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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

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Rolling Bearing Vibration Detection

Rolling Bearing Vibration Detection

Roller bearing vibration measurement is one of the major condition monitoring tools in regular use. By measuring the velocity, acceleration and frequencies emitted from a rolling bearing it is possible to tell its condition and the likelihood of imminent failure. The technology is well established and well proven but requires a good understanding of equipment vibration characteristics before a user can draw good interpretations from the results.

Keywords: out of balance, vibration analysis, bearing life [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

by James Kovacevic 1 Comment

Assessing Your Asset Management System

Assessing Your Asset Management System

What You Must Know About Assessing Your Asset Management System

Often times organizations want to determine where they in their journey of asset management. This usually takes place in the form of benchmarking or assessing their asset management system against the standard. Before progressing any further, it is important to understand the difference between an assessment and an audit; [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Asset Management System

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Dust Control Concepts

Dust Control Concepts

Dust control concepts. Industrial dust is the result of material escaping from the confines of a process or a storage location. The size of the problem depends on the dust’s characteristics and the means of its distribution. The best policy to control dust is to not let it escape from where it ought to belong. There are simple techniques that can be used to manage dust and prevent it from becoming a major health and environmental problem once the mechanism of creation and distribution are under stood. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

by Doug Plucknette 1 Comment

RCM — The Traps of Poorly Written Failure Modes

RCM — The Traps of Poorly Written Failure Modes

Common Mistakes in Writing Failure Modes

As we mentor RCM facilitators, we try to help them to develop strong techniques so that as they facilitate the RCM Blitz™ process they are able to work with any RCM team to develop a solid list of failure modes that are actually occurring to your equipment or are likely to occur at some time. One of the ways to become stronger at developing good failure modes is to be able to recognize a poorly written or bad failure mode. Below is a list of what we believe are common traps that result in the listing of poor failure modes. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz

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The 39 Subjects of Asset Management

The 39 Subjects of Asset Management

Understanding the different functions and disciplines of asset management

The Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management (GFMAM) has worked with the major bodies (SMRP, PEMAC, IAM, etc.) to achieve a consensus on the major subjects within asset management.

These subjects are intended to describe the complete scope of topics within asset management.   You can download the GFMAM guide for free here.  It is important that anyone who wishes to understand asset management has an understanding of each of these topics,  and hopefully some experience in each. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: asset-management

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Non-destructive Testing of Welds

Non-destructive Testing of Welds

Non-destructive testing of welds. Welding processes and methods can introduce contaminants and metallurgical defects into the weld. If a weld is required to withstand severe loading conditions and stresses it is critical to insure its quality meets minimum standards. Welds can be tested by destructive and non-destructive techniques. Most production is tested by use of non-destructive methods. The most common non-destructive tests to check welds are Visual Inspection, Liquid Penetrant, Magnetic Particle, Eddy Current, Ultrasonic, Acoustic Emission and Radiography. Keywords: NDT, quality control, non-conformance, verification, weld procedure. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

The 7 Requirements of an Asset Management System

The 7 Requirements of an Asset Management System

Understanding the Requirements of the ISO 55001 Standard

When looking through the ISO 55001 standard, one may quickly become overwhelmed with the requirements.

The ISO 55001 standard was written in a way that groups the requirements, making it easier to understand & implement the standard.

This is different that subjects found in asset management (which we will discuss next week).  These are the requirements that must be met if one to certify themselves against the ISO 55001 standard. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Asset Management System

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Electric Motor Variable Speed Drives Operation

Electric Motor Variable Speed Drives Operation

Electric motor variable speed drives operation. Alternating current electric motor speeds can be changed by the use of a frequency converter. This device changes the frequency of the alternating current to the motor. This then changes the rotating speed of the motor’s internal magnetic field. The speed of the rotor responds accordingly and so allows for variable speed control of connected items. When these devices are used there are several issues that need to be addressed to insure successful selection and long-term operation. Keywords: VSD, precise speed control, over- speed, motor controller, frequency inverter. [Read more…]

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Getting Value From Your Condition Based Maintenance Program

Getting Value From Your Condition Based Maintenance Program

Getting Value From Your Condition Based Maintenance Program

I’m talking on the phone with a client who has been slowly but deliberately getting their maintenance organization up to speed with items they internally identified as “critical gaps” in need to improve equipment reliability. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

The Key 3 Asset Management Documents

The Key 3 Asset Management Documents

Understanding these asset management documents will set the stage for an asset management program.

Aligning an organization is a critical step to implementing and ensuring the success of an asset management system.  Various change management techniques will be used to bring about the change, but how do you ensure the message, direction, and principles of the asset management program are communicated consistently and clearly? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: asset-management

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Work Within The Design Limits

Work Within The Design Limits

Work within the design limits – Once equipment or a process is allowed to run outside it’s design limits it will fail quickly. The only way to get long-lived, well operating plant and equipment is to keep its individual components working within their service limits throughout their life. Keywords: training manual, procedures, operator manual. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance

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Making Asset Management Work

Making Asset Management Work

Understanding the Concepts and Principles of Asset Management

In order to implement an asset management system, it is vital to understand what is involved in an asset management system. The aspects involved have been tested over time through many different industries. These industries have proven to be what it takes to be successful.

So let’s see what it takes to be successful in asset management. [Read more…]

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Plant compressed air waste control

Plant compressed air waste control

Plant compressed air waste control. Every compressed air system will eventually develop leaks from connectors and redundant pipelines. Compressed air is very expensive to make. It is necessary to institute regular inspections for air leaks and fix them immediately.

Keywords: pressure loss, energy loss, air compressor, pressure switch. [Read more…]

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by Doug Plucknette Leave a Comment

10 Things I Can Do Today To Improve Equipment Reliability!

10 Things I Can Do Today To Improve Equipment Reliability!

As companies around the globe look to improve equipment reliability I can’t help but think of the Technicians and Craftspeople I meet after a conference presentation. As they step up to introduce themselves to comment on the presentation some will often say “I really liked your presentation but I don’t think our management would ever support a program like this. What you are doing makes a lot of sense but we just don’t have the people and our operations managers don’t understand maintenance and reliability.” [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, RCM Blitz

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Why Do You Need An Asset Management Program?

Why Do You Need An Asset Management Program?

Understanding the Business Benefits of an Asset Management Program

Have you tried to upgrade / replace a piece of equipment due to the high cost of maintenance?  What about having the process stopped by procurement because they are not aligned with the high upfront cost?

While there is a generally a common goal of ensuring the long-term success of an organization, the approach is not always cohesive.  An asset management program is there to ensure an integrated and cohesive approach is in place.  This cohesive approach ensures the organization is working towards a common goal. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: Asset Management Program

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