Author Archives: Murray Wiseman

Two LRCM purposes

One of LRCM’s purposes is to guarantee high quality information from the CMMS with which to perform Reliability Analysis (RA). Systematic improvement of maintenance performance comes mainly from RA. RA analyzes and models the factors influencing failure in order to develop … Continue reading

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EXAKT’s Three Modules

EXAKT is a set of software modules for accomplishing physical asset reliability from maintenance related data that is commonly available in an industrial organization. There are three EXAKT modules. They are listed in the following paragraphs: EXAKT for Modeling. This is … Continue reading

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The winning paper at the XIV International Congress of Maintenance

On 18, 19 and 20 April the XIV International Congress of Maintenance 2012 was held in Bogotá, Colombia in April. Organized by ACIEM (www.aciem.org) experts in different areas of maintenance delivered ​​presentations to the attendees. They emphasized sound practices,  the management of maintainability, and the assessment of operational risk. Among the … Continue reading

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Waiting for CMMS maturity

One maintenance manager puts it this way: “Our CMMS system and our Techs using it have not achieved the level of maturity for it to be a valuable tool. The Techs input insufficient levels of detail into our CMMS. Thus, … Continue reading

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LRCM Justification Template

Justifying an aggressive project in maintenance is always a challenge. The difficulty lies in the unclear relationship between maintenance activities and their quantifiable effectiveness with regard to organizational performance. The LRCM / EXAKT system provides the means to establish such … Continue reading

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