The Central Arizona Project (CAP) faces significant corrosion issues in two critical steel pipelines that transport nearly two billion gallons of water daily across Arizona. With limited maintenance windows, CAP explored three options: ongoing repairs, building a bypass for extended maintenance, or replacing the pipelines with low-maintenance concrete. After a thorough analysis, CAP chose to rehabilitate existing infrastructure and reline the steel pipelines, ensuring long-term reliability for Arizona’s water supply.

tales from the shop

How a Change Can Derail the Launch of a Laser Alignment Program

A tale of battling tradition with technology, and how a friendly competition convinced even the most seasoned mechanics to embrace change.

asset management

Making a business case for Condition-Based Maintenance

Maciej Kuczyński

Many experts believe that predictive maintenance (PdM) isn't reaching its full potential. Surprisingly, the challenges holding it back aren't just technical—they're financial.

tales from the shop

Why Your Fluid Analysis Program May Not Be Living Up to Your Expectations

Jack Poley

Many condition monitoring (CM) programs fall short of expectations due to overlooked critical steps and practices from the outset.

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What Am I Supposed to Do With This?

Brendon Russ

Tales from the Shop are designed to cover the universal and painful lessons that we are likely to learn on a typical reliability journey. Hopefully our contributors pain will be your gain!

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Sustaining RCM Success Using the Uptime Elements Framework

Nick Jize

RCM implementation must be strategic for it to succeed and be sustainable. The Uptime ® Elements framework is ideal for building the support, reasoning and process for an RCM effort.

tales from the shop

The Support Needed to Launch, Maintain and Improve Your Reliability Strategy!

Eric Ayanegui

The need for executive sponsorship when launching, maintaining and improving an effective reliability strategy is paramount. See the difference in this Tale from the Shop.

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This Is the Best in Class

Brendon Russ

When a critical gearbox failure occurred in the area that had deviated from the plan, management recognized the value of the centralized approach and mandated its adoption facility-wide.

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AI for Reliability and Asset Management

Aaron Merkin

Labor force changes, more consumer demand, and supply chain issues have created a high-pressure situation. Maintenance managers must achieve better results with fewer resources. Fortunately, technology can help.

reliability engineering for maintenance

7 Steps to Criticality Analysis for Capital Projects and Sustainment Planning

Mike Castro

Asset criticality is a ranking of assets according to potential operational impact. This is usually determined through a formal asset criticality analysis on each asset or group of like assets.

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The Importance of Preventive Maintenance in the Oil and Gas Industry: Lessons Learned from The Stena Spey Oil Rig Incident

Charlie Green

Preventative maintenance aims to balance production and preservation. In high-stakes industries like oil and gas, this balance is especially important.

leadership for reliability

Uptime Elements Alignment with Deming's System of Profound Knowledge

Terrence O'Hanlon

Reliabilityweb.com CEO Terrence O'Hanlon relates A Reliability Framework and Asset Management System™ to principles of scholar W. Edwards Deming's famous theory.

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