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Extending The Proactive Domain On The P-F Curve
  • Precision and Proactive Skills

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?

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Machine Health Basics for the OEM design engineer
  • Continuous Improvement

Machine Health Basics For The OEM Design Engineer

Analyzing machine vibration as a means of monitoring healthy operation and diagnosis of emerging problems is a relatively mature specialization, long practiced on turbines and motor-pump trains. Condition Monitoring for the factory today is generally implemented by a skilled practitioner equipped with a handheld data-logger, collecting and processing signals from a tethered vibration sensor during a periodically scheduled, route-based maintenance program.

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  • Continuous Improvement

Embrace Industry 4.0 to Improve Reliability

Step changes in condition based monitoring technology mean unlocking the benefits of Industry 4.0 to achieve operator driven reliability are now a reality. Oliver Pogmore, of plant reliability specialists AVT Reliability®, explains how digital technology can overcome barriers such as cost and staffing levels to deliver a truly proactive maintenance programme.2

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  • Asset Strategy

A Practical Guide to Setting up IIoT-Based Predictive Maintenance

As initial hype around Internet of Things (IoT) in the consumer market fades, focus and emphasis has now shifted to Industrial IoT, in particular Predictive Maintenance. Part of the excitement in Industrial IoT stems from the fact that IoT technology can provide quantifiable benefits and savings to plants...

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  • Asset Strategy

Asset Knowledge Visualizations: A Vehicle for Maximizing the Business Value of Intelligent Asset Management (IAM) Solutions

In recent years the abundance of digital data about enterprise assets enables the development, deployment and operation of data-driven solutions for managing assets in intelligent ways. The latter result in improved reliability, as well as minimization of failures and costs..

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  • Defect Elimination

How Consistently Designed Procedures Can Save Lives, Time, and Money

Procedures are a series of steps followed in a regular, definite order, and most people complete the steps of multiple procedures every day. Whether they’re written down or internalized, procedures are organizational tools that help people safely and accurately complete tasks..

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  • Condition Monitoring

Tying Reliability Programs into Corporate Goals

Cost avoidance? Sure, why not. However, it is a method that has been continuously used through a great many programs that have gone the way of a great many programs.

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  • Precision and Proactive Skills

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..

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  • Defect Elimination

Remembering the Past, Thinking about the Future, Being in the Present

For a reliability engineer, focusing on the past and the future will allow you to learn from what has happened in the past and what might happen in the future. It will then generate a list of actionable items to work on in the present..

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