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Reliability Performance Institute Call For Papers

Do you have a topic you would like to present?

Reliabilityweb.com is seeking presentations from organizations that have made or attempted to make reliability improvements in the past. We value presentations about “what did not work” as much as presentations about “what did work”. No organization has achieved perfection in maintenance reliability; however, many have made great strides and we are looking for those who are willing and able to share those stories so we can all learn.

Reliabilityweb.com 100 Top Web Sites

It's Back - The Top 100 web sites serving as information and networking resources for maintenance and reliability professionals from around the world.

To nominate your favorite resource site please send an email to Top100@reliabilityweb.com  

Things to think about (and do) in 2010

We are pleased to announce a very special project that created a very special outcome.

Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine invited thought leaders in the maintenance and reliability community to contribute a single page communication directed toward creating a new idea or action on the part of the readers, the maintenance and reliability professional community at large.

1 Minute Maintenance Tip - Effective Work Procedures

1 Minute Maintenance Tip

Effective Work Procedures

10 Things You Can Do Right Now To Improve Reliability

Publishers Note: We recently challenged our good friend and maintenance expert Ricky Smith to tell us 10 things we can do today - not 10 things we can buy today - to improve reliability at our plants. No new software, no new hardware, no new consultants. Ricky did as Ricky usually does and showed up with goods!

We admit he did include one "buy recommendation" but we let it pass because it falls under US$100. Here is what he came back with. - Terrence O'Hanlon, CMRP

16 Question Survey

The Manufacturing Game has developed a short 16-question survey based on Joseph Campbell's concept of a Hero's Journey.The survey is designed to facilitate the story writing process, and it guides the writer through the writing process. They provide this survey to maintenance and reliability professionals for their own use. Clients may opt to use the written story internally or share their success with others by approving it for publication in external publications such as the our quarterly TMG newsletter or a monthly magazine like Uptime Magazine.

See the list below for the 16 questions in the survey, as it relates to writing about Action Team successes.

2 Minute Audio Tip - Mean Time to Restore

Take 2 minutes to hear what Ricky Smith, CMRP of GPAllied has to say about Mean Time to Restore as a preformance metric.

2009 PdM Program of the Year Award Winners

Primetime Programs receive award from Uptime Magazine

3 Steps and 3 Tools that Organize and Improve Your Problem Solving Capability

Basic Elements of a Comprehensive Investigation
By Mark Galley, ThinkReliability

The terms failure analysis, incident investigation, and root cause analysis are used by organizations when referring to their problem solving approach. Regardless of what it’s called there are three basic questions to every investigation: 1 - What’s the problem(s)? 2 - Why did it happen (the causes)? and 3 - What specifically should be done to prevent it.

5 Minute Audio Tip - Maintenance Function Tip

Click the play arrow below tp hear Ricky Smith CMRP discuss the maintenance function.

 

 

5 Minute Audio Tip - Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers

Ricky Smith, CMRP explains Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers

A Better Black Liquor Process

Finding Vacuum Leaks in a Multi Effect Evaporator

by Karl Hoffower and Allan Rienstra

So many industrial processes depend on creating a stable vacuum, but system leaks impair process efficiency and, if left unchecked, will shut it down.  Finding these leaks can be challenging in noisy plant environments and reliability engineers must weigh the balance between the costs of downtime versus the cost of continuing production with a leaky, inefficient system.

A Better Understanding of Rotor Dynamics and Support Stiffness

More Data Provides More Answers

by Ron Brook

A Business-Based Approach to Developing an Effective Program

by Krzysztof (Kris) Goly

Over the last decade, there has been a general consensus throughout the industry that modern maintenance and plant asset management require the implementation of predictive maintenance techniques. In most instances, predictive technologies are implemented in the form of a Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Program.  PdM programs are designed and implemented through various approaches.  This article presents a business-based approach that has been utilized successfully by Siemens throughout the world and across various industries.

A Closer Look at Air Gap Eccentricity

by Douglas E. Swinskey & Peter M. Bechard

The first step in evaluating test data is understanding the relationship to the circuit's Fault Zones and how abnormalities in a specific Fault Zone affect the performance of the motor. The six Fault Zones (Power Quality, Power Circuit, Stator, Insulation, Rotor, and Air Gap) are derived from the most common electrically related motor failures in industrial environments. The Air Gap Fault Zone describes the measurable distance between the rotor and stator within the motor. Air gap eccentricity is a condition that occurs when a non-uniformity in the air gap between the rotor and stator exists.

 

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