Condition Monitoring
Case Studies and Stories
9 Principles of an Effective PM Program based on Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
In this article, I provide a brief history of the development of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM). And from there we explore 9 principles derived from RCM that will help you build an effective Preventive Maintenance Program.
- Erik Hupje
- R2 Reliability
Five Minute Facts
Why Do Most Predictive Maintenance Programs Fail?
Christian Benk, director of product management at B&K Vibro, draws from an industry study and his own experience to describe why most companies experience failure in their predictive maintenance programs…
- Christian Benk
- BK Vibro
CONNECT Conversations
Repair or Replace? – CONNECT Conversations
Answering this question requires considerable information and analysis, and judgment. For example: What’s the current state of the asset? We’ll explore these and other questions, and provide guidance in helping you answer this fairly frequent, fundamental, and ofte3n complex question...
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
10 Minute Talk
Challenges in Alarm Management
Alireza Taghizadeh and Christian Benk speak about the challenges in performing condition monitoring at scale, particularly the limits in alarm thresholds and how to overcome the usual issues that arise…
- Christian Benk
- BK Vibro
CONNECT Conversations
Expectations, Execution and Engagement – Essential – CONNECT Conversations
It’s been our experience that the lowest standard you set is the highest standard you can expect. As such, your expectations (standards) should be fairly high, but achievable. It does little good to set expectations too low – too easy, or too high – assuring failure....
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
CONNECT Conversations
Maintenance Costs as a % of ARV – Is It Useful? – CONNECT Conversations
Maintenance Cost as a Percent of Asset Replacement Value is often used as a measure to determine the effectiveness of the maintenance function. But, is it? In this podcast we’ll discuss the various means of calculating its value, and by implication, some of its downsides, along with a range of its value for various operations and potential reasons for that variation.
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
CONNECT Conversations
Why Do We Measure OEE? – CONNECT Conversations
Manufacturing and other industrial operations are typically familiar with measuring OEE, but there is often confusion about how to measure, where to measure, the rate to use and other issues related to its measurement...
- Ron Moore
- RELIABILITY CONNECT
Reliability Gang
AI and Condition Monitoring
Hi #Reliabilitygang ! We asked you guys what you wanted to hear from us and you decided that we talk about AI and how it will effect the world of condition monitoring.
- Will Bower
- Maintain CM Ltd
Case Studies and Stories
How a 3D Geometric Survey Diagnosed Faults in a Grounded Tugboat
We received a call regarding a tugboat that had run aground. Our survey included measurements of the hull mating flanges, Z-Drive cones, gearbox mounting flanges, bell housings, stems, and starboard lower gearbox housing for parallelism…
- Tony Planamento
- Advanced Mechanical Enterprises/AME
