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  • Precision and Proactive Skills

Understanding Failures and the Potential Failure (P-F) Curve

To understand the importance and the benefits of a Reliability and Precision Program, it is of the upmost importance to have an understanding of failures firs first..

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  • Defect Elimination

Remembering the Past, Thinking about the Future, Being in the Present

For a reliability engineer, focusing on the past and the future will allow you to learn from what has happened in the past and what might happen in the future. It will then generate a list of actionable items to work on in the present..

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  • Implementation Strategy

Industrial Manufacturers are Facing a New Normal During COVID-19 and AI-Powered Connected Worker Technology is Here to Help

For industrial companies, improving the safety and productivity of frontline workers in the COVID-19 era and beyond will be critical to business success and continuity. Tools like remote assistance, augmented work instructions, and knowledge sharing will be crucial to helping these companies transform their operation and continue to support their customers..

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  • Implementation Strategy

Silver Bullets Can Backfire

We want silver bullets and quick results. Indeed, if we know what we are looking for, some quick wins are usually possible, yet they will usually only scratch the surface when it comes to overall payback potential. What we see happening...

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  • Continuous Improvement

Glossary of Industrial Maintenance Technology

It can be challenging to understand what all the terms for industrial maintenance technologies mean. IIoT, Industry 4.0, AI, PdM 4.0. We try to distill it down to a simple glossary...

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  • Data Analytics & IIoT

The Cost and Cost Benefits of TPM Implementation

We are often asked about the typical cost of TPM implementation.One of the ways to calculate this is the impact of taking critical equipment (could be 25-30% of the process) to 85-90% Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)--The Availability Rate X The Performance Rate X The Quality Rate..

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  • Implementation Strategy

Right Track? Right Train?

Your job is to improve reliability and you have a plan. You are certainly on the right track with your plan and the actions you will take should indeed make some improvement. But are you on the right track...

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  • Defect Elimination

Co$t Cutting who runs this technological marvel

Have a look at the world the technologically advanced world we have - since the industrial revolution you've got to say we've come a long way. So who runs this technological marvel (this guy - the bean counter) he's in charge.

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  • Asset Strategy

Asset Management in Public and Private Sectors

Most of my firm’s clients are in the private sector but occasionally we do some public sector work. We usually notice a number of distinct differences in practices and in what motivates those practices...

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