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Understanding ISO 14224: You Guide to Sustainable Defect Elimination

Capture The Right Failure Data to Power Your Defect Elimination Activities

In the petroleum, natural gas and petrochemical industries, great attention is being paid to safety, reliability, and maintainability of equipment.  This is true in any industry and as such the learnings and information found within ISO 14224 can be applied to any industry.

While ISO 14224 was developed for the Petroleum, Natural Gas and Petrochemical industries, the same process can and should be applied in any organization.   When implemented, the right data can be gathered to not only eliminate defects from […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:39-04:00April 10th, 2017|CMMS, Data Standards, Defect Elimination, Equipment Strategy, FRACAS, Life Cycle Costing, Reliability Engineering|Comments Off on Understanding ISO 14224: You Guide to Sustainable Defect Elimination

How to Setup An Asset Hierarchy

Ensuring the Failure Data Collected Can Be Used To Drive Improvements In Any Organization

ISO 14224 – Equipment Taxonomy

If you were to go into your CMMS and look at the hierarchy and equipment, would it be well laid out and organized?   Would you be able to drill down the to the lowest level of components to know what failures have occurred?  Can you see how pumps are performing across a specific area or the entire plant?  The chances are that for many organizations, this is not possible.   Why is that?  The asset […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:40-04:00April 3rd, 2017|Asset Identificiation, CMMS, Defect Elimination, Equipment Strategy, FRACAS, Reliability Engineering|Comments Off on How to Setup An Asset Hierarchy

Failure Reporting And Corrective Action System (FRACAS)

Using a System to Record, Report And Eliminate Defects

Why is that some organization seem to break the reactive cycle and others don’t?  After all most organizations have a PM program and some form of a planning and scheduling program right?   The key difference between those that do is their ability to use their failure data and systematically eliminate defects and issues from the processes and equipment.  This doesn’t mean adding a new PM everytime some fails, which just won’t work.

To eliminate the defects and issues, the organization needs to collect meaningful data to […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:40-04:00March 27th, 2017|CMMS, Data Standards, Defect Elimination, FRACAS, Reliability Engineering|Comments Off on Failure Reporting And Corrective Action System (FRACAS)

Using Simplified Technical English to Write Effective Maintenance Procedures

Reduce the Variability in Your Work Routines and Procedures

Based on our understanding of the six failure patterns, we can see that there is a large probability of failure when the equipment is first installed and started up.   One of the Englisch causes of this increase in probability is the fact that the equipment was not installed or maintained correctly.  This may be due to the installer or maintainer not using or following procedures.  Having procedures is the first step to reducing these failures, but the procedures must be written in a clear, […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:41-04:00March 20th, 2017|Adherence to Standards, Capability, Capability, Knowledge, People, Knowledge Management, Organizational Management, Performance Management, Standard Work, Work Instructions, Work Management, Work Planning, Work Quality|Comments Off on Using Simplified Technical English to Write Effective Maintenance Procedures

The Importance of Master Data in Spare Parts Management

Enabling Storeroom Success Through Data

DataHow often does your facility run out of raw materials?  Chances are it is not very often, if ever.  Why is this?  It may be because the organization has invested heavily in gathering the right data, analyzing and developing contracts for the materials.  This prior work ensures a steady supply of materials.

So why is it that within the same organization there is virtually no data to support the spare parts?  Not having a spare part can dramatically impact an organization in the same way as not having raw […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:55-04:00November 14th, 2016|Adherence to Standards, Basic Spare Parts Management, Data Standards, Spare Parts Management|Comments Off on The Importance of Master Data in Spare Parts Management