Continuous Improvement
Five Minute Facts
Brewery Saves Big by Extending Compressor Oil Life
With regular oil analysis to ensure oil quality and cleanliness, the drain intervals for all four air compressors were extended up to eight times the OEM-recommended interval of 8,000 hours. Total cost savings – on oil alone – was $71,000. Environmental impact was reduced as well, with 1,035 fewer litres (273 fewer gallons) of waste oil. Fewer oil changes also meant less downtime, maintenance and labor. The overall effect for the company was significant cost savings on oil, maintenance time and disposal.
- Preston Rubottom
- Lubrication Engineers
Nine Minutes of Knowledge
How Your IIoT Communication Infrastructure Can Optimize ROI
In the IIoT world, it’s hard to keep up with the fast-changing technology. But your communication infrastructure can have a significant influence on the success of your project, as it can take up to 50% of your resources…
- Dries Van Loon
- NanoPrecise
Articles
How Motion Amplification® Fits into a Reliability Program
If you want the equipment and assets in your industrial facility to stay up and running, you’ll need a good reliability program. Reliability programs are designed to increase and maintain the performance of a plant’s equipment by identifying potential failures and eliminating their causes and reducing the possibility of production failures and stalls while enhancing safety.
- Jeff Hay
- RDI Technologies
Two Minute Tips
Where Does Your Plant Fall on the Maturity Continuum?
When I talk to clients, the first thing I do is find out where they are now – are they mostly reactive, do they plan most of their maintenance, do they do some PdM, etc.? On this continuum, I outline…
- John Pucillo
- True Reliability
Articles
Complicated Versus Complexity in Maintenance
I’ve always thought that knowing when something was going to fail was unknowable. Of course, predictive maintenance vendors shout from the rooftops about the effectiveness of their technology. Even the onboard computers tell you to replace components, somehow knowing when the failure will occur.
But really, most failures are not related to wear or aging, so how can we know what is going to happen and when? This discussion leads me into the sales pitches for AI (Artificial Intelligence). Can we ever get to the point where there is so much data that we can really predict the future?
- Joel Levitt
- Springfield
Interviews
Preview the 2021 SMRP Annual Conference!
The Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) is preparing to welcome attendees for its 29th Annual Conference. Hear from SMRP Executive Director Erin Erickson about what's in store for attendees at this year's event.
- SMRP
Five Minute Facts
Condition Monitoring Technologies – Pros and Cons of the Top Five
There are several different technologies that can be used, alone or in combination, to monitor the condition of your machinery from a predictive maintenance (PdM) perspective. The criticality of the machine affects the number of such inspection-type technologies that are applied to a given failure mode. The more critical the machine and the more critical the failure mode, the more redundancy you will want in the inspections.
- Timothy Weilbaker
- Allied Reliability, Inc.
Interviews
Wireless Vibration Measurement Systems
Pieter van Camp discusses the benefits of a wireless system to measure vibration.
- Pieter Van Camp
- I-Care Group
Two Minute Tips
It’s 2021, and You’re Still Struggling to Keep Up with EAM/CMMS Fundamentals
EAM and CMMS systems are essential to the survival of asset-intensive companies. In a highly digitized era, this is not novel information. The key to extracting the full value from an EAM or CMMS system is managing it properly. Even though EAM/CMMS systems have been on the market for a long time, many companies still struggle with the basics of maintaining their systems.
- Adanna Anyalachi
- HubHead
