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Managing the Risk of the Schedule Using Monte Carlo Simulations
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Managing the Risk of the Schedule Using Monte Carlo Simulations

Consider this scenario: You are finalizing the planning of your company’s next major maintenance outage or capital project and are concerned the timeline is too tight and your team is small. You communicate this to management and... 

The Ups and Downs of Reliability Centered Maintenance
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The Ups and Downs of Reliability Centered Maintenance

Sammamish Plateau Water embarked on the implementation of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) to advance their overall asset management program and optimize maintenance strategies. 

Digital Reliability Engineering: Tools and Methods
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Digital Reliability Engineering: Tools and Methods

Since the beginning of time, human beings have survived and evolved through the use of tools. Tool usage is the basis for both ancient and modern engineering advances. 

What You Can Do If Your Reliability Program Isn’t Meeting Performance Goals
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Reliability strategy improvement

The system and associated work execution management (WEM) process was meant to improve the performance of assets, but failures keep occurring at a cost to your business.

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34th International Maintenance Conference Agenda Highlights Opportunities to Connect - Share Insight
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34th International Maintenance Conference Agenda Highlights Opportunities to Connect - Share Insight

[Fort Myers, FL, 11/5/2019 ] – Reliabilityweb.com® has announced the agenda for the 34th International Maintenance Conference (IMC), to be held on Marco Island, Florida, December 9-12, 2019.

Journey Toward Reliability Starts with Uptime Elements
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Journey Toward Reliability Starts with Uptime Elements

Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (Central San) is an organization providing wastewater collection and treatment for over 481,600 residents and 3,000 businesses in Contra Costa County, California, located about 25 miles from San Francisco. Central San’s main facility is a treatment plant in Martinez, California, processing an average of 32 million gallons per day of municipal wastewater and providing up to three million gallons per day of recycled water to several businesses in the community.

Getting Started on Equipment Reliability? Look in the Dumpster!
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Getting Started on Equipment Reliability? Look in the Dumpster!

The definition and concept of reliability remains elusive in terms of application. Ask as many folks as you can to explain what reliability means to them or their situation and the responses will vary wildly. This can be especially nebulous among the decision makers for resource allocation, but what they usually want is lower costs and more quality output.

A Simplified Approach to Developing Prioritized Equipment Reliability & Maintenance Strategies
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A Simplified Approach to Developing Prioritized Equipment Reliability & Maintenance Strategies

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 48:37
by Mark Benak and Bill Closser

This presentation describes a method for prioritizing systems and equipment based upon the unique priorities of each company and the development of reliability and maintenance strategies for equipment based upon the unique operating conditions of the plant and equipment, yet still incorporating industry experience. 

August - September 2019
Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

August - September 2019

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Redefining Asset Performance Management
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Asset Performance Management Defined

If you work for an asset intensive organization and your role involves ensuring value from assets, you are unlikely to organize the world by software applications as software marketing professionals or software analysts’ do in order to describe these applications and functions to chief information officers, IT leaders or other chief officers.

Bad Actor Program
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Bad Actor Program

Reliability engineering is about predicting failures and providing ground for decision-making related to preventive maintenance optimization (PMO), lifecycle costing, spare parts forecasting, and reliability, availability and maintainability (RAM) modeling. Different tools are available to the reliability engineer for such levels of predictions. The benefit of these tools comes from proper planning and management plans to cope with future issues.

85% of RCM Recommended Improvements Are Never Implemented: Is There a Better Solution?
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85% of RCM Recommended Improvements Are Never Implemented: Is There a Better Solution?

It is disappointing when reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) studies are performed on a critical system, yet weeks roll on and then years go by without implementing the needed changes into the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). 

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 2
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How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 2

Part 1 in the June/July 2019 Uptime issue closed with the experience-based statement that failure risk can escalate by certain specification practices, including some contained in API 610. Without going into the many possible reasons for bearing life reductions, the quest for better bearings in upgraded process pumps elicits several observations that should be considered when preparing a modern pump specification.

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Kepner-Tregoe and Sologic Form Root Cause Analysis Partnership

[PRINCETON, N.J. (PRWEB) JUNE 04, 2019] Kepner-Tregoe, Inc. (http://www.kepner-tregoe.com) and Sologic, LLC (http://www.sologic.com) have formed a partnership to offer Kepner-Tregoe (KT) problem solving techniques supported by Sologic’s Causelink® software. 

How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 1
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How the Quest for Better Pumps Came to (Almost) Nothing: Part 1

Pumps are fluid machines that move liquids over short and/or long distances. They were invented well before the industrial revolution and even Archimedes tinkered with pumps, on or about 250 B.C., somewhere near the historic city of Siracusa in Sicily. Without pumps, modern process plants would not exist. But not all pumps are well constructed, well maintained, correctly installed, or properly operated. And while some pumps have stayed on-line without interruption for six years, others continue to experience random failures several times in the course of a year. Pump improvement can be both a career enhancer and a value-adding proposition, as this two-part article will show.

The Keys to Solving Fatigue: The Silent Killer
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The Keys to Solving Fatigue: The Silent Killer

Fatigue is a failure mode that every manufacturing plant will experience at some point and can become chronic if not solved. While understanding fatigue has advanced since its inception in the early 1800s, there are still some misunderstandings in manufacturing in solving these failures. A characteristic of fatigue failures is stress, which is typically below the yield strength of the material. This is what makes fatigue a silent killer.

June - July 2019
Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

June - July 2019

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RCM, PMO and FMEA: What Is the Difference?
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RCM, PMO and FMEA: What Is the Difference?

The use of acronyms though helpful at times also creates confusion. This discussion will clarify the differences and the similarities in the terms RCM, PMO, and FMEA. Additionally, we will discuss the appropriate use of these methods.

From Grassroots to Company-Wide in Six Months: A Root Cause Analysis Journey
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From Grassroots to Company-Wide in Six Months: A Root Cause Analysis Journey

In early 2015 Root Cause Analysis was practiced in few of Weyerhaeuser's 33 Wood Products facilities, and lacked for consistent application and standards. The opportunity for change began at the annual leadership meeting after several plant managers and corporate leaders got a glimpse of the process that the Grande Prairie Mill was using and the discussion that ensued revealed an uneasiness with the current state.

Asset Risk-Based Assessments: A Simple Approach
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Asset Risk-Based Assessments: A Simple Approach

Examples will be given on both ends of the spectrum ranging from the most basic to more advanced tools so individuals attending the presentation can create an assessment which best suits their site's maturity level.

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