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RCM vs. FMEA - There Is a Distinct Difference!

RCM and FMEA are tools in Uptime Elements Reliability Strategy Development [RSD] toolbox

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.

Philadelphia Mixing Solutions, Ltd.: A Legacy of Reliability for Over 125 Years and Going Strong

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.

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PM Optimization at OneSteel achieves outstanding results

An hour long presentation by Mr. Steve Turner - Director, OMCS International and Mark Brunner - Reliability and Systems Superintendant, OneSteel

PM Optimization is a process that has become very popular worldwide as a cost effective and practical alternative to RCM.

APT and OSyS Partnership will enhance Equipment Health Maintenance Solutions

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.

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PM Template Methods – From Theory to Practice

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.

Reliability Incident Management – Linking Incident Management with your Reliability Assurance Prog

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.

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Improving The Delivery of Maintenance Strategies Across The Enterprise

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

What Makes a Good PM

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.

Participate to learn:

1) PM Content

2) Partnerships required for success

3) Measuring for success

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Optimize your PM program

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.

FMEA is part of the Reliability Strategy Development toolbox

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Failure Mode and Effect Analysis - FMEA

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.

Improving Equipment Reliability and Plant Efficiency Through PM Optimization

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.

Continuous Improvement with PM Optimization: Lessons Learned from Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant

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.

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Bermuda Electric Company’s PM Optimization Program

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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Reliable and Safe Food Production- GMP Tip - Sanitary Operation (4 of 8)

Equipment (Section 110.40 of 21CFR)

In General (a) - All plant equipment and utensils shall be designed and constructed of material and with workmanship that makes the equipment cleanable, and

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“What gets measured gets done” is only partly correct…

Like all new tools, KPIs can be very useful in helping a business to achieve and maintain improved performance but, like all new tools, adequate time, development, learning and careful use is

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Choosing the Right PdM Technology for the Right Reasons

Scrub Your PM Library

RSES Announces Spring 2014 Seminars

RCM and FMEA are tools in Uptime Elements Reliability Strategy Development [RSD] toolbox

Philadelphia Mixing Solutions, Ltd.: A Legacy of Reliability for Over 125 Years and Going Strong

PM Optimization at OneSteel achieves outstanding results

APT and OSyS Partnership will enhance Equipment Health Maintenance Solutions

Enhance Asset Performance with Effective Labels and Visuals

PM Template Methods – From Theory to Practice

Reliability Incident Management – Linking Incident Management with your Reliability Assurance Prog

Improving The Delivery of Maintenance Strategies Across The Enterprise

PM Reduction Trick

What Makes a Good PM

Optimize your PM program

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis - FMEA

Improving Equipment Reliability and Plant Efficiency Through PM Optimization

Continuous Improvement with PM Optimization: Lessons Learned from Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant

Bermuda Electric Company’s PM Optimization Program

Reliable and Safe Food Production- GMP Tip - Sanitary Operation (4 of 8)

“What gets measured gets done” is only partly correct…