Your Reliability Engineering Professional Development Site
Kirk and Fred discussing the continued use of Reliability prediction and the very outdated government reference document, MIL HDBK 217.
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Carl and Fred discussing the role of passion in everything you do. Tapping into your personal passions when presenting or communicating connects with people and helps get your message across.
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When it comes to condition-based monitoring, no matter how hard you try, you can never have 100% failure protection. At some point and on some level—even at the smallest levels—something is going to go wrong and your assets are going to fail. The best choice is to always plan for those sudden failures to minimize their damage in the end. The only way to ensure that is to have a very good detection strategy in place. Ultrasound helps greatly in achieving this milestone by helping you monitor the health of your entire facilities, giving you a much better proactive approach.
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Carl and Fred discuss the important subject of creativity, and how the creative process can energize reliablity improvments.
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Tim interviews Dennis Craggs a consultant about his background and ongoing work concerning big data analytics.
James and Fred discussing the background and beginnings of today’s metrics.
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Whenever we talk about asset management, asset integrity is the first thing that pops up in your mind. Asset integrity is the ability of an asset to perform effectively and efficiently depending upon the environment to meet the bottom-line of an organization. This also includes and depends on the integrity of the systems, processes, and people that show the nature of that organization. Your asset management strategy should be fit for purpose and needs to be developed considering the requirements of the organization along with the risks that are involved if it fails. This is where the Asset Integrity Management Systems come in action.
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James and Fred discussing the various ways to properly and improperly measure plant uptime.
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Andre and Fred discussing the when and why you may want to use this powerful tool.
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It is not possible to keep your equipment operating at efficiency and for high productivity if you are not lubricating the machines properly. That is why it is so vital to use the right lubricant to avoid any breakdowns or other failures in your systems. You have to always keep an eye for the contamination because it alone can cause severe damage. When you apply the lubricants poorly, there are a hundred things that go wrong with the handling of the machines and in a result causes problems for your storage strategy.
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Andre and Fred discussing some best practice, failure mechanisms and problems when’d temperature cycling testing.
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Carl and Fred discuss key process characteristics, what they are, and how to identify and use them in reliablity programs.
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Oil analysis is a very important part of any lubrication program. Oil is an essential ingredient for your equipment and provides a strong bottom line. When there are contaminants in your oil, your equipment fails more often than it is supposed to. That means you have to get more spare parts, buy more lubricants and deal with increased downtime. When the condition of your oil is good—that is where the oil analysis comes in for making sure it is—your machines work properly. In a result, you save a lot of money by purchasing the right amount of oil.
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Carl and Fred discuss the subject of key product characteristics, why they are important, and how to identify and use them to improve reliability.
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Tim and Fred discuss the feedback loop that connects field performance to the production processes at the supplier, and how advanced sensing technology provides more data to all parties, but doesn’t necessarily lead to greater knowledge or improved reliability.
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