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.

December - January 2020

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Who Will Benefit from Maintenance 4.0 Adoption?

Deddy Lavid

This article explores whether the benefits of Maintenance 4.0 will be disproportionately spread and how this will impact the industrial sector.

The Latest Technology for Asset Management in Oil & Gas

Malcolm J. Werner

Dave Maguire

Richard Fish

For owner-operators of oil, gas and chemical companies, mechanical integrity (MI) and reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) are pivotal components of any comprehensive asset management (AM) program.

Digital Twin: Transforming Asset Operations

Lisa Seacat DeLuca

As physical assets become increasingly software enabled and more complicated in their construction, a new model is required to operate them – a model that will not be fully possible without the creation of digital asset replicas. These replicas are called digital twins.

PM Optimization: Challenge and Transform Your PM Strategy

Mark Munion

The primary objective of maintenance is to provide the maximum availability and efficiency of company assets throughout their expected life cycles at the lowest possible cost.

Energy Industry Risk Assessment: Current Practices and Elements

Gobind Khiani

As the North American oil and gas infrastructure ages, changes made to facilities during their lifetime may not have been transferred to the official recorded drawings of the facilities.

Digital Reliability Engineering: Tools and Methods

Alex Oliveira

Since the beginning of time, human beings have survived and evolved through the use of tools. Tool usage is the basis for both ancient and modern engineering advances.

Featured Reliability Leader: Lisa Seacat DeLuca

Reliabilityweb.com

Meet Lisa Seacat DeLuca, Director & Distinguished Engineer at IBM. Lisa is leading the incubation and incorporation of the digital twin across IBM’s IoT offering suite and driving the digital transformation of IoT solutions.

Optimizing Asset Utilization: LOOP’s Continuous Improvement Journey

Brian J. Pertuit

The Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP LLC) is the nation’s largest privately owned crude oil terminal. Initially constructed in 1981 to import crude oil from around the globe, LOOP has grown to become a fully diversified crude oil trading and exchange hub. LOOP is the only facility of its kind in the world where shippers can off-load crude oil from very large crude carriers (VLCCs), load VLCCs, and purchase, sell, exchange, store, blend, or deliver crude oil.