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Should You Worry About IoT If You Don’t Have the Basics Down?

What Good Is The Data If You Don’t Know What To Do With It?

As maintenance, reliability, and asset management professionals, we are in an amazing time.  We can collect virtually limitless amounts of data on the condition of our assets.  With this data, we can determine the exact condition of the assets, predict when the next failure is likely to occur and how it will occur.  Besides, with all of this data, we can move to prescriptive maintenance, where the maintenance actions are determined based on the asset condition, not a predetermined […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:36-04:00May 29th, 2017|Equipment Strategy, Reliability Engineering|Comments Off on Should You Worry About IoT If You Don’t Have the Basics Down?

Insights into Preventive Maintenance Made Simple w/ Doug Stangier

I recently had the pleasure to interview Doug Stangier, co-author of Preventive Maintenance Made Simple.  This is another excellent book in the Made Simple series, published by ReliabilityWeb.  During the interview, Doug not only provides insights into his book but also into what world class Preventive Maintenance looks like.   Anyone new to maintenance and reliability, or seasoned experts can benefit from this great book.  Without further delay, here is the interview with Doug.

James: It is my pleasure to interview a fellow Canadian.  Welcome Doug […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:36-04:00May 22nd, 2017|Equipment Strategy, Lean Maintenance, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Total Productive Maintenance|Comments Off on Insights into Preventive Maintenance Made Simple w/ Doug Stangier

Taking a Lean Approach to PM Optimization

How You Have Your PMs Addressing The Right Issues, Make The Effective

In the previous articles, we looked at what type of analysis to use to evaluate the effectiveness of the PMs and if they are cost effective. Once the PMs have been optimized to ensure they are addressing the right failure modes, then they need to be made efficient. Below is an excerpt from a recent article in SMRP’s Solutions Magazine on how to make PM efficient using the lean tools.

PM Optimization is often thought of as an […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:36-04:00May 15th, 2017|Continuous Improvement, Defect Elimination, Review RCM, Standard Work, Teamwork|Comments Off on Taking a Lean Approach to PM Optimization

Is Your PM Worth Doing? Use a PM Cost Benefit Analysis to Find Out

How To Determine If The PM Activity Being Performed Is Worth Doing

Would you spend $100 every week to prevent a possible issue that will result in a loss of $10?  Probably not, so why is that we do that with our maintenance programs every single day?  Often, PM and PdM activities are put into place without any thought to the economic impact of the activity.  While in theory the PM or PdM activities will prevent or mitigate the consequences of the failure, is implementing one of these activities the right thing to […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:37-04:00May 8th, 2017|Equipment Strategy, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Zero Based Budgeting|Comments Off on Is Your PM Worth Doing? Use a PM Cost Benefit Analysis to Find Out

The Top 3 Analysis Techniques To Use When Performing a PM Optimization

Performing a PM Optimization is not always as simple as it sounds.  Often a Maintenance Planner will assemble a team of technicians to ask what is value-added and what is missing from a PM Routine.   While these may be good questions to ask before diving into an analysis, or after an analysis, it does not base the answers on data.   Basing the PM Routine on data, not intuition is critical to the long-term success of any organization.

To perform a PM Optimization, there are three main types of analysis to focus on the […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:38-04:00May 1st, 2017|Defect Elimination, Equipment Strategy, Reliability Engineering, Review RCM|Comments Off on The Top 3 Analysis Techniques To Use When Performing a PM Optimization