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Reliability Reality in Process Plants - The Archimedean Leap from the “Bathtub”

Originally presented at IMC-2004 - The 19th International Maintenance Conference

This article will explain how Archimedes' actions could have been connected to classic failure modes. It goes on to describe experiences on current projects and offer suggestions to improve the reliability of modern process units. More specifically, it will explain and disprove the over-simplification of the graph of Reliability (risk of failure) vs. Time - THE BATHTUB CURVE.

Work Execution Management

InterPro Solutions and Skookum Honored with MaximoWorld 2021 Award

Both companies invited to speak at largest conference dedicated to IBM Maximo users

Orlando, FL – From MaximoWorld 2021, InterPro Solutions, which offers the only suite of mobile solutions designed exclusively for IBM Maximo®, and longtime client Skookum, a nonprofit service provider, announced that they have jointly won a MaximoWorld 2021 Award for “Special Recognition, Best Partnership.”

Work Execution Management

EAM and CMMS: Know the Difference

Today’s market is crowded with hundreds of software systems, each trying to position itself as the perfect maintenance and asset management solution. But, they’re not all created equal. Understanding the difference between an enterprise asset management (EAM) system and a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) and knowing how to tell them apart under all the marketing hype are key to sorting through the herd and finding the asset information system that’s right for your business.

CMMS and EAM

“Busted” - The SAP EAM/PM Maintenance Myth

Stephen J. Thomas

There are those that believe that SAP EAM/PM is a software application that does not provide satisfactory support for the maintenance and reliability work processes that exist within the plant environment. The recent survey of over 700 maintenance managers and reliability professionals conducted by Reliabilityweb.com dispels this belief entirely! In fact 66% of the respondents actually rated SAP EAM/PM as a good to excellent tool for the execution of maintenance activities.

work execution management

MaintainX Makes Equipment and Regulatory Downtime a Thing of the Past With $50M in New Funding

MaintainX today announced $50M in Series C funding led by Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) with participation from existing investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Amity Ventures, August Capital and Ridge Ventures.

Asset Condition Management

Powerful New Features Added to DYNAPAR ONSITE™ Condition Monitoring System

[GURNEE, Ill., Nov. 21, 2019] - /PRNewswire/ -- The Dynapar OnSite™ condition monitoring system's latest upgrades offer users more flexibility, compatibility, and adaptability to help successfully anticipate breakdowns and plan maintenance schedules accordingly.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Taking Notice of the Telltale Signs

Hindsight is the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened. How many times have you witnessed an asset failure and realized during the root cause analysis (RCA) investigation that there were indicators that a catastrophic failure was about to occur? Have we, as maintenance reliability practitioners, become desensitized in their ability to recognize the telltale signs of a failing asset? Is this being accepted as the new normal?

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Why Are People Afraid of RCM?

It’s been nearly 20 years since I first learned about reliability centered maintenance (RCM). As part of the Kodak Park Maintenance and Reliability Team, I was one of a few people who volunteered to take a few courses in RCM and report back to the team on the viability of the tool. I had no idea at the time that two decades later, I would be facilitating and instructing RCM at companies in nearly every country around the world. It’s strange sometimes how quickly things change; one minute you’re a maintenance team leader and the next you’re facilitating reliability centered maintenance for a living.

Executives Role for Enabling Reliability and Operational Excellence

From time to time I do seminars and workshops for executives, general managers, vice presidents, and even presidents and CEO's, mostly from manufacturing companies. When doing these seminars, I like to play a word association game with them. That is, I say a word, and they respond with the first word that comes to mind. For example, I might say "black", and the typical executive will respond with "white". I might say "woman", and most will respond with "man". After this little bit of training; I'll look at one of the executives abruptly and say "Maintenance". The most common response to the word maintenance from these executives is "Cost". The second most common response is "Breakdowns, or Downtime".