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What Do Recent Changes to Electrical Safety Standards Mean to YOU?

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 42:32
by Tim Rohrer, Exiscan

NFPA 70E and CSA Z462 are (arguably) the two most influential electrical safety standards in the world. The changes contained in the recent 2018 revisions of these harmonized standards have a direct impact on Electrical Preventive Maintenance (EPdM) practices, and likely have a direct impact on your facility(s). Likewise, the standard used throughout the world for arc flash hazard calculation (IEEE 1584) is in the final stages of revisions based on recent research on the subject. This presentation will highlight some of the changes that carry the biggest impact for Electrical Preventive Maintenance, and will answer the questions:

What changes to electrical safety standards should I be aware of?
What impact do those changes have on the EPdM work practices and design principles at my facility(s)?
What steps can I take upon returning to improve the worker safety and regulatory compliance at my facility(s)?

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

A Strong Approach to Reliability in the Refinery & Petrochemical Industry

PKN ORLEN operates six refineries (daily crude oil processing 728,000 barrels) and the region’s largest network of service stations located in Poland, Czech Republic, Germany and Lithuania. Crude oil is processed into gasolines, diesel oil, fuel oil and aviation fuel. PKN ORLEN is also a leading producer of petrochemicals, with its products used as basic feedstocks by a large number of chemical companies.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Utilizing Process Dynamics to Increase Machinery Reliability

Plant and refinery problems require accurate measurements to assess plant productivity and reliability. In fact, as management guru Peter Drucker stated, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure,” forms the basis to many real-world problems, from engineering optimization studies to troubleshooting plant machinery and equipment. Drucker’s statement also alludes to the fact that you cannot know whether or not you are successful unless success is defined and tracked.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliability & Information

Problems with reliability appeared with the beginning of human activity. However, the ways of solving these problems were different and they were changing with growing complexity of technical systems. The retrospective view shows that the way of solving reliability problems depends on the ratio between the complexity of the system and the ability of people to obtain information about the system and its elements.

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ASTM International’s Quality and Statistics Committee Launches New Subcommittee and Proposed Guide

A new ASTM International subcommittee on reliability (E11.40) is developing a standard (WK58249, Guide for Reliability) that will support reliability and risk analysis. The new subcommittee is part of ASTM International’s committee on quality and statistics (E11).

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Analyzing Repairable System Failures Data

Many reliability engineers throughout history have had concerns with the reliability of the repairable system. Several researchers have presented a few calculation or estimation techniques to achieve repairable system reliability. This article explains the mean cumulative function (MCF) as a powerful and easy technique to estimate and monitor repairable system reliability.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Designing for Reliability

IMC-2016 RAP Talk - 17:57
by Ramesh Gulati, Jacobs

According to Ramesh Gulati, designing for reliability (DfR) is the right approach to build reliability in assets. Not sure what DfR is? In this RAP Talk from IMC-2016, Gulati presents a comprehensive overview on the topic and how it will reduce operations & maintenance costs by a lot. Throughout the presentation, he stresses that this is a journey and requires a different kind of culture.

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Maintaining Belt Drives for Best Reliability

Belt drives are often considered the fuse of the power transmission drive path, which can be an advantage for belt drives. In that line of thinking, not much thought is given to the impact on overall equipment reliability with respect to the belt drives connecting driver and machine.

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Life Cycle Institute

Changing Behavior to Produce Results®

The Life Cycle Institute helps individuals and organizations reduce risk, improve performance and engage employees by delivering training and coaching that changes behavior to produce results. Our team includes reliability, asset management, learning, leadership, change management, and project management professionals who integrate the science of learning and the science of change with reliability and asset management best practices.

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DNV GL Software

DNV GL are now the world's the leading technical advisor to the global oil and gas industry, and a leading expert for the energy value chain including renewables and energy efficiency.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Practical Plant Analysis: Understanding Viscosity’s Effects on Centrifugal Pump Performance

The current low oil market environment has forced many producers to look into efficient and cost-effective ways to do business. Therefore, it becomes the responsibility of every engineer involved in the oil and gas sector, or any industry for that matter, to come up with innovative ways to analyze, understand and resolve problems plaguing their respective disciplines without incurring excessive costs.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

CIMdata Announces Addition of Quality & Reliability Engineering Consulting Practice

Enabling improved feedback of lessons learned regarding product performance issues into the systems engineering process, to deliver more robust products for enhanced customer satisfaction and increased brand equity.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Definition: Run-to-Failure

A maintenance strategy selected for assets where the cost and impact of failure is less than the cost of preventive actions.

Tip excerpted from: The Professional's Guide to Maintenance and by Ramesh Gulati, Jerry Kahn and Robert Baldwin

Induction Heating and Safe Operations in the Industrial Workplace

by Jack Rubinger

So many people rely on induction heating every day, possibly without even knowing it. Induction heating is used to seal the caps of food containers and pharmaceuticals. A layer of aluminum foil is placed over the bottle or jar opening and induction heating machines fuse it to the container. This provides a tamper-resistant seal, since altering the contents requires breaking the foil.

reliability engineering

What Do Recent Changes to Electrical Safety Standards Mean to YOU?

A Strong Approach to Reliability in the Refinery & Petrochemical Industry

Utilizing Process Dynamics to Increase Machinery Reliability

Reliability & Information

ASTM International’s Quality and Statistics Committee Launches New Subcommittee and Proposed Guide

Analyzing Repairable System Failures Data

Designing for Reliability

Maintaining Belt Drives for Best Reliability

Isograph Inc.

PRÜFTECHNIK AG

SKF USA Electric Motor Condition Monitoring

Life Cycle Institute

IVC Technologies

OROS

DNV GL Software

AspenTech Acquires Fidelis Group, LLC

Practical Plant Analysis: Understanding Viscosity’s Effects on Centrifugal Pump Performance

CIMdata Announces Addition of Quality & Reliability Engineering Consulting Practice

Definition: Run-to-Failure

Induction Heating and Safe Operations in the Industrial Workplace