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Preview Survey Results from the Eight Critical Elements of Asset Management Survey

OneSteel and Reliabilityweb.com Study Highlights Nine Areas for Improvement

OneSteel and Reliabilityweb.com have been conducting a comparative benchmarking study in 8 Critical areas for effective asset management. Several interesting trends have emerged that indicate some companies will be much better prepared to gain significant competitive business advantage when demand increases.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

RCM: On-Condition Task Interval Determination

The highly structured RCM process is a proven approach for determining what must be done to any physical asset to ensure it continues to do what you want it to do in the present operating context. The first step of the task selection process starts by assessing the effects of the failure mode and classifying them into one of four broad categories of consequences. The next step identifies a proactive task that reduces the consequences of failure to the extent that it is technically feasible. The criteria used to judge whether an on-condition maintenance task is technically feasible are fairly consistent across the various compliant RCM processes. Specifically, RCM2™ uses the following yardsticks:

Leadership for Reliability

9 Deadly Diseases of Ineffective Leadership

Although playfully labeled, the bad habits that cause these deadly leadership diseases are real to anyone experiencing them. By recognizing the habits that cause these diseases you will be better prepared to prevent them from happening to you. Luckily, if you or someone you know has contracted one of these diseases there are cures for each one.

Rolling Element Bearing Acceptance and Life Testing

The Rolling Element Bearing Acceptance Test (BAT) includes, the testing Methodology, the Testing Apparatus and the Software that are used to predict the Relative Bearing Life (RBL) from the results of a non-destructive, impact hammer test of the bearings. These results are to be taken from a well known procedure of modal parameter identification and extraction using Vibration Analyzers, hammer, and response transducer. The Important feature of (BAT) is its capability of obtaining Relative Bearing Life of bearings (new or used) which are to be tested together with a known life bearing called (Reference bearing). The results of tests can compare the life of any tested bearing to the life of the Reference Bearing. The software, hardware(s) and Methodology are explained in figs 1,2 and 3 together with the description and procedure.

A Cradle to Grave Approach - Motor Management at Its Best

by Noah Bethel, CMRP

Ask a motor manufacturer how long one of its motors is expected to live, and the response will be something like, "20-plus years in the right environment." Ask the same question in a facility that uses such a motor and the answer is more likely to be, "If we get five years out of it, we'll be happy!" Why does this discrepancy exist? Why do motors die of an infant mortality instead of living to the ripe old age for which they are designed and built? The answer has to do with the failure to optimize motor management and maintenance.

Contractor Management Controls

by Bob L. Harrell, Jr.

There's a great story about a town with a clock tower that rang every day at exactly noon. The man in charge of the tower called City Hall each morning to confirm the exact time before adjusting the clock. Everyone in the town knew for certain when the tower clock rang; it was straight-up 12:00 noon. One day, after many years on the job, the bell tower man happened to ask the city hall clerk how he always knew the exact time. That's easy, the city hall clerk replied, I rely on the clock tower.

Leadership for Reliability

What’s the FRACAS?

Failure Elimination Made Simple

by Ricky Smith, CPMM, CMRP and Bill Keeter, CMRP

How good is your organization at identifying failures? Of course you see failures when they occur, but can you identify when recurring failures are creating serious equipment reliability issues? Most companies begin applying RCA or RCFA to “high value failures”. While this is not wrong, I prefer to either not see the failure in the first place, or at the least, to reduce the failures to a controllable level.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Which Reliability Tool should I use?

Publisher's note: When a person has a hammer - everything looks like a nail. Once a maintenance engineer learns techniques like Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) or Weibull analysis, it seems like they apply the technique to every potential area of failure they can find - whether RCM or Weibull analysis can add value or not. Reliability tools must be used in the proper context to create the best result and the more tools we understand the better we can apply them.

We asked our favorite reliability guru, Mr. H. Paul Barringer to help us understand what reliability tools are available to us as maintenance professionals, when we can and should use them and what results we can expect if we apply them correctly. - Terrence O'Hanlon, CMRP, Publisher

Asset Condition Management

Data Farming: A Way to Maximize Use of Data for Machinery Condition Monitoring

Planning, managing and expanding the transition to Industry 4.0 and selling it to the executive level of an organization are skill sets that most reliability and maintenance (R&M) practitioners don’t possess.