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by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Focus on the Foundation: It Will Sustain You

Focus on the Foundation: It Will Sustain You

As Engineers, Craft and Maintenance people, we have a tendency to be excited by the technological advancements that become available.

This is not a bad thing provided we do not let them become the flavor of the month or take our attention away from what we are here to do. Enable Reliability and Maintenance.

Often we find much information on the advanced technical topics such as Reliability Engineering, Life Cycle Costing, or various CBM technologies. When properly deployed, these techniques allow us to further our success in Reliability and Maintenance.

But what about the foundations that make these interesting techniques successful? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: maintenance

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

The Top 10 Signs That You Have a World Class Reliability & Maintenance Program (Part 2)

The Top 10 Signs That You Have a World Class Reliability & Maintenance Program (Part 2)

Last week we had the opportunity to view the first five of the top 10 signs that you are Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices by Ramesh Gulati. I hope you were able to compare your operation to the first five and see where you are excelling and where you may have challenges.

Those first five focus on the specific work streams in Reliability & Maintenance. These next five are a combination of the main work streams and the foundations to a successful operation. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: maintenance

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Is Your Operation at Risk?

Is Your Operation at Risk?

There are many internal & external pressures on our operations. Many we don’t even think about, or are even aware of. These pressures greatly influence our ability to be profitable, and therefore sustainable. Being aware of these pressures & barriers will allow us to head them off and ensure our profitability.

I remember when I was unexpectedly asked to cut my maintenance staff by 30%. What I wasn’t aware of was one of the largest external pressures, the shareholders. They were not impressed by the returns and demanded immediate action. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: maintenance, Risk

by Mike Sondalini Leave a Comment

Maintenance Planning– Make your Planner successful!

Maintenance Planning– Make your Planner successful!

The efficient use of men, materials and external resources requires coordination and preparation.

When a job starts everything needed to do the job must be at hand and must be right to use. The maintenance planner does the preparation required prior to the start of a job.

The planner’s focus is to prepare everything needed to execute a job through to its successful completion and have it ready and on-hand before the job starts.

How well the planning job is done directly affects how efficiently the men do the work and how long it takes for it to be done.

Keywords: job scheduling, breakdown work. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, on Maintenance Reliability, Plant Maintenance Tagged With: maintenance, planning

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Are You Struggling with Reliability & Maintenance?

Are You Struggling with Reliability & Maintenance?

If you are like me, then you have at least once found yourself struggling with Reliability & Maintenance(R&M) in a plant. Whether you are trying to implement planning & scheduling, manage spare parts or develop effective PMs, it can be frustrating. Not to mention how difficult it is to tie all of the different pieces together and making it stick.

The intention of this blog and website is to provide information on not only the different parts of a R&M program, but how they all tie together. This is what separates the profitable manufacturers from the ones that close. Preventing these closures is what High Performance Reliability and myself want to do. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: maintenance

by James Reyes-Picknell Leave a Comment

Preventive Maintenance “PM” Programs – Part 1 – The Basics

Preventive Maintenance “PM” Programs – Part 1 – The Basics

Do you replace your car headlights at regular intervals of six months? Do you wait to replace your tires until they wear through? Do you check your car engine oil with some sort of oil analysis before replacing it? Each component and system in your car has a function that is prone to failure. Each of those has consequences – some with little importance and others with great importance. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Conscious Asset, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: maintenance, preventative

by James Kovacevic Leave a Comment

Where Does Maintenance Fit Into Reliability?

Where Does Maintenance Fit Into Reliability?

Maintenance Provides the Key Function of Preserving

Part 3 of 5

With the design FMEA complete, the equipment should have high inherent reliability.  The equipment can then be installed in the plant, and provide a high level of performance to the business, at least initially.  This is where Maintenance comes in.  Maintenance can enable a low Life Cycle Cost, by preserving the reliability of the equipment. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, Maintenance and Reliability, on Maintenance Reliability Tagged With: maintenance

by Fred Schenkelberg Leave a Comment

Program Elements Part 1

Program Elements Part 1

This is a two part series where I outline the basic elements of creating and supporting a reliability program.

Gather Requirements and Set Reliability Goals

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, CRE Preparation Notes, Reliability Management Tagged With: Elements of a Reliability Program, maintenance

by nomtbf Leave a Comment

MTBF and preventative maintenance

MTBF and preventative maintenance

I find the world of maintenance a very odd place to find MTBF. While it is possible, that a set of equipment or a machine may actually have a constant failure rate it is the exception rather than all that common. Assuming a constant failure rate doesn’t make it so. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: maintenance, RCM

by Fred Schenkelberg 1 Comment

Reliability Centered Maintenance

Reliability Centered Maintenance

The document by Nowlan and Heap

Part of keeping equipment operational is affecting repairs appropriately. Sometimes it makes sense to replace an element of some equipment before it fails, i.e. automobile tires as the tread wears. Sometimes is doesn’t make sense to repair a functioning unit as the result would be a system that is less reliable then before. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Articles, CRE Preparation Notes, Maintainability and Availability Tagged With: failure mechanisms, maintenance, Maintenance Strategies, RCM

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