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Sustaining RCM Success Using the Uptime Elements Framework

RCM implementation must be strategic for it to succeed and be sustainable. The Uptime ® Elements framework is ideal for building the support, reasoning and process for an RCM effort.

RCM vs. FMEA - There Is a Distinct Difference!

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RCM and FMEA are tools in Uptime Elements Reliability Strategy Development [RSD] toolbox

by Douglas J. Plucknette, Christopher Mears and Ramesh Gulati

This article seeks to understand the differences and similarities between these two maintenance approaches/strategies and attempts to answer the question of whether RCM or FMEA.

Asset Condition Management

The Next Generation of Maintenance Reliability

Connected and integrated tools, sensors and software provide maximized uptime.

As industrial production rapidly transforms, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) drives plant-wide changes and enhanced asset health and maintenance management. Facility managers, engineers and technicians must be able to rely on their equipment’s operation. Monitoring assets and assessing their health is of paramount concern to detect problems before catastrophic failures.

Asset Management

Releasing Asset Value Sustainably - An Analysis of ISO55000x

Alot of information, time and energy has been devoted recently to emerging and established practices in asset management. This interest, however, actually has a far longer history. Protocols have been undergoing continuous development and evolution for the past 50 years to keep pace with discoveries, expansion and globalization of industries.

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Maintenance Maturity and the Building Blocks to Optimize Asset Performance

This article explores the importance of understanding a site’s maintenance maturity, how this impacts strategy and goal setting, and identifying the building blocks to getting started on the road to improving asset performance.

Leadership for Reliability

Do You Speak RELIABILITY?

Part of the mission at Reliabilityweb.com® is to discover and deliver approaches to make reliability leaders and asset managers safer and more successful. I am blessed to be able to meet some of the best reliability leaders and asset managers in the world as I travel to learn (discover) and teach (deliver). There is nothing more satisfying than seeing someone presenting their journey based on the use of the Uptime® Elements™ framework.

Terry Wireman Recommended Reading List

Maintenance expert and Author, Terry Wireman is a great supporter of Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine and has contributed his knowledge and experience since we began in 1999. Recently we requested that Terry create a list of books he would recommend for any maintenance and reliability professional who was striving for something greater. This list he contributed follows and is linked to the MRO-Zone.com bookstore when possible and Amazon when not. We hope you find value in this list and that you will leave a comment at the end of this article.

Asset Condition Management

How to Detect Pump Valve Failures in Positive Displacement Pumps: Case Study

This case study describes a proven method for detecting failures in the suction or discharge valves inside positive displacement pumps using a unique method of vibration analysis. The determination to find a reliable method of detection led to a greater understanding of equipment and processes, from working with the vendor to implementing a design change. This case study describes a journey from repeated failures to improved equipment reliability and lower maintenance costs.

Assessing Transitions to Benchmark Performance - A Multi-Level Perspective

Daniël A. Lachman and Roy Tjoen A Choy

This article provides a different perspective on the difficulties experienced by companies that try to achieve business excellence.

Companies are seen as socio-technical entities that have ruling regimes that are path dependent (in their routines, beliefs, infrastructures, strategies, etc.) and thus hamper the adoption of practices that propagate efficiency, reliability, productivity, etc. A "heuristic device," such as the multi-level perspective originating from science and technology studies, is presented as a tool for managers, consultants and other analysts to decipher sociotechnical entities in order to identify landscape factors, regimes and niches (the locus for innovation). This will enable them to discover bottlenecks and opportunities for transitions of companies towards viable alternatives.

New Technologies for Predictive Tools

by Paul Berberian

Manufacturing and industrial facilities rely on rotating assets, such as pumps, compressors, fans, motors and turbines. Maintaining these critical assets is crucial to uptime and performance. It is estimated that less than 20 percent of these critical assets are proactively monitored to detect problems and determine their mechanical health.

Asset Condition Management

10 Steps to Pump Reliability - Part 2

by Tom Dabbs and Dan Pereira

Hopefully you read Part 1 of “Ten Steps to Pump Reliability” and have been anxiously awaiting to read Part 2 of the article. You may get the impression that implementing these steps will be costly and very difficult to achieve. The thing you need to bear in mind is: “You are already spending the money.” The only question is: “Are you getting the result from your pumping systems that you are looking for?”

If you can create an environment that allows your entire team to become engaged in implementing these concepts, it will be the best investment you ever made. Deming said it best:

“Your system is perfectly designed to give you the results you are getting.”

MCR!RCM - Looking at RCM in a Mirror

It is understood that RCM is the correct tool to apply to high risk assets. RCM is also applicable to assets that you have tried to develop maintenance programs for but failed. Quoting the current head of aladon RCM is applicable to approximately 15% of assets in 50% of industries. This would correlate to 7.5% of all assets require RCM. RCM is a powerful effort intensive tool that if applied properly will have high level results that if implemented, executed and followed up will insure cost effective maintenance. Even hard core RCM purists will not apply it to all assets. So if the 7.5% is correct then what should be applied to 92.5% of the remaining assets?