Category Archives: Reliability Analysis
Expected failure time for an item whose maintenance policy is time-based
Let Tc be the time of a cycle, tp the preventive maintenance time interval, and T the failure time. The expected life cycle Tc will be the planned maintenance time tp multiplied by the probability that planned maintenance does occur, plus the … Continue reading
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The role of media in living RCM
MESH LRCM provides an image gallery associated with each Failure Mode. The reason for this feature is directly related to practical Reliability Analysis (RA) which is why it is unique to LRCM. It is essential, for purposes of RA that … Continue reading
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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
EXAKT needs LRCM
The most important practical issue from our experience is that EXAKT cannot give satisfactory service to a typical maintenance department without the LRCM process implemented. The reason for this is that EXAKT is extremely sensitive to the accuracy of discrimination … Continue reading
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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