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Combating Reactive Maintenance
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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

 

New 5-day Learning Program Focuses on Improved Reliability Decisions

In April, C-More, the Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering, is offering a new 5-day program that runs from April 12 to 16, 2010.  The program is Better Physical Asset Management - Initiatives that Work.

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The RCM Process at United Space Alliance

by Catherine C. Kammerer

United Space Alliance, LLC (USA) is the Space Processing Operations Contractor (SPOC) for NASA at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), and Johnson Space Center (JSC).   In that role, United Space Alliance uses Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) to optimize maintenance practices for the upkeep of tens of thousands of pieces of critical ground support, launch, and flight control equipment.  USA has an institutionalized RCM process with a company policy, functional organization procedures, periodic review of performance, and metrics to track the performance.

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What Do You Have a Right to Expect?

What you have a right to expect is the result of the reliability characteristics that were designed and built-in to your systems and equipment, and have been preserved through proper operation

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Inherent Reliability

Inherent reliability is probably the single most important characteristic of any system or piece of equipment in terms of determining overall reliability performance. The inherent reliability ...

New Agreement Expands Global Availability of Lloyd’s Register Risk-Based Inspection & Maintenanc

Lloyd’s Register and Bayer Technology Services GmbH announced this week they are forming a sales distribution agreement which expands the availability of risk-based inspection expertise.

The Role of the Reliability Engineer for New Projects
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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.

 

Integrated Reliability Tools Give Asset Managers Decision Making Power

Asset managers are able to use reliability simulation packages to make informed decisions on managing their assets to achieve their business goals. Integration has been a key feature of recent developments between Reliability methods and also between the integrated package and Enterprise Reliability Systems. Integration between methods in the Availability Workbench package means that RCM analysis is integrated with Weibull data analysis, the RCM is integrated with Reliability Block Diagrams and both are linked to Lifecycle costs calculations. Integration with Enterprise asset Management such as SAP, Mincom Ellipse and IBM's Maximo provides the means to use the source data held in the Enterprise System to make proactive decisions and store the outputs of the reliability decision making system in the
Enterprise system.

G&B Solutions Wins Contract Award to Support Army ARDEC

New Award Represents Potential Revenues of Approximately $25.9 Million for Enterprise Excellence, Reliability Engineering, Axiomatic Design and Predictive technologies.

How To…Create a Pareto Chart in Excel
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How To…Create a Pareto Chart in Excel

Follow these simple steps to create a Pareto chart using Microsoft Excel 2003.

Introduction to Pareto Charts
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Introduction to Pareto Charts

This presentation is an introduction to Pareto Charts, the Pareto Principal, the 80-20 rule, and how Pareto charts can save you time and make your life easier. Pareto charts are one of the seven basic quality tools and we explain the power of the Pareto principle and how it is used to analyze and eliminate the problems you face. How to focus on the vital few to eliminate the majority of your problems as Juran has applied the Pareto principle to the world of Quality. Everybody can apply this beautiful principle in their lives and save time and frustration.

Pepsi-Cola Enhances Reliability of Machinery with Dyadem Software

Toronto—Dyadem, the market leader in Operational and Quality Risk Management solutions, today announced that Pepsi-Cola Venezuela C.A., a joint venture between Empresas Polar and Pepsico Inc, is using Dyadem software in its Venezuelan operations to improve reliability in the company’s beverage manufacturing machinery and to prevent failures in the development of its system processes.

$38.6M to Wyle to Support U.S. DoD’s Reliability Information Analysis Center

Wyle Laboratories in Huntsville, AL received a $38.6 million option on a previously awarded contract (HC1047-05-D-4005) to provide support to the U.S. Defense Technical Information Center’s Reliability Information Analysis Center (RIAC).

The third Certification in Field Reliability Operations Conference

August Conference Brings Together Experts to Discuss Predictive Maintenance for Overhead Distribution and the Latest Strategies for Reducing Outage Frequency and Duration

University of Tennessee MRC Changes Name

The University of Tennessee’s Maintenance and Reliability Center (MRC) has been renamed to the “Reliability and Maintainability Center” in order to better emphasize our belief that Reliability is the primary attribute that our member companies are trying to achieve through our organization.

Reliability Cooperative Announced

TekTrakker Information Systems, LLC is an industry cooperative which captures, evaluate and reports on reliability/failure statistics unique to an industry or product type, such as IT equipment and utility meter devices.

Parametric Technology Corporation Acquisition of Relex

On June 3, 2009, PTC acquired privately held Relex Software Corporation. Relex provides software and services for analyzing design and field data in order to evaluate and improve product reliability and safety.

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