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Creating A Sustainable Operator Driven Lubrication Program

The position of 'oiler' or 'lubricator' has been all but eliminated in most companies. There has been a number of responses to this change however one of the most effective is to create a documented and well defined Operation Driven Lubrication program.

This presentation provides details and case studies of successful Operator Driven Lubrication programs (ODR) and how it can fit into a more comprehensive Performance Management Program that breaks down silos and aligns people toward the aim of the organization.

The Maintenance Function

Maintenance to many organizations is a word which provides little value to an organization when in fact it provides great value to any company when development, management, and discipline are applied. I think what is most misunderstood about maintenance is the true objective of the function. The objective of maintenance is to maintain the assets of a company so that they meet the reliability needs at an optimal cost.

Work Execution Management

A Perfect Storm for an MRO Stockroom Crisis

There is a multi-headed monster of a crisis barreling toward us.

This crisis in the sourcing, stocking and justifying of maintenance, repairs and operations (MRO) spares has been developing since the 1990s and will likely get worse before it gets better. The core of the crisis and the reasons for it are distinct. These distinct contributors form the perfect storm of trouble for any maintenance department, especially ones that have implemented lean principles. The solution is surprisingly in the domain of asset management.

Reliability-Centered Maintenance and Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM)

Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM) and the aims of modern maintenance

Since the late 1980's EAM vendors throughout the world have pitched their products based partly on the ability to capture, manipulate, and analyze, historical failure data. Part of the stated benefits case is often the ability to highlight the causes for poor performing assets, provide the volume and quality of information for determining how best to manage the assets, and informing decisions regarding end-of-life and other investment points.

There Is No Tradeoff Between Empowering And Scheduling

R. D. (Doc) Palmer, PE, MBA, CMRP

Empowering maintenance crews and personnel means allowing them to make decisions within their areas of responsibility. This greatly increases the quality of maintenance work. However, empowering does not mean turning each of the specialized areas of maintenance loose on its own. The maintenance process takes a coordinated team effort to master and an explicit scheduling process is necessary to advance productivity. Superior maintenance requires both empowerment and scheduling. This paper explains where and how high performing maintenance organizations utilize and leverage each concept.

Taking Care of Business

The Benefits of Implementing Reliability Engineering

by Fernando Vicente

Over the past several years, reliability has become an ever-increasingly important topic and component in the organizational continuous improvement tool box. Higher plant reliability reduces process and equipment failures, and as we all know, failure disruptions decrease production output, which in turn, limits gross margin. Additionally, equipment failures also increase the probability of having a catastrophic environmental accident and the potential for increasing safety related accidents.

reliability engineering for maintenance

Utilizing Advanced Statistical Reliability Methods to Improve Overall Asset Performance

By Mark Latino

Event data analysis can be a very useful in understanding how and when assets fail. It can also provide insight to help plant personnel understand what action to take and when to take it. In other words, it helps in the process of building a strategy for asset performance management.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

The Journey to World-Class Pump Reliability

by Phil Beelendorf

What are the essential elements of a world-class pump reliability program? What best practices lower total cost of ownership and which ones create little value? Is mean time between failures (MTBF) the best measure of improved performance? Roquette America's search for the answers to these questions led the global leader of innovative nutritional ingredients processed from renewable, plant-based raw materials on a journey in search of excellence.