Category Archives: Data and samples

What’s the right data?

Most meetings or conversation about quantifiable reliability improvement usually end up in a discussion of data and how bad it is. How do we navigate around this impasse? It does seem as though most maintenance discussions, whether in formal meetings … Continue reading

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RA requires LRCM

The idea behind EXAKT  is an appealing one. What can be more desirable than a systematic way to determine the “exact” relationship between condition monitoring data and impending failure? Although I wish that I could say that EXAKT auto-magically generates … Continue reading

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Interpreting failure data

Here is an excerpt from the famous Nowlen & Heap RCM report of 1978. It describes some basic difficulties in the analysis of reliability related data. The problem of interpreting failure data is further complicated by differences in reporting policy … Continue reading

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Sample selection

A good sample should include both good and bad actors. For example, pumps that fail frequently as well as those that do not fail or fail infrequently should be included. This ensures an unbiased sample. Normally the analyst takes two … Continue reading

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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

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