June 25, 2008
IO Tech Case Study: Steel Mill Monitoring and Vibration Testing
One common but serious problem that often shows up in a roller stand is a vibration that causes it to lose its ability to maintain critical thickness accuracy of the steel coil.
June 25, 2008
Reliability Calculation: Mean Time Between Failure
From a recent post at Maintenance.org
I am trying to find the way to calculate reliability when I have got Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF), can anybody give me some examples to make it clear ?
Thank you
Lindax
June 25, 2008
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June 25, 2008
Partial Functional Failure
When production is not running their equipment to line speed but no one seems care but let the equipment fail and all ... breaks out.
Let me think about what a “partial functional failure” truly is. Would you think a machine made to operate a specific capacity and is not running at that capacity because of some problem (could be operator problem) is a partial functional failure.
Someone tell me and I right or wrong? Am I loosing it in my old age or what?
June 25, 2008
Electrical Failure Modes in Motors
An iPresentation Tutorial by Joe Geiman, Baker Instrument Company
This 9 minute iPresentation Tutorial discusses several of the most common forms of electrical failure in motors. Through this discussion, begin to develop a good understanding of the why and where of motor failure. It briefly describes the construction of motor windings and then delves deeper into where the actual faults are within the winding itself.
June 25, 2008
World-Class Reliability
Benchmarking companies practicing world-class reliability have a lot in common including a driving passion to understand what works, why it works and how to repeat it!
In other words, how to sustain the processes and continue building on the results. To find out how to achieve world-class reliability, contact Allied Reliability at: 888-414-5760 or by e-mail at:
June 25, 2008
Building the Reliability Foundation for Lean, TPM & Six Sigma
An iPresentation Tutorial by Darrin Wikoff, CMRP, Life Cycle Engineering
Join Darren Wikoff in this 9 minute iPresentation Tutorial to learn that the primary reason that most organizations fail to fully achieve the benefits of Lean Manufacturing, Total Productive Maintenance, or Six Sigma initiatives is instability or variation in the manufacturing process.
Variation in the manufacturing process creates the need for safety reserve inventories and excessive amounts of Work In Process (WIP), but if the intent of Lean is to remove these reserves and WIP in order to achieve Just-In-Time practices then the process must be dependable, consistent, and reliable.
Reliability is then the foundation for Lean and the enabler of a stable production process. Within this foundation we see that Equipment Reliability is the cornerstone.
June 25, 2008
Implementing RCM Based Maintenance in a Large, Diverse, International Conglomerate
by Bob Latham - UTC and Dennis Belanger - MRG
The Journey to Implementing Reliability Centered Maintenance
It became evident during the regular meetings of the ‘Factory Maintenance’ teams that there was opportunity to improve the way and consistency by which we approached maintenance at UTC. Surely sharing best practices and specific project related work was having great value, but we needed to do more. Every division, without exception were doing great things, but we were not leveraging these to the level we should, to reach greater benefit. Several members were familiar with Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), but many of us had differing definitions of this. It was felt that RCM would be a good vehicle to bring all the good things we were already doing together, and take it to the next level.
