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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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."

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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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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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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.

reliability engineering for maintenance

Reliability through Optimized Setup and Changeovers Part 2

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

Pump Technology Balancing Tradition & Innovation

OAL Group Has Cheese Packaging Integrity in the Bag

Updated! 2015 RCM Benchmarking Report

Reliability through Optimized Setup and Changeovers Part 1

Preparing for a Root Cause Analysis

The Journey to World-Class Pump Reliability

A Holistic Approach to Protecting Your Lubricants

Prioritize your Asset Management Program with Asset Criticality Ranking

Arc Flash Label: “Danger—Do Not Open”

More Maintenance, More Safe Reliability

Definition: Logic Tree Analysis(LTA)

Integral Asset Care

RCM Failure Mode Estimator

Definition: Groupthink

Maintenance or Detective?

Criticality Analysis Made Simple

Definition: Design for Reliability (DFR)

The Reality of Failure