Two Minute Tips
The Truth About Deploying Global Maintenance Strategies for Like Assets
On the surface, developing best-in-class strategies for like assets and deploying these across an asset base seems a logical way to improve consistency and efficiency of maintenance while reducing cost and risk. However...
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability
Teamwork Delivers Superior Results
There’s an old saying that “two heads are better than one”. Teamwork has been proven time and again to produce superior results. It is the basis for many successful methods like RCM, PMO, RCFA...
- James Reyes-Picknell
- Conscious Asset
For These Reasons, Don’t Calculate Availability from Work Orders
During my work experience, the source of data for calculating the asset availability was discussed several times on different levels and in many meetings. In most cases, I found that there’s a common belief that the maintenance work orders in CMMS are the
- Ahmed Kotb
- TRANSCO
What Are Critical Asset Surveillance Technologies?
Have you ever been charged with managing the risks of your critical assets at your place of employment? The risks you might have to manage could be employee safety, or maybe mitigation of asset downtime and failure rates. In today's business world...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.
Run to Failure Shouldn’t be an Option: Preventive Maintenance and CMMS
One of the leading concepts being adopted in asset-intensive companies today is the idea of preventive maintenance. With the emergence of CMMS and EAM systems designed to automate many industrial processes, preventive maintenance is now being seen as a necessary option for many businesses...
- Sophie Strobel
- HubHead Corp.
How Not to Store Your Lubricants
Why does our equipment fail? Because we kill it. Regular plant visits shown numerous examples of poor lubricant storage.
- Paul Dufresne
- Reliability Playbook
Evolving from Periodic Reliability Strategy Review to Effective Strategy Management
Projects are expensive so when conducting a reliability strategy review, you need to plan ahead and ensure that the optimized strategies you put in place do not quickly deteriorate. In this article, we share a tip for post-project support..
- Jason Apps
- ARMS Reliability
How to Measure and Use Reliability Metrics
Maintenance and reliability managers must have metrics in place to identify needs for improvement. Metrics are also extremely important for validating whether the maintenance team is headed in the right direction to achieve the organization’s goals and objectives.
- Warren Wu
- UpKeep
Leak Detection With Infrared and Ultrasound Technologies
In this real-world case study, a neighborhood complex was experiencing an observable leak around one of their swimming pools. The maintenance manager hired a pool leak-detection company that guaranteed they could find the source of the problem. But they were unsuccessful...
- Martin Robinson
- IRISS Inc.