Five Minute Facts
What is Motion Amplification®?
Motion Amplification® is a video-based vibration tool that allows users to visualize motion and measure displacement across the entire image. Watch the video to see how it works and how it fits with other tools in the reliability toolbox.
- Jeff Hay
- RDI Technologies
Reliability, Safety and Thermal Imaging
Have you considered how your role as a Reliability Engineer, and the decisions you make, affects the drive to a safer working environment? As Reliability Engineers we are in a unique position that allows us to influence the culture of a plant. We do so by education, demonstration and documentation of efforts, to improve the operation of the facility.
- PJ Cloete
- AVT Reliability
Asset Management: It’s Not Just about Money
Of course companies incorporate asset management to improve their bottom line, but value can be more than just financial. It is also dynamic within organizations…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
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
What Is the Value of Asset Management?
Podcast host Rob Kalwarowsky discusses the value of asset management with three experts…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Explicit Inspection And Implicit Inspection
Two ways to specify an inspection are implicitly and explicitly. Both are used in maintenance, and both have their place. To start, let’s review the definitions:
- Joel Levitt
- Springfield
How Do We Know When We Need To Conduct An RCA?
It’s a question that gets asked a lot – “How do we know when we need to conduct an RCA”? The answer is by using RCA triggers. An RCA trigger is something that can be used to prompt us to conduct an RCA if the outcome of an event breaches a specific threshold. Conversely it also lets us know when we do not have to conduct an RCA based on the event not breaching a specific threshold.
- Tim Rice
- The Defect Elimination Project
Electrical Reliability on the Grid Part V: Flywheel Storage
In the Federal government and commercial designs, there are a variety of designs including cylinders and solid mass systems. The mechanical components have lower failure rates with the effectiveness and reliability of magnetic and related guide bearings. The upper speed limit and resulting Watt-hour capability is based on the mechanical limits of the flywheel and shaft.
- Howard Penrose
- MotorDoc LLC
The Relationship of Equipment Reliability, Failures, Potential Failure (P-F) Curve and Human Safety
This is the last of a three part series on Understanding the P-F Curve. The last article will be a brief review of the two earlier articles and ending with a focus on an article and presentation published by Dustin M Etchison, CMRP with Elanco Global Engineering that brings all the aspects of equipment reliability and safety together.
- Tod Baer
- Minnkota Power Cooperative Inc.