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reliability engineering for maintenance

Definition: FRACAS

Failure Reporting, Analysis and Corrective Action System

A Formal management information system that supports five distinct and basic functions:

1) Recording data about failures

2) Reporting data to engineers/analysts for data analysis

3) Analysis to discover failure causes

4) Documenting corrective action plans

5) Checking on corrective action adequacy if any further action is required

Tip excerpted from The Professionals Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology by Ramesh Gulati, Jerry Kahn and Bob Baldwin

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Best Practices for Failure Reporting and Failure Elimination

A 38 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Ricky Smith, GPAllied

Almost every maintenance organization sets some sort of failure elimination goal. The problem is, most goals are focused on elimination of bad actors or "one asset at a time".

Here is the bad news; this failure elimination process could take forever and still never eliminate the failures. Have you ever performed a Root Cause Analysis on a piece of equipment only to see the failure again soon afterwards?

There are known "Best Practices" in Industry for Failure Reporting but they are fragmented in most organizations and not pulled together providing an organization true success in failure elimination.

This iPresentation will provide each attendee with details on how to establish Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System "Best Practices" which includes;

1) What reports are required to eliminate failures

2) How to identify "failure threads" within different equipment types which can be acted on to bring quick results and make a large impact to the reliability of your operation

3) How to set up a CMMS/EAM with the right types of codes to give you the right reports to eliminate failures

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Make Time For Reliability

Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it! How many times has your advanced condition-monitoring program uncovered the same failure? With the use of the latest hardware and software, Infrared Thermographers have become very proficient at detecting problems (hopefully before disaster strikes). Unfortunately these technologies do very little in terms of preventing the problem from occurring in the first place.

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Precision Based Reliability

In my many years of experience and throughout my travels I have done quite a bit of teaching and consulting on various Reliability related topics. Often I feel like the proverbial evangelist at a revival meeting. After all, the audience already knows the message - the true path to their salvation - the problem is in acting upon this knowledge and doing what is right, instead of pursuing what seems to be the easiest path to immediate gratification. Let's just fix the equipment instead of analyzing the reason why it failed for example. Like anything else worth doing, obtaining true Reliability takes a concerted effort. We all recognize that the potential rewards are tremendous. We are also acutely aware that there is a certain amount of pain and suffering that must be endured if we are to obtain what we so desperately desire. So let's dispense with the passing of the collection plate and get right to the message.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Bermuda Electric Company’s PM Optimization Program

When staff at the Bermuda Electric Light Co. Ltd researched RCM, precious little data was found regarding its application to a primarily large diesel driven power utilities. The company subsequently decided upon a Planned Maintenance Optimization approach using PMO2000® with aggressive targets and timelines. The targets were, a 20% increase in productivity, chop downtime in half and deliver this within 1 year. In this webinar, Mr. Abayomi Carmichael, Senior Reliability Engineer, Energy Supply with Bermuda Electric Light Co. Ltd will share his experiences and challenges in achieving the target with the PMO2000® approach. Mr. Carmichael recently accepted the coveted Ascendant Impact Award which he collected on behalf of his team at BELCO.

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Combating Reactive Maintenance

A 6 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Brian Heinsius, ARMS Reliability Engineers

There are two important areas to activate in an asset management system to change its behaviour.

• Defect elimination process to ensure that causes of failures are addressed to prevent recurrence of those or similar failures.

• Optimum Maintenance Strategies that address likely failures and the right type of maintenance is performed at the right time in order to meet the organisation needs at the least cost.

This iPresentation looks at some of the strategies that can be used to change the behaviour of a reactive organisation

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliable and Safe Food Production- GMP Tip - Sanitary Operation (6 of 8)

Subpart E - Production and Process Controls

Reliability begins with following and understanding best practices. Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) are the foundation to building operational and

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Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Do These Up-Front Tasks to Achieve Real RCM Analysis Success!

Many companies do not understand the importance or the "how-to" of selecting the right assets for your first RCM Blitz analysis. While it would be fantastic if every company understood the power and results that can be delivered through a focused and thorough criticality analysis, honestly, most will just point to a machine that breaks down regularly and that will be the one system that gets the RCM Analysis.

Not to sound cliché but any successful RCM effort requires the culture to

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Getting Ready for an RCM Analysis

Many RCM Analyses don't get off to the right start and waste valuable time gathering data when they should be analyzing the data.

Prior preparation is key to a good start and is one element of this 3 minute iPresentation tutorial. It can be used to perform RCM Analysis utilizing traditional RCM or RCM Blitz^TM Methodologies.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliable and Safe Food Production- GMP Tip - Sanitary Operation (4 of 8)

Equipment (Section 110.40 of 21CFR)

In General (a) - All plant equipment and utensils shall be designed and constructed of material and with workmanship that makes the equipment cleanable, and

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reliability engineering for maintenance

Definition: FRACAS

Best Practices for Failure Reporting and Failure Elimination

Incorporating Reliability Centered Maintenance Principles in Front End Engineering and Design

Make Time For Reliability

Precision Based Reliability

Breakdown Information Sharing Table

Locking in Day-to-Day Defect Elimination

Bermuda Electric Company’s PM Optimization Program

Combating Reactive Maintenance

Reliable and Safe Food Production- GMP Tip - Sanitary Operation (6 of 8)

Do These Up-Front Tasks to Achieve Real RCM Analysis Success!

Getting Ready for an RCM Analysis

Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) Definition

RCM as Risk Management

Why Do RCM Implementations Fail?

What Do You Have a Right to Expect?

Inherent Reliability

The Kiss Principal

The 10 Commandments of RCM - Keys for the Success of an RCM Implementation Project

Reliable and Safe Food Production- GMP Tip - Sanitary Operation (4 of 8)