Nine Minutes of Knowledge
Using Modern Software to help with Manufacturing Standard Operating Procedures & Compliance
With Computerized Maintenance Management Software, or CMMS, monitoring compliance is simple. Manufacturers can automate SOP completion and preventive maintenance operations to enhance the quality of products..
- Nick Haase
- MaintainX
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
Utilizing the Ishikawa Technique as Part of the Root Cause Analysis
In this very brief presentation, the Ishikawa technique, also known as the fishbone technique, will be described as a tool that can be used to determine the root cause of the problem or failure.
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
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...
- Ken Madsen
- Petasense
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.
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
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...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
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...
- Ken Madsen
- Petasense
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.,,
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
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...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset