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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

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

Basic Care Leads to Reliability

Basic Care Leads to Reliability

Welcome to part four of my 10-part series of blogs called “Uptime Insights”, where we explore a journey of excellence in maintenance. To stay on top, managers must implement strategies that keep operations performing at high levels. In these articles I will show you how to achieve excellence in maintenance – a critical business process in any capital intensive industry. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

The Continuous Improvement of Thomas Edison

The Continuous Improvement of Thomas Edison

There is a good chance you can make astounding changes and achieve incredible performance improvements from your plant and equipment.

It can be done with the method used by Thomas Edison to solve his problems and make his discoveries. Improvements in the order of 20% maintenance savings with 100% on-time achievement of production plans are possible.

The method is that of continuous improvement. You start by proving it works for yourself first and then, once you are sure it works you introduce it to your people.

Keywords: continuous education

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

The Importance of Work Management in the Maintenance Process

The Importance of Work Management in the Maintenance Process

Welcome to part three of my 10-part series of blogs called “Uptime Insights”, where we explore a journey of excellence in maintenance. To stay on top, managers must implement strategies that keep operations performing at high levels. In these articles I will show you how to achieve excellence in maintenance – a critical business process in any capital intensive industry. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Grease — Use the Right One for the Job

Grease — Use the Right One for the Job

What you will learn from this article.

  • Grease is made from oil into which a thickener is added.
  • Additives are added to the grease to provide specific required characteristics.
  • Grease has specific advantages over oil lubrication provided the correct grease is selected.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

People Are Your Most Important Assets

People Are Your Most Important Assets

Welcome to part two of my 10-part series of blogs called “Uptime Insights”, where we explore a journey of excellence in maintenance. To stay on top, managers must implement strategies that keep operations performing at high levels. In these articles I will show you how to achieve excellence in maintenance – a critical business process in any capital intensive industry. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

by Mike Sondalini 4 Comments

Bitumen Roadway Repairs

Bitumen Roadway Repairs

What you will learn from this article.

  • The life of a road depends on the vehicle wheel loading.
  • Aggregate size determines the strength of the tarmac.
  • The sub-base below the tarmac distributes wheel forces.
  • Slope the surface to prevent water pooling.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

Developing A Strategy To Achieve Excellence In Maintenance

Developing A Strategy To Achieve Excellence In Maintenance

Welcome to my latest 10-part series of blogs called “Uptime Insights”, where we explore a journey of excellence in maintenance. To stay on top, managers must implement strategies that keep operations performing at high levels. In these articles I will show you how to achieve excellence in maintenance – a critical business process in any capital intensive industry. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Tyre and Trunnion Wear

Tyre and Trunnion Wear

Roll mills, drum dryers, kilns, ball mills and rotating reactors usually turn on metal tyres and trunnion rollers.

Eventually, the tyres and rollers wear out or fatigue and require repair or replacement.

Usually, the equipment manufacturers keep material specifications as proprietary information and one is forced to buy the parts from them. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

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Data Q&A with Fred and James

Data Q&A with Fred and James

A Question & Answer Period with Fred Schenkelberg and James Kovacevic on the what can be done with your data and analysis.

Data and the analyses that use the data can be tricky to manage at best, let along extremely difficult.

In this last post of the series on using the maintenance data you have, Fred and James will answer many of the common questions asked about data and the analyses. [Read more…]

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

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

The Excellence Path – Part Two – The Path to Success with RCM

The Excellence Path – Part Two – The Path to Success with RCM

We know that there are no “quick fixes” or “silver bullet solutions” when it comes to improvements in maintenance management.

In my last article, I pointed out that many separate conditions and events must come together properly to achieve “schedule success” – i.e.: the high level of compliance to a schedule of planned work as produced by your planners.

That list of includes: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

A Fault Finding a Technique that Works

A Fault Finding a Technique that Works

What you will learn from this article.

  • Accurate findings from investigations require accurate knowledge.
  • Design extra equipment into a new plant for problem analysis.
  • On existing plant add-in the equipment you need for problem-solving.
  • Trace problems by going from plant to equipment item to sub-system.

Fixing plant and equipment about which you know little is daunting.

Here are a few ideas to help you successfully fault find failed equipment.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance Tagged With: Failure analysis (FA)

by Fred Schenkelberg 2 Comments

The Next Step in Your Data Analysis

The Next Step in Your Data Analysis

Nothing keeps a statistician happy like a pile of data.

Part 6 of  7

As seen in the previous articles, you can easily use the data you already have to conduct a meaningful analysis. This includes Weibull, Crow-AMSAA or a Mean Cumulative Function analysis.

Digging into a well manage dataset promises to reveal insights, trends, and patterns that will help improve the line, process, or plant.

Creating a plot or calculating summaries is pretty easy with today’s tools. Yet, are you doing the right analysis or are the various assumptions valid?

One critical step in the data analysis process is making sure you are doing a valid and appropriate analysis. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Data analysis

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

The Maintenance Management Excellence Path

The Maintenance Management Excellence Path

There are no quick fixes

Today’s world contains a myriad of choices for instant gratification.

Regardless of our age, we have grown used to getting what we want, when we want it, and how we want it limited only by our ability and willingness to pay for it. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Asset Management – Quality is a Mindset

Asset Management – Quality is a Mindset

Some quality paradigms are expensive

ABSTRACT

Some quality paradigms are expensive.

Quality is a mindset! When a wise man is given the chance to buy quality items he does so because quality pays for itself.

A quality item lasts longer, runs better and looks good when others fade. To change the way you think about quality takes a lot of experience with using poorer options. When you are sitting down with your head in your hands wondering what can be done to get costs down, to get production up and how you are going to hit the key performance indicators, remember the importance of quality equipment, quality systems, quality training and your quality mindset!

Keywords: quality control [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance Tagged With: Asset management

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

The Next Step in Your Failure Data

The Next Step in Your Failure Data

Improve your failure data to improve the speed and accuracy of your failure & reliability analysis.

Part 5 of 7

A few years into your reliability journey, you start to struggle to make the improvements you were able to when you first started.

Why is this?  You were able to systematically eliminate all of the low hanging fruit using the existing data in your CMMS.  But now you have to dig deeper to realize the improvements and that requires better data. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Failure data

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