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The P-F Curve Revisited

Understanding The Importance of Proper Equipment Installation

There has been much discussion (and often debate) around the P-F curve. The P-F curve illustrates the relationship between the warning signs that are detectable by various technology or methods and the progression of the failure. What is often not discussed and overlooked, is what happens before the equipment starts to deteriorate.

If the ultimate goal of an organization is to be proactive and ensure equipment uptime, wouldn’t the organization want to prevent the equipment from failing in the first place and not catch it after it […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:49:50-04:00February 13th, 2017|Adherence to Standards, Early Equipment Management, Equipment Specifications, Work Quality|Comments Off

What Can You Do to Improve Reliability?

A Question & Answer Period with Fred Schenkelberg on the what can be done to improve the reliability of your operation.

So far in this series, we have had the opportunity to discuss the role of reliability engineering in today’s maintenance environments. In this final post of the series, I had the opportunity to ask Fred Schenkelberg some questions related to this very topic. Fred, with his years of experience, was able to provide some great insights to the role of reliability engineering, and […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:04-04:00April 4th, 2016|Design FMECA, Design For Maintainability, Design for Reliability, Reliability Centered Maintenance|Comments Off

Life Cycle Costs

How Building Reliability Into The Equipment Design Will Dramatically Improve Your Profitability.

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Does your team procure, setup and put into operation […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:04-04:00March 28th, 2016|CAPEX Management, Life Cycle Costing|Comments Off

Where Does Maintenance Fit Into Reliability?

Maintenance Provides the Key Function of Preserving

With the design FMEA complete, the equipment should have high inherent reliability. The equipment can then be installed in the plant, and provide a high level of performance to the business, at least initially. This is where Maintenance comes in. Maintenance can enable a low Life Cycle Cost, by preserving the reliability of the equipment.

Definition of Maintenance

According to the Professional’s Guide to Maintenance & Reliability terminology, maintenance is “all actions necessary for retaining an item in, […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:04-04:00March 21st, 2016|CAPEX Management, Defect Elimination, Early Equipment Management, Equipment Strategy, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Reliability Engineering|Comments Off

Using a Design FMEA

How Building Reliability Into The Equipment Design Will Dramatically Improve Your Profitability.

Products and equipment start with a design. The functions and performance occur or do not occur according to the capabilities designed into the system.

I learned early in my career, as a manufacturing engineer, that some products were much easier to manufacture (less yield loss) ten others, and it was often the design of the product that made the difference.

I also learned that once we purchased and installed factory equipment it was very difficult to improve the reliability performance.

In […]

By James Kovacevic|2019-04-19T15:50:04-04:00March 14th, 2016|CAPEX Management, Design FMECA|Comments Off