Category Archives: Data and samples
What is Maintenance Decision Automation?
We automate a decision process because we don’t want to make day-to-day decisions each time from first principles. There aren’t sufficient human resources available in the Maintenance Department to eyeball every graph of condition monitoring data and every work order … Continue reading
The reliability data Catch 22
Ever wonder why poor historical work order data in the CMMS has been tolerated all these decades? One reason is that the fix is a human one. And human behavior is difficult to change. We tend to avoid difficult human … Continue reading
CMMS Impediments to Reliability Analysis
In the maintenance department of a reliability-obsessed and maintenance-intensive company, both RCM (Reliability-Centered Maintenance) knowledge and work order information are stored in different databases using different software packages. CMMS v.s. RCM The two software applications have different purposes: RCM knowledge … Continue reading
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Maintenance software
Understanding how all the different products EAM/CMMS/RCM/AIP etc fit into the mining or energy space and then how they could be applied to a particular business can be daunting. Where does each product type fit? What are the differences among … Continue reading
Failure analysis for reliability analysis
The dismantling of an Engine can occur for one of several reasons, for example, as a result of failure, symptoms of impending failure, or because the unit has reached its predetermined age of overhaul. For whatever reason an overhaul represents a … Continue reading
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