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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

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

Run to Failure is a Viable Option

How Allowing Equipment to Fail, Will Improve the Uptime in your Facility.

Often times the maintenance team is focused on preventing failures in the facility. All failures need to be addressed and no failures are acceptable. This mindset may be holding back the uptime in your facility. How is this? After all, if we strive to prevent all failures shouldn’t uptime improve?

Most organizations do not have the resources to prevent every single failure and as such, resources are often pulled from failure to failure. When the organization focuses on the […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T05:38:57-05:00November 9th, 2015|Business R&M Strategy, Equipment Strategy, Identification of Business Needs', Reliability Centered Maintenance|Comments Off

Completing The Right Maintenance At The Right Time With CBM & PdM

Understanding The Difference Between Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) & Predictive Maintenance (PdM)

PdM & CBM are in almost every discussion that involves improving plant performance and reducing costs. But what is the difference between the two and when should one be used over the other? This post will address those two questions and a few cautions when using these techniques.

What is CBM?

According the Professional’s Guide to Maintenance & Reliability Terminology, “CBM is the direction of maintenance actions based on indications of asset health as determined from non-invasive measurement of operation and condition […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T05:31:24-05:00November 2nd, 2015|Equipment Strategy, Reliability Centered Maintenance|Comments Off

Guarantee Your Performance with Basic Care

Ensuring Your Equipment Is Maintained to a Basic Level of Care

When you hear the term basic care, what comes to mind?

I remember hearing a story of a brand new packaging line that was installed. It operated at high OEE, delivering significant improvements over the old line. Within 6 weeks, the line was running worse than the original one. Finger pointing ensued, the OEM saying it was how it was maintained. With the manufacturer saying it was a poor design.

A few weeks later, a prominent government official was scheduled to visit […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T05:14:52-05:00October 19th, 2015|Autonomous Maintenance, Equipment Strategy, Teamwork, Total Productive Maintenance|Comments Off