Nine Minutes of Knowledge
Four Electrical Failure Modes
Electrical failure modes can be divided into four main categories. This tip will briefly discuss these categories and their associated thermal patterns to help the field thermographer better understand and identify thermal anomalies found in the field...
- Roy Huff
- The Snell Group
How to Apply Machine Learning at the Process Level
If a plant wants to start applying machine learning at the process level, they first need a good understanding of their process. They need a good business case…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
A Brief Introduction to Asset Criticality Ranking
The asset criticality ranking reveals which assets pose the greatest risk to your organization. In this brief introduction, will explain how useful it is to use asset criticality ranking to prioritize your activities and explain, in brief, how to develop the ranking.
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Back to Basics: Collaboration Is the New Innovation
With Industry 4.0, there is a lot of innovation occurring, but if you focus on the basics of collaboration between professionals and break down the barriers between generations, you will see value created at an exponential rate…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Prioritizing Your Activities
Most organizations endeavoring to improve reliability have limited resources and must, therefore, make important decisions about where to focus their efforts, otherwise, they will struggle to make progress. In this brief presentation, we will explain how to use a combination of the asset criticality ranking, Pareto analysis (a bad actor list) and asset health to prioritize activities.
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Will AI Replace Operators?
Will AI remove the need for operators? Don Doan explains…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
The Current Perception of Mining and How It Is Changing
When most people think of mining, the first ideas that come to mind are that mining is money motivated and that it is an environmental wrecking machine. There have also been accidents. But is there more to mining…
- Robert Kalwarowsky
- Rob's Reliability Project
Utilizing The 5-Whys Technique As Part Of The Root Cause Analysis
In this very brief presentation, the 5-Whys analysis technique will be described as a basic tool that can be used to determine the root cause of the problem or failure..
- Jason Tranter
- Mobius Institute
Transmission Measurements and Selective Radiance
Emissivity, reflections, and transmission rates for IR windows can cause confusion and frustration without the proper knowledge, experience, training, and skills. This quick tip will simplify the very complex subject of IR window transmissions…
- Rudy Wodrich
- IRISS