criticality analysis

Criticality Analysis Made Simple

Understanding criticality and where it fits in your reliability engineering plans is, well, critical to the success of your asset management program. But there are some commonly held myths and misperceptions about criticality. These top myths and pitfalls often prevent organizations from performing a comprehensive criticality analysis.

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Critical priority

Priority something that is more important than other things and needs to be done or dealt with first criticality a relative ranking of equipment based on the probability of its failure and the consequences of the failure.

The Role of Critical Spares Analysis in Validating Spare Parts Recommendations

by Chris Endrai

One Monday morning, I arrived at the daily production meeting and joined a tense discussion about the three-stage, recycle compressor that had failed over the weekend. It had been a fairly reliable machine, but it was going to result in a lot of downtime while we repaired it. Being a worldscale polymer production facility, this translated to a couple of million dollars of lost economic opportunity. It was going to be a long week, but at least we had all the parts.

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Definition: Groupthink