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Collecting Failure Data: A Practical Approach

How to collect the failure data needed to drive improved plant performance.

The first step to any reliability improvement program is to define what data or information will be required to drive defect elimination.  In the previous posts, the following topics were discussed;

All of the topics discussed what data is required and how to structure the data to implement a reliability engineering program or defect elimination process.   Understanding the what, when and why set up and is required to setup a reliability engineering […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:39-04:00April 17th, 2017|CMMS, Data Standards, Defect Elimination, FRACAS, Reliability Engineering|Comments Off on Collecting Failure Data: A Practical Approach

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)

Establishing the Frequency of Failure Finding Maintenance Inspections

Preventing The Consequences Of A Hidden Failure From Devastating Your Organization.

Ever wonder how some of the worst industrial disasters occur?  It is usually the result of multiple failures.  Failure of the primary system and failure of the protective systems.   Ensuring the protective system(s) are not in a failed state should be of utmost importance to any organization.  But how often should we test the protective systems to ensure the required availability?

Establishing the correct frequencies of the inspection/ testing activities of these protective system(s) is critical to not only the success but safety […]

By |2019-04-19T15:49:44-04:00March 13th, 2017|Equipment Strategy, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Reliability Engineering, Review RCM|Comments Off on Establishing the Frequency of Failure Finding Maintenance Inspections