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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".

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.

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