Plan for Success: Create a Schedule

Paul Dufresene explains how to prioritize work and meet deadlines when everything is a top priority. It is crucial to note the difference between what is urgent and what is important.

Paul Dufresne
Reliability Playbook

Five Minute Facts

Precision and Proactive Skills

Precision Alignment Saves Energy

Significant power savings can be made through accurate alignment. Precise machine alignment eliminates reaction forces and reduces energy consumption by up to 10 percent.

Sven Fleischer
Easy-Laser

Articles

Precision and Proactive Skills

Playing it Safe — How to Avoid Arc Flash Explosions

Working around electrical equipment, it’s imperative to understand the potential hazard of arc flashes, what causes them, and how to prevent serious damage to people and assets. When electrical current passes through the air from one point to another, the resulting arc flash can reach temperatures up to 35,000° F. An arc flash is the light, concussive energy, and heat produced as part of an arc fault, a type of electrical discharge that results from a connection from phase to phase, or phase to ground.

Mike Levitt
Allied Reliability

Interviews

Precision and Proactive Skills

Maintenance & Reliability in Practice Virtual Case Studies Event

Erin Erickson, the Executive Director of SMRP, answers questions about upcoming case studies event and other exciting news from SMRP.

Erin Erickson
Kellen

Two Minute Tips

Precision and Proactive Skills

Lubrication – It’s About Far More Than Keeping The Cogs Turning

Lubrication is the ‘poor relation’ of many maintenance programmes, often insufficiently understood, badly stored and haphazardly applied. But, when planned and implemented correctly, a lubrication plan will not only improve efficiency and save money, but also make significant improvements in terms of energy conservation, waste management and staff safety.

Mark Needam
AVT Reliability

CONNECT Conversations

Precision and Proactive Skills

The Requirements All Good PM’s Must Meet

Preventive Maintenance, or PM, has been around since we’ve had machines, and is typically calendar based, and less often, run-time based. We’ve known for some 75 years that some 90%+ of time-based intrusive PM is not just unnecessary, but actually detrimental to equipment performance and maintenance costs.

Doug Plucknette
RELIABILITY CONNECT

Five Minute Facts

Extending The Proactive Domain On The P-F Curve

Precision and Proactive Skills

Extending the Proactive Domain on the Potential Failure (P-F) Curve

Have you thought about your condition monitoring/predictive maintenance program and how is it helping your organization to extend the mean time between failures of your assets or is it helping you perform better planning scheduling of work and preventing catastrophic failures?