Category Archives: Theory and definitions

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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Data is the key to the way forward

We all believe  or we suspect that data is the key to the way forwards – i.e. the quality, type and timely input into a software program will turn out optimal inspection frequencies and other types of maintenance decisions. More … Continue reading

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Measuring and Improving CBM Effectiveness

Maintenance departments regularly implement policies and technology aimed at improving maintenance effectiveness. However engineers who implement and justify such projects in the maintenance department often encounter difficulty when trying to quantify, credibly, a project’s impact on maintenance or on asset … Continue reading

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A survey of signal processing and decision technologies for CBM

Introduction Condition-based Maintenance recommends actions based on information acquired through observation and analysis. We note, moreover, that  the CBM process, itself contains three sub-processes or steps: data acquisiton, signal processing, and maintenance decision making.

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Difference between LRCM and EXAKT

What is the difference in LRCM & EXAKT EXAKT is a software application for performing Reliability Analysis (RA). RA is a general set of software enabled procedures used by Reliability/Maintenance Engineers to develop and deploy rules (called models). These models … Continue reading

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