Two Minute Tips
Reliability Training
Any real sense of reliability training returning the greatest possible value must be based upon the needs of the business and the future growth and technology, extending to every individual and department. Reliability training must not be conceived as something to improve the skills of the lowest technician but to improve the skills of every technician.
- Joey Cantrell
- Constellium Muscle Shoals
Balancing Strategic and Transactional Asset Management
Almost every reliability leader we talk to is under immense pressure, and it makes sense: the lack of process and framework in this field means that most are set up to fail. Specifically, we see reliability leaders heavily reliant on-site experts and reactive to transactional asset management...
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability
Reliability Highlights in the Mining Industry
Peter Finn talks about reliability practices that have stuck out to him during his career in mining…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Myth Busting: CMMS Is the Silver Bullet
Technology provides us with some fantastic tools to help us work better, smarter, faster and more efficiently. BUT, it doesn’t help us think any better. We can actually get too dependent on it and our thinking is weakened...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
The Enemy of Reliability: Over Lubrication
Up to 40% of bearings are killed by over lubrication, and another 10–20% are killed by under lubrication. If this is true at your facility, the fault is caused by human error...
- Tom Murphy
- SDT
The Dangers of a “Set & Forget” Static Reliability Strategy
A typical belief in many organizations is that the work execution management process is actually going to look after their own asset reliability strategies. Of course, that's not quite true...
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability
SAP Long Text Fields – Where Data Goes to Die
The dreaded place where useful data gets lost and buried in an unusable format. It’s not standardized across the company, creates a headache when migrating SAP plant maintenance data, and takes too much time to make sense of when maintenance workers are in a hurry.
- Sophie Strobel
- HubHead Corp.
Discreet Component Deenergized and Energized Test Equipment
Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA) is an energized test method where voltage and current waveforms are captured while the motor system is running to assess the health of the motor system..
- Bill Kruger
- ALL-TEST Pro
Effects of Poor Maintenance BOMs
What is a maintenance BoM (Bill of Material)?
In an EAM System, a maintenance BoM captures spare part information for a piece of equipment. This information is used during maintenance to determine the correct spare parts to replace.
- Sophie Strobel
- HubHead Corp.