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2005/November
Author:'Sunny' Hemant Gosain, Oracle Corporation
Raising the levels of "asset intimacy" among service providers is crucial where maintenance is concerned.
Companies typically will embrace a business trend in an effort to move ahead of the competition, achieve long-term savings and, in some...
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2005/July
Author:Al Weber, Ivara Corp.
Many organizations feel that if they can move from reactive to preventive maintenance they are headed on the right path, and that this in turn means they are on the road to proactive maintenance. However, as has been demonstrated by many studies, in...
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2005/October
Author:Al Weber, Ivara Corp.
RCM is widely regarded as the most comprehensive methodology used to understand how an asset can fail, and in turn, to determine what you have to do to mitigate the consequence of failure before it occurs. In its most effective and most widely...
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2005/April
Author:Anthony McNeeney, Meridium
An effective set of interlocking indicators provides feedback to individuals, groups, and the enterprise, directing the behavior of all.
Measures of performance have been used by management for centuries to review current operational capabilities....
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2005/November
Author:Bob Call, Life Cycle Engineering
Bonjour! Bongiorno! Buenos dias! Salut! Hola! No matter what language you speak, it all translates to the same thing, right? Well, you might want to rethink that belief.
A common challenge across many industries, when it comes to corporate growth,...
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2005/December
Author:Bob Call, Life Cycle Engineering
Look to ADDIE and her proven track record when it comes to developing and implementing effective training initiatives.
Alarmingly. . .
In certain skill-level assessments throughout the U.S. and Canada, 80% of those assessed scored less...
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2005/February
Author:Bryan D. Weir, Perspective CMMS
Six steps to effective maintenance management for smaller operations
You can see the eyes of many maintenance managers in many small companies glaze over at the mention of CMMS, RCM, TPM, FMEA, and the other maintenance-related acronyms that often...
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2005/May
Author:C. Scott MacMillan and Lance Morris, Cohesive Information Solutions Inc.
Phase one: An unbiased team approach to system selection
The latest ARC Advisory Group study of the enterprise asset management (EAM/CMMS) software market profiles more than 80 maintenance application suppliers. This number of choices is enough to...
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2005/June
Author:C. Scott MacMillan and Lance Morris, Cohesive Information Solutions Inc.
Phase two: Best practice methodologies for system implementation
Now that the best EAM/ CMMS application for your business has been selected, the deployment phase begins. But an EAM system is not a plug-and-play application. Will you miss out on...
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2005/July
Author:Charles J. Latino, Reliability Center, Inc.
Charles J. Latino, Founder, Reliability Center. This article is based on remarks delivered by the author on May 24, 2005, at the Maintenance & Reliability Technology Summit (MARTS) conference in Rosemont, IL. At the concluding Summit Session,...
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2005/September
Author:Clayton Cook, Lower Colorado River Authority, and Ron Wallace, MRO Software
Big operations, spread across a big state, demanded a big CMMS solution.
The Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) is the largest publicly owned supplier of renewable energy in the State of Texas. It delivers electricity for Central Texas,...
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2005/March
Author:Daniel R. Snyder, P.E., SKF USA
The "infinite life" theory for rolling bearings holds that under good operating conditions and provided the fatigue load limit is not exceeded, bearing life will not be limited by fatigue and, in fact, can exceed the life of the machine. But in...
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2005/January
Author:Daryl Gruver, Progress Energy
This approach helps uncover reliability problems obscured by the volume of plant work requests.
Progress Energy’s Harris nuclear power plant in New Hill, NC, is taking a proactive approach to identify and improve equipment performance. Power...
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2005/November
Author:Daryl R. Gruver, Progress Energy Corporation
Time is critical when it comes to identifying degrading equipment performance.
Progress Energy's Harris Plant is a 950 MW(e) pressurized water nuclear reactor. In November 2003, operators conducting a surveillance test on a piece of the plant's...
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2005/January
Author:Don Clark, Efficiency Technologies, Inc.
Attention to maintenance can help control energy demand. Here is an overview.
Chillers consume more than 50 percent of the electrical usage in many facilities. They use approximately 20 percent of the total electrical power generated in North...
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2005/November
Author:Fredrik Franding, Industrial Electrical Market Segment, SKF USA Inc.
A company becomes its own customer with outstanding results. In the process, a new motor repair shop certification program is born.
Electric motors, whether AC or DC, will vary considerably in construction, operation, and performance. All share a...
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2005/March
Author:Gary Strahan, Texas Infrared
This process can help move a maintenance department to the next level and better prepare for the future.
Operators of high-temperature pressure vessels now can see in vivid color the advantages of new wireless radiometric imaging technology for...
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2005/October
Author:Heinz P. Bloch, P.E., Process Machinery Consulting
Is this type of cost-effective technology right for your operations?
Each year, thousands of positive displacement compressors suffer serious damage because upstream filters or separators are really not doing their jobs as anticipated by the...
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2005/December
Author:Heinz P. Bloch, P.E., Process Machinery Consulting
According to this well-known veteran of the reliability trenches, one of the best ways to hone the survival skills industry needs today and into the future is to pay attention to the basics. Taking time—making time—to read is a great way to...
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2005/November
Author:Howard W. Penrose, Ph.D., Electrical Reliability Group, T-Solutions, Inc.
No magic bullets here. One instrument can't possibly provide all the information you need to evaluate the health of an electric motor system.
There is a persistent misconception that a "magic bullet," in the form of a condition-based monitoring...
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