222-Spare Parts Optimization with Rob Kalwarowsky

Spare Parts Optimization with Rob Kalwarowsky

Today, we’re welcoming Rob Kalwarowsky from Rob’s Reliability project. He’s currently an asset manager at Enbridge, handling their mechanical assets. Rob was previously a reliability consultant for five years, as well as a reliability engineer at Teck Resources. He’s been on a few of our previous podcasts.

But today, he’s helping us look into aspects of spare parts optimization such as:

What spare parts optimization is
The data necessary to help with optimization
The available approaches and formulas to calculate it
How often should you review your optimization process

… and so much more!

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08 – Using Review RCM to Improve Plant Performance

Using Review RCM to Improve Plant Performance

Review RCM is a streamlined approach to improving plant performance.

It allows organizations to quickly address ineffective PM programs. How does it achieve this?

By using the operating environment, failure patterns, and P-F interval, we can answer three basic questions:

Will replacement of part on a known interval or usage reduce the probability of failure?
Can we see it in the process of failure with sufficient time to respond?
Is the impact of the failure high enough to warrant the cost of a PM strategy?

These three elements will help us to determine the type of PM strategy that is value-added.
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