January 07, 2009
Insulated Bearings
I am planning to install an insulated bearing on the NDE of some of our motors as part of the recommendations from our VFD manufacturer to stop bearing fluting problems. The bearing sales rep is pushing a hybrid bearing that has ceramic balls as more reliable and slightly cheaper than the usual ceramic coated bearing. Does anyone have any experience with the different types of insulated bearings on the market that could make a recommendation?
January 07, 2009
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99.9 Percent Reliability
Would 99.9% reliability rating be viewed as desirable? If 99.9% were achieved, would 95% also be acceptable, if you knew 99.9% were achievable.
Management should review the tasks and procedures performed if 99.9% reliability were achieved. The review would be to evaluate and adjust tasks and manpower utilization that provided the 99.9% rating. But by limiting those tasks and manpower utilization, would a lesser reliability rating of 95% be good enough for the business?
Personally, tasks and manpower utilization should be routinely evaluated and depending on results, adjusted. But if 99.9% reliability were achieved, should we accept something less?
Any thoughts?
January 07, 2009
RCM-2009 Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers' Forum
March 23-26, 2009
Hilton Ocean Walk Village - Daytona Beach Florida
The Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum is designed for beginners and advanced maintenance professionals to discover ways to create new maintenance programs and to ensure that current maintenance programs include the right work at the right time to ensure operational reliability.
Request an RCM-2009 Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum Brochure
January 07, 2009
Maintenance Strategy series video by Terry Wireman
For over three decades, Terry Wireman has specialized in the improvement of maintenance and reliability. As an international expert in maintenance management, he has assisted hundreds of clients in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim to improve their maintenance effectiveness. Through a new 10-volume Maintenance Strategy series available online at the MRO-Zone bookstore, the author makes his expertise in the field accessible to industrial and facility organizations everywhere.
January 07, 2009
Twitter for Reliability
Twitter is a new communication system that works on the web and mobile phones. You can enter up to 140 characters to basically answer the question “What am I doing now?”
This may seem crazy but you can search some of your favorite keywords like reliability, maintenance, asset management, six sigma etc.. and you will be amazed at the participation in our own little maintenance and reliability community. You can Tweet (I think that is what they call it when you enter text at Twitter) or you can simply follow others who post at Twitter.
Reliabilityweb.com has just begun to use this tool so feel free to:
January 07, 2009
Maintenance Strategy Review from SKF
A Maintenance Strategy Review (MSR) from SKF provides critical information about your machine operation, reliability issues and maintenance practices.
An MSR can help you to align maintenance tasks with equipment optimization objectives, and ensure that these activities are supporting your business goals.
January 07, 2009
10 percent rule of preventive maintenance video
by Ricky Smith, Allied Reliability
Watch this new 2 minute video by Ricky Smith, Author of Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers as he explains preventive maintenance compliance.
January 07, 2009
Production/Operations and Maintenance
As the year drew to a close we had some great discussions about operations at IMC-2008, the 23rd International Maintenance Conference. Most in attendance agreed that production/operations makes or breaks reliability. So what’s a poor maintenance professional to do?
Questions:
1) Is the Production/Operations Department the customer of Maintenance Department?
2) Should maintenance report to production/operations?
3) Are maintenance performance metrics in conflict with production/operations performance metrics?
4) Should maintenance be in a purely support mode for production/operations?
5) Can improved maintenance practices alone achieve reliability? (Read Keith Mobley’s Ministry Blog at AMP)
6) What would it take to interest production/operations managers in attending a maintenance conference like IMC?
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Thanks and Happy New Year
Terry O
December 17, 2008
Web Workshop: Overview of the Reliability Centered Maintenance Project Managers Guide
Please join Jack Nicholas Jr. for this 12th of 12 web workshops in the Advancing Reliability series for 2008
In this 60 minute workshop Jack will discuss how to use the Reliability Centered Maintenance Project Managers Guide (formerly known as the RCM Scorecard) to:
1) Provide leaders of RCM initiatives with the knowledge and identification of tools needed to be successful.
2) Provide prospective and actual RCM users, participants and other interested parties with a tool to help decision making on whether or not to initiate an RCM Project and (given the decision to proceed) determine progress in or demonstrate how successful it is while in progress and was after completion. RCM Project metrics, measures or Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) use data collected:
a) When considering whether or not to conduct an RCM analysis on an asset
b) Prior to performing an analysis, (prior to the RCM Analysis Phase) as a baseline
c) During the RCM project Analysis Phase
d) During and/or after RCM analysis as resulting action items are implemented (RCM Project Implementation Phase)
e) From the point after implementation begins and throughout defined period(s) when benefits are realized. (RCM Project Benefits Phase)
3) Provide cognizant managers, supervisors and/or “champions” with a tool to help justify an RCM project and to measure progress on a given asset or set of systems during analysis and implementation phases. In addition, it provides a basis for measuring the benefits derived from the overall effort.
4) Provide a basis for comparison of differing approaches to RCM methodology.
New: Use your PC VoIP or Telephone to hear the workshop. VoIP saves long distance charges.
There is no fee for this web workshop.
December 17, 2008
Focus areas for RAMC
Posted at MaintenanceForums.com
We are intending to consolidate all our plant’ efforts under a so-called RAMC (Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Capacity Utilization).
Two basic purposes are:
1) to reduce downtime (either planned like plant turnaround or unplanned like plant trips). We aim to increase turnaround interval and/or decrease turnaround duration (product to product)
2) to operate at design nameplate capacity and/or to increase capacity by revamps and/or rejuvenation
Current efforts include root cause analysis (RCA) for equipment failure and multitasks (equivalent to basic equipment care by operators and technicians).
Will anyone share info on what are meaningful focus areas to concentrate for implementation and maximum impact at cost-effectiveness in other plants or facilities?
Josh
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