Continuous Improvement
Interviews
Preview the 2021 SMRP Annual Conference!
The Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) is preparing to welcome attendees for its 29th Annual Conference. Hear from SMRP Executive Director Erin Erickson about what's in store for attendees at this year's event.
- SMRP
Five Minute Facts
Condition Monitoring Technologies – Pros and Cons of the Top Five
There are several different technologies that can be used, alone or in combination, to monitor the condition of your machinery from a predictive maintenance (PdM) perspective. The criticality of the machine affects the number of such inspection-type technologies that are applied to a given failure mode. The more critical the machine and the more critical the failure mode, the more redundancy you will want in the inspections.
- Timothy Weilbaker
- Allied Reliability, Inc.
Interviews
Wireless Vibration Measurement Systems
Pieter van Camp discusses the benefits of a wireless system to measure vibration.
- Pieter Van Camp
- I-Care Group
Two Minute Tips
It’s 2021, and You’re Still Struggling to Keep Up with EAM/CMMS Fundamentals
EAM and CMMS systems are essential to the survival of asset-intensive companies. In a highly digitized era, this is not novel information. The key to extracting the full value from an EAM or CMMS system is managing it properly. Even though EAM/CMMS systems have been on the market for a long time, many companies still struggle with the basics of maintaining their systems.
- Adanna Anyalachi
- HubHead
Five Minute Facts
Probability and the P-F Curve
Often when talking with Maintenance and Reliability professionals, a popular topic of discussion is how frequent a particular inspection task should be performed. This also comes up often when discussing Preventive Maintenance Optimization (PMO). In this post, I'd like to present a risk-based approach to calculating the proper frequency of a On-Condition Inspection task.
- Bill Barto
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Five Minute Facts
Excuse Me, This Is Not What I Ordered
Asset-intensive companies rely heavily on BoMs for work orders and maintenance operations. The accuracy of your work order depends on having the correct parts and quickly identifying those parts. Time is money for every organization. Therefore, maintenance personnel do not need to be spending unnecessary extra time trying to locate equipment. Having a BoM is only half the battle. BoMs are often laced with misinformation, missing parts, and errors which hinders maintenance and reliability operations.
- Adanna Anyalachi
- HubHead
Two Minute Tips
Belling the Cat and RCFA
I'm a big fan of Aesop's fables. I use them with my kids to remind them to always tell the truth (The Boy Who Cried Wolf) and to appreciate the things that they have (The Dog and the Shadow). I thought it might be interesting to use some of the thousands of fables that Aesop wrote to discuss maintenance and reliability principles. This is my first post in hopefully a long series.
- Bill Barto
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Five Minute Facts
Working from Home (WFH), the Lesson We Need to Learn from 2020!
Despite the pains we suffered in 2020 due to the COVID-19 and its consequences, it taught us a lot of lessons. I am focusing here on one great lesson which we wouldn’t ever learn without this pandemic.
- Ahmed Kotb
- TRANSCO
Five Minute Facts
Pseudo Tach – A Powerful Gearbox Analysis Tool
The main purpose and benefit of Pseudo tach are to amplify the signal from the intermediate shaft while decreasing the noise from the application, thus obtaining clear and stable readings from the shaft. For reliable results, combining TSA with order tracking based on the Pseudo tach signal is strongly recommended
- Michel Tommasin
- SPM Instrument AB