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Defining Failures and Being Consistent

To identify when maintenance is required, we need to define failure. The traditional view was that as equipment gets older, it is more likely to fail. The old definition of failure is when the

How to create Planning Libraries with Reusable Documents

How to create Planning Libraries with Reusable Documents

A 7 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM, People and Processes, Inc.

Take your planning process and craft efficiencies to the next level by creating reusable Planning Libraries with externally linked documents. This presentation is a how-to to show you the benefits and methods for building these libraries with externally linked documents common to most CMMS/ EAM applications, along with a continuous improvement process to integrate the feedback from craftspeople into those documents.

SMRP Maintenance and Reliability Benchmarking Overview

SMRP Maintenance and Reliability Benchmarking Overview

A 52 Minute Recorded Webinar

The Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) has launched one of the most important maintenance and reliability benchmarking studies ever conducted.

Please view the recorded webinar to learn more about the SMRP Benchmarking Study

The confidential SMRP benchmarking study is designed to answer questions like:

* Where are the gaps in your company's maintenance efficiency and performance?

* Which maintenance and reliability improvements would result in a swift increase to your bottom line?

* Compared to the competition, does your organization fall behind in some areas, yet excel in others?

* What are the characteristics of companies with leading maintenance and reliability performance? 

Find out more about the SMRP Benchmarking project here

 

Drinking Milk Past the Expiration Date…

Could you imagine drinking milk weeks or months after the expiration date? We all look at the expiration dates when we purchase products for consumption. It's just the healthy thing to do. Why ...

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SMRP Maintenance and Reliability Benchmarking Overview

The Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) has launched one of the most important maintenance and reliability benchmarking studies ever conducted.

Making Ice Cream More Reliably - Wells Dairy - In the Midst of the Journey

Going from vision to reality in a reliability journey - and how the process grows and changes as the culture transforms from the complacency of run to failure, to the accountability of continuous improvement - is an experience that anyone in the maintenance and reliability profession should get excited about. In this article, we will take a look at a reliability centered effort still in the midst of this journey.

Energy Management Planning Tips

. Include in the energy management plan a component clearly defining energy-efficient operation of energy consuming equipment. An example of a definition is: Operate energy consuming equipment to

Beware of Minimum Load Specifications in Spherical Roller Bearings

In my experiences as both a Bearing Applications Engineer and Reliability Engineer there seems to be a common problem with double row "spherical roller bearings" (SRB) operating well below their

Maintenance Program Roadmap

What really is a roadmap? And do you have one? Or, are you simply throwing darts at a dart board?

A long term strategy for maintenance asset/facility performance and work force efficiency.

A map

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Maintenance Tips for Mechanical Seal Installation

- Lock the Mechanical Seal locking collar screws after completing the shaft axial displacement adjustments, shaft alignment procedure. It helps to keep the seal faces from getting damaged.

- Keep

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The No. 1 PM Law You Should Know

The number one law of economics you need to know is based on a principle discovered over 200 years ago. You've probably heard of it - it's called the Law of Diminishing Returns.

As any good MBA

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Pruning Your MRO Inventory

Pruning Your MRO Inventory

A 15 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Doug Wallace, CPIM, Life Cycle Engineering

Many MRO storerooms are wrestling with the challenge of optimizing their inventory. But what is the "right" level of inventory to keep? This presentation addresses some of the fundamental considerations involved in making these difficult decisions, and suggests one method for helping to determine the appropriate stocking levels for your own materials.

 

Is it EAM - Enterprise Asset Management or MAS - Maintenance Accounting System

From what we see - there is very little managing of enterprise level assets in most EAM systems and a great deal of maintenance accounting.

Examples of Maintenance Accounting include:

  • Labor hours

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Portable Filtration Units

Portable filtration units can be very helpful in providing periodic cleaning and flushing of sumps and reservoirs. In many cases, they can be fitted with water removal elements for convenient

The Eight Critical Elements of Asset Management. An in Depth Industry Based Survey

OneSteel is a fully integrated, global manufacturer and distributor of steel and finished steel products, self-sufficient in both iron ore and scrap metal. They have major manufacturing facilities across Australia as well as facilities in New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific and the USA, and they manufacture and distributes products that are used in the construction, manufacturing, housing, rail, mining and agricultural industries. With a significantly diversified range of assets in many locations, improvements in Asset Management had been based on the knowledge and drive of the local plant employees and this was acknowledged as a significant issue for the company.

Preventive Maintenance Program Problems

  1. Lack of Management Support
  2. Lack of Maintenance Skills
  3. Wrong Equipment Selected
  4. No Changing/Updating PMs
  5. Poor Schedule Compliance
  6. Insufficient Detail on PM Sheets
  7. Data Not Being Recorded
  8. Lack of

The Four Quadrants of Reliability Assurance

From a process perspective, a Reliability Assurance (RA) program contains the four quadrants, or elements described below:

A Maintenance Management System

A maintenance management system is the

A ...

Heroic Outputs - Dynamic Benchmarking

Heroic Outputs - Dynamic Benchmarking

By Winston Ledet

The data used to develop the original Dynamic Benchmarking Model was collected in duPont's "Best of the Best" Benchmarking Study administered by A. T. Kearny in the mid to late 80's. The purpose of the survey was to discover the characteristics of the very best maintenance organizations. A total of 140 sites were surveyed from a broad spectrum of industries. About half the sites surveyed were non-duPont sites.

Conventional analysis of the flood of data did not result in any useful insights into how to elevate the performance of organizations.

Winston Ledet initiated and led a team of 3 duPonters and 1 consultant to analyze the data using system dynamics modeling. System dynamics is the basis for our Dynamic Benchmarking Model, the Stable Domains for maintenance and Defect Elimination. The model was developed for the first time by this DuPont team as part of their effort in the early 1990's. These frameworks have become the prevailing paradigms of most maintenance experts. However, in 1991, these same frameworks seemed strange by most and "heretical" by some.

The uniqueness of this assessment is that it is based on understanding that came about after rigorous study of manufacturing over 20 years. The first system dynamics model was completed in 1989. A system dynamics model is basically a cause and effect approach put to mathematics, which is then verified against actual real world experience. This results in a model that is structurally equivalent to the area of study. It provides the researchers a "practice field" to determine the key leverage points in the system. The original system dynamics model was updated to include more organizational capability and readiness structure in 2002. The model was further updated in 2008 to include socio-technical network building. The basis for these upgrades was the experience gathered after working with over 168 companies at multiple sites around the world and over 30,000 participants in the Manufacturing Game workshops.

The qualitative aspect of the model evaluates the readiness of the organization to reach the precision domain where the best benchmarked sites operate. The quantitative aspect evaluates the cost of unreliability and the profit of precision reliability.

Reliabilityweb.com facilitated the a comparative survey which evaluates the readiness of your organization to reach the precision operating domain. Attend this session to learn how well you compare to sites that have reached the precision domain and a comparison to the average of all plants that respond to this survey.

The session is highly interactive and the results of the study will also be published and made available to all Solutions 2.0 participants

It’s Easy To Get Lost!

These days, our phones are smart, our cars are smart and we all seem to have GPS devices to lead us to our destination. With all of the distractions, it's easy to forget your way and when you

Why The Maintenance Engineer?

The Maintenance Engineer in most companies has responsibility for the preventive maintenance program. If the responsibility for the preventive maintenance program falls to someone else, the

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