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.
Maintenance reliability strategy continues to evolve as organizations seek new areas to improve performance and decrease cost. Uptime Magazine invited Jordan Berkely to share his vision of the future with you.
Managing a successful condition monitoring program may seem easy to begin with. The technologies may be presented (by the sales companies) as being easy to use, and with a number of the technologies, it is not immediately obvious if they are not being used correctly. In the early days of a program, fault conditions will be easier to detect (there are probably a lot of them) so it is likely that management will be pleased with the results.
Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up, knowing that it must run faster than the fastest lion, or be eaten. The same morning a lion wakes up, knowing it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or starve to death. Whether you’re a lion or gazelle, you must be prepared to run as fast as possible.
---African Proverb
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The development of PAS55, a British standard for supporting asset management, has had a very positive influence on various maintenance organizations. It’s a good document, one which has been slowly evolving into ISO55000, scheduled for issue in early 2014. According to Terrence O’Hanlon, CEO of Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime magazine, and a member of the ISO standards committee for asset management, ISO55000 is a management systems standard for asset management.
Or Discover Another Reason Why PdM Programs Can Fail
by Alan Friedman
Whether you are considering starting a new program, revamping a dead one, outsourcing or looking for someone to become a long term partner to step in when needed and step back when not needed, make sure you pick the correct partner.
What is the ultimate vision for enterprise reliability? If you’re like me, occasionally you find yourself drifting off into a day dream. One of the recurring day dreams I’ve been having for the last 10 years involves this question. I often lapse into deep thought, pondering, “How is all of this reliability and maintenance stuff supposed to work?
In the past few years we have witnessed a marked change in predictive maintenance (PdM) practices whereby more and more companies are choosing to outsource their programs. While many facilities routinely calculate 20:1 return on investment metrics, others cynically refer to aging data collectors as "dust collectors" or use them as bookends.
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.
In
the movie Deliverance, Burt Reynolds's character says, "Sometimes you
have to lose yourself before you can find anything." That statement is
never truer than in discussions about asset management. When you're
focused on what you already know, it's easy to miss a better way of
doing things