Precision and Proactive Skills
Two Minute Tips
Lubrication – It’s About Far More Than Keeping The Cogs Turning
Lubrication is the ‘poor relation’ of many maintenance programmes, often insufficiently understood, badly stored and haphazardly applied. But, when planned and implemented correctly, a lubrication plan will not only improve efficiency and save money, but also make significant improvements in terms of energy conservation, waste management and staff safety.
- Mark Needam
- AVT Reliability
CONNECT Conversations
The Requirements All Good PM’s Must Meet
Preventive Maintenance, or PM, has been around since we’ve had machines, and is typically calendar based, and less often, run-time based. We’ve known for some 75 years that some 90%+ of time-based intrusive PM is not just unnecessary, but actually detrimental to equipment performance and maintenance costs.
- Doug Plucknette
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Five Minute Facts
Extending the Proactive Domain on the Potential Failure (P-F) Curve
Have you thought about your condition monitoring/predictive maintenance program and how is it helping your organization to extend the mean time between failures of your assets or is it helping you perform better planning scheduling of work and preventing catastrophic failures?
- Tod Baer
- Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc.
Two Minute Tips
How Not to Store Your Lubricants
Why does our equipment fail? Because we kill it. Regular plant visits shown numerous examples of poor lubricant storage.
- Paul Dufresne
- Reliability Playbook
Five Minute Facts
Reliability Program Bad Actors
Without resolving bad actor issues, endless man-hours and revenue are at risk of being expended.
- Jeff Hay
- RDI Technologies
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
Two Minute Tips
How to Maintain an Efficient Workforce During the Pandemic and Beyond
Workforce efficiency is key to success in a market facing labor shortages and skills gap issues. Factor in a global pandemic, and most companies have had to reimagine how they meet staffing requirements, asking questions like: What are the current recruiting and staffing challenges? Should we partner with an outside firm to help support recruiting needs? How is COVID-19 impacting the way business is done?
- Caroline Campbell Burgreen
- Allied Reliability
Case Studies and Stories
Arizona Public Service Justifies Large-Scale Implementation of Wireless Predictive Maintenance
Southern California has a lot of solar generation, and APS wanted to use Sundance for rapid ramping in the shoulder hours (morning and evening) to add energy to the grid in hours when solar isn’t generating. They started looking for a wireless Predictive Maintenance (PdM) system...
- Ken Madsen
- Petasense
Five Minute Facts
Understanding Failures and the Potential Failure (P-F) Curve
To understand the importance and the benefits of a Reliability and Precision Program, it is of the upmost importance to have an understanding of failures firs first..
- Tod Baer
- Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc.