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Work Execution Management

Mind Your Bees Wax - For Seized Bolts

So many have forgotten some of the old school tricks. One that comes to mind is when you have a bolt that has seized use bees wax to help get it loose. As you heat up the part with your torch

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Asset Management

How to Achieve Enhanced Reliability in Refining Through Corrosion and Boundary Management

Characterization and evaluation of corrosion damage in refineries is of critical importance due to the need for safety, reliability, throughput and operational integrity for plant facilities.

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Asset Condition Management

Proper Installation of Infrared Windows

Proper installation of the infrared window is critical for the long-term use of the window and for the long-term performance of the panel and equipment enclosure. Although an infrared window is ...

Asset Condition Management

Identifying Grease Guns

Grease guns should be dedicated to particular greases and they should not be interchanged. Applying the wrong grease can cause an incompatibility problem that can quickly cause bearing failure.

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Asset Condition Management

Balancing Efforts Sometimes Fail Because….

The main reason balancing efforts sometimes fail is because the problem is simply not due to unbalance. Balancing fixes only one problem: unbalance. Vibration from misalignment, eccentricity and other problems may be reduced in just one direction, but not by balancing.

Simply stated -- To succeed at balancing, fix

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Asset Management

Expected Results Should be Defined Upfront and Used to Scope Out Initiatives and Track Success

Deming once said "Your systems (and processes) are perfectly designed for the results you are getting."
Industry is forever searching for ways to maximize financial return from its physical assets while responding to ongoing market changes and social requirements. As a result, the average system undergoes 30 to 50 physical and operational changes per year. This represents significant capital expenditures for most organizations. Unfortunately, most organizations do not achieve a measurable improvement in their assets performances from year to year despite these efforts.

There is an alternative; asset performance enhancement through a reliability

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Breakdown Information Sharing Table

Increase awareness of your break down work by placing a table and sign in a conspicuous area of your plant, and placing a copy of all breakdown workorders and parts changed on it. Make sure that

 

 

 

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Work Execution Management

Measuring Maintenance Backlog

When using your EAM or CMMS software, or paper based system if that is what you use for work management, insure you measure your backlog or 'open work' by using the 'Duration' field on the work

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Locking in Day-to-Day Defect Elimination

If your maintenance department spends more time fixing breakdowns than discovering and eliminating the causes of faults, you know you're on shaky ground. You wonder: how do others manage to

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Work Execution Management

Guaranteed Efficiency

Now that many more of us are looking at motor nameplate data, with emphasis on finding out what the efficiency is, what the heck is "Guaranteed Efficiency"?

Guaranteed minimum is another efficiency that is sometimes noted on a nameplate. This value is determined from a mathematical relationship that assumes the worst efficiency of any motor in a batch - used to determine the average (nominal) value - could have losses as much as 20% higher than the average. As a result, each nominal efficiency value would have a corresponding minimum efficiency value. You can view these values in Table 12-8 in NEMA MG-1.

Remember, when working with energy cost analysis programs not to confuse this with the Full Load Efficiency. You want to use Full Load Efficiency for your analysis.

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Work Execution Management

Developing Clear Spare Parts Stocking Criteria

To stock or not to stock, that is the question. One of the major flaws in most spare parts management systems is the absence of clear criteria on when to stock an item and when not to stock an

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Asset Condition Management

Compare Identical Machines

The best way to detect mechanical faults using vibration analysis is to trend data from the same machine collected under the same test conditions. But what happens if you have a problem machine

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