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Is Stock Turns the OEE of Spares Management?

Imagine for a moment that you oversee three production facilities. Imagine that these facilities require significant capital investment and sit on sizable and valuable blocks of land. Imagine also that each of these facilities produces nearly identical product that is all channelled through a single central distribution center. Now imagine that each facility operates for one shift per day, five days per week and has done so for years because the market is mature and steady. If it were your money invested in these facilities, what would you?

Uptime Award Winners 2015
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Uptime Award Winners 2015

Recognizing the Best of the Best!

Uptime Magazine congratulates the following outstanding programs for their commitment to and execution of high quality Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Programs.

To read more about each company, download the Uptime Award Winners’ stories at: uptimeawards.com.

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Breaking The Reliability Cycle Of Despair: The Application of Strategic Reliability Principles

By Jay Shellogg

Since the discovery of modern asset reliability principles, first detailed by F. Stanley Nowlan and Howard F. Heap in the mid-1960s, up until the latest evolution in the 1990s by John Moubray, some 30 odd years have passed, but with little rigorous adoption of these principles into the asset management strategies of North American industry. This article is intended to help explain why the adoption of these truths has been so hard to come by over these past 30 years and what it will take for the adoption of these reliability principles to occur.

The Age of the RCM Analyst - From Isolated Specialist to Integrated Knowledge Manager

The Age of the RCM Analyst - From Isolated Specialist to Integrated Knowledge Manager

When the RCM standard was published in 19991 it laid to rest many of the more contentious issues regarding what RCM is and what it isn't. Finally there is a standard that companies can use to determine which process could legitimately call itself RCM, and therefore were more likely to represent the original intentions and focus contained within the RCM methodology. This was a crucial step in the evolution of the RCM method particularly as setting minimum criteria eliminates methods that are either counter-productive, with respect to the original RCM report, or even dangerous.

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Education In Maintenance & Reliability Engineering

By Ray Beebe

We recently learned about Monash University and its distance education programs for Maintenance and Reliability. We asked Ray Beebe to put together some details so we could bring that story to you. Here is what Ray sent us:

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Myths of RCM Implementation: PART 2 of 2

by Carlos Mario Perez Jaramillo

Reliability centered maintenance (RCM) focuses on identifying what should be done to assure the functions of a system or asset in a safe, cost-effective and reliable way. RCM analysis is carried out by a group of experts, called the analysis team, for the equipment, asset, or object of the study. It is their responsibility to answer seven questions about the asset being analyzed. In Part 1 of this series, myths 1-10 were discussed. Now we will examine the remaining 12 myths.

Moving Beyond Our Human Senses

by Trent Phillips

Many different tools have been used over the years to detect changes in machinery condition. The human hands, eyes and ears have been the oldest tools used to detect conditional changes in machines. However, it is important to understand the value and limitations of our human senses.

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Infrared Windows Open the Door to Savings

A Study of a Positive, and Growing, Return on Investment by Martin Robinson


A paper mill in South Carolina had a very successful infrared inspection program that management wanted to expand. However, the requirements of NFPA 70E were causing them to re-think their strategy since inspections of energized equipment was becoming more restrictive, more time consuming and more costly. Furthermore, 8% of the mill's applications had never been surveyed due to either switched interlocks (which automatically deenergize the equipment upon opening, thereby preventing access to energized components), or to incident energy calculations in excess of 100 cal/cm2 on certain equipment (which exceeds personal protective equipment [PPE] ratings, and would place personnel in extreme danger and open the company to OSHA fines).

 

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Saving Cost by Reducing Reliability?

The Relationship Between Reliability and Maintenance Costs

Introduction

When we say Reliability, do we actually mean Availability? Under certain circumstances, the two are numerically the same, but that is only in a specific set of cases. 

Non-Intrusive Continuous Asset Management Is Here

by Allan Wilson

ASSET FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION
In oil and gas operations, nothing is more important than ensuring assets operate at their peak performance all day, all night, every day of the year.

Invensys Operations Management Selected as Microsoft Industry Partner of the Year

PLANO, TX - (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) - Invensys Operations Management, a global provider of technology systems, software solutions and consulting services to the process and manufacturing industries, has been named Microsoft Global Enterprise Partner of the Year in the category Alliance ISV Industry. The award recognizes Invensys Operations Management for excellence and innovation in using Microsoft-based solutions to help its manufacturing and infrastructure management customers achieve operational excellence.

The Importance of Organizing MRO Inventory & Purchasing

By Terry Wireman, CPMM, CMRP

MRO inventory and purchasing organizations are the single biggest maintenance support functions that contribute to low maintenance productivity. MRO inventory and purchasing, in this article, stands for maintenance, repair, and overhaul inventory and purchasing. Many maintenance labor delays are related to issues concerning materials and spare parts. Because the purchasing function typically procures the materials for the MRO storerooms, it also has a big impact on maintenance productivity.

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