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Reliability & Information
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliability & Information

Problems with reliability appeared with the beginning of human activity. However, the ways of solving these problems were different and they were changing with growing complexity of technical systems. The retrospective view shows that the way of solving reliability problems depends on the ratio between the complexity of the system and the ability of people to obtain information about the system and its elements.

What’s in Your DNA?
Leadership for Reliability

What’s in Your DNA?

Uptime® Elements – A Reliability Framework and Asset Management System™ uses mental models and systems thinking to ensure a consistent language of reliability is embedded in the culture.

Some Plain Talk About Nuts and Bolts: Part 2 of 2
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Some Plain Talk About Nuts and Bolts: Part 2 of 2

Part 1 of this two-part Q&A series covered torque specifications, why good tightening practices are important and fastener identification. This next Q&A provides detailed information answering frequently asked questions about the hardware to help you understand what is involved with quality bolting practices.

The MRO Dilemma: Major Time, Minor Spend
Work Execution Management

The MRO Dilemma: Major Time, Minor Spend

A universal situation in the world of the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) supply chain is that managing the process consumes an inordinate amount of time from all plant departments. The MRO spend is only six to 10 percent of a plant’s total, but it absorbs 70 to 80 percent of all transactions and causes 50 percent of the emergencies affecting plant reliability.

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Does Relying on Criticality Put Your Organization at Risk? Part 1
Asset Management

Does Relying on Criticality Put Your Organization at Risk? Part 1

This article is Part 1 of a series focusing on risk as an enabler for asset management. 

It argues the case for moving away from criticality to an ISO31000 risk-based approach. Part 2 will address how to effectively model asset risk in complex systems.

Habits are the Building Blocks to Sustainability
Leadership for Reliability

Habits are the Building Blocks to Sustainability

What habits do you have at your workplace? What work habits do your peers have?

Habits can ruin your life or make it better. You choose which habits form your lifestyle, but can corporations choose the habits that form the behavior(s) present in its workforce?

Artificial Intelligence: A Primer for the Reliability Community
Asset Condition Management

Artificial Intelligence: A Primer for the Reliability Community

Artificial intelligence or AI is the simulation of human intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. 

From a Different Angle: A Perspective - Defects, P-F and the Rest of the Story
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

From a Different Angle: A Perspective - Defects, P-F and the Rest of the Story

Think about all the initiator causes of failure that are not really related to maintenance. Initiator causes are those events, possibly microscopic, that initiate decay shown by the P-F curve. Examples of initiator causes might include heat, dirt, or overloading.

Completing the Curve
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Completing the Curve

Back in the June/July 2006 issue of Uptime, I authored an article entitled Expanding the Curve detailing why the traditional P-F curve was incomplete. While it was expected that the article might elicit both positive and negative comments, it came as a surprise how strong some of those opinions were.

Q&A with Industry Leader Chrissy Hedrick

Q&A with Industry Leader Chrissy Hedrick

Chrissy Hedrick, Wastewater Operator at Cintas Corporation, hasn’t let stereotypes or diversity slow her down when it comes to her career.

Do You Speak RELIABILITY?
Leadership for Reliability

Do You Speak RELIABILITY?

Part of the mission at Reliabilityweb.com® is to discover and deliver approaches to make reliability leaders and asset managers safer and more successful. I am blessed to be able to meet some of the best reliability leaders and asset managers in the world as I travel to learn (discover) and teach (deliver). There is nothing more satisfying than seeing someone presenting their journey based on the use of the Uptime® Elements™ framework.

The Vanishing Workforce and How to Deal With It
Leadership for Reliability

The Vanishing Workforce and How to Deal With It

For over 10 years, the country has seen a shift in the workforce. Older workers, known as baby boomers, have begun to leave in droves before younger replacements are trained or, in some cases, even onboard. You keep hearing, “jobs, jobs, jobs,” but what should be heard is, skilled workers, skilled workers, skilled workers. That’s right, there is a worker shortage more than a job shortage. Why, you may ask? There are several reasons, but more importantly, very little is being done to solve the problem.

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