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Challenges to Achieving Reliability from Data
Slide 1 The objective (slides) We should think of data as an ocean over which we navigate hoping to arrive at our destination. Most maintenance organizations having been overwhelmed by limitless data, lose sight of their journey’s end. The shore … Continue reading
LRCM – Reporting failure modes of rotable components
Living RCM demands that the technician transmit accurate, consistent information regarding the failure mode(s) found during the execution of a work order. But what if the technician does not know which failure mode in a removable complex component actually occurred? Introduction … Continue reading
Optimizing a Condition Based Maintenance Program with Gearbox Tooth Failure
A Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) policy is a procedure used by maintenance personnel to interpret a set of measured machine condition indicators and decide whether or not to renew a physical asset at the current moment. Traditionally CBM data interpretive policies … Continue reading
Diagnostics versus prognostics
Where is the divide between the process of troubleshooting and that of predictive condition based maintenance? Both sets of procedures require condition data and knowledge of failure behavior. How do these distinct processes work with one another? Some confusion in the … Continue reading
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