reliability centered design

Integrating Reliability Principles in the Design Stages of Water Resource Recovery Facilities

This presentation showcases how a Reliability-Centered Design (RCD) approach transformed the creation of new wastewater treatment basins. Through a series of collaborative workshops, the client, design team, and contractor identified 95 opportunities for future O&M improvements, predicted high asset availability, and estimated lifetime costs, ensuring a reliable facility and a clear maintenance strategy from day one.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

The Need for Increased Focus of Asset Reliability Strategy Dev. During the Capital Work Process

This presentation explores what factors lead to this all-too-common situation as well as solutions.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Applying Design for Reliability (DfR) to a Multi-Billion Dollar Capital Portfolio

This presentation will cover how to align DfR with the corporate vision, mission and core values by establishing a declaration, preparing DfR charters for specific projects, and developing the corporate DfR framework and toolkit to ensure the momentum and commitments gained during the DfR workshop would continue to be a priority and the expected value, cultural influence, reliability, and performance results would be realized.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 2

Part 1 in the June/July 2019 Uptime issue closed with the experience-based statement that failure risk can escalate by certain specification practices, including some contained in API 610. Without going into the many possible reasons for bearing life reductions, the quest for better bearings in upgraded process pumps elicits several observations that should be considered when preparing a modern pump specification.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 1

Pumps are fluid machines that move liquids over short and/or long distances. They were invented well before the industrial revolution and even Archimedes tinkered with pumps, on or about 250 B.C., somewhere near the historic city of Siracusa in Sicily. Without pumps, modern process plants would not exist. But not all pumps are well constructed, well maintained, correctly installed, or properly operated. And while some pumps have stayed on-line without interruption for six years, others continue to experience random failures several times in the course of a year. Pump improvement can be both a career enhancer and a value-adding proposition, as this two-part article will show.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

How Design for Reliability Honors the Stakeholders in the Field

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 40:40
by Marie Getsug, Jacobs

Asset Management has introduced a few key concepts which require a shift from focusing on initial investment to optimizing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The is rooted in a risk-based and science-based approach to understanding the requirements of the assets throughout the useful life. The risk-based approach drives prioritization and optimization; whereas, the science-based approach honors the Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) experience as well as seeking meaningful data to drive decisions. Shifting from a mindset of initial cost, scope and schedule to a focus on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) requires a catalyst for change. Design for Reliability (DfR) answers this call. Recognizing the Stakeholder SMEs by capturing their perspectives, recommendations and experience in a Design for Reliability (DfR) Toolkit is one way to positively affect both the leakage from CapEx to OpEx and the results of Capital Engineering Projects. Building the timely activities and requirements applied at each of the DfR stage gates, by formally incorporating the contributions of each Stakeholder, fuels the results and enthusiasm for DfR and Capital Engineering Projects. Celebrate the perspectives of Stakeholders by discovering their contributions.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Designing for Reliability

TRC-2018 RAP Talk 18:52
by Ramesh Gulati, Jacobs

Most of the asset fail during operation, or defects which cause failures, get detected during the operational phase. What and who cause these failures? Is it operations (operators) and/or maintenance? In the past, maintenance and sometimes operations got blamed for these failures. Are they solely responsible? In recent years, we have learned that a majority of asset failures are caused by defects which are introduced during the design, procurement, build/fabrication, and installation, also known as acquisition phase. It is much more economical to correct these defects at early stages to design/build assets for reliable operations. This is what we call Designing for Reliability. This RAP Talk suggests that little more investing during the acquisition phase can reduce failures as well as the total cost of ownership.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

How Far Has Reliability Evolved?

IMC-2017 Focused Forum - 21:05
by Henry Ellmann, Ellmann, Sueiro y Asociados

The concepts and content of Physical Asset Management have evolved dramatically over the last few decades. From Nowlan and Heap’s RCM-Reliability Centered Maintenance in Aviation in the late 70’s, through John Moubray’s RCM2 in the last decade of the XX Century, NOW, “Maintenance” has evolved into Asset Management aligned with the Corporate Goals, contemplating Whole Life Cycle and Risk Based Strategies addressed to ambitious and welcome progress necessary to describe, understand and follow within the Corporate environment.

reliability centered design

Integrating Reliability Principles in the Design Stages of Water Resource Recovery Facilities

It’s All About the “Benjamins”

NASA Agency RCM Reinvigoration Initiative

The Need for Increased Focus of Asset Reliability Strategy Dev. During the Capital Work Process

Right 2 Design for Reliability [DfR]: The 10 Rights of Asset Management

Designing for Reliability

The Introduction of the SDIPF Safety Reliability Curve

Taming the Explosion of IIoT Data with 3rd Gen AI Methods and More

Applying Design for Reliability (DfR) to a Multi-Billion Dollar Capital Portfolio

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 2

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 1

Design Out Maintenance (DOM) Strategy: Key to Minimize Breakdowns

An Experiential Journey to Discover Winning Elements Required to Transform Manufacturing Enterprises

The Role of Simulation to Support Reliability in Design

How Design for Reliability Honors the Stakeholders in the Field

Designing for Reliability

How Far Has Reliability Evolved?

Completing the Curve

From a Different Angle: A Perspective - Defects, P-F and the Rest of the Story

Optimizing Costs Through RCM-Based O&M