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Key Performance Indicators for the MRO Storeroom: Stock Levels

The stockroom makes a service agreement with maintenance to stock certain parts in quantities adequate to supply maintenance needs. A stock out occurs when the stockroom runs out of a stocked

Download Best Practices: Machinery Alignment Shimming

Several points should be checked prior to laser alignment in order to avoid problems later and to achieve good results.

  1. Foundation A solid, rigid foundation is essential for a successful

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The ABC Model for Behavior

Cognitive behavioral models are models of the mental processes behind behavior, including learning, problem solving and reasoning. These models allow us to understand the individual capacity

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How to Improve Workforce Efficiency

The workforce is a valued resource within any organization. We invest in our workforce to ensure they are fully capable to meet our needs. So, it only makes sense that we would want our

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An Explicit Requirement for Risk Management in ISO55001

This is found in ISO55001, Clause 6.2.2, the section that deals with planning to achieve asset management objectives. This clause addresses many elements of lifecycle planning activities, but

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Definition: Troubleshooting

Diagnostics and troubleshooting are two activities that go hand-in-hand. Whereas a diagnosis is typically made with information external to the troubled asset or device, troubleshooting is an

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6 Things You Need to Know About Air Leaks

Compressed air is one of the three highest cost utilities in use at your plant. It is also one of the least maintained in terms of system leaks. Leaks are expensive and wasteful, but most often ignored.

Finding and fixing leaks is an easy way to reduce energy costs but finding them is not easy because of background noise.

  1. Why we don’t find and fix air leaks?
    Leaks are often considered an unavoidable cost of business. Many of us simply don’t realize the high cost of compressed air leaks.
  2. Air leaks cost you real money
    Compressed air leaks are one of the leading expenses in the industrial world to this day. Leaks are a source of wasted energy, but they also contribute to other operating losses.
  3. How muchAir leaks are wasted energy. An industrial compressed air system loses up to 40% of its compressor’s output to leaks if left unchecked.
  4. ...Finding the leaks presents a solution to the problem. But only fixing the leaks nets cost and energy savings. Without a follow-up to ensure found leaks were actually fixed, leak detection is just another expense.

Tighten Up: 4 Calibration Tips for EAM

How does an asset-intensive business know that its operations are where they should be? It relies on instrumentation to deliver real-time readings. But how does that same business know its pressure gauges, scales and sensors are balanced and accurate? By comparing those components to instruments with higher standards, an act we all recognize as calibration.

Hidden in how we calibrate lie efficiency gains waiting to be unearthed. What can your maintenance technicians or equipment operators do to minimize downtime losses related to calibration

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Reduce Your Overall Grease Consumption

Bad procedures lead to bearings routinely receiving more grease than they’re designed to handle. The excess ends up being pushed into the motor casing or purged onto the floor. Over lubrication happens when re-greasing intervals are scheduled based on time instead of condition. Control lubrication tasks with ultrasound to monitor condition and maintain optimal friction. The time between greasing intervals increases, resulting in less grease used per bearing.

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Failure Effects: Evidence the Failure Is Occurring

An in-depth look at the physics of failures is beyond the scope of this book, however, facilitators should become familiar with the general principles of them as they progress in their

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Case Study on the Costs of Buffing

Buffing is the removal of a tire before it is necessary.

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Minimum Allowable Tread Depth by US Law

Steering axles

4/32”

2/32”

Annual Cost of Using Full Allowable Tread vs. Buffing

Fleet of 100 trailers—each unit travels 75,000 miles/year

Average trailer tire tread depth from retreader – 6/32”

Assume a cost of retread of $150 less $35 for case (at end) gives you $115 for 14/32” of usable tread

Assume 10,000 miles per 1/32”

If tires are removed at 5/32” (rather than the allowable 2/32”) then 3/23” usable tread (or 21% of the capacity) is lost.

Total Tire-Miles per Year

75,000 miles per year x 100 trailers x 8 tires per trailer

60,000,000

Total Tread Consumed (in 1/32) per Year

60,000,000 tire miles
10,000 miles per 1/32"

6000

Average Cost (per 1/32) of Tread by Using Full Allowable Tread

$115 per tire
14 usable 32 nds

$8.21

Average Cost (per 1/32) of Tread when Buffing 3/32 of Usable Tread

$115 per tire
11 usable 32 nds

$10.45

Annual Cost Using Full Allowable Tread

6000 x $8.21

$49,260

Annual Cost with 3/32 Buffing

6000 x $10.45

$62,700

Yearly Savings with Use of Full Allowable Tread

$62,700 - $49,260

$13,440

Application to Large Fleets

While most, if not all, of the applications of information applicable to plants are also applicable to large fleet assets, there are a few additional ones.

One major difference is in dealing with

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