Understanding Conditional Probability is Key

2020-06-102020-09-07
by James Reyes-Picknell

Understanding conditional probability is key to determining the right maintenance and how it impacts your reliability. This article is to address the difference in the conditional probability of failure patterns, and the impact on how best to maintain assets based upon those differences.

Definition: Conditional probability of failure is defined as the likelihood an item will fail in the next period, assuming it has not yet failed. Editor’s note: for a bit more information on Conditional Probability of Failure and Hazard rates, please refer to this article by our colleague, Mr. Murray Wiseman. Read more “Understanding Conditional Probability is Key” →

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The Link Between RCM Facilitation and Effective Maintenance

2019-11-072020-06-20
by James Reyes-Picknell

These are challenging economic times and opportunities abound with many of our customers to add new business value. They are turning to us and asking: “You’ve brought great value to our Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM-R) program through knowledge capture, personnel education, laying the foundation for a ‘living’ maintenance program and so on. However, what additional value can you provide us beyond what you have already done?” One answer: “Focus on writing high-value, asset maintenance tasks. i.e. Tactical PM Program Implementations”. Read more “The Link Between RCM Facilitation and Effective Maintenance” →

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Do you need Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)?

2019-09-202020-06-20
by Dale

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is without doubt the most effective method to determine your failure management policies, yet it is sometimes seen as an expensive and time consuming endeavor used to produce what some (mistakenly) believe they can get from manufacturer recommendations and other sources. The naysayers see it as a “gold plated” approach to a relatively simple challenge – produce a decent maintenance program. Read more “Do you need Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)?” →

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Achieve results using RCM

2019-09-062020-06-20
by James Reyes-Picknell

In the field, we know that there are no “quick fixes” or “silver bullet solutions” when it comes to improvements in maintenance management. Many separate conditions and events must come together properly to achieve “schedule success” – i.e.: the high level of compliance to a schedule of planned work as produced by your planners. That list of includes: Read more “Achieve results using RCM” →

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Do you want a PM program that really works

2019-08-202020-06-20
by James Reyes-Picknell

Reliability Centered Maintenance – Re-engineered (RCM-R®)…

… is the world’s leading method for identifying maintenance and other activities required to sustain reliable performance of physical assets. Previously I discussed the various maintenance approaches you can use. This method (RCM-R®) is a structured approach to making those choices. If you want a proactive maintenance program that really works, then Reliability Centered Maintenance is the most thorough approach you can take to get there. Read more “Do you want a PM program that really works” →

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Planner help us solve the skills shortage problem!

2019-07-312020-06-20
by James Reyes-Picknell

This article takes about two minutes to read. It was first published in PEM Magazine, now incorporated into MRO Magazine.

Skilled labor is in short supply. Companies are struggling to find talent. Education systems throughout North America have done a poor job of producing ‘job ready’ graduates. Companies have cut back on training and apprentice program funding. Immigration programs did not prioritize the intake of needed and ready-to-us skills. Read more “Planner help us solve the skills shortage problem!” →

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Myth busting 29: You can integrate your EAM /…

2019-06-112020-06-20
by James Reyes-Picknell

Reliability Centered Maintenance is an analytical process used in decision making about how best to manage equipment and system failures, and their consequences. Much of its output comprises maintenance tasks with assigned task frequencies. Those tasks will ultimately be managed in your Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) or Enterprise Asset Management Systems (EAM). You don’t need software to perform RCM analysis, but it is helpful. Read more “Myth busting 29: You can integrate your EAM / CMMS with RCM” →

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Myth busting 28: RCM is expensive

2019-05-312020-06-20
by James Reyes-Picknell

Many of you may be surprised to learn that Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) was actually developed with cost cutting in mind! Aircraft maintenance costs were huge. For example the Douglas DC-8-32 aircraft (a four engine narrow body jet liner built from 1958 to 1967 that carried 150 passengers) required upwards of 4,000,000 man hours of maintenance work for only 20,000 hours of flying time! Read more “Myth busting 28: RCM is expensive” →

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Myth busting 27: RCM is only for new assets

2019-05-272020-06-20
by James Reyes-Picknell

Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) was developed in the airline industry to be used for developing maintenance programs for new aircraft. There’s no doubting it – originally RCM was intended for new designs and arguably where the results of failure could be catastrophic, specifically the loss of life and where costs of maintaining had grown ridiculously high. Read more “Myth busting 27: RCM is only for new assets” →

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Myth busting 26: I’ve read the book, now I’m…

2019-05-272020-06-20
by James Reyes-Picknell

3 Minute Read. Educational institutions realize that we all learn differently and combinations of learning styles will reach most of us. Some of us learn by seeing (reading), some by doing (tactile), some by hearing (aural). Most of us have a bit of each of these and rarely only one is enough. In college and university there is reading as well as assignment and lab work. We need both, so, how do we learn once we leave the academic world?

We learn a lot from reading, but we don’t remember much of it for long. But reading alone is rarely enough to truly get that deep knowledge needed to be competent – we also need practice. Read more “Myth busting 26: I’ve read the book, now I’m an expert!” →

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