It cannot be stressed too much that team learning is a team skill. A group of talented individual learners will not necessarily produce a learning team any more than a group of talented athletes

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

“What gets measured gets done” is only partly correct…

Like all new tools, KPIs can be very useful in helping a business to achieve and maintain improved performance but, like all new tools, adequate time, development, learning and careful use is

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Asset Condition Management

Oil Analysis - The Right Tests

While performing a lubrication assessment at a beverage manufacturer, a plant engineer approached me wanting a second opinion on an oil analysis report he just received from an outside lab. The

Asset Condition Management

Detecting Material Accumulation in Equipment with Infrared

Infrared Technology is one of the most important tools that can be used in a successful PDM program. This technology is not just for finding abnormalities with electrical components and equipment

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Motor Repair or Replacement? Go Green

The ever present emphasis on technological efficiency is just one of several forces behind the pressure on companies to "go green" despite a trying economy. The ultimate criterion that determines

Work Execution Management

Five Steps to Adding Value to Your CMMS/EAM

Take back your process. Don't let the ERP/EAM/CMMS consultants tell you how to run your business. Drive more value out of your existing EAM/ERP/CMMS systems by concentrating on the following

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Asset Condition Management

Having Trouble With Alarm Limits? Statistical Alarm Generation is the Answer

If you are like most people, you probably do not have alarm limits set up on your machines. You may have tried but you found that the volume of false alarms became so frustrating that you But ...

Leadership for Reliability

Managing Performance in the Virtual Workplace

The virtual work environment provides unique performance management challenges. Addressing these proactively will have a positive impact on productivity, morale, and results. At the same time,

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

FRACAS is an acronym for Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System

The Reliability Engineering definition of a system is:

A system is the composite of equipment and skills, and techniques capable of performing or supporting an operational role, or both. A

Asset Condition Management

Why Consider Automated Lubrication Equipment

The equipment can be set to deliver the right amount of the right kind at the right time

All levels of technology from simple to complex are available

There are many pricing levels

Once installed

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Work Execution Management

Single Point Of Entry Maintenance Schedule

A reduction of reactive maintenance is achieved through the implementation of a single point of entry for the Scheduler/Supervisor, which gives control of the work execution back to the

Asset Condition Management

Extent of a motor’s thermal imaging inspection

For those who have a periodic thermal imaging program, to what extent do you expect the motor (not MCC) to be thermally imaged?

Some recommended equipment guide lists list the motor as a ...

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