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reliability engineering for maintenance

Bathtub Curves

The concept is derived from the human life experience involving infant mortality, chance failures, plus a wear out period of life since data for births and deaths is accumulated by government agencies. Most equipment lacks the birth/death recording by government agencies and most non-human systems can be regenerated to live/die many times before relegation to the scrap heap.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Which Reliability Tool should I use?

Publisher's note: When a person has a hammer - everything looks like a nail. Once a maintenance engineer learns techniques like Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) or Weibull analysis, it seems like they apply the technique to every potential area of failure they can find - whether RCM or Weibull analysis can add value or not. Reliability tools must be used in the proper context to create the best result and the more tools we understand the better we can apply them.

We asked our favorite reliability guru, Mr. H. Paul Barringer to help us understand what reliability tools are available to us as maintenance professionals, when we can and should use them and what results we can expect if we apply them correctly. - Terrence O'Hanlon, CMRP, Publisher

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Demonstrate a simple example of reliability and you’ll gain a lot of support

Look around you. There are so many opportunities to apply common sense reliability principles and gain many untapped benefits. Watch this 8 minute video showing a simple Maintenance Task Analysis (MTA) example then think about the possibilities in your plant. Interestingly, this example was ‘stumbled' across during an RCM2 / MTA facilitator training session. You will see the value of getting Maintenance and Operations together to apply common sense strategies, in this case saving the company $11,000 annually. It's a great learning tool, too. Just imagine what you could achieve coupling RCM on high risk assets along with MTA, starting with the ‘lowest hanging fruit' in your plant.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Asset Criticality – The Foundation of Best in Class Reliability

A 51 minute recorded web workshop playback on demand by Rod Acklin, Commtest

Starting or even re-engineering a reliability centered operation can be a daunting challenge. Essential to the success of your initiative is a meaningful assessment criticality for your installed asset base.

Join Commtest's Rod Acklin as he explores and guides you through how to assess meaningful asset criticality.

View this web workshop to learn:

1) Why is a meaningful criticality assessment important?

2) The essential elements of criticality

3) Applying resources based on the essential elements of criticality

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

PM Optimisation Maintenance Analysis of the Future - Part 1

The author, Mr Steve Turner, is a professional engineer who has been extensively trained in RCM1 methods and has deployed them over a 20 year period in various roles as an airworthiness engineer, a maintenance manager, as part of a design team and as a consultant. Over the past five years, Mr Turner has developed a process of PM Optimisation known as PMO2000. This method is currently in use at 12 major industrial sites in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region.

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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

Bathtub Curves

Accelerated Testing

Which Reliability Tool should I use?

Run To Failure As A Maintenance Strategy

Reliability Analysis Definition

Replacement Asset Value (RAV) Definition

Demonstrate a simple example of reliability and you’ll gain a lot of support

Asset Criticality – The Foundation of Best in Class Reliability

Corrective Maintenance Definition

Optimized Planned Maintenance Strategies Using Availability Workbench SAP Portal

Establishing A Problem Solving Process In Your Company

PM Optimisation Maintenance Analysis of the Future - Part 1

Zeroing in on Optimum Maintenance

What Can We Do Before Things Go Wrong?

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