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Green Reliability

The Battery Revolution

A Technology Disruption, Economics and Grid Level Application Discussion with Eos Energy Storage

 

Leadership for Reliability

Blame Complacent Engineers for Bad Management Decisions

Author's Note: While I'm solely responsible for this article, I am also entirely indebted to a process hazard analysis and loss control engineer (PHA/LCE) at a major refinery. In his contributed material, he is not disclosing anything of a proprietary nature. Still, it's a sign of the times that he has to remain anonymous. Perhaps it's because his expressions contain a measure of mild irony as he invades the comfort zone of equipment reliability engineers (REs). He quite obviously takes issue with their custom of limiting their work to mere analysis and recommendations. The REs, he notes, then consider their job done and let managers make decisions, some right and some wrong.

2015 Revisions to NFPA 70E & CSA Z462: Change: The Only Constant

There are a few universal truths in life:

  • The sun will rise in the east every morning. 
  • There is nothing in the world as cute as your baby...except maybe your dog. 
  • Politicians will always disappoint us...always. 
  • And, just when you think you really know the latest revision of a standard, the new revision is ready for print.

Five Common Misconceptions About Cloud Platforms

Understanding a few basic misconceptions about cloud platforms can make a difference to the bottom line of your business. Why? Simply put, cloud platforms ("platform as a service," or PaaS) are cloud-based infrastructure and development environments that customers like you pay for on usage-based arrangements, and which are maintained by third-party cloud providers.

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Asset Condition Management

Keep It Clean, Keep It Dry, Keep It Tight!

by George Frey

With the many types of maintenance techniques available to the industrial professional, there are many tools to provide a great deal of information on the quality and workings of electric motors and their processes. However, if maintenance basics are ignored, all the techniques are like three drops of rain in a drought - ineffective and futile. If the three basic rules for proper motor operation and upkeep are not followed, why bother investing in advanced technologies to confirm known problems? These three rules are keeping a motor clean, keeping it dry and keeping it tight. Without these rules, fancy equipment simply doesn't matter! This is perhaps the oldest maintenance story of them all.

Making Your Facility’s Plumbing More Reliable

When it comes to the reliability of the plumbing in your facility, there are several things you can do to prevent failures and downtime. Certain parts of the system will always be more prone to breakdowns than others and upgrades, while sometimes costly, actually help to save money by promoting efficient operations. With a targeted maintenance plan and scheduled upgrades, you can keep your plumbing system running smoothly.

Leadership for Reliability

Lifelong Learning: A New World for Asset Management Training

In a recent research study of the asset management landscape conducted by Reliabilityweb.com, 90 percent of survey participants communicated that their asset management strategy is directly linked to their organization's ability to achieve economic goals. Forty-four percent said they have an asset management policy they plan to implement in the next 12 months, but 40 percent said organizational culture would be a major obstacle. Finally, 43 percent told ReliabilityWeb.com that asset management training in 2014-2015 is critical to their ability to drive short-term results.

10 Reasons Why You Should Audit Your Vibration Monitoring Program NOW!

If you are currently running a vibration monitoring program in-house or outsourcing it to a consultant, before you potentially throw any more money in the toilet, you really need to audit your vibration monitoring program and ask yourself if you are getting any value out of it.

Leadership for Reliability

7 Leadership Takeaways From The Battlefield To The Boardroom

Leadership requires a keen understanding of the operating environment, the social aptitude and emotional intelligence to communicate that awareness to the rest of the team effectively, and the operational know-how of turning strategy into execution.

Leadership for Reliability

Adapting to Being a Better Leader

by Dan Pontefract

When thinking of IBM and Xerox, one tends to think of paradoxical leadership. In the blue corner, we have a company - and a leadership model - that superbly enacted the attribute of adapting. In the red corner, we have a company that was highly innovative and thought-leading, yet for a period of time didn't possess the adapting attribute and suffered for years thereafter as a result.

Asset Management

SALVO Project: Scottish Water

Determining and Proving Which Projects or Maintenance or Asset Replacement Tasks Are Really Worthwhile and When

by Bill Reekie, Karen Whitehall and Andy Hunt

Leadership for Reliability

9 Deadly Diseases of Ineffective Leadership

Although playfully labeled, the bad habits that cause these deadly leadership diseases are real to anyone experiencing them. By recognizing the habits that cause these diseases you will be better prepared to prevent them from happening to you. Luckily, if you or someone you know has contracted one of these diseases there are cures for each one.

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