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90 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1

90 – Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1

Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management with James Reyes-Picknell Part 1

In every organization who is in the business of maintenance and reliability, the first challenge is always reducing the unnecessary downtime in the machines. There are a lot of strategies that engineers come with to get that level of excellence where they can truly achieve the desired uptime for their assets. For similar guidance such as in this endeavor is provided by James Reyes-Picknell’s book Uptime: Strategies and its latest edition contains a lot of knowledge about how to get your goals about keeping your workforce focused and getting the results that you want from your reliability and maintenance programs.
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89 – Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas

89 – Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas

Understanding Prescriptive Maintenance with Jack Nicholas

There has always been room for improvement when it comes to reliability and future holds a few surprise to take the predictive maintenance practices to a new level. That new level is prescriptive maintenance. That word is going to be more common in the next few years in the reliability and maintenance industry. Prescriptive maintenance can be defined as a concept that not only includes detecting degrading in the assets well ahead, it also prescribes a solution to mitigate that problem. There are multiple scenarios that you run here to know the potential outcomes and then make a decision about the operations and maintenance of the systems.
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88 – Reliability Improvements with James Reyes-Picknell

88 – Reliability Improvements with James Reyes-Picknell

Reliability Improvements with James Reyes-Picknell

When it comes to reliability programs, many organizations only focus on the cost reduction of assets and that is a terrible practice. It is not the only goal that reliability program can be deduced to achieve. There are a lot of other activities that can generate a sustainable revenue for you if you perform the necessary maintenance activities for keeping your assets working more efficiently. The real goals of the reliability programs should be to reduce downtime, increase availability, and enhance the performance of those assets that should be working for continuous production.
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87 – Accounting for External Influences in Improvement Programs with Fred Schenkelberg

87 – Accounting for External Influences in Improvement Programs with Fred Schenkelberg

Accounting for External Influences in Improvement Programs with Fred Schenkelberg

Do you plan for every factor that can influence the performance of your systems? Are the environmental conditions too much of a problem for you? There are several external factors that influence a reliability improvement program. You can never get the desired output if you don’t try different inputs and see the varied results for yourself and then test and analyze each favorable result until you are satisfied with them. But there is not always enough budget lying around for you to do experimentation just like that. Some companies have a limited budget and tight deadlines and you have to plan for those external factors according to the environmental conditions that your equipment has to face.
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86 – Life Cycle Costing with Fred Schenkelberg

86 – Life Cycle Costing with Fred Schenkelberg

Life Cycle Costing with Fred Schenkelberg

There are a lot of organizations who buy systems that cost less initially because of limited budget or due to a number of other reasons. They never even bother to bring in the financial or operations experts to get more information from the suppliers about the equipment they are going to purchase. Does it perform all the functions we need? Does it have that built-in reliability mechanism? Will it serve the purpose even? They don’t ask these questions because the initial buying cost is less or fits in with the budget. This is a mistake that leads to expensive maintenance later on.
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