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Journey Toward Reliability Starts with Uptime Elements
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Journey Toward Reliability Starts with Uptime Elements

Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (Central San) is an organization providing wastewater collection and treatment for over 481,600 residents and 3,000 businesses in Contra Costa County, California, located about 25 miles from San Francisco. Central San’s main facility is a treatment plant in Martinez, California, processing an average of 32 million gallons per day of municipal wastewater and providing up to three million gallons per day of recycled water to several businesses in the community.

Data Farming:  A Way to Maximize Use of Data for Machinery Condition Monitoring
Asset Condition Management

Data Farming:  A Way to Maximize Use of Data for Machinery Condition Monitoring

Planning, managing and expanding the transition to Industry 4.0 and selling it to the executive level of an organization are skill sets that most reliability and maintenance (R&M) practitioners don’t possess. 

Featured Reliability Leader: Greg Bentley

Featured Reliability Leader: Greg Bentley

Greg joined his brothers at Bentley Systems in 1991. Keith A. Bentley and Barry J. Bentley founded Bentley Systems in 1984. Bentley Systems is an American-based software development company that develops software and services for the design, construction, and operation and reliability of infrastructure.

Redefining Asset Performance Management
Asset Management

Asset Performance Management Defined

If you work for an asset intensive organization and your role involves ensuring value from assets, you are unlikely to organize the world by software applications as software marketing professionals or software analysts’ do in order to describe these applications and functions to chief information officers, IT leaders or other chief officers.

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Q&A with Vilma A. Rosado
Asset Management

Q&A with Vilma A. Rosado

A native of Lajas, Puerto Rico, Vilma Rosado joined the workforce as a process engineer in the electronics industry in 1998. Over the next 20 years, she has worked for the U.S. government, Hewlett-Packard, Johnson & Johnson and now as a Senior Manager level, individual contributor at BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. Vilma is passionate about high performance teams and assets, and has a continuous commitment and interest in reliability engineering and asset management.

Perfecting the Water Industry: Advanced Process Control Without a PhD
Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

Perfecting the Water Industry: Advanced Process Control Without a PhD

In any process automation & control industry, the most widely used control algorithm is proportional-integral-derivative (PID), according to National Instruments. PID control has been widely adopted throughout industrial control markets, dating back to the beginning of trying to optimize any process. 

Bad Actor Program
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Bad Actor Program

Reliability engineering is about predicting failures and providing ground for decision-making related to preventive maintenance optimization (PMO), lifecycle costing, spare parts forecasting, and reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) modeling. Different tools are available to the reliability engineer for such levels of predictions. The benefit of these tools comes from proper planning and management plans to cope with future issues.

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 2
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 2

Part 1 in the June/July 2019 Uptime issue closed with the experience-based statement that failure risk can escalate by certain specification practices, including some contained in API 610. Without going into the many possible reasons for bearing life reductions, the quest for better bearings in upgraded process pumps elicits several observations that should be considered when preparing a modern pump specification.

The Great Disconnect: Americans Don’t Understand Modern Manufacturing and They Should
Leadership for Reliability

The Great Disconnect: Americans Don’t Understand Modern Manufacturing and They Should

Many Americans believe that American manufacturing is a relic of the past,  rusting abandoned profession where weary men and women drudge through the day performing a single task for hours on end.

The Hidden Front Line of Cyberattacks: Industrial Control Systems
Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

The Hidden Front Line of Cyberattacks: Industrial Control Systems

It’s a quiet December afternoon in 2015. In the Ivano-Frankivsk region of Western Ukraine, workers are preparing to finish their day and make their way home into a cold night. Inside the Prykarpattyaoblenergo control center, which distributes power to the region’s residents, operators are nearing the end of their shift. Suddenly, an unprecedented series of cyberattacks takes place as they watch in amazement. The attacks eventually knock out parts of Ukraine’s electric grid, thus cutting the power to nearly a quarter of a million residences.

Failure to Launch: Why IoT Projects Fail to Get Started
Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

Failure to Launch: Why IoT Projects Fail to Get Started

The May 2019 The RELIABILITY Conference™ saw a significant increase in the number of sessions and vendors that included the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0, or digitization topics/themes. The IoT related content has been on a steady rise for the past couple of years, with no sign of slowing down as evidenced by the agendas for the MaximoWorld 2019 and IMC-2019 conferences in August and December 2019, respectively. Of course, if you are in the business of maintenance reliability, this subject prevalence is nothing new to you.

Augmented Decision-Making: When Data Replaces Experience
Asset Management

Augmented Decision-Making: When Data Replaces Experience

The evolution of OT is meteoric. Today, a proliferation of connected devices can monitor asset condition and performance, along with operational conditions. The information captured from these devices enables operational optimization. It can also prevent unplanned downtime through early detection of impending failures, allowing corrective actions to be planned.

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