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Developing Reliable, Long-Term Maintenance Strategies for Large Diameter Water Pipelines

Developing Reliable, Long-Term Maintenance Strategies for Large Diameter Water Pipelines

The Central Arizona Project (CAP) faces significant corrosion issues in two critical steel pipelines that transport nearly two billion gallons of water daily across Arizona. With limited maintenance windows, CAP explored three options: ongoing repairs, building a bypass for extended maintenance, or replacing the pipelines with low-maintenance concrete. After a thorough analysis, CAP chose to rehabilitate existing infrastructure and reline the steel pipelines, ensuring long-term reliability for Arizona’s water supply.

Healthcare RCM Made Simple

Healthcare RCM Made Simple

The reliability-centered maintenance analysis does not have to be complex. Learn how the RCM methodology employed in healthcare facilities can translate into any industry.

Isn’t That the Definition of Insanity?

Isn’t That the Definition of Insanity?

Ever felt like a young grasshopper in a room full of seasoned masters? This reliability engineer did, facing skepticism and resistance when implementing new plans. But instead of sweating, he learned two golden rules: Respect knowledge, and involve the team.

Conducting Asset Criticality Assessment for Better Maintenance Strategy and Techniques

Conducting Asset Criticality Assessment for Better Maintenance Strategy and Techniques

Conducting an asset criticality assessment (ACA) is the first step in maintaining the assets properly. This article addresses the best maintenance strategy for assets by using ACA techniques.

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OEM recommended maintenance plans

Is it best to follow OEM recommended maintenance plans?

One-third of CEO Terrence O'Hanlon's colleagues think so - at least as a starting point. What do you have to say?

Has your company ever used Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) to define maintenance requirements?

Has your company ever used Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) to define maintenance requirements?

Research data from Reliabilityweb.com Research shows the market share of Reliability-centered Maintenance [RCM] for Reliability Strategy Development [RCD]

80/20 Bad Actor Focus for Reliability and Asset Management

Reliability Leaders Focus

Technical people focus on counts and business leaders focus on cost. Solve the biggest wasted cost issues and you get your managements support

How things fail

How Things Fail

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

What is failure?

What is failure?

We spend a lot of time trying to understand Reliability

Reliability Centered Maintenance: Spreading Successful Strategies Worldwide

Reliability Centered Maintenance: Spreading Successful Strategies Worldwide

Learn how JLL develops and delivers a world-class asset strategy management program to its clients, balancing cost, risk, and performance; how they leverage their power and large data lake to refine and continuously improve their program; and how the firm applies lessons learned from just one client or a single vertical across the organization, benefiting everyone.

Value Stream Mapping as a Tool for Waste Time Elimination: A Case Study

Value Stream Mapping as a Tool for Waste Time Elimination: A Case Study

One lean manufacturing tool used to eliminate non-added-value activities in production lines is value stream mapping (VSM). VSM identifies wastage of resources and eliminates or reduces them to improve productivity. VSM clearly shows the ineffectiveness of action, measures the waste level and supports in designing the appropriate changes, independently and economically.

Eliminating Bad Actors to Reduce Downtime and Production Losses

Eliminating Bad Actors to Reduce Downtime and Production Losses

The roadmap to good asset management and operational excellence starts with strategy development – determining the proactive actions to be taken for the sustainable, reliable, and safe operation of production assets.

Mapping Reliable Success into an Asset’s Strategy

Mapping Reliable Success into an Asset’s Strategy

Start-up company TRK Manufacturing, just began production in Anywhere, USA. How do they maintain their assets? What should they focus on? What predictive tools and technologies should they have?

Reliability Radio EP 225: Darren Gloster, ARMS Reliability

Before you get to the "do," you have to have a plan. Those that have a strategy have the best results in the end. This is even more true with a proper maintenance strategy as a foundation. 

RCM Analysis for a Cost-Effective Maintenance Program

RCM Analysis for a Cost-Effective Maintenance Program

This informational session will familiarize attendees with the formal Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Analysis process, methods to integrate stakeholders into the RCM process, and highlight the critical insights that are available from the application of this process to support building a cost-effective maintenance program. The presentation content provides the groundwork for optimizing “uptime” and equipment reliability as applied to complex systems.

How to Build a Comprehensive Maintenance Program to Enhance Your RCM Efforts

How to Build a Comprehensive Maintenance Program to Enhance Your RCM Efforts

Corporate and site reliability teams face challenges and pressures to continuously improve and demonstrate the value and business impact they have on their organizations and as such, organizations around the world rely on reliability centered maintenance (RCM) as a means to significantly increase asset performance by delivering value to all stakeholders.

A Risk Threshold Investigation Is Born

A Risk Threshold Investigation Is Born

This article takes you through the birth of RTI, explaining what RTI is, why it was created, where it fits into a maintenance reliability program strategy, how it is conducted and showing it in action with some actual results.

What You Can Do If Your Reliability Program Isn’t Meeting Performance Goals

Reliability strategy improvement

The system and associated work execution management (WEM) process was meant to improve the performance of assets, but failures keep occurring at a cost to your business.

85% of RCM Recommended Improvements Are Never Implemented: Is There a Better Solution?

85% of RCM Recommended Improvements Are Never Implemented: Is There a Better Solution?

It is disappointing when reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) studies are performed on a critical system, yet weeks roll on and then years go by without implementing the needed changes into the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). 

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