Five Minute Facts
Defect Elimination of a Beat Vibration that Showed up Across the Entire Plant
What young Ashley was telling me it just shakes? I said why do not we do just a little bit of investigation and solve the problem. He said you cannot solve it; it is been shaking like this for 2 years. I said between us I think I can solve this. There is no problem at all it was a beat vibration. Beat vibrations show up across the plant and I will talk about beat vibrations later in the video.
- Dare Petreski
- Delta Asset Reliability
Entropy Part 2 – Economics
Accountants will like the emphasis on profits but they cannot lose sight of the need to invest. Excessive focus on costs reduces the energy put into the system and allows its entropy (chaos) to increase. Failing to invest enough destabilizes...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
SaaS for Predictive Maintenance in the Cloud
Cloud computing is increasingly becoming critical to business, especially as digital technologies like IIoT become widespread. Gartner predicts that in the next year, the cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) market will grow 85%, five times faster than traditional software...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
Entropy Part 1 – Fundamentals
Engineers are familiar with the concept of “entropy” and the laws of thermodynamics. The second law of thermodynamics states that the total entropy of an isolated system always increases over time. So what does that mean for us in the world of asset management and maintenance...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
Top 10 Maintenance Operations Benefits from Having a CMMS
Empower your maintenance team with the most powerful tools to make your maintenance organizations successful. For over 25 years, eWorkOrders has been providing organizations with award-winning CMMS software that provides them with the most powerful tools...
- Jeff Roscher
- eWorkOrders
Myth Busting: KPIs Are Always Helpful
Many believe that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. That’s just not right. Measurements can only count what is countable...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
Resonance & Natural Frequency
Have you ever been trying to balance a fan and its vibration doesn't go down, no matter what you do? Do you know what resonance is?
- Dr. Thierry Erbessd
- Erbessd Instruments
Will a Maintenance Assessment Help My Plant?
If a company asks for an assessment, it is often because it already knows that it is under-performing. The assessment may help to quantify that, but it has some downsides...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
Tackling Downtime and Cataloging Pareto with Limited Initial Data
Tackling downtime cataloging Pareto's ongoing initially dealt with chronic issues while data was limited but have concentrated on Pareto's. Live production monitoring on key processes, which has uncovered a lot of other unrecorded losses.
- Andrew Keene
- Inghams Group