Continuous Improvement
Five Minute Facts
CMMS, EAM, Who Cares?
In many ways, the "CMMS vs EAM" distinction has become outdated and misleading. Most CMMS’ today have EAM functionality, after all, and most EAM tools are necessarily also CMMS.
- Frederic Baudart
- Accruent
Two Minute Tips
Why You Should Perform a PdM Assessment
If your plant has a long-standing PdM program, I recommend performing an assessment. I encourage people to do self-assessments, but you may at some point wish to bring in an outside professional to perform an overall program assessment. It’s kind of a score card…
- John Pucillo
- True Reliability
Five Minute Facts
7 Steps to Assess Your Organization’s Readiness for Industry 4.0
In the ideal world of Industry 4.0, organizations will have better equipment with wireless connections and sensors linked to a system that can visualize and control the entire production line and make autonomous decisions. Industry 4.0, in other words, describes the ever-increasing trend towards automation and data exchange.
- Tom Rombouts
- I-care Group
Five Minute Facts
Brewery Saves Big by Extending Compressor Oil Life
With regular oil analysis to ensure oil quality and cleanliness, the drain intervals for all four air compressors were extended up to eight times the OEM-recommended interval of 8,000 hours. Total cost savings – on oil alone – was $71,000. Environmental impact was reduced as well, with 1,035 fewer litres (273 fewer gallons) of waste oil. Fewer oil changes also meant less downtime, maintenance and labor. The overall effect for the company was significant cost savings on oil, maintenance time and disposal.
- Preston Rubottom
- Lubrication Engineers
10 Minute Talk
How Your IIoT Communication Infrastructure Can Optimize ROI
In the IIoT world, it’s hard to keep up with the fast-changing technology. But your communication infrastructure can have a significant influence on the success of your project, as it can take up to 50% of your resources…
- Dries Van Loon
- NanoPrecise
Reliability Gang
Detect- Solve- Improve (a New Way of Reliability)
Today, we kick it off with our new slogan DETECT - SOLVE - IMPROVE.
- Will Bower
- Maintain CM Ltd
Articles
How Motion Amplification® Fits into a Reliability Program
If you want the equipment and assets in your industrial facility to stay up and running, you’ll need a good reliability program. Reliability programs are designed to increase and maintain the performance of a plant’s equipment by identifying potential failures and eliminating their causes and reducing the possibility of production failures and stalls while enhancing safety.
- Jeff Hay
- RDI Technologies
Two Minute Tips
Where Does Your Plant Fall on the Maturity Continuum?
When I talk to clients, the first thing I do is find out where they are now – are they mostly reactive, do they plan most of their maintenance, do they do some PdM, etc.? On this continuum, I outline…
- John Pucillo
- True Reliability
Articles
Complicated Versus Complexity in Maintenance
I’ve always thought that knowing when something was going to fail was unknowable. Of course, predictive maintenance vendors shout from the rooftops about the effectiveness of their technology. Even the onboard computers tell you to replace components, somehow knowing when the failure will occur.
But really, most failures are not related to wear or aging, so how can we know what is going to happen and when? This discussion leads me into the sales pitches for AI (Artificial Intelligence). Can we ever get to the point where there is so much data that we can really predict the future?
- Joel Levitt
- Springfield