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reliability centered design

IKS Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary

As the co-founders of IKS, Joe Passarelli and I, give our thanks and appreciation to all the customers and people who have participated in making IKS what it is today. We are all very proud of what we have been able to achieve over the past 10 years and we consider ourselves to be fortunate to be successful especially with the recent economic climate. It is certainly a testament that our customers do see value in our products and services and that it is important to their businesses. I think I can speak for everyone at IKS in that we are passionate about the work that we are doing and it is very rewarding. We are achieving our vision and are now in a better position than ever to take our software products and services to a new level.

Bermuda Electric Light’s Abayomi Carmichael Receives Ascendant Impact Award

Uptime Magazine contributor and International Maintenance Conference speaker Mr. Abayomi Carmichael, MBA, Senior Reliability Engineer, Energy Supply with Bermuda Electric Light Co. Ltd. was chosen as the winner of the Inaugural Ascendant Impact Award.

Blast Off to Reliability

The RCM Process at United Space Alliance

by Catherine C. Kammerer

United Space Alliance, LLC (USA) is the Space Processing Operations Contractor (SPOC) for NASA at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), and Johnson Space Center (JSC). In that role, United Space Alliance uses Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) to optimize maintenance practices for the upkeep of tens of thousands of pieces of critical ground support, launch, and flight control equipment. USA has an institutionalized RCM process with a company policy, functional organization procedures, periodic review of performance, and metrics to track the performance.

EMCOR Group, Inc. Subsidiary Awarded Reliability Centered Maintenance Contract from NASA

NORWALK, Conn.—EMCOR Group, Inc. (NYSE: EME), a Fortune 500 leader in mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and facilities services for a diverse range of businesses, announced that its EMCOR Government Services unit has received a contract from NASA`s Dryden Flight Research Center for facilities operations and maintenance services at the Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, California and at the NASA facilities in Palmdale, California. The contract, which commenced on October 1, 2009, is for an initial nine-month period, with options permitting NASA to extend the contract period through September 30, 2011.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Maximizing the Benefits of Reliability Centered Maintenance using RCM Blitz

An 8 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Doug Plucknette, Allied Reliability

An overall reliability strategy must be grounded in a fundamental understanding of how equipment fails. RCM Blitz is the hub of an integrated approach to designing and implementing a failure modes driven reliability strategy, returning results in a fraction of the time of traditional RCM methods. RCM Blitz is: Practical, Effective, Efficient, Sustainable and Flexible

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) software - Availability Workbench

Availability Workbench is used to optimize maintenance and spares policies, predict system availability and throughput and estimate life cycle costs. It includes well known modeling methods such as FMECA, Reliability Block Diagram Analysis and Fault Tree Analysis.

CMMS and EAM

Why Remediation of CMMS Data is Essential to Reliability-Centered Maintenance

by Scott Weston, CMRP, Reliability Engineer, Global Knowledge Management, Inc.

In my experience, companies tend to install and commission operating equipment quickly so that it may contribute to the bottom line as soon as possible. Some do a better job than others of analyzing the equipment and determining the preventive and predictive maintenance activities necessary to get the most out of the equipment. Once these activities are determined, they tend to continue on in perpetuity. Equipment/instrument and spare parts data are loaded as well, and are rarely updated. As the equipment ages and changes are made, change management systems may or may not capture updated data. This causes more work for the crafts persons, less efficiency in maintenance activities, and decision making with outdated or incorrect data.

Only Leaders Can Provide Successful RCM

Reliability Training, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Root Cause Analysis, a successful manufacturing equipment reliability effort managed by leaders, these are all things companies hope for as they begin to learn about manufacturing reliability efforts and form organizations to support the effort.

Reliability Beyond Maintenance

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

by Henry Ellmann

Reliability started with Physical Assets, and now spreads into all business endeavours some decades ago in the Maintenance environment. Lately it is being realized that expanding the Reliability concept into other –or all– business areas, major benefits can be achieved.

NOMAC Selects Meridium RCMO to Meet Challenges of Global Power Industry

Roanoke, Virginia, USA - Meridium Inc., the leader in asset performance management (APM) software and consulting solutions, today announced that First National Operation and Maintenance Company (NOMAC) has chosen Meridium’s RCMO solution for its reliability centered maintenance software.

When Does it Pay to Use Reliability Centered Maintenance

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

Paul Dufresne, CMRP, CPMM, Trico Corp.

When does it pay to use Reliability Centered Maintenance? Maintenance practices have long focused on time based "preventive maintenance" techniques and non‐value added PMs. The availability condition of a production facility makes notable impact to the productivity. The results of having no clear strategic approach to preventive maintenance lead to many undesirable consequences. The reliability‐centered maintenance (RCM) considerations underlie the identification of equipment monitoring requirements and help establish the need for, the type of, and the frequencies of preventive and predictive maintenance. This presentation is a case study in how one paper company utilized the RCM methodology to identify the most cost effective, value added preventive and predictive maintenance tasks to improve equipment reliability and machine availability within the Neenah Cold Spring Facility.

The Introduction of the I-P Interval

Moving Back On the P-F Curve to Maximize Maintenance Effectiveness

Douglas J. Plucknette
RCM Discipline Leader – Allied Reliability

My first introduction to equipment reliability came in 1988 at Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester New York. Jerry Haggerty one of the founding members of SMRP (Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals) had begun to assemble a steering committee of Kodak Maintenance professionals who would begin working together sharing information on equipment reliability. As a member of this team I remember well the emphasis Jerry put on understanding the P-F curve and the P-F interval. Jerry knew that if we could get our managers to understand the P-F curve we could begin to make the transition into predictive technologies and reduce the amount of reactive maintenance being performed at our plants.

Developing and Implementing RCM for a Limited Staffed Facility

by Tim Jackson, Generation Asset Engineer, Florida Municipal Power Agency and Todd A. Cooper, Senior Consultant, Cohesive Information Solutions, Inc.

Background

FMPA is a wholesale power agency owned by municipal electric utilities. FMPA’s membership today includes 30 municipal electric utilities serving approximately 1.8 million Floridians. Fifteen members purchase all their power requirements from the Agency. Five municipals purchase some of their power requirements. In all, FMPA supplies nearly 50% of its members’ total power needs and has ownership interests in 12 operating power plants.

The Treasure Coast Energy Center was constructed by FMPA and went commercial in May of 2008. This 300 MWe Combined Cycle generating plant has been designed to be operated and maintained by a small maintenance and operations staff.

Reliability-Centered Maintenance Mindset (RCM2) The Cognitive Psychology of Maintenance Development

The Building Blocks of a Maintenance Philosophy

by Michael Rezendes, Raytheon Technical Services Co.

Originally Presented at the Reliability 2.0 Conference

1. Introduction

The focus of this paper is to familiarize the reader with the concept of Reliability-Centered Maintenance Mindset (RCM2) as a methodology to focus attention on the maintenance developer. The current methodology of RCM in industry today is focused on the Preventive Maintenance (PM) developed for hardware. RCM2 is the methodology applied to the selection and training of the potential maintenance developers. This paper will discuss how a successful preventive maintenance program starts with the maintenance developer.