Articles

On-Site Fluid Intelligence: A Revolution to Advance Machinery Reliability

Using in-service oil analysis to improve machinery reliability has a long history. The first oil analysis was performed over half a century ago on a locomotive engine. Just as a human blood test provides important information about your health, the information provided by in-service oil analysis about machinery health, especially for a piece of complex machinery with many moving parts, such as a diesel engine, is unmatched by any other technologies on the market.

Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

How to Implement IIoT Predictive Analytics Solutions Without Hiring Big Data Scientists

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) predictive maintenance is firmly on the radar of most executives. At the same time, there are serious concerns about the lack of internal resources to analyze, visualize and interpret the big data generated by industrial machines. This article proposes an alternative: Implementing a big data predictive analytics solution without hiring a big data scientist.

Leadership for Reliability

Don’t Tell Me… Show Me

As a reliability engineer in an oil and gas facility, one of the main goals is to minimize reactive work, as well as increase reliability and availability of the physical assets. But another important task is to get the reliability growth noticed by all the people, including leaders and managers. A problem solved is a great chance for a “sales” presentation.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

3 Techniques for Optimizing Preventive Maintenance

When Benjamin Franklin wrote, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” he was referring to fire safety. But, as you may know from experience, this saying holds true with regard to preventive maintenance (PM). Simply stated, preventive maintenance is an activity performed at a set interval to maintain an asset, regardless of its current condition. It’s a properly planned activity, where materials and parts are on hand and labor is scheduled ahead of time.The goal of any PM program is not only to extend the life of an asset or maintain it to its existing capabilities, but to also identify potential failures that could cause an unexpected event in the future. Properly planned corrective maintenance is typically several times less expensive than performing unplanned work. But, are the typical frequencies that PMs occur actually correct?

Asset Management

Continuous Predictive Maintenance Is the Way Forward

Over the last few years, the continuous improvement of maintenance strategies is taking place at an incredible pace. The rapid influx of accessible data has the industrial world living in exciting times. As the industry just begins to scratch the surface of what the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) can deliver, there is a tremendous opportunity to displace antiquated ways of carrying out asset management.

asset management

Return of Investment In Advanced Asset Management: The 10 to 1 Ratio

Recently, a question was forwarded from Lhoist’s National Maintenance Manager Mauricio Arroyo to Reliabilityweb.com’s Global Relationship Leader and Director of Women in Reliability and Asset Management Maura Abad. The question was prompted after Mauricio read the Asset Condition Monitoring Project Manager’s Guide (Guide) to which Maura had provided a download link. The question was:

“In their [the Guide’s coauthors] experience across the industries, what is the average Cost Avoidance that they have found?”

Work Execution Management

New York City Housing Authority Tackles New Technology

How does the largest public housing authority in the nation document and address its hundreds of thousands of work orders effectively and efficiently? Technology, that’s how. The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) is utilizing cutting-edge technology to communicate with frontline staff and its residents in real time.

Asset Management

Bottom Line: Consumers Prefer Companies That Care

In this fast-paced world of meeting deadlines, quotas and targets, one facet of business that can easily get overlooked is corporate social responsibility. (For reference in this article, the corporate responsibility acronym, Cr, from the Uptime^® Elements will be used.) It’s a corporation’s initiative to take responsibility for the environmental and social well-being of the world. Cr generally applies to efforts that go beyond what may be required by regulators or environmental protection groups.

Leadership for Reliability

The 5 Habits of Great Reliability Engineers

Editor’s Note:

The author’s fascination with technology dates back to his youth. His father was a blacksmith, an engineer of metal work, and was instrumental in helping the author discover his love of creation through construction. He also passed on his passion for airplanes, which led the author to a career in aeronautical engineering, where he first encountered aspects of reliability. A subsequent career in reliability guided him along a path of confusion, frustration, curiosity, learning and change. Although still going through those stages constantly, they taught the author the five habits presented in this article. Now, those five habits make achieving meaningful change that much easier. They have been so effective, in fact, that it prompted the author to pass them on to Uptime readers.

Asset Management

Why Maintenance Cost to Asset Value Ratio Is Not a Good Benchmark

A commonly used benchmark for maintenance activities is the ratio of maintenance cost to asset value (MC/AV). Some medical equipment maintenance professionals also claim MC/AV to be the best or most reliable benchmark. Maintenance cost includes both scheduled (often erroneously called preventive maintenance) and nonscheduled (i.e., repairs) maintenance costs, whereas asset value has various interpretations. This article challenges the validity of MC/AV as a benchmark or even a key performance indicator for maintenance activities in most, if not all, industries.

Articles

On-Site Fluid Intelligence: A Revolution to Advance Machinery Reliability

How to Implement IIoT Predictive Analytics Solutions Without Hiring Big Data Scientists

Don’t Tell Me… Show Me

How Service Parts Planning Impacts Machine Uptime

3 Techniques for Optimizing Preventive Maintenance

Continuous Predictive Maintenance Is the Way Forward

Return of Investment In Advanced Asset Management: The 10 to 1 Ratio

New York City Housing Authority Tackles New Technology

Uptime Magazine Announces Winners of the 2018 Uptime Awards for the Best Reliability Programs!

Bottom Line: Consumers Prefer Companies That Care

The 5 Habits of Great Reliability Engineers

Why Maintenance Cost to Asset Value Ratio Is Not a Good Benchmark