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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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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

Asset Criticality: The Essential Ingredient to Proactive Reliability

Establishing a truly effective reliability initiative can be a daunting task for most organizations while trying to remain focused on the primary job to be done, such as manufacturing their product.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

“What gets measured gets done” is only partly correct…

Like all new tools, KPIs can be very useful in helping a business to achieve and maintain improved performance but, like all new tools, adequate time, development, learning and careful use is

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The Role of the Reliability Engineer for New Projects

An iPresentation Tutorial by Michael Drew, ARMS Reliability Engineers

The chance of successfully meeting the objectives for Major Capital Projects can be improved significantly by including a RAMS process throughout each major phase of a project:- I. Appraise, II. Select, III. Define, IV. Execute, V. Operate. The earlier the introduction of RAMS the larger the influence over total costs. An independent project auditing company quotes that on average projects that include RAMS can save up to 15% of total project costs, but many projects do not perform effective Reliability Studies.

A sure way to increase the effectiveness of RAMS is to include a Reliability Engineer in the project team, either full time or call-off expert service provider. The role of the Reliability Engineer is to quantify the basic data regarding failures so that the reliability of equipment used in the project can be predicted, and the availability of the project assessed. This provides the project team with the ability to identify critical issues early in the design process, perform trade-off studies and define maintenance requirements as part of the design process.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

FRACAS is an acronym for Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System

The Reliability Engineering definition of a system is:

A system is the composite of equipment and skills, and techniques capable of performing or supporting an operational role, or both. A

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Maximizing the Benefits of Reliability Centered Maintenance using RCM Blitz

An 8 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Doug Plucknette, Allied Reliability

An overall reliability strategy must be grounded in a fundamental understanding of how equipment fails. RCM Blitz is the hub of an integrated approach to designing and implementing a failure modes driven reliability strategy, returning results in a fraction of the time of traditional RCM methods. RCM Blitz is: Practical, Effective, Efficient, Sustainable and Flexible

reliability engineering for maintenance

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)

Asset Criticality: The Essential Ingredient to Proactive Reliability

“What gets measured gets done” is only partly correct…

The Role of the Reliability Engineer for New Projects

FRACAS is an acronym for Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System

Why RCM Doesn’t Work

Maximizing the Benefits of Reliability Centered Maintenance using RCM Blitz