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2001/July
Author:David R. Bell, SmartSignal, Inc.
What are the hidden costs of downtime? This article explains how to calculate them using company financial information and simple rules of thumb.
Industrial assets, from complex manufacturing plants to remote and mobile capital equipment, are...
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2001/July
Author:Derold Davis and Joe Mikes, Westin Engineering
The root cause of most problems with maintenance information systems can be traced to the early stages of the selection and implementation process. Here are some of the most common pitfalls to avoid.
Consider this scenario: Three computerized...
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2001/August
Author:Derold Davis and Joe Mikes, Westin Engineering
To select a CMMS that is the best fit for functional and business needs, define the business process and IT requirements; then choose a reputable, stable vendor.
More CMMS implementations fail than succeed. According to a 1998 study by The...
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2001/October
Author:Derold Davis and Joe Mikes, Westin Engineering
Take implementation one step at a time. Skipping steps will increase costs and lengthen the process.
If someone claims he can implement a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) in six months or less, there is a good chance something...
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2001/November
Author:Dr. Link Jaw, Scientific Monitoring, Inc.
The significance of condition-based maintenance (CBM) and equipment health management (EHM) extends beyond equipment monitoring and repair into enterprise management and business intelligence.
Misconceptions usually surround difficult issues just...
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2001/June
Author:Eric McDonald, O'Brien Partition Co.
Any work goes smoother in the right environment, and maintenance and reliability office operations are no exception. Flexible modular buildings can provide the ideal solution for a maintenance office or lab. Here are some issues to be considered....
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2001/May
Author:Eric Saller, IMI Sensors, Division of PCB Piezotronics
Because process monitoring systems are widely used in many plants, vibration channels can be added at a fraction of the cost of dedicated on-line condition monitoring systems.
Predictive maintenance techniques have proven to...
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2001/June
Author:Gino Palarchio, Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
Your company probably has an extensive preventive maintenance (PM) program in place. In spite of all the PMs, you are still finding that well over 50 percent of your maintenance work is reactive maintenance. Sound familiar?
This is a very common...
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2001/October
Author:Gino Palarchio, Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
Why is maintenance often viewed as being at the bottom of the totem pole in an organization, when in fact it is the most critical function as pertains to product output, quality, safety, and environmental integrity?
Is it because many maintenance...
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2001/March
Author:Gino T. Palarchio, Ivara Corp.
I have come to the conclusion in my most recent 2 year career in consulting that we have a tendency to over complicate maintenance and reliability as it relates to performance.
You will have to excuse me up front for my...
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2001/February
Author:Howard Beyer, MagneTek Drives
The versatility, operating efficiencies, and installation economies of general purpose adjustable frequency ac drives are making them increasingly popular as replacements for aging eddy current drives.
The combined simplicity of an ac drive and...
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2001/March
Author:Jeffrey Lewis, QMS Consulting, Inc.
Moving to an electronic version resolves problems that create a performance credibility gap.
Traditionally, paper checklists are employed to identify maintenance activities and their frequency of application. Quite often ...
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2001/October
Author:Joe Bruno, Reliability Maintenance Institute, SKF Industrial Services Center
As part of a recent reliability program, a U.S. lumber plant held a series of machine reliability and vibration technology seminars for its maintenance staff. Afterward, a newly trained maintenance technician identified 10 of the plant's most...
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2001/April
Author:Joe Mikes and Derold Davis, Westin Engineering, Inc.
Knowing and practicing these fundamental steps to creating lasting change can help reinvent companies.
So it's time to change some of the structure of your maintenance department or the way it runs. Perhaps you are a new...
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2001/March
Author:Joe Petronio, Cayenta's Mainsaver EAM Solutions Group
Utilizing the Internet is a logical extension of an EAM/CMMS system and the way most modern systems are being and will be implemented.
Web enabled; mobile computing; browser interfaced. These terms can mean much the same...
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2001/January
Author:John Moubray, Aladon LLC
New regulatory issues are fixing responsibility for equipment failure that results in loss of life. RCM analysis can help mitigate the risk. But streamlined methods fall short. Here is a look at the issues.
Reliability-centered maintenance...
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2001/December
Author:Ken Latino, Meridium, Inc.
Steps to change a plant's culture to the mindset where failure is no longer accepted or tolerated.
Failure has become a part of every industrial culture around the world; it permeates everything we do in an industrial facility. It is so much a...
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2001/March
Author:Michael Hernu, Solomon Associates, Inc.
Large-scale studies in the chemical and petroleum refining industries identify relationships between maintenance and reliability performance and plant characteristics and practices.
Maintenance benchmarking studies have been...
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2001/January
Author:MT Staff
Strong demand for Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) personal computers, printers, high-tech health care instruments, and other products has made the company a leader in the computing industry and one of the country’s most successful ...
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2001/December
Author:MT Staff
Often, in the wake of unexpected shutdowns due to costly equipment failures, superficial investigations result in plant engineers assigning fault to mechanical components. In many cases, however, thorough engineering analysis can delve deeper to...
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