Purchasing a condition monitoring tool is one step in your journey to implementing a reliability program. Proper training on how to use the new technology, planning the work correctly, ensuring

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

How Deep Do You Have to Go with RCM Analysis?

RCM facilitators sometimes struggle with the concept of different levels of analysis. Let's look at it this way - you only need to analyse to the level of depth that will enable your analysis

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

What is Your Barrier to Reliability?

If everyone in the organization all the way down to the custodian knows that a piece of equipment is troublesome, the solution can lie in simple PM optimization. Reliability-Centered Maintenance

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Work Execution Management

Maximize Equipment Reliability While Minimizing Maintenance Cost

The primary goal of any maintenance strategy is to perform the right maintenance at the right times - for your plant or facility. But how do you make these decisions today? Is there any guessing

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Asset Condition Management

Listen and Wait … When Greasing Bearings

Condition based lubrication programs rely on ultrasound data collection to alarm when re-greasing is required. Our advice:

Alarm bearings for re-lubrication at 8-10 dBµV over baselines

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Asset Condition Management

Best Practices for Small Volume Oil Transfer

Dedicated oil transfer containers are the best tool for small volume transfers of oil to machines. Containers should be made of a durable plastic material and have a lid that seals completely

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Work Execution Management

Defect Elimination - Removing the alligators

It’s difficult to remember the goal is to drain the swamp when you're up to your armpits in alligators. Maintenance is like that - sometimes you have to remove the cause of repeat failures

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Work Execution Management

Work Execution Auditing

A good question to ask is why would we want to bother with Work Execution Auditing?

Here are a few good reasons that might help you decide to give it a try.

After all the work and

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reduce the Consequences of Hidden Failures

Revisit your electrical infrastructure’s short circuit coordination study (SCCS), determine if your critical breaker’s trip units have spares or can be upgraded to the manufacturer’s latest. If

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Asset Condition Management

2-Stage Routine for Finding Air Leaks

A 2-stage approach to leak detection can improve your results. The first tour of the compressed air system will identify large leaks that are easy to fix. Smaller leaks in complex systems are

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Asset Condition Management

Protect your Equipment and Assets by Testing and Filtering New Oil

New oil products in many cases are not clean oils. During manufacturing and distribution of oils, there are countless opportunities for contamination. Your distributor could be the biggest

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Work Execution Management

Selecting the Right Maintenance Method

Step 2 in IDCON's 3-step process for optimizing Preventive Maintenance is selecting the Maintenance Method. We break this Step into three components:

Function and component
Failure Modes

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