Partnership combines Software AG’s big data streaming analytics platform with Mosaic’s data science services to help customers stay ahead of maintenance needs
ASCO Numatics, the world’s leading manufacturer of comprehensive fluid automation, flow control, and pneumatics solutions, has introduced a mobile application for iPhone and Android Devices.
Do you ever wonder which tool or technology is the best to deploy for cost effective predictive maintenance? Many of today's PdM technologies can be used for multiple applications. This
In our last iLearnReliability Tip #3: Critical Asset Assessment, we discussed completing an FMEA and some data analysis on our most critical assets. It is now time to take a hard look at our
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RSES has announced a schedule of seminars from March through June. Each seminar will be presented by an RSES Certified Trainer or Member and cover a variety of topics. All seminars will be held from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
by Douglas J. Plucknette, Christopher Mears and Ramesh Gulati
This article seeks to understand the differences and similarities between these two maintenance approaches/strategies and attempts to answer the question of whether RCM or FMEA.
Palmyra, Pennsylvania, - Philadelphia Mixing Solutions, Ltd., a world-renowned expert in providing solutions to the industrial mixing industry, has a history based on a legacy of mechanical reliability that started over 125 years ago with the manufacturing of large gearboxes used primarily for power transmissions and industrial plants.
Corrales, NM, USA - Asset Performance Technologies, Inc. (APT) and Optimized Systems and Solutions, Inc. (OSyS) have entered into a partnership for the integration of APT’s library of industry best practices into OSyS’ predictive equipment health management solutions.
An hour long recorded webinar by Dr. David H. Worledge, President and CEO, Asset Performance Technologies, Inc.
There is extensive experience in many industries that shows that PM programs developed on the basis of OEM requirements or experience span the range from overbearing to deficient, typically lack a sound technical basis, and are hard to maintain. Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) has taught us that an adequate technical basis requires a functional analysis to establish the need for PM and an FMEA to decide what PM actions to take. However, apart from fleet applications or strongly focused efforts that are limited in scope, RCM in its traditional form has been found to be too resource intensive to be sustainable in most industrial environments.
Most organisations try to eliminate defects and investigate reliability incidents. Observations across many industries and companies lead the author to the conclusion, that this process, while very important, is one of the most fragmented and poorly executed of all.
Corporate maintenance strategies are easy to administer and can be a platform to standardize work practices across the enterprise. However, these strategies are typically generic in nature and do.
The trick to PM optimization (reduction) and proper deployment of predictive maintenance tools is first to know how to categorize the assets, using analysis methods designed to understand likely
A 60 minute workshop by Jeff Shiver, Managing Principal, People and Processes, Inc.
In a recent survey of more than 1,300 plant professionals in 40 countries, 62% said they either did not have a preventive maintenance program or are in the process of building one. If you ask Maintenance groups within those same organizations, they would respond that over 90% have a PM program. Why is there a disconnect between the audiences? Do you have a real program? A better question might be "How would my engineering and operations ‘partners' respond to a similar survey?" Can you truly measure and communicate the success your PM program generates to ensure a favorable survey response from those partners? What would happen if you were asked that question in a court of law? Does your CMMS data support "perceptions" or "reality"? Do you know if your data is the result of "pencil-whipping"? Are the PM task activities the "right" work and value-added? How can you tell?
This presentation will address the components of a good PM and methods to ensure the PM activities are executed properly. In addition to the PM components necessary, learn tools and techniques for establishing an effective PM process, adding a continuous improvement loop for optimization, measuring the value of the PM program and inspecting to ensure the right execution. Understand why pencil-whipping occurs and how to break the habit. Gain insights on communicating and managing the perceptions with your operations and engineering partners to eliminate disconnects so that everyone is on board with the value your organization adds.
Too many Preventive (PM) Maintenance programs contain ambiguous and needless tasks at unnecessary frequencies. What makes this so shocking is that plant facilities send out their craftspeople to
...2. For each functional failure, develop one or more PM or PdM task(s) that are appropriate. These tasks must either prevent or mitigate the consequences of the failure.3. For tasks that do not address known failure modes, consider removing them.4. For each PM task, provide adequate detail by asking multiple - and varied - questions relating to task location, performance and frequency.5. Finally, test the PM tasks the team has developed by having someone not involved in the development perform it. This validation is especially important when the team first starts developing new PMs.
Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is the study of potential failures that might occur in any part of a system to determine the probable effect of each failure on all other parts of the system and on probable operations success.
Using a practical evaluation methodology to develop or optimize a maintenance program will improve equipment reliability and plant performance while realizing a quick return on project investment. This paper presents a review of how the Preventive Maintenance (PM) Optimization program, implemented at Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), assisted in achieving optimum PM program performance for a fraction of the cost of the more traditional Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) projects.
Feeding back the results of PM activities after Reliability Improvement program implementation is necessary to maintain a PM program in optimal condition. It is through the Living Program that PM tasks are continually updated to maintain the best balance between the cost of performing tasks and their effectiveness in preventing or reducing failures that impact equipment reliability and system availability.
When staff at the Bermuda Electric Light Co. Ltd researched RCM, precious little data was found regarding its application to a primarily large diesel driven power utilities. The company subsequently decided upon a Planned Maintenance Optimization approach using PMO2000® with aggressive targets and timelines. The targets were, a 20% increase in productivity, chop downtime in half and deliver this within 1 year. In this webinar, Mr. Abayomi Carmichael, Senior Reliability Engineer, Energy Supply with Bermuda Electric Light Co. Ltd will share his experiences and challenges in achieving the target with the PMO2000® approach. Mr. Carmichael recently accepted the coveted Ascendant Impact Award which he collected on behalf of his team at BELCO.
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