For owner-operators of oil, gas and chemical companies, mechanical integrity (MI) and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) are pivotal components of any comprehensive asset management (AM) program.

Asset Condition Management

Optimizing Asset Utilization: LOOP’s Continuous Improvement Journey

The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP LLC) is the nation’s largest privately owned crude oil terminal. Initially constructed in 1981 to import crude oil from around the globe, LOOP has grown to become a fully diversified crude oil trading and exchange hub. LOOP is the only facility of its kind in the world where shippers can off-load crude oil from very large crude carriers (VLCCs), load VLCCs, and purchase, sell, exchange, store, blend, or deliver crude oil.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Digital Reliability Engineering: Tools and Methods

Since the beginning of time, human beings have survived and evolved through the use of tools. Tool usage is the basis for both ancient and modern engineering advances.

Featured Reliability Leader: Lisa Seacat DeLuca

Meet Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Director & Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Lisa is leading the incubation and incorporation of the digital twin across IBM’s IoT offering suite and driving the digital transformation of IoT solutions.

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Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

Digital Twin: Transforming Asset Operations

As physical assets become increasingly software enabled and more complicated in their construction, a new model is required to operate them – a model that will not be fully possible without the creation of digital asset replicas. These replicas are called digital twins.

What You Can Do If Your Reliability Program Isn’t Meeting Performance Goals

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliability strategy improvement

The system and associated work execution management (WEM) process was meant to improve the performance of assets, but failures keep occurring at a cost to your business.

Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

Who Will Benefit from Maintenance 4.0 Adoption?

This article explores whether the benefits of Maintenance 4.0 will be disproportionately spread and how this will impact the industrial sector.

Asset Management

Integration of DfR: Discover Defects, Remove Failure Modes, and Eliminate Asset Shutdown

TRC-2019 Learning Zone - 34:01

by John Ganaway, Jacobs Engineering Group

Asset Management has introduced a few key concepts which require a shift from focusing on initial investment to optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Work Execution Management

PM Optimization: Challenge and Transform Your PM Strategy

The primary objective of maintenance is to provide the maximum availability and efficiency of company assets throughout their expected life cycles at the lowest possible cost.

Asset Condition Management

A Cautionary Tale: The Story of One Family-Owned Company Putting the Customer Ahead of Revenue

A family-owned motor repair business in Pennsylvania has been selling industrial motors, controls, gearboxes and all related services since 1981. Its vision has always been to grow beyond a geographic service area, but it was not willing to compromise on its commitment to quality.

Asset Condition Management

Why Closed Oil Mist Lubrication Systems Are Worth Considering

It is not uncommon to receive queries about “closed” plant-wide oil mist lubrication.

Leadership for Reliability

Another Notre Dame Incident? Exploring Awareness as a Safety Behavior to Increase Productivity

On April 15, 2019, the world watched as the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, burned.

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