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Logistics Is Key to Restoring Uptime in Heavy Industries
Large scale infrastructure projects that rely on heavy machinery are sensitive to downtime. When heavy equipment needs a part replaced, every minute counts. Managing parts availability and flight schedules for a maintenance part or repair and return can be a tough logistics challenge..
- CAP Logistics
How We Created a Software that Helps Facilities Manage Their Maintenance Operations
Jeff Roscher had a great interview with Nathan Grieve, from Project Hatch, that was released this morning. The article will take you through Jeff’s successful journey in the building of an award-winning computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)..
- Jeff Roscher
- eWorkOrders
360 Asset Management Program
An appropriate asset management program would consist of four main pillars: asset life cycle, asset condition management, asset reliability, and asset performance monitoring. This article will examine the different asset management programs utilized in Abqaiq Plant...
- Sultan Alshneiber
- Saudi Aramco
The Key to Machinery Reliability
The goal of Minnkota’s PPM (planned preventative maintenance) Team is to use their technologies and resources to provide the workers with safe, reliable operating equipment and make a positive impact on their maintenance...
- Tod Baer
- Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc.
Vibration Tracking – The Looking Glass Technique – See the Invisible
Incredible as it may seem, the vibration (or at least a large part of it) can be detected through video recording with incredible resolution. Saving a huge number of hours in studies that before were time consuming if not impossible to do...
- Dr. Thierry Erbessd
- Erbessd Instruments
What is Machine Learning?
Machine learning is a tool that allows systems the ability to learn and improve automatically based upon experience. Machine learning does not need specific programming to carry out an activity. Machine learning is the development of computer programs that can access data, and through a series of algorithms use the data to learn for itself what action should be taken based on that data.
- Michael Howard, DSc
- ERBESSD-INSTRUMENTS
Steps to Improving Data Integrity
A computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) or enterprise asset management (EAM) software is only as good as the data it contains. Human error accounts for much of the problem as it relates to inconsistencies in data, since employees are responsible for inputting data. Even if your facility utilizes condition monitoring sensors or other automated technology, there is still a human component...
- Frank Harmuth
- DPSI
General Computer Program for Two-Plane Balancing of Rigid Rotors
This technical article develops a universal computer program for the two-plane balance of rigid rotors, by means of a unified treatment of the system and the convention for the phase measurement, which can be used by any general balancing equipment...
- Jose Mendez Adriani
- Central University of Venezuela
Getting Started
Welcome to the home of reliability improvement; RELIABILITY CONNECT! The community is designed to provide you with educational articles, videos, and podcasts...
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute