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Web-Based Skills Assessment Tool Aids Maintenance Staff

I get bombarded with maintenance product news and seldom get excited about the “innovations” in the maintenance marketplace. This changed the other day when Universal Technologies Interactive sent me news of an online “Skills Accelerator.”

Weibayes Estimates

If you've got one piece of failure data and nothing else, you're a poor person without much hope. I've you've got one piece of failure data and a Weibull database, you're a rich person with a map on the back of an envelope and a compass by your side to get you out of the abysmal swamp of ignorance and misunderstanding.

Weibull Analysis

Weibull analysis is the tool of choice for most reliability engineers when they consider what to do with age-to-failure data. It uses the Weibull distribution which says mathematically that reliability, R(t) = e^{-(t/h)^b} where t is time, h is a scale factor know as the characteristic life (most of the Weibull distributions have tailed data and lack an easy way to describe central tendency as the mode≠median≠mean, however, regardless of the b-values, which is a shape factor, and all of the cumulative distribution function values pass through the h value at 63.2% which thus entitles it to be know as the single point characteristic life).

Weibull Database

The smartest way to maintain a reliability database is in Weibull format and Weibull databases are available. Seldom do you see Weibull databases from vendors because they jealously protect their data for proprietary reasons-they life/die financially from the Weibull database information.

Welcome Paperwork for Oil Analysis

If you are like me, you strive to reduce the amount of paper in your life. Now there is a new form of paper you will want to add to your life if you are involved with machinery condition monitoring and more specifically, oil analysis!

What Do Bosses Really Want From The Maintenance Effort?

We don't have to be mind readers about what the big bosses want from maintenance. We just have to read the Wall Street Journal or any newspaper business section. Big bosses want less maintenance, big bosses want maintenance that does not interfere with production, and big bosses don't want anything like accidents, environmental violations, or fires, to get in the newspapers.

What Do You Have A Right To Expect?

By Dan Daley, Author, The Little Black Book Of Reliability Management

Expect what you inspect.
~ An old inspector's saying 

Approximately twenty years ago, the company where I was employed sponsored a workshop focusing exclusively on reliability. When the workshop and its subject were announced, I was a little surprised.

 

What Do You Mean Compressed Air Isn’t Free?  We Use It Everyday!

It is amazing that while there is so much discussion in various media about energy and carbon reduction, most plant personnel fail to realize that there are incredible opportunities for cutting energy waste and carbon gases right under their proverbial noses. These are opportunities that could dramatically improve their company's competitiveness.

What Does it Take to Make SAP PM an Enabler for Your Organization?

A SAMI AHC (Asset Health Care) Stage 1 (Work Management) engagement primarily focuses on 'getting control of work'. For clients that use SAP , we often find their SAP Plant Maintenance (PM) backlog unattended.

What is guaranteed Maintainability?

It might seem trivial, but the best way to improve reliability is to choose equipment that doesn't breakdown! At the very least, choose designs that when they do fail they are easy, inexpensive and quick to fix. With the right choices in the beginning, maintenance departments can guarantee maintainability. The field of guaranteed maintainability was coined by Atlanta based consultant, Ed Feldman.

What is Risk Management?

By: R. Keith Mobley

Risk management is simply the identification, assessment, and prioritization of risks, followed by a coordinated and economical application of resources to minimize or control the probability of occurrence and the impact of negative events, as well as to maximize the realization of opportunities. What is considered a risk? Risks can come from uncertainty in financial markets, project failures, legal actions, regulatory liabilities, accidents, and natural disasters, as well as simple human error.

What is Shock Pulse Method?

Shock Pulse Method is a signal processing technique used to measure metal impact and rolling noise such as those found in rolling element bearings and gears. Much more refined than other high frequency measurements, Shock Pulse is widely used throughout the world as a basis for predictive maintenance. Rolling element bearings are the most common measurement for Shock Pulse but the measurement technique has a number of other applications such as gear condition, compressor condition and other applications where metal-to-metal contact is a source of wear.

What Should A Maintenance Planner Do - 3 Minute Audio Maintenance Tip

Join Maintenance and Reliability Expert and Author Ricky Smith for a 3 minute discussion about the role of the maintenance planner. 

What Tool? When? Some Thoughts

By Ron Moore

Companies are bombarded daily with recommendations from various sources regarding the tools they should use for improvement, leaving most people in a quandary regarding their selection and application. Unfortunately, there are any number of tools being offered, with little guidance regarding which one is best in a given situation, how the tools might relate to each other, or perhaps more importantly, the enabling practices or readiness that any given organization might need in order to effectively apply the tools.

What’s the FRACAS?

Failure Elimination Made Simple

by Ricky Smith, CPMM, CMRP and Bill Keeter, CMRP

How good is your organization at identifying failures?  Of course you see failures when they occur, but can you identify when recurring failures are creating serious equipment reliability issues?  Most companies begin applying RCA or RCFA to “high value failures”.  While this is not wrong, I prefer to either not see the failure in the first place, or at the least, to reduce the failures to a controllable level.

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