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Two-Tiered Predictive Maintenance Programs for Multiple Plant Organizations

By Brent Miley, Predictive Maintenance Team Leader, Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) of Greater Cincinnati Wastewater Treatment (WWT) Division; Jack R. Nicholas, Jr., P.E., CMRP, Self Employed, Sole Proprietor; John Shinn, Jr., P.E., Maintenance Manager, MSD of Greater Cincinnati, WWT Division

The Wastewater Treatment Division of the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati recently established a two-tiered predictive maintenance (PdM) program. The two-tiered PdM program has both centralized and decentralized components to serve its seven (7) widely separated plants.

Asset Condition Management

A Journey Toward Wireless Asset Condition Monitoring

In maintenance, a big challenge is how to put different concepts and theories into practice, especially when you must also change the mind-set of your workforce and introduce a new way of thinking.

CMMS and EAM

Reliability in the Regulatory and Compliance Environment

by Steve Mislan, Charleston Water System, Charleston, SC

“Should any person cause to flow into or be cast into any of the creeks, streams or inland waters of this State any impurities that are poisonous to fish or destructive to their spawn, such person shall, upon conviction, be punished.” - South Carolina Colonial Assembly, 1671

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

RPM Method + RCM = Reliability

Picture this: It’s Monday morning and you’re the maintenance manager of an industrial plant. On your desk is a printout of 432 open work orders and the operations manager is screaming because air compressor #2 just tripped for the third time this month. To make matters worse, you just remembered two of your technicians went fishing for the week. The question is: “What can this maintenance manager do to improve this situation?” The obvious answer is to go fishing with the two technicians. Maybe a better question to ask is: "What can be done to improve plant performance?"

Asset Management

Is There Too Much Capacity

It is currently October 2009 and evidence is mounting that the world's economies are slowly emerging from the bottom of the Great Recession. Despite that good news; Gross Domestic Product is far below its level of 2007. The important strategic questions for business people are:

• "What is likely to happen in the coming years?"
• "Should I change my thinking about reliability and process improvement?
• "How can I best position myself and my organization for the likely scenarios?"

What is Likely to Happen?

reliability engineering for maintenance

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.

Asset Management

Getting a Grip on Maintenance Costs with Asset-Based Budgeting

by Remco Jonker

Maintenance adds value by providing available, reliable, safe and eco-friendly production equipment. Yet, fulfilling this task involves costs that can account for a significant part of a company’s overall expenditure. Nevertheless, few maintenance organizations truly have a grip on their maintenance costs. part2

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Maintenance Organizations

by Paul Swatkowski

Through his books and audio programs, Steven Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and other works, has been a great influence on me and many of my colleagues. Over the years I’ve noticed a direct correlation of the practices of successful maintenance organizations and Dr. Covey’s seven habits. This article is based directly on Dr. Covey’s seven habits. It is drawn habit-by-habit from his book but with the examples modified to fit the maintenance world.

asset management

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.