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If you have had some level of classic reliability or maintenance-related training, then you may have likely at least had an exposure to some of the more commonly used metrics such as OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) and MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure). Both of these metrics can be very informative and drive some specific behaviors […]
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Let’s face it. Often times, our proactive maintenance strategies are a mess (I decided to just get that out there in the first sentence and not try to dance around the issue). Show of virtual hands, Thumbs Up if you feel that your proactive maintenance plan is the right one for you – one […]
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When I think back on the shutdowns that I participated early on in my career, I wonder sometimes if we were really trying to excel at our performance, or if we were merely trying to survive?
Some of my fondest memories in my professional life are thinking back to those 2:00 AM stops at […]
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Lets get one thing out on the table before we get started; perfection is unobtainable.
No matter how much we try, there will always be an unlimited capacity for personal improvement, for team improvement…so much more out there. When we can accept this idea, the future becomes pretty exciting.
What does any of this […]
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What better way to waste an afternoon than to debate which came first the chicken or the egg?
One thing that can not be debated however is the fact that abnormalities come before failures.
This is a fact.
What we notice:
We are conditioned early on to react to failures; the […]
“My maintenance staff are highly trained and do not like using procedures.”
– Unnamed Maintenance Supervisor
If the statement above is valid, and the cost of asset failure is not important to our operation, then your staff must have an unlimited and infallible memory – congratulations!
Human error rate […]
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If an organization is in reactive maintenance and management decided they need to move to proactive maintenance, one must ask themselves the question, “How hard is it to move from Reactive to Proactive Maintenance?”. Changing from reactive to proactive maintenance requires a total different way of thinking, executing, and managing asset […]
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Why do people not understand the P-F Curve? At a recent maintenance function, I asked 70 maintenance and reliability professionals how many of them had heard of the P-F Curve and only about 10% stated they had. From that 10%, only 1% felt like they truly understood it. This […]
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The P-F Interval Made Simple
As explained by: Ricky Smith, CMRP
The Conversation Begins!
In the world of Maintenance and Reliability one may read information which sometimes becomes a little confusing. I wanted to provide a simple understanding of the P-F Curve and how […]
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Repeatable, effective maintenance procedures are seen as “not required” by most maintenance organizations however this couldn’t be further from the truth. Over my career I have seen thousands of examples of human variation creating equipment failure at the wrong time. We as humans are built to produce variation in almost everything we do. Most people […]
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