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Criticality Analysis Made Simple

Understanding criticality and where it fits in your reliability engineering plans is, well, critical to the success of your asset management program. But there are some commonly held myths and misperceptions about criticality. These top myths and pitfalls often prevent organizations from performing a comprehensive criticality analysis.

Asset Management

As Advancements in Big Data, the Cloud and IoT Transform APM, Who Will Own the Data?

Without a doubt, advancing tech trends, like the Internet of Things (IoT), big data and cloud capabilities, are transforming the way we approach asset performance management (APM). The amount of process and equipment data available to aid in condition-based maintenance (CBM) activities and support reliability centered maintenance (RCM) programs is almost doubling annually, on track with overall big data growth rates. And as the Cloud and IoT provide more and more information about the current health and process conditions of the physical assets used to operate businesses, the better the decisions made about how to care for those assets.

Work Execution Management

The Right Resources: Start Designing a Planning & Scheduling Program

If you need to implement a new planning and scheduling program, you’re probably discovering that the task can be rather daunting. You need the right resources, the right organizational support, the right data, the right business practices, the right amount of time, the right change management approach, and the list goes on. This high level generic stuff may seem like implementing planning and scheduling just isn’t within your grasp. But there are ways to achieve an environment that will support a planning and scheduling program that works with what you already have in place and takes into account what your team is able to manage throughout implementation and beyond. If you take a closer look at what you already have, putting the final touches on a successful planning and scheduling program may not really be that big a beast to tackle.

Leadership for Reliability

A Reliable Plant – Good for Personal and Process Safety

Do you believe in safety? There is always a unanimous and resounding "Yes!" when this question is asked, particularly from executives. If you, particularly you executives, believe in safety, then you must believe in reliability and, more importantly, have the appropriate policies, systems, practices and measures to support reliability. You must walk the talk about safety.

Invariance of Vector Factors in the Direct Solution for Two-Plane Field Balancing

This article examines the invariant character of the vector factors in the direct static/couple solution for the two-plane field balancing with the orientation of the overhung rigid rotor. The aim of the article is to establish the correct application of the formulas involved to a practical case, which also has been particularized for the fixed scale convention.

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Criticality Analysis Made Simple

As Advancements in Big Data, the Cloud and IoT Transform APM, Who Will Own the Data?

Chasing the Checkered Flag

The Right Resources: Start Designing a Planning & Scheduling Program

A Reliable Plant – Good for Personal and Process Safety

Invariance of Vector Factors in the Direct Solution for Two-Plane Field Balancing

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