Reliability Articles

Figure 1. The “tree of unreliability” involves five layers of roots, according to Shon Isenhour.

If reliability improvements elude you, look deeper into the ‘Tree of Unreliability’

What is causing your organization to struggle to get to its desired level of asset reliability? You’ve been using root cause analysis (RCA) and the Five Whys and addressing the problems you’ve found,…
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Nancy Regan

Gain control of your machines by putting more emphasis on reliability fundamentals

Nancy Regan, an internationally recognized maintenance and reliability trainer, puts it this way: “Either you successfully control your equipment, or you let it control you.” In a July 2020 webinar for Fluke Reliability,…
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Figure 1. The ISA95 automation pyramid, adjusted to reflect maintenance operations.

Maintenance automation and the P-F Curve – cocktail for the pandemic and beyond

The pandemic that has upended normalcy in 2020 is fueling urgency among maintenance leaders for system improvements previously viewed as “future considerations.” The ability to monitor asset health remotely, for example, has gone…
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