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Best Practices for Failure Reporting and Failure Elimination

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

Corrective Maintenance Task Generation

Maintenance cost or maintenance loss? Maintenance in today's plant is a dynamic function of the ability to adapt to quick changes and to new policies and management techniques. An inherent problem common to many maintenance programs is that manpower is one of the first things considered when cost reduction is sought. The loss of manpower poses continuous challenges to any maintenance manager who is striving for world class status. Corrective maintenance experience is one of the critical areas of expertise that is often lost.

Tools to Focus on Plant Reliability

The focus of maintenance has changed from repairing equipment to keeping it running for longer between breakdowns. This requires more consideration of how to get longer running life between repairs, i.e. higher reliability, on a machine. To accomplish this a number of ‘tools' have been invented and developed to allow maintainers to pinpoint problems and fix them. In this article three of the most effective ‘tools' will be introduced. Root cause analysis, Weibull analysis and lifecycle simulation can be used to help organizations achieve proactive approaches to maintenance or adopt a "reliability based approach" to maintenance.

Leadership for Reliability

‘Big M’ and the Performance Culture

Managing Maintenance for Production Reliability

by James Davis, PE, CMRP

About 30 years ago, the Plant Engineer of an ITT Rayonier paper mill in north Florida called me into his office and announced that, as a reward for a job well done, I was being given the position of Plant Maintenance Engineer. This was a bit confusing at first, as I was a mechanical/civil Project Engineer at the time, in a 38 year old facility that had never had a Maintenance Engineer.

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

Blast Off to Reliability

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

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).

reliability engineering

Best Practices for Failure Reporting and Failure Elimination

Corrective Maintenance Task Generation

How to Set Up a Reliability Management System

Tools to Focus on Plant Reliability

‘Big M’ and the Performance Culture

Managing Maintenance for Production Reliability

Combating Reactive Maintenance

New 5-day Learning Program Focuses on Improved Reliability Decisions

Blast Off to Reliability

What Do You Have a Right to Expect?

Inherent Reliability

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

The Role of the Reliability Engineer for New Projects

Integrated Reliability Tools Give Asset Managers Decision Making Power

Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Reliability Engineering is Obama Nominee

G&B Solutions Wins Contract Award to Support Army ARDEC

How To…Create a Pareto Chart in Excel

Introduction to Pareto Charts

Ivara Announces Strategic Partnership with Isograph to Deliver Enhanced Analytical Capabilities

Pepsi-Cola Enhances Reliability of Machinery with Dyadem Software

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