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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.

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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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Understanding Your Equipment Failure

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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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PEMAC Shares Insights in its First Whitepaper Focusing on Reliability Centered Maintenance KPI’s

MISSISSAUGA -- March 8, 2016 -- The Plant Engineering & Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC), a non-profit association providing global leadership, education and certification in asset management. Maintenance and reliability practices, announces the release of its first whitepaper entitled: Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) KPI’s for Measuring Success.  

LIRR Has Best Mechanical Performance Record in its History
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LIRR Has Best Mechanical Performance Record in its History

MTA Long Island Rail Road today announced that in 2015 its rail cars achieved their best mechanical reliability since record-keeping began in 1981. The achievement marked the railroad’s 16th consecutive year of improvement for rail car reliability.

Last year, LIRR rail cars traveled an average of 208,383 miles between breaking down and causing a delay. That’s enough to circle the earth more than eight times! The number bests last year’s by more than 2,000 miles, and it was 18% above railroad’s goal of 176,000 miles.

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Who Owns Equipment Reliability?

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

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Ball and Roller Bearing Failure Analysis Diagnostic Chart

After the initial visual inspection, review the replacement history, the maintenance records, and the PdM data. Also look at the design capacity currently specified for the machine, the

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Four Basic Principles of Genuine RCM

RCM should meet four basic principles to be considered a genuine application of reliability centered maintenance.

  1. The analysis is scoped and structured to preserve system function.
  2. The analysis

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CIMdata Announces Addition of Quality & Reliability Engineering Consulting Practice

Enabling improved feedback of lessons learned regarding product performance issues into the systems engineering process, to deliver more robust products for enhanced customer satisfaction and increased brand equity.

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