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by Doug Lehr Leave a Comment

Design for Reliability (DfR)

Design for Reliability (DfR)

You are an engineering manager overseeing product development. For the new offshore product developed by your team, you want to know:

  • If the final design margins comply with company standards
  • If the thin-wall components are susceptible to Bauschinger Effect
  • Which load factors were used for the ASME section 8 analysis.

[Read more…]

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

by Christopher Jackson Leave a Comment

How to Change Design Reviews from Tedious to Awesome

How to Change Design Reviews from Tedious to Awesome

We’ve all been ‘there.’ Watching the ‘mechanical’ design team lead go through 378 PowerPoint slides of suffocating technical content, pixelated iPhone pictures of bearing housings, and lists of ‘open’ items in fonts that are too small. There are ‘senior’ engineers wheeled in to ‘review’ but instead nod knowingly and ask sporadic questions about something they once designed ‘back in the day.’ And the chairperson will often ask our ‘mechanical’ design team lead if they are ‘on track.’

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Product Reliability, Reliability in Emerging Technology

by Robert (Bob) J. Latino Leave a Comment

The Top Frustrations of RCA Facilitators in Healthcare & How It Prevents Them from Being Effective

The Top Frustrations of RCA Facilitators in Healthcare & How It Prevents Them from Being Effective

If you’ve ever led a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) Team, you will relate to this article. Being an effective RCA analyst is tough work in the healthcare (HC) industry. It is fraught with administrative, technical and political hurdles that continually erode our will to be effective, in spite of these barriers. However, for those ‘driven’ analysts, they just rise to the challenge and find a way to go over or through these often mental barriers, because the end game is the patient’s safety and it is worth it!

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, The RCA

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

9 Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Next Maintenance Conference

How to Ensure Your Attendance at A Conference Delivers An ROI

As the kids go back to school, maintenance, reliability, and asset management professional resume their professional learning.  This learning usually takes place at one of the numerous world-class conferences available across North America and internationally.  These conferences allow professionals to observe and connect with the latest tools, technology, and techniques in our amazing profession.

Sometimes it is difficult for the maintenance, reliability, and asset management professionals to get the approval or funding to attend the conference. Some organizations look at these events as a week of vacation, where there is little to no value from attending the conference.  Changing this perception is not an easy task, but can be started by having an intention for the conference.
[Read more…]

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

by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment

Faulty Strategy or Faulty Execution

Faulty Strategy or Faulty Execution

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

Organisations cannot afford to have a faulty strategy, a faulty strategy execution, or both. Getting them right is vital for their survival especially in today’s crisis and economic downturn.

Businesses survive and thrive by taking risks. They falter when risks and opportunities are not managed effectively.

For organisations to execute their chosen strategy and achieve their strategy-focused objectives, risks and opportunities resulting from the implementation of their strategy must be differentiated from the risks and opportunities posed by the strategy itself. They do so by embedding risk management into their strategy planning and execution.

When risk management is effectively embedded in strategy planning and execution, corporate leaders will know the shortcomings of their chosen strategy while identifying those strategic objectives that may be at risk during their implementation.

[Read more…]

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

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

Uptime Insights – 3 – Work Management

Uptime Insights – 3 – Work Management

Uptime Insights – 3 – Work Management

Reliability depends on the right maintenance being done the right way, and at the right times. At the core of making that happen is the work management process. It is a six step process that’s fairly simple, but often not followed very well.  Without, workforce deployment becomes reactive to emergencies and maintenance costs are high.  Work done in those reactive situations is anywhere from 1.5 to 3 times as expensive as work that is fully planned and executed on schedule.  In some industries the cost of emergency work is even higher.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

by Steven Wachs Leave a Comment

How Should the Sample Size be Selected for an X-bar Chart? (Part II)

How Should the Sample Size be Selected for an X-bar Chart? (Part II)

An earlier article focused on the conceptual application of appropriate sample sizes for X-bar charts.  As we discussed, the purpose of control charts is to detect significant process changes when they occur.  When the proper sample size is selected, X-bar charts will detect process shifts (that have practical significance) in a timely manner. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Integral Concepts, on Tools & Techniques

by Joe Anderson Leave a Comment

Understanding Plant Losses

Understanding Plant Losses

The Way Losses are Calculated
and OEE/TEEP Calculation

In order to get a broad, clear picture of where to focus, you have to view your whole plant as a large system of fully manageable processes. No matter your role, your job is to improve plant processes, helping to produce the highest quality product, at the lowest price possible, in the safest manner. In order to see this big picture, you have to be honest and expose true problems within your facility. From that perspective, you will be able to recognize the different types of losses in your plant and how to secure significant gains in productivity by controlling those losses.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, ReliabilityXperience

by Ray Harkins Leave a Comment

You’re Using the Wrong Average!

You’re Using the Wrong Average!

Imagine riding your motor scooter one sunny afternoon to your auntie’s home who lives near the sea, 20 miles from your home. On your trip there, the wind is at your back and the terrain slopes downward, resulting in an average speed of 25 mph. On the way home however, you’re motoring on a slight upward slope and into the wind, resulting in an average speed of 15 mph.

[Read more…]

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

by Robert (Bob) J. Latino Leave a Comment

What is the Correlation Between Root Cause Analysis and Swiss Cheese?

What is the Correlation Between Root Cause Analysis and Swiss Cheese?

As long as humans are involved in running our organizations, there will be holes (vulnerabilities) in our cheese. This is why I state that we will never have American cheese (no holes) representing our safety systems, because this would imply they would be failsafe and not impenetrable.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, The RCA

by Carl S. Carlson 2 Comments

Relationship between FMEA and Risk Management – Part 2

Relationship between FMEA and Risk Management – Part 2

FMEA has an important relationship with risk management. This article provides an example of this relationship.

The suggested sequence is to first read the article “Relationship between FMEA and Risk Management” to learn about the interactions between FMEA and Risk Management at a high level. [Read more…]

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

by Christopher Jackson 2 Comments

‘Making’ and ‘checking’ reliability are very, very different

‘Making’ and ‘checking’ reliability are very, very different

At the 2019 Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium, I was involved in a discussion with US Department of Defense (DoD) reliability engineering teams and industry representatives. And on the agenda was a review of an emerging document called the ‘Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Management Body of Knowledge.’ Let’s call this the ‘DoD RAM BOK’ for short.

I only had access to this document’s quick reference guide, and it suggests that the DoD RAM BOK describes what reliability engineering activities need to happen from ‘concept’ through to ‘operations’ for a typical military capability being introduced into service. 

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Product Reliability, Reliability in Emerging Technology

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Collecting Failure Data: A Practical Approach

How to collect the failure data needed to drive improved plant performance.

The first step to any reliability improvement program is to define what data or information will be required to drive defect elimination.  In the previous posts, the following topics were discussed;

  • Asset Hierarchy
  • Failure Data (FRACAS) 
  • Understanding ISO 14224

All of the topics discussed what data is required and how to structure the data to implement a reliability engineering program or defect elimination process.   Understanding the what, when and why set up and is required to setup a reliability engineering program.  However, where many organization fail in this process is getting the data collected in a consistent and timely manner. [Read more…]

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

by Greg Hutchins Leave a Comment

What is your Risk Appetite?

What is your Risk Appetite?

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

Businesses take risks to pursue opportunities. What is your risk appetite? This question has been asked by companies for years. Risk appetite is the amount and type of risk an organization is able to support in the pursuit of business objectives. Examples of successful high risk appetite companies are: Amazon; Uber; and Tesla.

Risk appetite can be applied to your personal life as well especially today to thrive in changing times. Two stories of individuals with different risk appetite are presented below to illustrate how much you want to take can affect your life especially in retirement years. [Read more…]

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

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

Uptime Insights – 2 – People and teamwork

Uptime Insights – 2 – People and teamwork

All organizations are made up of individuals. Invariably they reflect each other – the organization reflects the choices of its people, and vice versa. For any organization to thrive and achieve, so too must its people. Without them you’re dead. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability

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