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Uptime Magazine Announces Best Maintenance Reliability Program Award Winners for 2015

Uptime®, a magazine serving over 50,000 maintenance Reliability Leaders and Asset Management Professionals, announced the winners of the Best Maintenance Reliability Program Awards for 2015.

What Does It Feel Like to be on the Reliability Journey?
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What Does It Feel Like to be on the Reliability Journey?

Solutions 2.0 2015 Conference - 51:50
By Terrence O'Hanlon, Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine

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Breaking The Reliability Cycle of Despair Part 2

The Application of Strategic Reliability Principles

by Jay Shellogg

This article is a follow-up to one the author wrote for the December/January 2014 issue of Uptime magazine that explained some of the fundamental reasons North American manufacturing has not been able to sustain reliable asset performance. The author stated, "Since the discovery of modern asset reliability principles (first detailed by Nowlan and Heap in the mid-1960s) and up until the latest evolution in the 1990s by John Moubray, some 30 odd years have passed, but with little rigorous adoption of these principles into the asset management strategies of North American industry." In that article, the author explained why the adoption of these reliability principles has been so difficult and what he thinks is required for the adoption of these reliability principles. In this article, the author will expound on those ideas, but warns that sacred cows are going to be slaughtered and it will be messy.

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How Deep Do You Have to Go with RCM Analysis?

RCM facilitators sometimes struggle with the concept of different levels of analysis. Let's look at it this way - you only need to analyse to the level of depth that will enable your analysis

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What is Your Barrier to Reliability?

If everyone in the organization all the way down to the custodian knows that a piece of equipment is troublesome, the solution can lie in simple PM optimization. Reliability-Centered Maintenance

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Solution Awards 2015 Winners

Uptime® Magazine and Reliabilityweb.com® are proud to bring you the Solution Awards to recognize innovative products, software, training and services for maintenance reliability and asset management.

Categories:

  • Best Reliability Engineering for Maintenance
  • Best Asset Condition Management
  • Best Work Execution Management
  • Best Leadership for Reliability
  • Best Asset Management

Winners were recognized at a special ceremony held at Solutions 2.0 on August 3, 2015 in Houston, Texas.

Congratulations!

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Reduce the Consequences of Hidden Failures

Revisit your electrical infrastructure’s short circuit coordination study (SCCS), determine if your critical breaker’s trip units have spares or can be upgraded to the manufacturer’s  latest. If

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Do you have the Partnerships Necessary for Equipment Reliability?

Often in site meetings following the shifts where Production fails to make their numbers, all eyes shift to the Maintenance Manager to explain some equipment failure. Everyone is looking in the

...       Managing Principal

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Where Do We Start Our Improvement Program?

Business Level Failure Mode and Effects Analysis with Methodology and Case Studies.

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RCM - Levels of analysis

New facilitators often struggle with the concept of different levels of analysis. Let's look at it this way - you only need to analyze to the level of depth that will enable your analysis team to

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Definition: Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

A logical, structured process that can help identify potential causes of system failures(faults) before the failures occur. A deductive analysis begins with general conclusion then attempts to

 

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Reliability through Optimized Setup and Changeovers Part 2

by Dan Miller

This is Part II of the article featured in the April/May15 issue of Uptime magazine addressing these topics:

  • The motivation behind Shigeo Shingo developing single-minute exchange of die (SMED) concepts at Toyota.
  • How the changeover process can affect reliability of an asset.
  • Adding setup and changeover elements to failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA).

Read Part 1 Reliability through Optimized Setup and Changeovers Part 1

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The Journey to Organizational Change - who’s got the map?

All too often organizations are attempting change or improvement efforts and yet, have no formal strategy or roadmap to get there.

Do you recognize that upwards of 70% of all failures are

What is ...

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Pump Technology Balancing Tradition & Innovation

by: Heinz P. Bloch

Process pump reliability logically involves a combination of fluid-related performance and design decisions that focus on engineering materials and the configuration of mechanical components. Recent case studies have pointed out improvement opportunities in the relative design conservatism found in certain process pump models. Combined with deficiencies in the training of personnel, it can be argued that pump reliability has not made as much progress as it perhaps could.

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OAL Group Has Cheese Packaging Integrity in the Bag

Glanbia Foods is one of the world’s largest producers of American-style cheese. Headquartered in Twin Falls, Idaho, the company sells and ships more than 880 million pounds of cheese annually, serving customers in more than 30 countries.

Updated! 2015 RCM Benchmarking Report
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Updated! 2015 RCM Benchmarking Report

A Note from Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO and Publisher Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine:

"Reliabilityweb.com is excited about bringing its 2005 study on reliability centered maintenance (RCM) up to date in 2015 to track the advances that had been achieved in the ten years since the original study.

In my own work with Uptime Elements – A Reliability Framework for Asset Performance, I noticed fewer and fewer organizations with whom I was in contact applying reliability centered maintenance in order to develop maintenance strategies. I was hearing oft-cited excuses of excessive cost, exorbitant time, massive resource requirements and low management support as reasons why RCM had not been applied.

With release and publication of ISO 55001:2014 Asset management -- Management systems – Requirements, asset owners are being asked to ensure that they have policies, strategies and plans that ensure they fully understand how to create value from assets while balancing risk at a level that is acceptable to the organization."

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Reliability through Optimized Setup and Changeovers Part 1

by Dan Miller

When Shigeo Shingo began his work in reducing changeover times for Toyota in the 1960s, the motivation was to reduce inventory in a densely populated Japan. If Toyota could change their production lines over from one model to another very quickly, they could better respond to market demands. Through careful planning and innovative engineering, Shingo was able to reduce changeover times from 30 hours to less than 10 minutes.

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Preparing for a Root Cause Analysis

by: Michael W. Blanchard

The effectiveness of a root cause investigation is predicated on several elements, but the time spent preparing for the subsequent analysis is the most important. Performing a thorough preliminary investigation, identifying the right team members and anticipating problems at the analysis meeting could mean the difference between a highly reliable asset and recurring failures.

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The Journey to World-Class Pump Reliability

by Phil Beelendorf

What are the essential elements of a world-class pump reliability program? What best practices lower total cost of ownership and which ones create little value? Is mean time between failures (MTBF) the best measure of improved performance? Roquette America's search for the answers to these questions led the global leader of innovative nutritional ingredients processed from renewable, plant-based raw materials on a journey in search of excellence.

A Holistic Approach to Protecting Your Lubricants
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A Holistic Approach to Protecting Your Lubricants

Most experts agree that contamination causes 60-80% of lubrication related problems. However, solving these problems isn't easy, requiring an understanding of where contaminants come from and how to control contaminants at all stages of an oil's life in the plant. In this presentation we'll discuss the key elements to achieving precision contamination control.

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