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.
Uptime® magazine recently had the pleasure to speak with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) pioneer and expert, Anthony “Mac” Smith. Terrence O’Hanlon, Publisher, sat down with Mac to discuss his life and the career that led him to be recognized as one of the early leaders and advocates for RCM. The complete video interview is available at the end of the Q&A.
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.
Suzane Greeman, CMQ/OE, CAMA, CAMP, CMRP is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions Inc (GAMSINC). An accomplished asset management leader with over 22 years of experience, Suzane has worked across several asset management disciplines to implement asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment and airport assets. She is also a member of the Empowering Women in Industry 2020 Steering Committee and Women in Reliability and Asset Management (WIRAM). Uptime® magazine was fortunate enough to speak with Suzane about her company, asset management and the role of diversity in the industry.
What useful life can you expect from a motor if it is installed and maintained with an eye toward precision?
Consider this scenario: You are finalizing the planning of your company’s next major maintenance outage or capital project and are concerned the timeline is too tight and your team is small. You communicate this to management and...
Have the project management skills of the DoD become too lax? Within the world of asset management, construction and alterations are also part of the budget. As asset management professionals , are we paying attention?
High reliability organizations (HRO) are those that effectively manage risks by identifying and controlling probability and consequence.
In 2009, Cameco Corporation's Port Hope Uranium Conversion Facility in Port Hope, Canada, launched a new approach to continuous improvement. It was documented and presented in the Aug/Sept 2012 issue of Uptime magazine titled, “Operations-Led Reliability.” Ten years later, here is an update on how it has evolved through multiple improvements.
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