Reliability Radio interviews Peyton Swan of B&K Vibro. Peyton Swan is a highly experienced professional engineer in the field of vibration monitoring and analysis and has worked in many different
Sundance Power Plant is typically operated with a minimal staff which presents problems with scheduling calendar-based vibration monitoring. Routes were often cancelled due to non-operation of the generating units or staff scheduled for other work.
Having representative key performance indicators (KPIs) is important in gaining needed control to assure fulfillment of achievement for organizations and stakeholders’ goals and needed values. But they are only useful if we succeed to identify the right ones for our business and processes. They will only deliver critical information and targeted outcomes if we built them by strategic, meaningful, simple top-down approach.
Reliability systems and standards rely heavily on executive sponsorship to drive change throughout an organization. However, the reality is that executive leaders have limited bandwidth and will not always be the initial drivers of change. “Bottom up leadership” can effect meaningful change, but what are the most important elements of effective “bottom-up leadership?”
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IoT implementations are currently possible but not widely used. However, as facility managers continue to think of innovative ways to decrease downtime and maintenance costs, they’ll be more receptive to adding IoT devices to their assets.
This presentation will cover how to align DfR with the corporate vision, mission and core values by establishing a declaration, preparing DfR charters for specific projects, and developing the corporate DfR framework and toolkit to ensure the momentum and commitments gained during the DfR workshop would continue to be a priority and the expected value, cultural influence, reliability, and performance results would be realized.
Failure mode is the language of RCM. Unfortunately, it is not the language of your CMMS. The failure mode identifies the component that failed. This is what the maintenance technician repaired or replaced. If we had that level of detail available for analysis, we could trend the number of times this exact failure occurred. And that information would be quite useful as we could then focus on the worst offenders to reduce reactive maintenance.
EDMONTON, AB -- Due to the growth of US operations, Ontracks EAM Consulting Ltd. has named a new president of US operations to their subsidiary, Ontracks Enterprises, Inc. Candi Robison has been tapped to head up the US division after nearly 20 years working with IBM's Asset Management offering, Maximo.
Interface revolutionizes the ease, speed and accuracy of machine inspection processes
Franklin, Tenn. – Generation Systems, Inc., (GSI) makers of LUBE-IT™, the Award-Winning Lubrication Management System, is pleased to formally announce the release of its advanced SAP®/Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) interface. This software innovation enables the seamless transfer of inspection requests from maintenance technicians directly into the SAP Work Queue for approval by SAP work planning supervisors.
During 2016, Goldcorp-Peñasquito management started a road to change the maintenance and operations mindset. Since then, extensive work has been performed to adapt to a vision focused on value delivery through reliability.
Motion amplification (MA) is a video-processing technique that detects subtle motion and amplifies that motion to a level visible to the naked eye. Videos created through motion amplification enhance the understanding of the components and interrelationships creating the motion.
Corporate and site reliability teams face challenges and pressures to continuously improve and demonstrate the value and business impact they have on their organizations and as such, organizations around the world rely on reliability centered maintenance (RCM) as a means to significantly increase asset performance by delivering value to all stakeholders.