Category Archives: Reliability Analysis

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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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

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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

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EXAKT vs Weibull

The difference is that Weibull is a reliability analysis procedure in two dimensions, namely Reliability versus Age. Its main purpose is to discover the relationship (equation) relating reliability and age. EXAKT is a reliability analysis software that relates several dimensions, … 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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