Category Archives: CBM

Condition based maintenance

Inspections – CBM and others

An inspection is like the skin of an onion.     As you peel back each layer you will spend more money and time, but in return, you will get more information. For example: oil analysis – least expensive, least … Continue reading

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Confidence in predictive maintenance

Without a mechanism to evaluate a Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) program’s evolving performance CBM activities will degenerate to “busy work”. Data will continue to be collected, manipulated and filed as a matter of routine. To counter this tendency towards apathy, … Continue reading

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Variations in a sample

How do we account for variation in design or operating context when performing reliability analysis and building CBM optimization models, for example: Identical equipment working in different operational contexts – can they be treated as a single group of similar … Continue reading

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