn about the annual ASTR conference.
Carl and Fred discussing when FMEAs should be done to support product development projects. FMEAs take time and cost money to support, and should be done when a certain level of risk can be effectively addressed by the FMEA procedure.
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One of the more significant challenges for reliability engineering in product development is the complete execution of the planned reliability process in product development. The reliability tools and techniques outlined in the product plan are often skipped or delayed, minimizing the opportunity for outputs to fully impact the program and product. [Read more…]
Storing the right parts in your storeroom at the right time and in the right quantity is always effective. Storerooms are very important to a company’s survival in the long run so they should be managed at the core competency level of our businesses. The fact is that there is no way your maintenance and reliability operation is going to be successful without an effective spare parts management strategy and well-maintained storeroom. Not every organization is has a good storeroom and there can be a different number of reasons for that. They may be good at other things and they don’t pay attention to spare parts because they have a limited budget or just don’t value it that much.
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Andre and Fred discussing the benefits of using what you know as you approach setting sample sizes using Bayesian statistics.
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Andre and Fred discussing durability. Is it the same, a subset, or superset of reliability?
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This episode is based upon the workforce survey conducted by plantservices.com back in 2015 and now again in 2017. These surveys were done to know more about the workforce concerning issues that the professionals face during a change in technology, media, and external environment. These surveys are actually to help industry leaders and managers to get a better insight about their concerns regarding recruitment, training, and finding career opportunities. In this survey the respondents were divided into groups but most of the respondents lay in two major categories—Boomers were 49.8% and Generation X at 39.3%– based on the generational distinction.
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James and Fred discussing a better way to set stocking levels of spares.
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Fred interviews Les Warrington a consultant about his background and ongoing work in reliability engineering.
James and Fred discussing dealing with the data we gather.
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A reasonable model helps you make informed decisions. A simple reliability block diagram often provides the insights your team needs to prioritize and achieve the desired reliability performance. Let’s create, populate, and use RBDs effectively.
RBDs comprise a few simple elements and arrangements yet can describe a wide range of products and systems. There are a few assumptions to remember and a few basic ways to create a useful model for your system. [Read more…]
Now as a maintenance and reliability engineer, you need to come up with some tools to help you do this asset criticality activity. The heat maps are a good way as they include the asset hierarchy of the organization along with the budget details and other related information. You rank every system in the map by creating matrices that have different illustrations—usually red dots for critical ones and so on—to allow you to focus on specific factors and the determine the consequences if those assets fail. In order to do this, stakeholders, plant maintenance staff and concerned officials need to interact as it leads to right answers by asking the right questions and addressing the right issues in a right way. This is done by cascading everything from the corporate level to the site level.
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