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Thinking Beyond the Obvious to Prevent Recurrence
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Thinking Beyond the Obvious to Prevent Recurrence

by Dan DeGrendel – Senior Reliability Engineer, ARMS Reliability - 12:21

Most organizations share similar challenges. Problems will always occur and these problems can have a major impact on company goals. Minor problems can add up and become major problems and this leads to:

  • Safety incidences
  • Budget deviations
  • Product rework or scrap
  • Customer dissatisfaction
  • Missed project delivery dates

Problems are resource drains. Organizations spend significant resources to solve problems, but it seems that there is never enough time and/or resources to solve problems and today’s crisis becomes tomorrow’s old news. In spite of all the effort spent trying to eliminate problems the same problems keep happening again and again.

This presentation explores reasons why we are not able to solve recurring problems and offers effective problem solving solutions to event-based problems.

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AspenTech Acquires Fidelis Group, LLC

Leading Provider of Asset Reliability Software to Predict Asset Performance and Mitigate Risk in Process Plants

Shell Takes Final Investment Decision to Build a New Petrochemicals Complex in Pennsylvania, US
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Shell Takes Final Investment Decision to Build a New Petrochemicals Complex in Pennsylvania, US

Shell Chemical Appalachia LLC (Shell) has taken the final investment decision to build a major petrochemical complex, comprising an ethylene cracker with polyethylene derivatives unit, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Main construction will start in approximately 18 months, with commercial production expected to begin early in the next decade.

Things to Think About and Do (2016)
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Things to Think About and Do (2016)

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Cooperative Development of Reliability Based Maintenance

When plant or corporate management states a goal, such as “Maximize Equipment Reliability”, successful realization of that goal requires the existence of some alignment between the personnel

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CAUSELINK® Root Cause Analysis Software goes Mobile
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CAUSELINK® Root Cause Analysis Software goes Mobile

MIDLAND, Mich., May 19, 2016 -- Sologic® has released Version 3.0 of their browser-based root cause analysis (RCA) software, Causelink Enterprise. This update enables users to populate root cause analyses from their mobile phone and to share results with other team members. New features include enhanced data mining and reporting, automated cause and effect summary, and new integration options.

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Selecting the Right Tools

Using the Business Level FMEA approach to better understand and prioritize production losses and extraordinary costs, companies can now do a better job selecting the appropriate tool and

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The Impossible Is Possible: 30,000 Assets in 90 Days - A PMO Success Story
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The Impossible Is Possible: 30,000 Assets in 90 Days - A PMO Success Story

In the 21st century, companies that focus on just design and operations will be left behind. Intelligent, efficient and optimized systems must keep evolving and need to be integrated into the ethos of how people work and think. This same thinking must be supported by management and designed to evolve based on proven intelligence, changing market demands and with the adoption of new equipment and technology. To achieve this, companies must initiate a proper asset performance management (APM) program to assess the operational performance and define a path to success.

To develop a sustainable APM program requires a level of understanding and expertise. This article explores a case study that uses elements of the strategy management domain from one MSAT provider’s APM sustainability model to show the importance of preventive maintenance (PM) optimization in the development of a successful APM program. This company, Nexus Global, supports the Uptime Elements Framework to map the key areas of improvement within their five APM domains: leadership, work management, strategy management, investigation management and data management. 

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Estimating Usable Life Duration

Once you understand the failure mode that resulted in the failure and the failure mechanism that resulted in the failure mode, it is possible to begin the process of estimating the usable

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Endress+Hauser Announces Spring 2016 Training Courses

April 5, 2016 -- Endress+Hauser announces its Spring 2016 schedule of instrumentation training courses. Classes typically are a combination of classroom and hands-on training on either the Endress+Hauser PTU® (Process Training Unit), a full-scale, working process skid with on-line instrumentation and controls, or live instruments in training stands, both designed to simulate operating conditions.

RCM: On-Condition Task Interval Determination
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RCM: On-Condition Task Interval Determination

The highly structured RCM process is a proven approach for determining what must be done to any physical asset to ensure it continues to do what you want it to do in the present operating context. The first step of the task selection process starts by assessing the effects of the failure mode and classifying them into one of four broad categories of consequences. The next step identifies a proactive task that reduces the consequences of failure to the extent that it is technically feasible. The criteria used to judge whether an on-condition maintenance task is technically feasible are fairly consistent across the various compliant RCM processes. Specifically, RCM2™ uses the following yardsticks:

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Understanding Criticality

A criticality analysis is a way to determine which systems and assets are most essential, in order to set priorities for further reliability initiatives and deeper analysis. This analysis is a


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Deliver the Desired Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)

The simple process that follows can be used to drive useful life to deliver the desired mean time between failures (MTBF):

  1. Subtracting the as-found condition from the as-left condition will

Q&A with an Industry Leader - Susan Lubell & Ricky Smith
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Q&A with an Industry Leader - Susan Lubell & Ricky Smith

Uptime Magazine caught up with Susan Lubell and Ricky Smith, authors of the recently published book, “Root Cause Analysis Made Simple.” They shared some of the most frequently asked questions regarding root cause analysis (RCA) that are asked by not only maintenance practitioners, but also their production operations teams and management, who they need to support them in their work.

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What is Predictive Maintenance?

Predictive maintenance is a task used to determine the current status of some form of deterioration and how close a deteriorated element is to failure. There are a number of forms of predictive

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Uptime Award Winners 2015
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Uptime Award Winners 2015

Recognizing the Best of the Best!

Uptime Magazine congratulates the following outstanding programs for their commitment to and execution of high quality Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Programs.

To read more about each company, download the Uptime Award Winners’ stories at: uptimeawards.com.

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Plain Bearing Design

A valuable feature of hydrodynamically lubricated plain bearings is that they should generally have infinite lives. If they are subjected to heavy cyclical loads, they will eventually crack and

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Elements of Preventive Maintenance

While the focus is often on the characteristics of maintainability when considering reactive maintenance, it is equally important to consider those characteristics when viewing preventive

Practical Plant Analysis: Understanding Viscosity’s Effects on Centrifugal Pump Performance
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Practical Plant Analysis: Understanding Viscosity’s Effects on Centrifugal Pump Performance

The current low oil market environment has forced many producers to look into efficient and cost-effective ways to do business. Therefore, it becomes the responsibility of every engineer involved in the oil and gas sector, or any industry for that matter, to come up with innovative ways to analyze, understand and resolve problems plaguing their respective disciplines without incurring excessive costs.

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