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The Disease in Manufacturing No One Is Talking About

The Disease in Manufacturing No One Is Talking About

In one recent reliability trade magazine, there were 34 advertisements for new and improved tools or training for improving your reliability program. 

Managing the Risk of the Schedule Using Monte Carlo Simulations

Managing the Risk of the Schedule Using Monte Carlo Simulations

Consider this scenario: You are finalizing the planning of your company’s next major maintenance outage or capital project and are concerned the timeline is too tight and your team is small. You communicate this to management and... 

Q & A with Suzane Greeman

Q & A with Suzane Greeman

Suzane Greeman, CMQ/OE, CAMA, CAMP, CMRP is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions Inc (GAMSINC). An accomplished asset management leader with over 22 years of experience, Suzane has worked across several asset management disciplines to implement asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment and airport assets. She is also a member of the Empowering Women in Industry 2020 Steering Committee and Women in Reliability and Asset Management (WIRAM). Uptime® magazine was fortunate enough to speak with Suzane about her company, asset management and the role of diversity in the industry.

Featured Reliability Leader: Lisa Seacat DeLuca

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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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.

Optimizing Asset Utilization: LOOP’s Continuous Improvement Journey

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.

Digital Reliability Engineering: Tools and Methods

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. 

The Latest Technology for Asset Management in Oil & Gas

The Latest Technology for Asset Management in Oil & Gas

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. 

Energy Industry Risk Assessment: Current Practices and Elements

Energy Industry Risk Assessment: Current Practices and Elements

As the North American oil and gas infrastructure ages, changes made to facilities during their lifetime may not have been transferred to the official recorded drawings of the facilities. 

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.

PM Optimization: Challenge and Transform Your PM Strategy

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.

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.