
These are the slides from Mike’s conference presentation at the SIRFRt CM & Lube Forum 2008 Conference.
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A listing in reverse chronological order of these article series:
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These are the slides from Mike’s conference presentation at the SIRFRt CM & Lube Forum 2008 Conference.
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Maintenance, failures, design for reliability, use of RCM and predictive technologies explained in infographic. Leave some feedback so we can make it better.
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How I applied all seven steps of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) on my drive home from the Reliable Plant Conference
I just can’t seem to get away from Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM).
(And that’s okay with me. After all, my (technical) heart and soul belong to RCM!)
I was driving home from Indianapolis, Indiana after speaking at the Reliable PlantConference ~ 399 miles.
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PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE STRATEGY IN A PLANT WELLNESS WAY EAM SYSTEM-OF-RELIABILITY
IN A PWW EAM SYSTEM-OF-RELIABILITY, PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE STRATEGY IS TO REPLACE PARTS WHEN EXCESSIVE STRESS BUILD-UPS IN THEIR MICRO-STRUCTURE
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Welcome to Day 2 of the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling for World Class Reliability and Maintenance Performance 3-Day Training Course. I hope that you enjoyed Day 1 and found the maintenance and reliability concepts it contained useful.
[Read more…]I know. I’m a lady. But it’s not my expression. That’s what my mentor, John Moubray, called it.
And he didn’t apologize for it when he used exactly that term during a one-on-one mentoring session with me.
And to this day, it’s one of the most valuable (and profitable) lessons he ever taught me.
In fact, it helped me win $1,428 in a poker tournament.
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Production processes come to a grinding halt when equipment breaks down. This results in production delays, costs incurred to fix the machine, and opportunity costs. The production process cannot proceed until the maintenance activity on the faulty machine is complete — unless you have provisioned equipment redundancy. [Read more…]
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Use an Isocorrosion Diagrams To Recognise High Corrosion Situations And Design Process Equipment Accordingly. A true story of how a high nickel alloy (Alloy 28) reactor was holed in 8 weeks by sulphuric (sulfuric) acid running down the inside wall. When the situation was reviewed in detail using an iso-corrosion diagram for the alloy in sulphuric acid it was obvious that such a problem would occur. The iso-corrosion curves clearly showed the huge corrosion rates that would happen at local contact points within the reactor. A clear and detailed understanding of how to use iso-corrosion curves would have highlighted the problem at the design stage.
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Maintenance, failures, design for reliability, use of RCM and predictive technologies explained in infographic. Leave some feedback so we can make it better.
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In 1873, the superintendent of the Montreal Water Works signed out a manual for his organization:
“Rules and regulations for the employés [sic] in the department of the Montreal Water Works”
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WHEN YOU BUILD AN ASSET MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR ISO 55001 CERTIFICATION THE ISO 55001 EAM SYSTEM MANUAL NEEDS TO COMPLY WITH THE ANNEX SL DOCUMENT STRUCTURE.
Here’s a practical way to create an ISO 55001 EAM system manual that covers all bases for both ISO 55001 certification and Annex SL requirements. Annex SL stipulates ten sections that every management system built to an ISO management system standard must contain. But matching legacy enterprise asset management 9EAM) system documents to Annex SL sections can be tricky.
[Read more…]You must have comprehensive “historical data” in order to carry out Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) (misconception)
Historical data is important for a Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) analysis. But the kind of data that is generally collected isn’t sufficient to answer all the questions in the RCM process – and thereby formulate specific solutions.
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Any engineer with known expertise or responsibilities in the area of ‘vibration’ will be asked sooner or later to advise on a vibration isolation problem. While the principles of vibration isolation are relatively simple to understand the practical application requires some design skills and a good understanding of the vibration source or sources.
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Any maintenance manager at a manufacturing plant or facility is likely aware of the problems caused by faulty equipment. Even if just one piece of equipment out of thousands breaks down, it could cause your entire operation to come to a halt. Preventive maintenance involves scheduling various maintenance activities to keep your equipment in peak condition and prevent breakdowns and failure. EAM/CMMS software is an essential tool for scheduling preventive maintenance and monitoring performance. The following are 5 tips to improve preventive maintenance with maintenance management software.
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Full of new, powerful solutions, the Plant Wellness Way EAM methodology ensures operations and companies get to world class equipment reliability
Let a Plant Wellness Way EAM System-of-Reliability halve your Annual Maintenance Costs
People investigating the Plant Wellness Way enterprise asset management (PWW EAM) methodology want to know exactly what happens when they use it, especially how the analysis and implementation will be done in their own operation. A PWW EAM System-of-Reliability brings you three massive business advantages:
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