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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliable and Safe Food Production- GMP Tip - Sanitary Operation (6 of 8)

Subpart E - Production and Process Controls

Reliability begins with following and understanding best practices. Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) are the foundation to building operational and

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Do These Up-Front Tasks to Achieve Real RCM Analysis Success!

Many companies do not understand the importance or the "how-to" of selecting the right assets for your first RCM Blitz analysis. While it would be fantastic if every company understood the power and results that can be delivered through a focused and thorough criticality analysis, honestly, most will just point to a machine that breaks down regularly and that will be the one system that gets the RCM Analysis.

Not to sound cliché but any successful RCM effort requires the culture to

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Work Execution Management

Energy Management Planning Tips

. Include in the energy management plan a component clearly defining energy-efficient operation of energy consuming equipment. An example of a definition is: Operate energy consuming equipment to

Leadership for Reliability

Check Before You Act

Check decisions and planned activities for "rightness" before implementing them. Use the questions below (or similar ones supplied by your organization) as your litmus test. Answering "no" to one

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Asset Condition Management

Coefficient of Friction

Carbon brushes are used to carry current from the DC power supply and the series windings to the commutator and armature circuit. They must be seated properly to allow for a low coefficient of

Work Execution Management

Beware of Minimum Load Specifications in Spherical Roller Bearings

In my experiences as both a Bearing Applications Engineer and Reliability Engineer there seems to be a common problem with double row "spherical roller bearings" (SRB) operating well below their

Asset Management

Over Maintaining? Under Maintaining? Are You and Your Company at Risk?

If we perform corrective work too soon, we use resources unnecessarily. We also risk destabilizing a stable system that can result in an unplanned equipment failure.

If we wait too long to perform

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Leadership for Reliability

Yogi Berra, Change Consultant

Early in his change management career, Yogi Berra was advising a professional sports organization in New York on some of the finer points of managing change. At the executive briefing, Yogi

Step 2 - Identify the specific changes that are necessary to accomplish the business results identified in Step 1. Again, this list should be detailed and fairly extensive. Each item listed in Step 1 may have three to five or more specific changes. Examples would be 'perform root cause analysis on 100% of failures' or 'maintenance schedule compliance of X%.'

... - Identify the specific behaviors that are associated with the changes identified in Step 2. This will also include behavior changes for executives, managers, supervisors and employees. Again, there will be multiple behavior changes for each specific change identified in Step 2.

Leadership for Reliability

Use of Video to Share Training

Any new training that occurs in your plant, video it, archive it for future reference and in the break room have a monitor to show these training videos of your equipment on a loop so the

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Asset Condition Management

Junk in, Junk out: Common Vibration Measurement Errors

The vibration at the surface of the bearing housing has a great story to tell. It can tell you about the smallest spall on the surface of a bearing, it can tell you about damaged rotor bars, it ...

Work Execution Management

Maintenance Program Roadmap

What really is a roadmap? And do you have one? Or, are you simply throwing darts at a dart board?

A long term strategy for maintenance asset/facility performance and work force efficiency.

A map

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Asset Condition Management

PdM Effectiveness

As studies and experiences show, a successful Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Program consists of 4 key elements: Detection, Analysis, Correction, and Verification.

To ensure complete success with

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