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by Ray Harkins Leave a Comment

Common Mistakes in a Capital Equipment Justification

Common Mistakes in a Capital Equipment Justification

Return on Investment Analysis (ROIA), sometimes referred to as Capital Equipment Justification, is the process of building and analyzing a financial model for the purpose of determining the net financial contribution of obtaining a major investment like a factory building or piece of production equipment.

ROIA is the link that connect the brilliant ideas of makers–the engineers, designers and builders—to the goals of the managers who hold organization’s purse strings. When thoroughly conducted, ROIA aligns the best estimates of the revenues and expenses related to a potential purchase with the years in which they will occur.

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Filed Under: Articles, on Tools & Techniques, The Manufacturing Academy

by Greg Hutchins 2 Comments

Making Risk Management More Effective, Relevant, and Value Adding

Making Risk Management More Effective, Relevant, and Value Adding

Guest Post by Patrick Ow (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

This is where the achievement of objectives must be translated into tangible successes that are linked to positive outcomes.

Growth for growth’s sake is meaningless. Achieving objectives for the sake of it is meaningless unless you want to game the system and get your financial bonuses by meeting some meaningless performance targets. It becomes a meaningless compliance exercise. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

Corporate Counter-Dependency

Corporate Counter-Dependency

Some organizations are poor or marginal performers, some high, and some truly great. Jim Collins, in “Good to Great” (2001) describes the differences among the latter two. Much of the difference boils down to people and the culture that is fostered within the organization. They foster learning in all forms, including learning from mistakes. They are typically “humble” and accept helpful input from outside, admitting when and where they need to improve. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

by Nancy Regan Leave a Comment

What is Inherent Reliability?

What is Inherent Reliability?

There are three important things we can learn about Inherent Reliability…from a cotton field! Watch as I explain what Inherent Reliability is. And, I discuss two important points any responsible custodian needs to know to achieve the Reliability that’s required from an asset. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Everyday RCM, on Maintenance Reliability

by Fred Schenkelberg 2 Comments

Single Sample Z-test Hypothesis Testing for Mean with Known Variance

Single Sample Z-test Hypothesis Testing for Mean with Known Variance

In the situation where you have a sample and would like to know if the population represented by the sample has a mean different than some specification, then this is the test for you. Oh, you also know, which is actually rather rare in practice, the actual variance of the population you drew the sample. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, CRE Preparation Notes, Probability and Statistics for Reliability

by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

Reliability Questions and Decisions

Reliability Questions and Decisions

Very few reliability decisions are made by reliability engineers. Yet, reliability engineers are asked many questions concerning reliability. How reliable will this design be for customers? How will the system likely fail? How many failures should we expect next month?

How you answer these and the many other questions received does impact the reliability of your product or system. The information provided those that ask reliability related questions, with useful and practical information, can make better decisions which improves reliability performance.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics, on Product Reliability

by Doug Lehr Leave a Comment

Equipment Risk

Equipment Risk

Equipment risk is a reality of every oil or gas well completion, but is this risk the exclusive responsibility of the equipment manufacturer (OEM)?  To answer this question, let’s examine the major aspects of equipment risk in more detail. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Equipment Risk and Reliability in Downhole Applications, on Risk & Safety

by Robert (Bob) J. Latino 2 Comments

Understanding the Principles of Reliability

Understanding the Principles of Reliability

The Reliability Approach… “Something understood and practiced by engineers and highly specialized technicians,” is apt to be the first reaction of the line supervisor, “certainly not an area where I can be expected to become involved.” Although this reaction is understandable; nothing is farther from reality. Let’s explore why in this paper. Please read until the surprising end (I know it is lengthy) and you will find that these Reliability Principles apply to any industry, any where at any time! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, The RCA

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Top 10 Reasons Your Planning & Scheduling Program Is Failing

How to see if your Planning & Scheduling program is failing to return value to the organization

Maintenance Planning & Scheduling is one of the most important processes in the maintenance function.  Without it, work will not be completed on time, nor will it be efficient.   So why, is the maintenance planning & scheduling process often ignored, or not implemented successfully? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability

by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment

It’s All About Jobs!

It’s All About Jobs!

Guest Post by John Ayers (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission)

COVID 19 throws a curve ball in the path of life and job security. If you compare life as a walk through a forest, then COVID-19 is a high stone wall (curve ball) along the path of life. Do you stop and retreat or go over or around it and continue your journey? I think you get through the pandemic and continue along the path back to job security and low unemployment. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, CERM® Risk Insights, on Risk & Safety

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

Maintenance and finance – partners

Maintenance and finance – partners
CFO – you need to know that maintenance can help you be very strategic in achieving greater outputs, at low cost, and for a minimal investment. Maintenance and Asset Management managers, you need to enlist Finance as your ally. Both Finance and Maintenance / AM are after the same results. Understanding this is key to becoming partners in sustaining our businesses. After all, we both have the same goals in mind.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

by Nancy Regan Leave a Comment

Start Here to Achieve Your Maintenance and Reliability Goals

Start Here to Achieve Your Maintenance and Reliability Goals

If you want to achieve your Maintenance and Reliability goals, here’s where to begin. But…don’t fall into the same trap I did…! [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Everyday RCM, on Maintenance Reliability

by Fred Schenkelberg 3 Comments

AND and OR Gate Probability Calculations

AND and OR Gate Probability Calculations

In system modeling and fault tree analysis (FTA) we use a set of similar calculations based on Boolean logic, the AND and OR gate probability calculations. Within FTA, the AND and OR gates are just two of many possible ways to model a system. Within system modeling, often reliability block diagrams (RBD) we model parallel and series elements of a system.

In order to do these basic calculations, we need to consider a few assumptions then proceed to the math.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, CRE Preparation Notes, Probability and Statistics for Reliability

by Carl S. Carlson Leave a Comment

Hazard Analysis and FMEA

“The danger which is least expected soonest comes to us.” Voltaire

This article discusses the application of Hazard Analysis, why it is used, and the similarities and differences with FMEA.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Inside FMEA, on Tools & Techniques

by Robert (Bob) J. Latino Leave a Comment

Turning RCA into ROI in Healthcare? – Part 3 – Unknown Benefit…Intellectual Capital

Turning RCA into ROI in Healthcare? – Part 3 – Unknown Benefit…Intellectual Capital

The Greatest Benefit of RCA is Generally an Unknown…Intellectual Capital

Because business is measured based on credits and debits, this is how we must express effectiveness of initiatives in reality. However, the physical costs are NOT the greatest benefit derived from RCA when done properly. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, The RCA

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