The basics of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) provide substance and attention to detail that can be (and should be!) applied to just about any asset improvement initiative. Hear RCM expert Nancy Regan‘s engaging presentation on what you need to know. Regan, a Maintenance and Reliability (M&R), speaker and trainer, has more than 20 years of hands-on…
Reliability engineer and consultant Lucas Marino discusses using Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) for evaluating the resource mix and repair-or-replace strategies for your asset life cycle management. He outlines the benefits of LORA for determining the most effective maintenance and support philosophy needed throughout the asset lifecycle. His presentation also includes the essential data…
Searching for and recreating lost paper documents costs organizations mightily. Those with 1,000 employees spend approximately $2.5 million to $3.5 million per year on such tasks, according to the research firm International Data Corp. Computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) software not only helps you standardize and automate maintenance activities but also provides you with a…
The push to transition to more sophisticated digital tools, such as computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS) software and condition monitoring sensors, is inescapable. By integrating condition monitoring data with CMMS software, maintenance and reliability (M&R) professionals receive an overall view of asset health and maintenance activities in real-time—all in one place. Gather the data Most…
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…
In this edition of The Hive, our bees are working hard… or hardly working. By harnessing the power of predictive maintenance and condition monitoring, they’re working smarter and playing harder than ever before.
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…
Lubricated roller bearings are like a well-hydrated person. More likely to be reliable when it matters. Learn more here!
The IIoT offers opportunities to increase asset reliability using condition-based maintenance (CBM). Apply these four steps to ease adoption!
Governments have passed laws holding businesses responsible for providing employees with a safe working environment. Workplace conditions that pose a risk to personnel should be avoided or training completed to minimize hazards. Thankfully, advances in technology are making it easier for facilities to improve worker safety by decreasing contact personnel have with running machinery or…