Industrial IoT (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 strategies are bringing new opportunities to the well-known concepts of Condition Based and Predictive Maintenance. Join Martin Davis of DUNELM Associates and Jim Gavigan of Industrial Insight as they provide useful insights to revitalize your approaches to this topic. Martin Davis is managing partner of DUNELM Associates. He is…
The P-F Curve is a concept illustrating an asset’s progression toward failure. The X-axis of the chart represents the time to failure, beginning with an asset’s design and installation, and the Y-axis represents an asset’s resistance to failure. Potential failure, or PF, is a detectable state of failure, or the point when degradation begins. Functional failure, or FF, is when the asset has reached a…
The Potential Failure (P-F) Curve is a visual tool for communicating the condition of a component and its decline toward failure. With an optimized maintenance program, you can prolong the time until failure takes place and schedule needed maintenance actions for the most convenient times. What is the purpose of the P-F Curve? The P-F…
In this installment of The Hive, your favorite worker bees group their most critical assets into tiers. Without an emphasis on asset criticality, the bees are literally brought to tears by their routes…
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In this webinar, Joe Lonjin will show how organizations can sift through the many metrics to find the data to measure key performance indicators (KPIs) using asset and work management systems. These provide transparency across personnel, from the front-line workers to the boardroom, as well as drive better data-backed decisions. Joe has been involved in…
This webinar covers leading techniques for generating the skill and will to improve performance. Join Calvin Williams as he discusses topics such as PDCA, the feedback Rubik’s cube, and gamification; he will also discuss how industry 4.0 technology can be used to enable companies to accelerate the improvement process. Calvin Williams is founder and CEO…
To achieve desirable outcomes in any asset-intensive enterprise, computerized maintenance management software (CMMS) systems or enterprise asset management systems (EAM) are indispensable. A CMMS system facilitates the common day-to-day activities of a skilled maintenance and asset management workforce. Join Scott Rojas as he discusses CMMS implementation planning and targeting a fit-for-purpose system build within…
Suzane Greeman, president and principal asset management advisor of Greeman Asset Management, discussed in a recent webinar 6 steps to establish an effective maintenance planning and scheduling process. During the webinar, several attendees submitted questions, and Part 3 of Greeman’s answers focus on forming properly sculpted roles. Click here for Part 1 and Part 2. Should the…
Suzane Greeman, president and principal asset management advisor of Greeman Asset Management, discussed in a recent webinar 6 steps to establish an effective maintenance planning and scheduling process. During the webinar, several attendees submitted questions, and Part 2 of Greeman’s answers focus on work management. Part 1 can be found here. Planning and scheduling need a good…