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  • Asset Strategy

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...

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  • Leadership

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...

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  • Data Analytics & IIoT

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.

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  • Work & Spares

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...

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Criticality Assessment Process
  • Data Analytics & IIoT

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..

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  • Condition Monitoring

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...

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  • Continuous Improvement

Root Cause Analysis: Maximize Effectiveness Through Accountability

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is great tool, but only if you know when and how to use it.....

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  • Leadership

Executive Level Education in Asset Management Is an Urgent Need!

For an organization to be successful, assets must generate both financial and non-financial value, but it is the operational use of the assets that creates economic value. Therefore, asset-dependent organizations will not be successful without alignment of the various operational functions with each other and with financial functions across the asset’s life cycle.

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  • Defect Elimination

Evolving from Periodic Reliability Strategy Review to Effective Strategy Management

Projects are expensive so when conducting a reliability strategy review, you need to plan ahead and ensure that the optimized strategies you put in place do not quickly deteriorate. In this article, we share a tip for post-project support..

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