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Prioritize your Asset Management Program with Asset Criticality Ranking

Ensure your asset management program is focused on the right assets by ranking them based on criticality. Through proper development of an Asset Criticality Ranking model, Reliability

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Arc Flash Label: “Danger—Do Not Open”

Did your facility recently undergo an Arc Flash Risk Assessment?

Did some of your applications receive a label saying: "Danger - Do Not Open - No PPE Available?"

How will your PdM program monitor

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More Maintenance, More Safe Reliability

When we think safety and reliability we naturally think of the maintenance required to achieve the necessary levels of safety and reliability. The relationship between maintenance and safety and

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Definition: Logic Tree Analysis(LTA)

An analytical method that uses deductive logic to guide thought process used to draw correct conclusions. LTA's are used to lay out the logic of systems to aid in human decision making, and are

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Integral Asset Care

Integral asset care (IAC) is the result of the optimum combination of other methodologies, such as criticality analysis, risk-based inspection, reliability centered maintenance, failure mode and effects analysis, and cost risk optimization, that integrates all together for the design of care activities for dynamic, fixed and electrical equipment and instruments. This article presents the generation and application of IAC for the design of asset care integral maintenance plans.

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RCM Failure Mode Estimator

A tool to help SAE JA-1011 compliant RCM facilitators to estimate how many meeting hours will be needed for a system analysis.

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Definition: Groupthink

A type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, analyzing, and evaluating ideas. Individual creativity, uniqueness, and

 

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Maintenance or Detective?

As a maintenance mechanic/millwright or reliability engineer, you may need change your job title to Maintenance Detective.

Pictured below are two felt roll bearings from a paper machine. They were

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Criticality Analysis Made Simple
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Criticality Analysis Made Simple

Understanding criticality and where it fits in your reliability engineering plans is, well, critical to the success of your asset management program. But there are some commonly held myths and misperceptions about criticality. These top myths and pitfalls often prevent organizations from performing a comprehensive criticality analysis.

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Definition: Design for Reliability (DFR)

Improving the reliability of an asset, process or product by using reliability analysis techniques (E.G., DFMEA, FMEA, and RBD) to design out potential problems during the development phase.

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The Reality of Failure

When organizations understand the reality of failure (six failure patterns) and adopt the principles of reliability, maintenance programs improve and "feel-good" or "recreational" maintenance is ...

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Maintenance Triage: Identifying Sick and Injured Assets to Improve Population Health

Attempting to contextualize generally obscure statistical predictions about machines is an all too common practice. While statistics and predictive analytics are not new concepts, they have not yet been applied deeply enough to mechanical processes to be embedded in the vernacular. With a focus on the actionability of analysis, similes help to convey the messages.

This article presents one of them.

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Why Does RCM Work?

Why does RCM work? Maybe a better statement is "why do companies not use RCM". This may surprise you but most leaders in operations and maintenance do not truly understand the value and ...

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3 Keys to Improved Bolted Flange Joint Integrity

"That all important clamping force which holds the joint together - and without which there would be no joint - is not created by a good joint designer, nor by high quality parts. It is created by the mechanic on the job site, using the tools, procedures, and working conditions we have provided him with . . ."

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Gauge Repeatability & Reproducibility (GR&R)

The evaluation of a gauging instrument's accuracy by determining whether the measurements taken with it are repeatable (there is close agreement among a number of consecutive measurements of the

 

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Financially Optimized Maintenance Solution

Imagine if maintenance personnel could quickly gauge the criticality of each piece of equipment, be presented immediately with ready-made world-class PM alternatives, and be able to compare these

 

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13 Facilities Management Conferences Worth Attending in Early 2015

The new year brings each of us an opportunity to refocus and reprioritize.

While some may interpret that as a reason to renew old gym memberships, we were actually thinking more along the lines of sales and marketing strategies for 2015. A number of important facilities management-related conferences are coming up during the first half of 2015 across North America, and now would be a good time to start making plans to attend some of these.

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Why Is Your RCM Team So Slow to Get Going?

New and inexperienced RCM facilitators can sometimes feel concerned that their analysis team is slow getting started. It's not unusual at all!

Forming, storming, norming, and performing is a model

 

 

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Equipment Criticality Ranking

It is critical (pun intended) that you have a criticality ranking for your equipment. This will help you properly direct maintenance and reliability efforts. It is difficult to have granularity

 

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