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Why TEEP (Total Effective Equipment Performance)?

by Doug Plucknette

Understanding where to apply reliability measures is a foundational element of reliability engineering. If you want to improve a process, you need to understand the present level of reliability, where the losses or deficiencies are located and what you can do to reduce or eliminate these losses. One of the biggest problems regarding reliability measures is there are so many of them, so much so that they have begun to overlap, adding further confusion to those who are in the process of learning and applying the measures.

Doing It “Right” in Maintenance

Lately, it seems strong, single-minded commitments to beliefs have just about everywhere in the world in some kind of struggling situation. All kinds of groups, on all kinds of issues, taking the absolute position that they're right, the other side is just wrong and there's no common ground where some kind of agreement can be reached. Agreement where there actually might be some work done together to make things better for all.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Breaking The Reliability Cycle of Despair Part 2

The Application of Strategic Reliability Principles

by Jay Shellogg

This article is a follow-up to one the author wrote for the December/January 2014 issue of Uptime magazine that explained some of the fundamental reasons North American manufacturing has not been able to sustain reliable asset performance. The author stated, "Since the discovery of modern asset reliability principles (first detailed by Nowlan and Heap in the mid-1960s) and up until the latest evolution in the 1990s by John Moubray, some 30 odd years have passed, but with little rigorous adoption of these principles into the asset management strategies of North American industry." In that article, the author explained why the adoption of these reliability principles has been so difficult and what he thinks is required for the adoption of these reliability principles. In this article, the author will expound on those ideas, but warns that sacred cows are going to be slaughtered and it will be messy.

Asset Management

Prometheus Group Acquires Pipeline Group, Inc. and Sage Technology

Prometheus Group, an industry leading provider of software solutions that enable best practices for maintenance and operations in asset-intensive industries, announced today that it has acquired Pipeline Group, Inc and Sage Technology.

Creating a Safe Work Environment

Why can't we create and sustain superior safety performance in most industries? The answer in my opinion is quite simple. We as leaders treat safety as a special event or an additional responsibility for our employees. We as leaders have not made safety a part of our Work Culture by communicating a clear vision and clarifying our safety expectations. We as leaders have failed to define specific roles and responsibilities related to safety performance for all levels of the organization. We have not created and communicated a system of accountability. We have failed to make and keep our commitment to safety or in other words, we fail to ensure human reliability and take action when there is a deviation to our safety performance expectations.

Shutdowns & Turnarounds from the Contractor’s Perspective

How to Help Contractors Provide the Best Service Possible

This paper addresses shutdowns and turnarounds from the perspective of what the plant owner can do to assist contractors in providing the owner with their best service, so he gets the best overall shutdown outcomes.

work execution management

How To Reduce Reactive Work With Oracle Maintenance Solutions

Studies show that a reactive maintenance job can cost 3 to 5 times as much as a planned and scheduled maintenance job. Many companies are struggling to transition from a Reactive maintenance operation to a Planned and Proactive operation.

Reliabilitytalk Coffee Break: EAM Masters Jay West and Israel Anderson, hosted by Terrence O'Hanlon.

Asset Management

No Silver Bullet for Reliability Series: Part 1 of 4

An hour long presentation by Leslie McHattie, Senior Reliability Practitioner, Ivara Corporation

Taking a silver bullet approach to reliability improvement tends to become very short lived and eventually becomes the flavor of the month. Experience has shown that a strategic and comprehensive approach to physical asset management is the best way to improve equipment reliability. In this 4 part series, we will learn from Leslie McHattie, Senior Reliability Practitioner at Ivara, what it takes to launch, manage and sustain a successful reliability initiative and the top 10 lessons learned.

Effective Maintenance Structuring - Do It Now

by John Ross

I'm hoping that this is an original quote, "you are where you are by doing exactly what it is that you've been doing"? Said another way, "how can you expect to be better than you are, based on what you've been doing?" It really is a definition of insanity to believe that you would accomplish more by merely doing more of the same. In regards to equipment reliability, and the driving need to continually improve; the status quo just isn't getting the job done.