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Don’t Waste Your Time and Money with Condition Monitoring

Predictive Maintenance applies condition monitoring techniques to discover potential failures. While finding a problem before it becomes a failure is good, companies can end up with so much work that maintenance backlog skyrockets, maintenance costs blow-out and people burn-out. Understanding when a predictive maintenance strategy can cause uneconomic maintenance, or why condition monitoring can produce unending failures, is vital if you want reliable equipment with low maintenance cost.

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When Should a Company Self-Disrupt

By Greg Hutchins (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

So, when should a company self-disrupt? Or, more importantly when should you self-disrupt.

Companies face these disruptor questions:

What are possible triggers to start (your) self-disruption?
1. When should they (you) self-disrupt?
  1. How quickly should they (you) self-disrupt?
    1. How should they (you) self-disrupt?
      1. What’s their (your) final destination?
        How are they (you) going to monetize (make money)?
        All companies are searching for the next killer work model, app, platform, product, or idea. It’s too late when there are not enough products in the pipeline to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Companies learned this lesson the hard way.

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The Role of Chance and Luck in Your Equipment Failures

Plant and equipment do not fail by accident. There are causes. Whether equipment fails depends on the capacity of their parts to handle stresses, when stresses are applied and the size of those stresses. These are probabilistic events – they are random, with many possibilities. Timing the start of failure, or its continuation to a breakdown, is mostly speculation because it depends on which past and future scenarios occur. It seems that luck and chance has a large say on the lifetime reliability of equipment. But there is a way to guide equipment reliability and performance toward the results you want.

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Back to the Basics: Brainstorming for Continuous Improvement

Brainstorming may sound like a casual conversation technique, but when applied properly, it becomes a critical tool for continuous improvement across a range of creative and technical disciplines.
In a structured environment, brainstorming enables organizations to capture a wide range of ideas, perspectives, and solutions — ideas that might never surface in a traditional problem-solving meeting.

Let’s take a step back and revisit the basics of effective brainstorming, especially its role in driving meaningful change.

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CR047: Cultural Influences and Perspectives in Maintenance and Reliability with Sanya Mathura

Cultural Influences and Perspectives in Maintenance and Reliability with Sanya Mathura

We love conversations like this!! A total blast connecting with Sanya for this real and practical discussion about Cultural Influences and Perspectives in maintenance and reliability.

This episode features Sanya Mathura of Strategic Reliability Solutions, Ltd featuring a discussion about various aspects of maintenance and reliability practices within organizations, the implementation of computerized maintenance management software (CMMS), and the realities of sensor monitoring.

Cultural impacts and how they play out. What is STEM? Wait, there’s now an “A” in STEM? We learn about Sanya’s New Book! She has written several books and is renowned for her knowledge in the lubrication space as a path toward ultimate reliability!!

We chat about the importance of self-care! Plus, loads of fun conversation around Sonya’s journey and some fun personal insights at the “fun questions” segment.

Involving teams and individuals in the CMMS implementation process
Overcoming resistance to change
The value of effective communication
How food helps engage participants
Demonstrating the value of CMMS to team members
The fundamentals of sensor monitoring
Achieving work-life balance, drawing from Sanya’s experiences

Tune in and get some valuable insights and practical advice for individuals and organizations seeking to optimize maintenance and reliability practices while prioritizing employee well-being and engagement.

Connect with Sanya on LinkedIn or head over to www.strategicreliabilitysolutions.com and be sure to grab Sanya’s new book (it’s in the episode and on the website).

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Using Condition Monitoring as a Reliability Improvement Strategy

Condition Monitoring when used to drive reliability improvement offers diagnostics, information and data for Root Cause Analysis and equipment redesign, along with verification of defect or design correction.

Condition monitoring applied proactively is a context embracing world class reliability maintenance concepts.

Where condition monitoring is used as a proactive defect elimination strategy to drive failure prevention the benefits really add up with improved Reliability giving extended Mean Time Between Failures and additional Plant Availability. There have been recorded instances where the gains in improved plant uptime has lead to deferment of expensive plant expansion.

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Back to the Basics: Understanding the Deming Cycle (PDCA)

In the world of quality, reliability, product design, and manufacturing, improvement is a necessity, not a luxury. Few models have provided a stronger foundation for improvement than the Deming Cycle, commonly referred to as PDCA: Plan-Do-Check-Act.

Although simple in structure, PDCA represents a deep and disciplined approach to learning, problem-solving, and continuous improvement. Whether you are optimizing a production process, refining a laboratory method, or developing a new product, understanding PDCA is essential.

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Software Reliability

Software reliability and hardware reliability are two distinct concepts within the field of engineering, each with its own unique characteristics and measurement challenges.

Software reliability is defined as the probability that software will operate without failure for a specified period of time in a specified environment. It is a reflection of the design perfection rather than manufacturing perfection, which is more associated with hardware reliability. The complexity of software is a major contributing factor to software reliability issues. Unlike hardware, software does not degrade over time or wear out, but it may have faults due to design defects that can cause failures.

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VUCA, Distruption and Risk

Breaking an old business model is always going to require leaders to follow their instincts. There will always be persuasive reasons not to take a risk. But if you only do what worked in the past, you’ll wake up one day and find that you’ve been passed by.

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3 MTBF Stories

Everyone loves a great story. Storytelling has been a long tradition to pass along knowledge and wisdom.

There are good stories, tales of inspiration. There are sad stories, tales of caution.

There are fables, ghost stores, legends, epic poems, and more. When considering the reliability performance of your product or equipment, you probably have a few stories that you can tell. “That time … “

Simple join colleagues for lunch and ask about the ‘major disasters’ of the past. The stories help us to remember and hopefully avoid repeating mistakes.

Here are three stories with MTBF as a central figure. It is a site and blog that does take about MTBF, so it fits. To start, let me introduce you to Martin, a new reliability engineering reporting to his first day of work at a bicycle design and manufacturing company. Two sad stories and a good one. enjoy. [Read more…]

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Project Email Economics

Economics concerns itself with the determination of the most logical and effective use of resources to meet private and social goals for some form of benefit. While primarily concerned with industry and business, its concepts of opportunity cost, supply and demand, present value, and mutual interdependence economics is also applicable to email; one of our most utilised forms of communication but, possibly, the most hated. [Read more…]

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Theory of Constraints

A Tool for Project Selection and Continuous Improvement

Across industries and disciplines, one challenge remains constant: how to prioritize the right improvement projects to drive meaningful, measurable progress. Whether you work in continuous improvement, reliability, quality, or manufacturing engineering, you have more ideas and opportunities than time or resources to pursue them. This is where the Theory of Constraints (TOC) shines. Developed by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, TOC offers a focused methodology for identifying the best opportunities for improvement, allocating resources wisely, and sustaining continuous advancement.

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Condition Monitoring using Operating Equipment Performance Monitoring

Article by Peter Brown

The data gathered from operating condition inspections and performance monitoring trends will increasingly appear alongside process plant performance data and be used to assign maintenance priorities and maximise plant uptime and equipment reliability.

Measuring machinery health by performance monitoring has the potential to give warning of a developing failure through the changing levels of a suitable parameter being measured, thereby indicating a change in condition of a component, machine or system.Keywords: machinery performance monitoring, machine condition assessment, equipment health monitoring

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Company Acceptance of Hybrid PM is High Risk

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

A Hybrid Methodology combining the speed and flexibility of Agile and the structure of Waterfall is feasible and practical. I base my opinion on the research I have done. I recently presented a Webinar to Project Management Institute (PMI) members on how to merge Agile and Waterfall to achieve a Hybrid methodology. The focus of this paper is to address the greatest risk to a company in implementing the new methodology i.e., acceptance of it. I addressed how to accomplish the merger to achieve a Hybrid method in a paper I wrote and posted on LinkedIn in May

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CR030: From CMMS Mastery to Industry 4.0 Innovation! Guest Expert: ReliabilityX COO Joe Anderson

From CMMS Mastery to Industry 4.0 Innovation! Guest Expert: ReliabilityX COO Joe Anderson

Unlocking Maintenance Success: From CMMS Mastery to Industry 4.0 Innovation! Join us for a dynamic radio conversation with Joe Anderson, COO of ReliabilityX, as we delve into the world of CMMS challenges, cultural change, and navigating the evolving landscapes of Industry 4.0 and 5.0. Discover the secrets to mastering CMMS, fostering a proactive maintenance culture, and embracing the power of learning from mistakes. Tune in and revolutionize your maintenance strategy today!

Selecting and utilizing Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) present challenges due to varying industry needs, work types, and organizational sizes.

Alignment of CMMS with an organization’s maturity level, needs, and goals is crucial.
Common issues include data overload and a lack of discipline in data input.
Proper planning and distinguishing necessities from nice-to-haves are important in CMMS implementation.
Changing systems should not substitute for enforcing accountability within an organization.
Cultural change and behavioral adoption challenges are discussed in CMMS implementation.
Employees should understand the value of the system for improvement, not surveillance.
Training and addressing employee concerns during implementation are essential.
Maintenance is not solely about turning wrenches; proactive practices and asset health monitoring are key.

Connect with Joe Anderson: Joseph.Anderson@reliabilityx.com

ReliabilityX: https://reliabilityx.com/

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Inquire: Ask@ReliabilityX.com or call 1–877-RLBLTYX

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