Please use your business email address if applicable

reliability engineering

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) and Corrosion Mitigation

A forty-five minute long presentation by Richard Taggs, President, TEAM Global

Managers, learn the principles and value of RBI and corrosion mitigation to increase safety, reduce cost, maximize productivity, prevent catastrophic failures, and how to implement effective and flexible risk based inspection schedules. But you won’t be a hero for when there is no disaster, no one knows you, but should there be a disaster?

Clockwork Solutions Validates >98% Operational Availability from Waller Marine’s Floating Barge

Waller Marine, a leading EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) firm, renowned for resolving extremely difficult technical and economic challenges in the maritime environment, entrusted Clockwork Solutions Inc. to perform a complex RAM (Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability) validation study on their design of the world’s largest floating power generation barge. Clockwork Solutions Inc. highly advanced life-cycle predictive modeling and simulation technology, a form of Predictive Analytics or Business Intelligence, accurately validated >98% Operational Availability from Waller Marine’s Robust Floating Power Generation Barge Design.

How Newport Office Tower Adds Daily Temperature Monitoring to Electrical Maintenance Program

By Aku Laine

For a majority of commercial office buildings, an annual infrared testing program is the sole measure of electrical system reliability. Infrared testing does a great job of detecting overheating anomalies caused by conditions such as loose connections, overloaded circuits and unbalanced loads. Also, the thermographer or electrician conducting the infrared testing can identify visual deficiencies, such as discolored components, wiring issues and mismatched fuses, within the electrical enclosures.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Risk Calculation Methodology

By Terry Nelson

In response to Brian Webster's article (Understanding & Comparing Risk), Terry Nelson requested the opportunity to supply additional information relating to his article in the Oct/Nov 2011 issue of Uptime.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Understanding & Comparing Risk

By Brian Y. Webster

In the Oct/Nov11 edition of Uptime (Risk & Criticality), a concept of risk was introduced that utilized a Euclidean distance of probability and consequence, mathematically written as

Risk2 = Probability2 + Consequence2

The author claimed that "this [method] provides for accurate comparison of relative risk."¹ The purpose of this article is to explain the conflict between traditional risk calculation methods and distance methods, as well as the potential poor business decision that could result from using distance methods. For the purpose of this article, the Euclidean distance for assessing risk as described in the original article will be called the "positional risk."

Snakes, Hazard Recognition & RPN - What Is a Hazard?

By Stan Moore

What Is a Hazard? Any situation that could result in a preventable injury or illness.

Expounding on that, a hazard is any situation or condition that could present a threat to equipment, the environment, limb, or life. Hazards can be caused by human actions, or they can exist in the environment and pose no safety issues until there is interaction.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Keep it Contained: Reducing Risk with Mechanical Integrity

A 45 minute long presentation by Michael Warren, Product Manager – Mechanical Integrity, Meridium

In a comprehensive Asset Performance Management program, people, processes, and technology are all equally important to maximize the value you should expect from your Mechanical Integrity solution in order to improve safety, reliability and environmental compliance in high-risk industrial environments.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliable Operation at Start-up

An 45 minute long presentation by Kevin Lewton, Vice President, Met Demand, Inc.

Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices should be implemented from the very first time equipment and processes are commissioned. Learn what best practices will contribute to a vertical start-up.

Risks of Using PM Templates

by Anthony "Mac" Smith and Tim Allen

Some 50 years ago, a small group at United Airlines, led by Tom Matteson (then VP - Maintenance Planning) created a new way to define PM tasks for the 747-100 airplane. It was so successful that virtually every airplane since then has employed this methodology. We have known this process as Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) since the 1970s.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Improving the Reliability of a Turbofan Jet Engine

By Larry Tyson

Our team is directly involved in the reliability, availability, and maintainability (RAM) of a turbo fan jet engine. The engine fuel controller (FC) is one of the main components on the engine. Its purpose is to control the flow of fuel based on pilot demand from the throttle levers in the aircraft cockpit. If the FC does not operate properly, the engine does not receive fuel in accordance with pilot demand and may shut down. As can be imagined, shutting down an engine is not a good situation in flight.Improving the Reliability of a Turbofan Jet Engine by Using the Weibull Distribution for Failure Mode Analysis (WFMA)

NOTE: FM = FAILURE MODE, MAL CODE = MALFUNCTION CODE, they are the same

Introduction to Reliability Engineering

What is Reliability Engineering?

No one disputes the need for articles to be reliable. The average consumer is acutely aware of the problem of less than perfect reliability in domestic products such as TV sets and automobiles. Organizations such as airlines, the military and public utilities are aware of the costs of unreliability. Manufacturers often suffer high costs of failure under warranty. Argument and misunderstanding begin when we try to quantify reliability values, or try to assign financial or other benefit values to levels of reliability.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Understanding the Difference Between Reliability and Availability

People often confuse reliability and availability. Simply put availability is a measure of the % of time the equipment is in an operable state while reliability is a measure of how long the item

...

The Dreaded Saturday Phone Call

By Noah P. Bethel

What's worse than a slip ring flashover on a critical wound rotor motor? A slip ring flashover on a critical wound rotor motor. . . on a Saturday!!! Yes, the dreaded Saturday phone call came to Flanders Electric from a local mine when a coal conveyor motor blew the slip rings. Unfortunately, the motor was not repairable in the field. However, the mine was in luck. They had a spare motor in place and ready for exactly this type of situation. The mine personnel were thinking the problem was behind them and couldn't get any worse, at least not until they pushed the start button.

reliability engineering

A Toothpaste Factory Had a Problem

Risk Based Inspection (RBI) and Corrosion Mitigation

Clockwork Solutions Validates >98% Operational Availability from Waller Marine’s Floating Barge

How Newport Office Tower Adds Daily Temperature Monitoring to Electrical Maintenance Program

Risk Calculation Methodology

Understanding & Comparing Risk

Philip E. Brown Named Director of Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) Services

Snakes, Hazard Recognition & RPN - What Is a Hazard?

Risk & Criticality: Understanding Potential Failure

Keep it Contained: Reducing Risk with Mechanical Integrity

Reliable Operation at Start-up

Risks of Using PM Templates

Improving the Reliability of a Turbofan Jet Engine

Reliability Block Diagrams, Monte Carlo and Availability Simulation - Part 2

Quantifying Financial Benefits from an Asset Performance Initiative

Education In Maintenance & Reliability Engineering

Introduction to Reliability Engineering

Understanding the Difference Between Reliability and Availability

The Dreaded Saturday Phone Call

Eliminating the Sources of Poor Reliability: Defects