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When it comes to reliability programs, many organizations only focus on the cost reduction of assets and that is a terrible practice. It is not the only goal that reliability program can be deduced to achieve. There are a lot of other activities that can generate a sustainable revenue for you if you perform the necessary maintenance activities for keeping your assets working more efficiently. The real goals of the reliability programs should be to reduce downtime, increase availability, and enhance the performance of those assets that should be working for continuous production.

When you focus on a short-term benefit […]

Do you plan for every factor that can influence the performance of your systems? Are the environmental conditions too much of a problem for you? There are several external factors that influence a reliability improvement program. You can never get the desired output if you don t try different inputs and see the varied results for yourself and then test and analyze each favorable result until you are satisfied with them. But there is not always enough budget lying around for you to do experimentation just like that. Some companies have a limited budget and tight deadlines and you have […]

There are a lot of organizations who buy systems that cost less initially because of limited budget or due to a number of other reasons. They never even bother to bring in the financial or operations experts to get more information from the suppliers about the equipment they are going to purchase. Does it perform all the functions we need? Does it have that built-in reliability mechanism? Will it serve the purpose even? They don t ask these questions because the initial buying cost is less or fits in with the budget. This is a mistake that leads to expensive […]

The reliability and maintenance process is never static in the organizations. There s always something going on around and there are many activities being performed in the company. Now, these activities take time and need money to be done successfully. There are many activities in this list that will cost you millions sometimes. So, how do we get that kind of investment from our financiers? Some of the stakeholders can be convinced by merely good talks and promises of great success but the technical personnel who have spent all their lives running businesses, they can t be persuaded by such […]

Every once in a while, there comes an amazing new technology that changes the way of living for people. Internet of Things and Big data are such trending technologies that have revolutionized the lives of everyone. With IOT, you can stay in touch with a lot of things like there are smart TVs, smart cars, and all those wonderful appliances that make your everyday household work easier to a great level of comfort. There is another side of IOT and that is
Industrial IOT or IIOT. There are so many changes going around in the industry because of a huge […]