


Uptime® Magazine
The mission of Uptime Magazine is to make maintenance reliability professionals and asset managers safer and more successful by providing case studies, tutorials, practical tips, news, book reviews, and interactive content.

April - May 2017
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Featured Articles
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The Evolution of Performance Measurement
In the current environment of ever-increasing demands to deliver exceptional results with limited resources, leaders are placing greater emphasis on performance measurement. Performance measurement...
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Asset Management: Buzzword or VALUE Creator?
Asset management is the science of making the right decisions and optimizing the delivery of value.
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Is asset management (AM) a new buzzword or a “flavor of the month” management initiative? AM... -
Do You Speak RELIABILITY?
Part of the mission at Reliabilityweb.com® is to discover and deliver approaches to make reliability leaders and asset managers safer and more successful. I am blessed to be able to meet some of the...
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Pushing IIoT Predictive Maintenance Forward: Two Challenges to Overcome
There’s no doubt the Internet of Things (IoT) is moving quickly to the front lines of industrial maintenance reliability and asset management. Communication between machines and human...
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Using Risk and Condition Assessment to Drive Motor Repair Decisions
The Central Arizona Project (CAP) operates and maintains 109 motor/pump units in 15 pumping plants scattered across 336 miles of aqueduct. These units are indispensable to CAP’s mission of...
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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...
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Be a Better Buyer with Closed Loop MRO Purchasing
You can tell a lot about a maintenance organization by observing how it purchases and consumes repair parts. Reactive organizations only seem to have time to “keep it running.” They don’t have...
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Asset Management in the Era of the Internet of Things
Before addressing the way asset management changes in the Internet of Things (IoT) era, it is worth summarizing what has happened since information technology (IT) became one of the main forces...
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A Journey Toward Wireless Asset Condition Monitoring
In maintenance, a big challenge is how to put different concepts and theories into practice, especially when you must also change the mind-set of your workforce and introduce a new way of...
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Implementing a Professional Development Program
If you’re looking for a way to strengthen internal and external customer relationships, provide prospects with a forum to familiarize themselves with your expertise, and add value to your industry,...
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Normalization of Deviance and the Perception of Defects
Ever walk into a room, look around and conclude that all is well. But then, someone picks up papers, a briefcase, or some other object from the floor, right where you were about to walk. You hadn’t...
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