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2000/July
Author:Anthony M. (Mac) Smith, AMS Associates
We generally think of reliability centered maintenance (RCM) implementation as three separate activities:
RCM analysis resulting in recommended RCM-based preventive maintenance (PM) tasks
Carrying those RCM-based PM...
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2000/November
Author:Anthony M. (Mac) Smith, AMS Associates
Failure modes, failure causes, and failure effects are important concepts in reliability centered maintenance (RCM) and similar processes. Without a clear understanding of these failure terms, the analyses often...
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2000/January
Author:Blaine Pardoe, Enterprise Management Systems
Getting the money back out of a CMMS is an issue with which consultants in the CMMS and maintenance marketplace deal all the time. The problem has been reduced somewhat in the past few years with the prices of PCs and CMMS...
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2000/April
Author:Blaine Pardoe, Enterprise Management Systems
Last year at this time I did a piece on the directions of the CMMS market in general and I feel somewhat vindicated that, indeed, the presence of the Web has reached even further into the business of maintenance ...
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2000/September
Author:Blaine Pardoe, Enterprise Management Systems
Perhaps one of the most over-used and abused phrases we've been hearing in the past 2 years is, "the new economy." This vague, ill-defined reference speaks to the rise of Internet-based companies, fast-paced...
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2000/December
Author:Blaine Pardoe, Enterprise Management Systems
Most people know me as a science fiction novelist rather than a maintenance industry expert. As such, I thought a glimpse of the future of maintenance was in order—a glance at a facilities operation in 2012.
Maintenance...
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2000/November
Author:Bob Matusheski, Meridium, Inc.
Reliability analyses conducted on groups of plant equipment provide insight not readily apparent to the casual observer.
Wall Street values a company's stock based upon the company's ability to predict production and earnings....
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2000/May
Author:By Victor Wowk, P.E. Machine Dynamics, Inc.
Every step must be well thought out, from planning to instruction to follow up.
Shaft alignment is a technical skill that is not common in the construction and maintenance professions, but categorized more like a...
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2000/March
Author:Carol Vesier, Ph. D., RonaMax, LLC
A six-step work process to increase profitability with reliability improvements.
A Fortune 500 specialty chemical company has doubled its profitability over the past five years, improving it from 7 percent to 14 percent...
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2000/April
Author:Carol Vesier, Ph.D, RonaMax, LLC
How to accurately predict the competitive advantages and quantify the business benefits associated with improving reliability.
A previous article "Profit Driven Reliability" discussed a six-step work process to increase ...
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2000/November
Author:Darrell Ferguson, Plumlee Associates
Significant cultural changes, cost savings, and increases in mechanical availability can be achieved by the implementation of this model.
As many asset-intensive companies have increasingly searched for a...
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2000/July
Author:David J. Wenszell, Johnson Polymer
Plant keeps tight rein on spare parts inventory with EAM/CMMS. Equipment history reports help keep reliability and maintenance operations efficient.
In enterprise asset management or computerized maintenance ...
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2000/October
Author:David Liptrot, Ivara Corp. and Gino Palarchio, Dofasco Inc.
Dofasco used innovative practices and technologies to completely change the way its maintenance departments operate. Here is an overview of the process that has helped increase equipment availability and product ...
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2000/January
Author:Dennis Westbrook and Robert Ladner, Boeing Commercial Airplane, and Anthony M. (Mac) Smith, AMS Associates
Reliability-centered maintenance moves from airplanes to the production machinery that builds and assembles them
This Ingersol 7-axis spar mill is one of 11 identical mills on the production line at the Frederickson facility
Boeing...
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2000/April
Author:Ed Hartmann, International TPM Institute
A proven 12-stage "Western" approach to successfully installing Total Productive Maintenance and setting the stage for world-class performance
At least every second attempted installation of Total Productive Maintenance ...
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2000/July
Author:Edwin K. Jones, P.E., Consultant
Common threads run through maintenance and reliability transformations at leading companies. They include peer networks, benchmarking, reliability focus, and performance measures.
During the turbulent years of...
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2000/September
Author:Edwin K. Jones, PE
The popular benchmarking metric of cost/ERV is a valuable tool for setting long-term goals when used correctly in conjunction with targets for plant reliability. Here is how it is calculated.
Measures of maintenance cost...
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2000/January
Author:Gary DeLange, Prager, Inc.
Gear teeth contain evidence of failure mechanisms that include wear, surface fatigue, plastic flow, and breakage
As with any failure analysis, finding the root cause of damage to gearing often requires a lot of detective work. You may need...
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2000/October
Author:Howard W. Penrose, Ph.D, BJM Corp.
How DOE's MotorMaster+ computer program can be used to manage electric motors. Latest modifications accommodate reliability information.
Energy efficiency in electric motor systems presents significant opportunities...
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2000/December
Author:Joe Zancolich, Siemens Westinghouse Technical Services
Maintenance audits give top-level management a realistic understanding of maintenance along with essential recommendations to achieve business goals.
Audits in general are associated with investigation and reform,...
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