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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.
The Truth About Deploying Global Maintenance Strategies for Like Assets
On the surface, developing best-in-class strategies for like assets and deploying these across an asset base seems a logical way to improve consistency and efficiency of maintenance while reducing cost and risk. However...
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability
Teamwork Delivers Superior Results
There’s an old saying that “two heads are better than one”. Teamwork has been proven time and again to produce superior results. It is the basis for many successful methods like RCM, PMO, RCFA...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
How to Measure and Use Reliability Metrics
Maintenance and reliability managers must have metrics in place to identify needs for improvement. Metrics are also extremely important for validating whether the maintenance team is headed in the right direction to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Warren Wu
- UpKeep
Run to Failure Shouldn’t Be an Option: Preventive Maintenance and CMMS
One of the leading concepts being adopted in asset-intensive companies today is the idea of preventive maintenance. With the emergence of CMMS and EAM systems designed to automate many industrial processes, preventive maintenance is now being seen as a necessary option for many businesses...
- Sophie Strobel
- HubHead Corp.
Criticality Assessment Process
Physical assets are made up of hundreds of components each with a unique set of failure modes and with a unique failure distribution. Calculating reliability, R(t) requires a data collection system..
- Dale Uitto
- Reliability Solutions
Leak Detection With Infrared and Ultrasound Technologies
In this real-world case study, a neighborhood complex was experiencing an observable leak around one of their swimming pools. The maintenance manager hired a pool leak-detection company that guaranteed they could find the source of the problem. But they were unsuccessful...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.