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Asset Management

Make a Connection Between KPIs and Required Data

When deciding, what data should be collected:

  1. Begin with the end in mind, (company AIM)
  2. What data will be needed for analysis?
  3. Decide which Reports are used in each level of the ...
Maintenance Budget and Variance Practices Redesigned
Asset Management

Maintenance Budget and Variance Practices Redesigned

Do you ever sense that your plant’s budget and variance practices may actually hurt the business? Here is what your gut is telling you and what to do about it.

Maintenance job plans are two-dimensional and activity-based. The foundation dimension, the determined tasks to each job plan, is activity. The other dimension, also determined by analyses, is the resources and their unit costs to be engaged or consumed by each activity.

The alternative to activity-based, two-dimensional job plans is unacceptable to maintenance professionals. Maintenance professionals would never accept the practice of one line job plans for which the total cost of labor, parts and materials, services, etc., are set by rule of thumb or by what management arbitrarily allows. It would be chaos.

Asset Management

5 Tips for Time Management

Photo: Courtesy of  Watch List  (www.thewatchlist.io)

  1. Clean off your desk. While you are at it clean the whole office of the stuff you are collecting there. Return stuff where it belongs. Do this
CH2M to Grow Asset Management Services for U.S. Army Worldwide
Asset Management

CH2M to Grow Asset Management Services for U.S. Army Worldwide

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mobile District has selected the joint venture team of CH2M and Burns & McDonnell to support asset management services globally.

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Clarke Energy Deploys GE’s myPlant* Asset Performance Management Solution
Asset Management

Clarke Energy Deploys GE’s myPlant* Asset Performance Management Solution

Dalkia’s 170+ Jenbacher Gas Engines Provide More than 320 Megawatts, Enough to Power nearly 240,000 French Households

Carbon Dioxide Emission Reductions Equivalent to Removing Nearly 100,000 European Cars off the Road Annually

GE’s Software Solution Helps Dalkia Increase Annual Uptime of Customers’ Plants and Expand Annual Energy Production

IFS Empowers Service Engineers With Mixed Reality Using Microsoft HoloLens
Asset Management

IFS Empowers Service Engineers With Mixed Reality Using Microsoft HoloLens

Proof of concept draws on mixed reality to leverage enterprise data from IFS Applications™ as a holographic overlay to drive productivity

Emerson Announces Global Exchange Conferences for Users, by Users – Driving Digital Transformation
Asset Management

Emerson Announces Global Exchange Conferences for Users, by Users – Driving Digital Transformation

Emerson announces global exchange conferences for users, by users – driving digital transformation

Participants in Minneapolis 2017 and The Hague 2018 to share best practices, gain practical insights and innovative solutions that lead to dramatic efficiencies across operations

2016 UPTIME AWARDS WINNER Best Green Reliability Program
Asset Management

2016 UPTIME AWARDS WINNER Best Green Reliability Program

LOOP LLC operates the only crude oil deepwater port complex in the United States, consisting of an off-loading facility in the Gulf of Mexico and pipeline, storage and domestic terminaling facilities in southeastern Louisiana. The deepwater port complex is a vital energy hub, with pipeline connections to approximately 50 percent of the nation’s refining capacity. The Clovelly Hub facility can store over 70 million barrels of crude in belowground caverns and aboveground tanks. LOOP’s unique pumping systems can transport crude at rates in excess of 100,000 barrels per hour on multiple, interconnected pipelines.

Asset Management

The ABC Model for Behavior

Cognitive behavioral models are models of the mental processes behind behavior, including learning, problem solving and reasoning. These models allow us to understand the individual capacity

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NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane
Asset Management

NASA Completes Milestone Toward Quieter Supersonic X-Plane

NASA has achieved a significant milestone in its effort to make supersonic passenger jet travel over land a real possibility by completing the preliminary design review (PDR) of its Quiet Supersonic Transport or QueSST aircraft design. QueSST is the initial design stage of NASA’s planned Low Boom Flight Demonstration (LBFD) experimental airplane, otherwise known as an X-plane.

Asset Management

How to Improve Workforce Efficiency

The workforce is a valued resource within any organization. We invest in our workforce to ensure they are fully capable to meet our needs. So, it only makes sense that we would want our

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Asset Management

An Explicit Requirement for Risk Management in ISO55001

This is found in ISO55001, Clause 6.2.2, the section that deals with planning to achieve asset management objectives. This clause addresses many elements of lifecycle planning activities, but

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Flint Hills Resources to Use Honeywell Connected Plant to Ensure Optimal Refinery Operation
Asset Management

Flint Hills Resources to Use Honeywell Connected Plant to Ensure Optimal Refinery Operation

Improved productivity to be delivered through Honeywell UOP Process Reliability Advisor, an Industrial Internet of Things service for data management and analytics.

Oracle Utilities Launches a New Asset Performance Management (APM) Solution in the Cloud
Asset Management

Oracle Utilities Launches a New Asset Performance Management (APM) Solution in the Cloud

Oracle Utilities Work and Asset Cloud Service is the foundation that supports next generation APM

Prometheus Group Acquires Pipeline Group, Inc. and Sage Technology
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.

June - July 2017
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

June - July 2017

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Creating an Effective Asset Management Delivery Model
Asset Management

Creating an Effective Asset Management Delivery Model

This article provides insight and a proven blueprint for implementing an effective asset management solution.

Gruyere Joint Venture Selects ARMS Reliability for Maintenance Strategy Development
Asset Management

Gruyere Joint Venture Selects ARMS Reliability for Maintenance Strategy Development

ARMS Reliability has begun work on a greenfield maintenance strategy development project for the Gruyere Gold Project, a 50:50 Joint Venture between Gold Fields Limited and Gold Road Resources Limited, located within the Yamarna greenstone belt around 200km east of Laverton in Western, Australia.

Asset Management

Tighten Up: 4 Calibration Tips for EAM

How does an asset-intensive business know that its operations are where they should be? It relies on instrumentation to deliver real-time readings. But how does that same business know its pressure gauges, scales and sensors are balanced and accurate? By comparing those components to instruments with higher standards, an act we all recognize as calibration.

Hidden in how we calibrate lie efficiency gains waiting to be unearthed. What can your maintenance technicians or equipment operators do to minimize downtime losses related to calibration

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IRISS Achieves ISO Certifications 15 Months Before International Deadline
Asset Management

IRISS Achieves ISO Certifications 15 Months Before International Deadline

As a long standing ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified organization, IRISS completed the transition to the 2015 revision in each system, 15 months before the international deadline mandate.

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