reliability engineering

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

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

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.