Many facilities shy away from Non-Destructive Testing because they don't understand the technologies or the services their NDT contractors provides. Some struggle with how to implement NDT with

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Failure Analysis Fundamentals

Performing failure analysis on machinery can sometimes seem easy as the fault is staring at you in the frequency domain. But remember, this data has been massaged, averaged, windowed, and

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Asset Condition Management

Trouble Shooting Wound Rotor Motors

Wound rotor motors sound complex, but fundamentally are the same as your standard AC Induction motor. The rotor receives its power from an induction process and uses some form of variable

Leadership for Reliability

KPIs for High Performance Maintenance Team

General Rules which must be followed:

1. Metrics cannot be used to penalize anyone; they are to be used as a navigation tool.

2. Metrics for your maintenance team must be focused on how they impact

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Work Execution Management

Definition: Infant Mortality

Failures that occur prematurely. Such failures can occur because of inadequate design, inferior material, poor workmanship, improper installation, or quality problems in any work that was done ...

Work Execution Management

The Top 6 Benefits of Predictive Maintenance

In his book, Plant Engineer's Handbook, Keith Mobley links the following benefits to PdM:

Maintenance costs - down by 50%
Unexpected failures - reduced by 55%
Repair and overhaul time - down by 60%

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Work Execution Management

Inconsistent Part Numbers and Descriptions Cause Part Shortages, and Delays in Repairs

Inconsistent Part Numbers and Descriptions Cause Part Shortages, and Delays in Repairs. How do you change this outcome?

For one, be consistent on establishing part numbers, whether the computer

Asset Condition Management

Getting to the Point with Vibration Collection Data

We often hear about the need to acquire vibration measurements at precisely the same location each time we measure a point. Why is this important? In order for vibration measurements to be

How ...

Asset Condition Management

How is Vibration Described?

By watching, feeling, and listening to machine vibration, we can sometimes roughly determine the severity of the vibration. We may observe that certain kinds of machine vibration appear 'rough',

Work Execution Management

Invisible Defects

My tip may seem extremely mundane but think about if it applies to you.

As well as being a maintenance manager I am also a scuba diving instructor.

Whilst leading a dive with people who were here

Leadership for Reliability

Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)

A measure of equipment or process performance based on actual availability, performance efficieny, and quality of product or output. OEE is generally expressed as a percentage.

OEE = availability

Asset Management

Ensure You Have the Right People Involved When You Define Your Maintenance Program

The only people that can truly define an effective Asset Maintenance Program are those that design, operate and maintain the equipment:

• Operators and Trades (Crafts)

• Maintenance

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