Compared to simple repair or restoration, corrective action involves taking the steps needed to ensure the same failure never occurs again. Generally speaking, corrective actions take the form of

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Asset Condition Management

4 Tips to Help Avoid Soft Foot in Your Machines

Soft foot can severely affect the operating condition of a machine, which will undoubtedly shorten its life expectancy. Here are a few simple tips to help avoid soft foot in your machines:

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Asset Management

The “10 Commandments of Meetings”

Thou Shalt Always Know Timing for Meetings. Great organizations (and railroads) run on time.
Thou Shalt Not wander into other topics and forget the Main Reason for Meetings.
Thou Shalt ...

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Four Essentials for Determining True Asset Criticality

Don’t score asset criticality just yet. Make sure these four things are in order first.

Asset criticality is the value a business assigns to its most vital equipment based on schema of its ...

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Asset Condition Management

Inertial Roller Alignment for the Blown Film Industry

Roller alignment is one of the most critical aspects of running a high quality product in the web processing industry. Our PARALIGN roll alignment device uses gyroscopic technology to bring this

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Leadership for Reliability

Lipstick in School

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington recently was faced with a unique problem...

A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on ...

Asset Management

Make a Connection Between KPIs and Required Data

When deciding, what data should be collected:

Begin with the end in mind, (company AIM)
What data will be needed for analysis?
Decide which Reports are used in each level of the ...

Leadership for Reliability

A Quick Staff Exercise

A very interesting quick exercise for your staff:

Explain to each staff person that we are conducting a study of the Maintenance department. What you tell the people:
List all your activities. After you create the list please describe each activity in enough detail that an outsider could understand what you are talking about and include: In a typical week what % of your time is spent doing what activity, what are your most important activities, what activities do you like best, what activities do you like least. Add any comments about your job that you think could help this study. Important: Please add any activities that happen annually or quarterly.
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Leadership for Reliability

Why Use the Uptime Elements Framework for Reliability Culture Awareness?

The Uptime^® Elements™ provides a visual framework.

Easy to follow & set up to prioritize your plan for a successful implementation. The value of a whole site, all in sync with the goals and objectives of the company, and associated

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Asset Management