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Asset Condition Management

Testing New Oil

Start performing oil analysis on shipments of new oil as they arrive on site. This can be a regularly scheduled task, either annually, monthly, or even with every shipment, depending on your

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Work Execution Management

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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Asset Condition Management

Vibration - Cause and Effect

Only the most common vibration trouble sources are listed here.

* The number refers to situations when the bearing itself is the primary source for excessive vibration due to poor installation or

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Asset Condition Management

Laser Alignment and Repeatability

All laser shaft alignment systems should be able to take two sets of readings on well-built machines and find agreement at the coupling within 0.5 mils offset and 0.1 mils/inch angularity. It is ...

Work Execution Management

MP-2 and You

One of the more common utilized and misunderstood Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) is MP-2. This system is relatively easy to use provided there is a fundamental understanding

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Asset Condition Management

Look At Your Oil

Look at your oil.

Regardless the level of your oil analysis program it is good practice to visually check and use the business card check before sending the sample out. Be sure and use a clear

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Leadership for Reliability

Life Would Be So Simple

A very simple principle... and if people stuck to this, there would never be issues.

SAY WHAT YOU DO...DO WHAT YOU SAY

Simple...one would think!

Reader tip submitted by Mark Burlingham, Reliability

Work Execution Management

Combating Reactive Maintenance

It is difficult to move a maintenance system that is reactive in nature to be proactive. The difference in business impact of reactive and proactive maintenance can often be measured in ...

Work Execution Management

Hard To Reach Fastening Tip

When needing to hold a small screw or bolt to a driver, a small dab of high viscous grease can do the trick to hold it to the screwdriver or in the socket driver and allow you to reach it back

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Work Execution Management

Work Order Technical Reports

No one likes to write reports. This includes your craftsmen. However, documenting the work performed, parts found broken, parts installed, and what root problems were observed can be invaluable

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Work Execution Management

Defining Failures and Being Consistent

To identify when maintenance is required, we need to define failure. The traditional view was that as equipment gets older, it is more likely to fail. The old definition of failure is when the

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