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Are Your Neshap Engines Compliant?

by Karrie Williams

As part of an effort to reduce engine emissions, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) adopted new national emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) in 2010. The new regulations apply to existing stationary compression ignition (CI) and spark ignition (SI) reciprocating internal combustion engines at area and major sources of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).

The Role of Critical Spares Analysis in Validating Spare Parts Recommendations

by Chris Endrai

One Monday morning, I arrived at the daily production meeting and joined a tense discussion about the three-stage, recycle compressor that had failed over the weekend. It had been a fairly reliable machine, but it was going to result in a lot of downtime while we repaired it. Being a worldscale polymer production facility, this translated to a couple of million dollars of lost economic opportunity. It was going to be a long week, but at least we had all the parts.

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Reliability Awareness through a Toyota Sponsored Mentorship

by Andrew Inman

Maintenance reliability careers are not well known these days among today’s youth. It became most evident to me at IMC 2012 last December when Terrence O’Hanlon was giving some inspirational words about the number of young maintenance professionals being too few. He narrowed the room of approximately 1,000 people in the maintenance reliability profession incrementally by age, decreasing every tenth year starting at 50. By the time he got to age 30 and below, only three or four people, including myself, were standing, additionally proving his point.

Retrofit Monitoring with BIG Payoff Results

By Jim Cerda and Greg Lee

AES Southland provides power to Southern California from a multitude of power resources. In 1998, AES Southland acquired the Alamitos natural gas power plant from Southern California Edison. Since that time, AES has undertaken a number of programs to modernize the generating station and improve the reliability of the Alamitos facility.

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3 Simple RCA Facilitation Tips

By Ned Callahan, Apollo RCA Facilitator and Trainer, ARMS Reliability

“How long should an RCA take?”

This question is similar to how long is a piece of string?

Asset Management

It’s Time to Start Having the Right Conversations about ISO55000

by Grahame Fogel

We sit as a community ever closer to approaching the final release of the ISO55000 suite of standards for the management of physical assets.

Recent Advances and Trends in Predictive Manufacturing in Industry 4.0 Environment

by Jay Lee and Edzel Lapira

The manufacturing industry continues to be a pillar of the U.S. economy, underpinning its essential role in ensuring national security. It contributed to 11.9 percent of total U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012, and when compared to other industries, manufacturing provides the largest multiplier effect — every $1 spent in manufacturing generates $1.48 in additional economic activity.1 Manufacturing also provides direct employment to nearly 12 million Americans.2

Asset Management

Q&A with 3 Industry Leaders on ISO55000

As a member of the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to ISO PC251 that drafted the soon-to-be published standard titled ISO55001 Management Systems for Asset Management, Uptime Magazine’s Publisher Terrence O’Hanlon worked with a group that included thought leaders Scott Morris, Terry Wireman and Ramesh Gulati. This special group has agreed to provide early guidance for those who seek to optimize value delivery from more effective asset management.

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ISO55000 It’s All About the Value

by Rhys Davies

Asset management has been a rapidly growing discipline in a variety of industries around the world for a long time now. In 2004, BSI PAS55 was published in the UK defining requirements for an optimal asset management system. It was followed in 2008 by a revised version of PAS55 drawing on input from more industries and reflecting a greater international input. Work has been progressing for the past three years on formal international standards for asset management in the form of the ISO55000 suite of standards to succeed PAS55. The ISO55000 series is due for publication in early 2014.

MRO Stores: A Contraint or a Catalyst?

by George Krauter and James Rogers


At the 2013 Reliability 2.0 Las Vegas (produced by Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine) conference, attendees voted on whether their MRO stores operation is a constraint or a catalyst to a reliable plant. Voting was in real time using live text message polling technology and paper ballots at the trade show booth. During the course of the show, the majority – 76 percent – of voters said MRO is a constraint rather than a catalyst to a reliable plant; only 24 percent said MRO was a catalyst.

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Precision Lubrication Requires Precision Documentation

by Jarrod Potteiger

Most maintenance professionals understand that lubrication preventive maintenance (PM) should be documented, but many fall short when it comes to writing effective lubrication procedures. The lubrication instructions in the average PM are often something like, “lubricate all lube points.” How many lube points are there? Lubricate them with what? How much oil or grease should be used? Should the machine be running or not?

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