Author Archives: Murray Wiseman
The CMMS barrier to RCM
One company tried to connect its CMMS with its RCM program. Not just the usual upload of the RCM strategy from the RCM application to the CMMS but a more organic day-to-day integration of the two processes. However, they ran … Continue reading
Free text on the work order
Information technology has changed the way we work, but not the internal workings of our minds. Another 10 or 100 generations will pass before the human brain evolves the capacity to describe complex situations by selecting items from drop down … Continue reading
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The data barrier to analysis
For years one maintenance organization has invested significant resources in all forms of improvement technology. These include a state-of-the art oil analysis laboratory, RCM, CBM integrated with CMMS, vibration analysis, diagnostics, real time monitoring, RCA, six-sigma, LEAN, TPM, Weibull, Proportional … Continue reading
LRCM – off the maintenance improvement radar
Are we marching to a different drum?. Why is LRCM out of step with the established community of reliability experts and authors. If it is so good why haven’t the others caught on? The obvious strategy of treating work orders … Continue reading
Reliability engineer’s work cycle
LRCM changes, in a fundamental way, how our reliability engineers work. Previously the job cycle proceeded in the sequence: Decide what type of reliability analysis should be applied. Extract, clean, and convert data into an analyzable sample as required for … Continue reading