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Improve Asset Health and Productivity by Leveraging Predictive Analytics

By Praveen Agrawal and Gayathri Baskaran

Exploring and producing Oil and Gas involves huge risk, uncertainty, and capital investment. Assets involved in exploration and production are very complex and expensive to design, build, operate and maintain. Hence, maximizing the performance of these assets throughout their life cycle along with controlling the costs is a pressurizing factor for oil and gas companies. Oil & Gas sector also has a responsibility of strictly adhering to Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) standards along with regulatory compliance. These regulations along with past asset failures force these companies to find ways to proactively predict and prevent asset failures. Majority of asset management software implementations focus mainly on reactive and preventive maintenance only, and haven’t leveraged the capabilities of control systems like SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems), Historian, statistical tools along with failure history for predicting the asset health.

Pump Systems Optimization One-Day Course In Baltimore, Maryland

The Hydraulic Institute (HI) & Pump Systems Matter (PSM) will host a one-day pump systems optimization course on October 22, 2013 at the Grand Historic Venue & Embassy Suites Downtown in Baltimore, Maryland–one day prior to HI’s 2013 Fall Conference. The course is designed to help pump users learn how to identify and reduce hidden operating and energy costs in their pump systems, and ultimately increase profitability of their business. Energy savings of up to 40% are possible. The informational brochure for the upcoming course can be found at www.pumpsystemsmatter.org/PSOBaltimore.

The Qualities of a Great RCM Facilitator

by Doug Plucknette

During the last International Maintenance Conference in Florida, a global reliability leader at a major company asked if I had a list of traits common among all good reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) facilitators. He also wanted to know the background experience a good facilitator would have and some qualities he should look for when selecting these people.

Life as a Maintenance Evangelist

by Joel Leonard

Below is a journal entry from Joel Leonard, the “maintenance evangelist.” If we are going to pass the baton to future generations of workers the skills needed to advance our society, we need more people to evangelize the benefits of maintenance reliability programs.

Boost Reliability, Save Money, Drive Business Results with Analytics

by Lindsay Clarke

“Analytics” – the word is everywhere you look. But it’s not just another buzzword of the moment. Business analytics provides a longer lever for corporate leaders at all levels – from end users to management to the C-suite – to improve business performance across the enterprise.

Efficiently Maintaining Carbon Regeneration through Classical RCM at Greater Cincinnati Water Works

by Alex Schmitz, Sam Paske, Anthony “Mac” Smith and Tim Allen

In August of 2011, Greater Cincinnati Water Works (GCWW) initiated a pilot reliability centered maintenance (RCM) project on its carbon regeneration system under the guidance of AMS Associates. This was GCWW’s first RCM effort and it was initiated as a result of a favorable RCM experience at a sister utility – Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati (MSDGC).

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RCM vs. FMEA - There Is a Distinct Difference!

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RCM and FMEA are tools in Uptime Elements Reliability Strategy Development [RSD] toolbox

by Douglas J. Plucknette, Christopher Mears and Ramesh Gulati

This article seeks to understand the differences and similarities between these two maintenance approaches/strategies and attempts to answer the question of whether RCM or FMEA.

IFS launches a new solution for reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)

IFS, the global enterprise applications company, announces the launch of the IFS RCM Toolkit. The solution is optimized for any industry that implements complex or capital-intensive assets and is delivered through a flexible cloud-based model.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

U.S. Navy Analysis of Submarine Maintenance Data and Development of Age and Reliability Profiles

By Timothy M. Allen

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In 1961a U.S. Government sponsored task force reported its findings on the effect of scheduled maintenance and aircraft reliability. They stated "In the past, a great deal of emphasis has been placed on the control of overhaul periods to provide a satisfactory level of reliability. After careful study, the Committee is convinced that reliability and overhaul time control are not necessarily directly associated topics." Further studies that also supported this precept led to a new discipline known as "Reliability Centered Maintenance". This RCM discussion focuses on one of the principles of RCM - Hardware may wear out or have random failure - Random is more common - and the U.S. Navy's findings in regard to this principle. In 1998 Naval Sea Systems Command activity SUBMEPP (Submarine Maintenance Engineering, Planning and Procurement) developed the capability to generate Age and Reliability curves utilizing maintenance feedback data. This provided the organization a new means to objectively measure the effects of planned maintenance to engineer optimal maintenance plans. After three years of generating Age and Reliability curves, SUBMEPP is ready to report that the 1961 finding still holds true. In the majority of cases, there is no relationship between overhaul time and reliability.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Uncover the Risks That Can Haunt You

A forty-five minute long presentation by Jeff Shiver CMRP, CPMM – Managing Principal, People and Processes, Inc.

If you count up the number of protective devices in a typical manufacturing facility, it will surprise you to learn that you have lots and lots of them. Now what is scary is that for roughly 33% of these protective devices, you probably were not aware they even existed in the factory. Even scarier is the fact that only approximately 30-40% of all protective devices that we know about are maintained. That said, upwards of 20% are already in the failed state.

With your maintenance strategy, have you covered all the bases? Does your strategy include all of your protective devices and processes to either find them in the act of failing or even once failed to prevent a multiple failure? How do you treat standby or redundant equipment from a strategy perspective? Is the maintenance strategy the same for the duty and redundant equipment?

Join Jeff Shiver for an insightful 45 minute webinar as he uncovers the concepts from the RCM2 world around hidden failures, protective devices, and the associated maintenance strategies necessary for preventing or reducing those failure consequences.

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Implementing and Sustaining RCM

An hour long presentation by Mike Fess, Application Consultant, Ivara Corporation

Implementing the findings and sustaining the reliability improvements recommended from an RCM analysis is challenging due to many factors including company culture, employee buy-in, skill level and training as well as the shear amount of data to monitor and manage. Many RCM projects result in overly complex processes and poorly integrated systems resulting in increased likelihood of errors as well as inefficiencies. Some projects result in thick binders sitting on shelves for long periods following the analyses or stagnant databases full of reliability program content that are never implemented.

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Failure Reporting and Corrective Action - much more than RCA

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By Steve Turner - Director and Mark Liddell - Vice President /Americas, OMCS International

Most organizations conduct problem solving as part of their daily activities. Problems that require solving range in category from personal, technical, logistical, software and the list goes on. They range in complexity too and the solutions may be easy or difficult. They may be costly or cheap.

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The Connection Between RCM2 and the PAS-55 framework

An hour long presentation by Mike Schultz, CMRP, MMP, The Asset Performance Group (APG)

While the PAS-55 specification provides a framework for effective asset management, it does not dictate the methods for achieving PAS-55 compliance.

reliability centered design

Improve Asset Health and Productivity by Leveraging Predictive Analytics

Pump Systems Optimization One-Day Course In Baltimore, Maryland

Bentley Announces Immediate Availability of Field Supervisor App

Bentley Announces Immediate Availability of the Bentley Map Mobile App

USC Consulting Group Releases Guide to Reliability-Centered Maintenance

The Qualities of a Great RCM Facilitator

Life as a Maintenance Evangelist

New Precision Temperature Controller with User-friendly Software and Data Retrieval

Boost Reliability, Save Money, Drive Business Results with Analytics

Efficiently Maintaining Carbon Regeneration through Classical RCM at Greater Cincinnati Water Works

RCM and FMEA are tools in Uptime Elements Reliability Strategy Development [RSD] toolbox

IFS launches a new solution for reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)

U.S. Navy Analysis of Submarine Maintenance Data - Part 3

U.S. Navy Analysis of Submarine Maintenance Data and Development of Age and Reliability Profiles

U.S. Navy Analysis of Submarine Maintenance Data - Part 2

RCM Implementation

Uncover the Risks That Can Haunt You

Implementing and Sustaining RCM

Failure Reporting and Corrective Action - much more than RCA

The Connection Between RCM2 and the PAS-55 framework