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Western Specialty Contractors Offer Advice:

[St. Louis, MO, July 18, 2019] How to Add Building Envelope Inspections to a Maintenance Program. Building inspections don’t seem to get the respect they deserve, as people often think they’re a waste of time or are unnecessary. Maybe it’s because inspections are usually used to find small problems, and people don’t want to take the time to look for problems where there appear to be none. That is exactly why building inspections are so powerful.

Asset Condition Management

Viewing Corona in the Daytime

By Lee Harrison

The Corona Story in Brief

The presence of corona activity is a good indication of trouble with nonceramic insulators and other transmission line equipment. But since corona radiates in the ultraviolet region of the light spectrum, it is invisible to the naked eye, and conventional corona cameras are ineffective in daylight because sunshine drowns out the corona's image. Responding to the need for better technology, EPRI researchers and engineers from Ofil Ltd. developed the DayCor daytime corona camera, which features bispectral imaging for effective use in daylight. This breakthrough camera, which has already been successfully field-tested on utility transmission systems, will enable utilities to perform comprehensive airborne inspections safely and economically.

Asset Condition Management

No Outage Inpsections - Which Tools Are Best for Medium Voltage Electrical Inspections

by Don Genutis

Although there are many useful electrical 'on-line' predictive maintenance technologies available to assess equipment condition, this article will outline and discuss the most effective tools for determining the condition of medium and high voltage equipment. A brief application summary is included for each technology in order to enhance your understanding or, if you are already familiar with the technologies, to serve as a review.

reliability engineering for maintenance

RCM Failure Charts: Age Related or Random

Observations of age-related and failure curves with suggestions for developing a strategy for avoiding failures and managing impending failures.

Safety in the CMMS Cloud

by Dr. Jeffrey Dutschke and Jason Kong

One of the most frequently used methods for electronically storing maintenance data is a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). CMMS systems hosted on the Internet (the Cloud) are becoming more and more common. But is your maintenance data safe when it is hosted on the Cloud and how does this compare to maintenance data stored on a local computer? In this article, some of the techniques used by cloud-based CMMS companies to ensure your data is secure are described and compared with the security of a local installation. While the security of local installations varies wildly, in most cases, the data on a cloud-based CMMS is more secure than on a locally hosted CMMS.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

How Efficient Communications are Damaging Projects

By Russell Harley

This may sound difficult to believe, but it can be true. In the definition of efficient we find the following: "achieving maximum productivity with minimum wasted effort or expense." While this is great for busy executives and companies, it is terrible for projects, especially when it comes to communicating about the project with others.

Work Execution Management

The Plant Maintenance Program

It's a team effort

by Paul Tomlingson

What is the plant maintenance program? The plant maintenance program depicts the interaction of the total plant population as they request or identify work; classify it to determine the best reaction; plan, schedule, assign, control and measure the resulting work; and assess overall accomplishments against goals, such as performance standards and budgets.

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Western Specialty Contractors Offer Advice:

Viewing Corona in the Daytime

The Corona Story in Brief

No Outage Inpsections - Which Tools Are Best for Medium Voltage Electrical Inspections

The Reliability Culture: Six Common Culprits

The Importance of Single Point Lessons in the Workplace

Operators as a Maintenance Resource

RCM Failure Charts: Age Related or Random

Safety in the CMMS Cloud

How Efficient Communications are Damaging Projects

Materials sine qua non

The Plant Maintenance Program

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