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Asset Management Tools for Change: Social Network Analysis

by Grahame Fogel, Jan-Hendrik Baum and PJ Vlok

Much has been written and commented on regarding the complexity of invoking change within the asset management environment. In an attempt to create a stabilized procedural approach to implementing a management system in alignment with business goals, the Institute of Asset Management (IAM) in the UK and, more recently, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), have developed standards for asset management.

Leadership for Reliability

The 5 Habits of Great Reliability Engineers

Editor’s Note:

The author’s fascination with technology dates back to his youth. His father was a blacksmith, an engineer of metal work, and was instrumental in helping the author discover his love of creation through construction. He also passed on his passion for airplanes, which led the author to a career in aeronautical engineering, where he first encountered aspects of reliability. A subsequent career in reliability guided him along a path of confusion, frustration, curiosity, learning and change. Although still going through those stages constantly, they taught the author the five habits presented in this article. Now, those five habits make achieving meaningful change that much easier. They have been so effective, in fact, that it prompted the author to pass them on to Uptime readers.

The Changing Role of the Craftsperson in North America

By Chuck Kooistra Sr. Vice President, General Physics Corporation

The most pressing issue in North American manufacturing does not involve competition from overseas. The critical issue involves the short supply of qualified technical labor available to get the work done.

Estimating Failure Avoidance Costs

By Michael Cook and Michael Muiter

Predictive Maintenance (PdM) programs bring value to an organization by detecting potential failures and determining how to correct them before the failure can occur.

Many PdM programs are under-resourced or abandoned because the return on investment (ROI) generated by PdM groups is not obvious to management. If PdM programs are measured by their ability to avoid failures and the resulting failure avoidance costs (FAC) are quickly and accurately calculated and reported to management, the ROI will quickly become evident. Additionally, using the results of these savings from each predictive technology, i.e., vibration analysis, oil analysis, thermography, ultrasonic leak detection, etc., a determination can be made to decide if the technology is properly applied and if the frequency of inspections is appropriate to produce the highest possible ROI.

reliability engineering for maintenance

7 Steps to Criticality Analysis for Capital Projects and Sustainment Planning

Asset criticality is a ranking of assets according to potential operational impact. This is usually determined through a formal asset criticality analysis on each asset or group of like assets.

Asset Management

Business Case for Data Integrity

By Robert DiStefano and Stephen Thomas

Introduction to the Business Case
A vast and growing amount of data is being accumulated in businesses today, yet many people in business intuitively know there is not a corresponding improvement in reliable information on which to base good decisions. In fact, in many cases just the opposite is happening-despite more and more data, finding information that can be trusted is increasingly difficult.

asset management

Critical thinking in Risk based decisions

Risk-based asset condition management programs have been around for years now, and have been a vital part of LOOP’s success in our quest for operational excellence.

Vibration Trouble-shooting Field Guide

By Sam Pickens of PDM Engineering

What is vibration? There are three basic types; Linear, Bending and Torsion. Three basic types of transducers for machinery vibration study; acceleration, velocity and displacement. Three basic parameters; acceleration, velocity and displacement. So we need to be able to observe these phenomena in an easily understood way via data acquisition instrumentation. We can then apply 200-year-old math to decipher the meaning of the data represented on the instrument.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

A Risk Threshold Investigation Is Born

This article takes you through the birth of RTI, explaining what RTI is, why it was created, where it fits into a maintenance reliability program strategy, how it is conducted and showing it in action with some actual results.

Asset Condition Management

Taking Charge

Increase Safety & Reliability with Integrative Predictive Maintenance

by Dale P. Smith, CMRP

MaintenanceElectricity, and its uninterrupted distribution through our nation, facilities and lives, is an inescapable requirement and the backbone of progress in today’s society. The resurgence of US commerce is not possible without it. Safe and reliable electrical distribution systems typically start out as being well engineered, with bright futures provided they receive regular, adequate maintenance and periodic testing.