Watch how I made the same mistake with my shoes…and how I could have used RCM to help me! [Read more…]
Stop Putting Band-Aids on Problems and Use RCM to Ensure Your Equipment Gives You What You Need
on Maintenance Reliability
A listing in reverse chronological order of these article series:
- Usman Mustafa Syed — Aasan Asset Management series
- Arun Gowtham — AI & Predictive Maintenance series
- Miguel Pengel — Asset Management in the Mining Industry series
- Bryan Christiansen — CMMS and Reliability series
- James Reyes-Picknell — Conscious Asset series
- Alex Williams — EAM & CMMS series
- Nancy Regan — Everday RCM series
- Karl Burnett — History of Maintenance Management series
- Mike Sondalini — Life Cycle Asset Management series
- James Kovacevic — Maintenance and Reliability series
- Mike Sondalini — Maintenance Management series
- Mike Sondalini — Plant Maintenance series
- Andrew Kelleher — Process Plant Reliability Engineering series
- George Williams and Joe Anderson — The ReliabilityXperience series
- Doug Plucknette — RCM Blitz series
- Robert Kalwarowsky — Rob's Reliability Project series
- Gina Tabasso — The Intelligent Transformer Blog series
- Tor Idhammar — The People Side of Maintenance series
- André-Michel Ferrari — The Reliability Mindset series
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) System Data – Cleansing the Augean Stables
Let’s agree that the EAM Data is our organizations’ “Augean Stables”. And, we the Maintenance & Reliability professionals are “the Hercules”. It’s dirty, smelly & massive. But it is only we who can dare to cleanse it. We are the Hercules of today’s organizations. [Read more…]
How To Break the Vicious Circle of Reactive Maintenance?
I created and posted this meme a few weeks ago and it went viral through the LinkedIn reliability community. It was a tongue-in-cheek look at the vicious circle that keeps most plants in a fire-fighting mode. One of the people who shared the post asked ‘what comes first the chicken or the egg?’ In our case, reliability work comes first. [Read more…]
Using CMMS To Improve Your Safety Management
Equipment is described as reliable when it functions as designed without failure. Admittedly, equipment failure of any kind is quite inconvenient especially in fast-paced environments like the manufacturing sector. However, the consequences of failure – if it were to occur – go just beyond the usual inconveniences of unplanned downtime, lost productivity, lost revenue, etc. All these are bad enough, but should equipment failure cause injury or fatality, recovering from the consequences could become an uphill task.
CMMS Long Description Text
Basic overview of how long description text is managed in most CMMS systems. Tips on why you should avoid using the long description to store valuable information. [Read more…]
The Essence of Reliability Centered Maintenance
Oh, why oh why didn’t I employ the “Essence” of RCM when I packed for my keynote speech? Watch how I “suffered” because I didn’t! [Read more…]
Where to Take an Oil Sample
A few weeks ago, I got a question about the best place to take an oil sample for oil analysis. Instead of generic answers like, “after the pump before the filter” or “never on the drain”, I like to take a more practical approach. [Read more…]
Calibrations
We discuss calibrated instruments, calibrations, and test standards. For more information on calibration management visit our friends at http://calopex.com [Read more…]
Managing the Consequences of Failure with RCM
As Responsible Custodians, we’re not in the business of predicting or preventing all Failure Modes. Watch as I explain how RCM helps with our first responsibility – Managing the Consequences of Failure. [Read more…]
PM Compliance
Let’s take a look at how to understand the PM compliance metric. [Read more…]
How to Care for our Physical Assets
Who knew that the cooking lessons my Sicilian mother gave me would teach me something about managing physical assets. Join me in Lambertville, New Jersey as I talk about how to properly care for our physical assets. [Read more…]
Sunil Part 2
Part 2 of our discussion with Sunil Kamerkar from AssetAnalytix. In this segment we discuss the culture of excellence needed to apply analytics and IIoT. [Read more…]
Perfecting Preventive Maintenance Planning With A CMMS
Equipment maintenance is a requisite for companies that seek high-performance from their physical assets. If they can leverage a well-executed maintenance strategy, such organizations should gain the expected advantages that reliable assets will deliver such as reductions in operational costs and unplanned shutdowns.
Productivity, RCM and…Vegas?
I never would have thought that a “productivity tip” also held the key to starting (or continuing) your RCM program. Watch as I explain (from Vegas!) how spending only 10 minutes a day can help you achieve greatness with RCM and with your personal and professional life! [Read more…]
Classifications – Overview
Example of classifications utilization in CMMS. Provides an overview of what classifications and attributes are and some of the places they can be utilized within the CMMS. [Read more…]
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