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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

Fast Track RCM: Improving Plant Performance & Profitability

A Proven Framework to Improve Performance and Build Ownership of the Equipment

Fast Track RCM

Understanding the how equipment failures along with utilizing a proven and effective approach to developing an equipment strategy is a winning combination for manufacturers everywhere. When combing the knowledge and the system, manufacturers can yield significant improvements in their operation, such as a reduction in PM workload of 22% with gain 4% in line efficiencies. Or how about a reduction of 42% of PMs, without a single loss in equipment availability. It is […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T04:47:41-05:00September 28th, 2015|Equipment Strategy, Reliability Centered Maintenance|Comments Off

How Equipment Fails, Understanding the 6 Failure Patterns

Knowing How Equipment Fails Allows Effective Plans to Be Put In Place and Improve Equipment Reliability

Identifying How Equipment Fails

Steve Jurvetson

In the 1960s the failure rate of jet aircraft was high even with the extensive maintenance programs that were put in place to prevent the failures. The programs required overhauls, rebuilds and detailed inspections which required the various components to be disassembled. All of these activities were based on an estimated save life of the equipment.

Under the guidance of the FAA, extensive engineering studies were conducted on […]

By James Kovacevic|2018-01-24T04:16:35-05:00September 21st, 2015|Equipment Strategy, Reliability Centered Maintenance|8 Comments