Electrical technicians often lament equipment failures, particularly the lack of accurate drawings for trouble shooting, among many issues.   In this session we’ll discuss things an electrical technician can do, beginning with updating and keeping drawings current – it’s hard to do good work with poor information, continuing with minimizing the failures by keeping the equipment cool, clean, dry, and tight, and sustaining that by creating equipment inspection/correction routines – this will facilitate walkdowns and inspections to detect and correct the obvious; update mounting brackets to minimize jolts and vibration of the equipment; eliminate jumpers and temporary repairs – they are temporary; get educated with reliability tools, particularly RCM and RCA to help you understand, and avoid, failure modes; identify and understand hidden failures, for example and E-stop that’s failed – it won’t stop when used; get involved in design reviews of control and alarm systems; and finally use the right tools for the job, or plead your case on the need for and use of the tools.