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Welcome to the home of reliability improvement; RELIABILITY CONNECT! The community is designed to provide you with educational articles, videos, and podcasts...

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  • Continuous Improvement

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.

Nine Minutes of Knowledge
  • Data Analytics & IIoT

Bearing Problems – Fault Frequency and Artificial Intelligence-Based Methods

The early detection and fault analysis of bearing problems is crucial. When a rolling-element bearing develops flaws on the races and/or rolling elements, there are four vibration frequencies that can result...

  • Pawel Lecinski
  • CMRP
Five Minute Facts
  • Precision and Proactive Skills

Reliability Program Bad Actors

Without resolving bad actor issues, endless man-hours and revenue are at risk of being expended.

Articles
  • Continuous Improvement

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?

Five Minute Facts
  • Work & Spares

Certain Types of Motivation Actually Damage Work Performance

Michelle Henley has spoken about direct motivating factors (the P’s) and indirect motivating factors (the E’s). One of these enhances performance at work, and one actually decreases it. Scientific research backs this up, showing that…

Five Minute Facts
  • Leadership

How Certification Programs Work (and How They Should Work)

The idea of certification is to earn a credential that is respected, is fair and independent, and represents a true achievement. In our professional lives, we need a goal to aspire to, and we should have recognition for our achievements…

Five Minute Facts
  • Leadership

How to Harness the Power of Direct Motivation in Your Plant

When it comes to implementing reliability improvement, it is important to remember that reliability happens out in the field, not in an office or a webinar. It is important to get everybody, particularly those closest to the work, involved in the process.

The Leadership Connection
  • Leadership

Episode 26: Suzane Greeman

The Leadership Connection Host, Doug Plucknette, interviews reliability leader Suzane Greeman in Episode 26 of this series. Suzane is is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions Inc (GAMSINC), a firm headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the author of “Risk-based Asset Criticality Assessment (R-b ACA©) Handbook”. An accomplished Asset Management Leader with over 22 years of experience implementing asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment and airport assets.

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