Articles

Be a Better Buyer with Closed Loop MRO Purchasing

You can tell a lot about a maintenance organization by observing how it purchases and consumes repair parts. Reactive organizations only seem to have time to “keep it running.” They don’t have time to shop for the best deals. Instead, they send the same noncompetitive purchase orders to the same vendors and take whatever pricing they get. And their receiving dock looks like a major courier service depot – full of emergency shipments. Cycle counts are mysteriously high because received parts aren’t always checked into inventory. Or, cycle counts are mysteriously low because parts are not always checked out of inventory and/or are lost to theft.

Work Execution Management

Pushing IIoT Predictive Maintenance Forward: Two Challenges to Overcome

There’s no doubt the Internet of Things (IoT) is moving quickly to the front lines of industrial maintenance reliability and asset management. Communication between machines and human technicians, enabled by wireless technology and connected devices, is fueling a shift from preventative to predictive maintenance. But while the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) groundwork has been laid, and it’s projected to be a $151 billion market by 2020, the revolution is still young.

Asset Management

Asset Management: Buzzword or VALUE Creator?

Asset management is the science of making the right decisions and optimizing the delivery of value.
Is asset management (AM) a new buzzword or a “flavor of the month” management initiative? AM is becoming a frequently used term in the industry around the world. It is a term being used more frequently by engineers, designers, facility planners and regulators, as well.

Leadership for Reliability

The Evolution of Performance Measurement

In the current environment of ever-increasing demands to deliver exceptional results with limited resources, leaders are placing greater emphasis on performance measurement. Performance measurement is defined as the process of analyzing information to determine the progress toward a desired outcome for a given organization.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Analyzing Repairable System Failures Data

Many reliability engineers throughout history have had concerns with the reliability of the repairable system. Several researchers have presented a few calculation or estimation techniques to achieve repairable system reliability. This article explains the mean cumulative function (MCF) as a powerful and easy technique to estimate and monitor repairable system reliability.

Things to Think About and Do (2017)

We asked some of our respected friends whom we consider to be thought leaders to look into the future, share their vision and guide us to take advantage of it to be safer and more successful.

Best-selling authors and leading subject-matter experts provide excellent interactive learning on a wide variety of subjects you can put to use immediately when you get back to work.

Work Execution Management

Defect Elimination From a CMMS Perspective

Defect elimination may be the most significant initiative within a maintenance reliability program. It may also provide the largest return on investment in terms of asset reliability and plant uptime. From a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) perspective, defect elimination can be used to focus on recurring failures and significant events, and also to address potential failures.

work execution management

Maximo Asset Management, Made Simple

This document provides insights from a maintenance perspective, the day-to-day user of the system and the information contained within it. Identifying all maintainable assets and their physical locations are critical to the maintenance function. From this functionality, data to identify the required maintenance strategies, develop logical maintenance routes and identify routine spare parts can be understood.

Asset Condition Management

ACM Project Manager’s Guide Features Complete Project Plan

Reliabilityweb.com just released the Asset Condition Monitoring (ACM) Project Manager’s Guide and, based on its contents, it’s a resource no organization should be without. For several years, I have been involved in asset management and managing condition based asset teams, but never have I seen a more complete project plan than what is presented in this guide. Not everything in the ACM Project Manager’s Guide will work for everybody, but there are sections in the guide that will adapt to every situation. No matter where you are on your asset condition monitoring journey, at the beginning or with a mature program, this guide contains information that will help to grow and sustain every ACM program.