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  • Asset Strategy

C&W Services Drives Asset Reliability-Based Culture Change at Pharmaceutical Client

C&W Services implemented Petasense’s Asset Reliability & Optimization system as a key piece of changing the reliability culture at a major pharmaceutical company. The results were dramatic, with 31 failures avoided in the first few months and zero unplanned downtime during the first half of 2019...

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  • Data Analytics

A Brief Introduction to Pareto Analysis (the ‘bad actor’ list)

Pareto analysis is one of the simplest yet most powerful techniques you can use to find out which items of equipment are consuming your resources. In this brief presentation, we will explain the benefits of the technique, and briefly, how you use them.

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  • Defect Elimination

Trick Question: Do You Want Value or Low Costs?

If you can’t sell all you can produce, then reducing costs is often the only way to improve margins, but that simplistic accounting perspective is not always the case. Cost control is often thought to be key to attaining profitability, but in the case of maintenance it can get you into trouble...

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  • Asset Strategy

7 Steps to Kickstarting lloT-Based Asset Reliability

At Petasense, we talk to a lot of companies that are interested in IIoT or wireless Predictive Maintenance (PdM), but aren’t sure where to start. The range of options available and perceived complexity can be daunting. Asset reliability is a journey, and wireless technologies can enable it...

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  • People Management

Corporate Counter-Dependency: Why This Is a Problem

In psychology there’s a phenomenon known as “counter-dependency”. People with this tendency will refuse help when it is offered and won’t even seek it when confronted with a problem. Organizations that are poorer performers often exhibit this same tendency.,,

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  • Implementation Strategy

10 Myths about RCM

Despite its well-documented successes, Reliability Centered Maintenance has always drawn a lot of discussion and controversy.  Much of it is because of a lack of understanding and ‘myths’ generated to discredit RCM as a viable business solution.  Here I will fill in some of those gaps...

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  • Implementation Strategy

Ten Key Elements to a Sustainable Reliability Improvement Program

Too many reliability improvement programs fail. In this brief presentation, 10 key elements to a successful and sustainable reliability improvement program will be proposed and described. If you have addressed each of these elements you will have success.

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  • Defect Elimination

Defect Elimination of Dust Contamination and Lubrication Cleanliness in Ore Operation

Were refilling the remote crusher that’s the lube tank with about 5000 liters of lubricant in there and that’s the stuff (dust) sitting on top. That with just my finger just trying to figure out how much dust is sitting on top. And that’s the seal; the rubber seal that actually stops the dust from getting in.

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  • Asset Strategy

The 15 Things Your Smart Machine Won’t Tell You

Smart machines, the Industrial Internet of Things, and machine learning are without a doubt the future. However, it is important that we realize the limitations of technology...

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