Making your operation more reliable has always been at the heart of our quest. One of the biggest challenges we've encountered during this endeavor has been communicating to a plant what is needed to become more reliable. Do we have to start doing Condition Monitoring? What about doing RCM of FMEA's? Where do we buy Reliability?
It is a fact that most Reliability initiatives failed to obtain the full benefit it can offer. We've learn along the way that a major opportunity is developing helping everybody at a plant understand their role in a more Reliable operation and how to connect their daily work to the company's goal. Reliability is a business strategy. It cannot be viewed as an engineering or maintenance initiative.
Based on these facts we started to look for a holistic way yet easy to visualize for a corporation to present what it takes to become more Reliable and guide different groups within a plant to connect their roles into the goal of becoming a world class organization through excellence in Reliability.
The Uptime® Elements™ developed by Reliability Web and Uptime Magazine provide a simple way to understand reliability and how to integrate it into an organization. This framework comprises 4 main areas: Reliability Engineering for Maintenance, Asset Condition Management, Work Execution Management, and Leadership for Reliability. Excellence in all these areas is necessary for developing a successful Reliability Excellence initiative.
In this newsletter we present the framework as an effective guide for a company that wants to start their journey on Reliability. For our next publications we will use this framework as a reference of the areas of improvement and new challenges that can reap great benefits for your business by developing a Strategy focused on obtaining the value of your Reliability initiative.
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| Reliability: Concepts and Trends |
Carlos Mario Perez Jaramillo
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The most known concept to define reliability is: "Probability that an asset or system operates without failing during a given period of time under some operation conditions previously established."
Sometimes, this concept is wrongly used due to the particular use given to the word failure. For many, failure only means shutdowns, so they construct complex mathematical formulas to calculate shutdown probability without taking into account that a failure also occurs when being inefficient, insecure and costly, having a high rejection level, or contributing to a bad image.
Other factors to be taken into account are shutdown causes that may occur for numerous reasons, so comparing apples and oranges, as the expression goes, should be avoided.
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| Linking Enhanced Reliability to the State of Lubrication |
The lubricant Optimum Reference State (ORS) is a critical concept in the journey to world-class lubrication and enhanced machine reliability. In short, it is the prescribed state of machine configuration, operating conditions and maintenance activities required to achieve and sustain specific reliability objectives. Lubrication excellence is achieved when the current state of lubrication approaches that of the Optimum Reference State. If you don't understand the ORS, you probably don't understand the most fundamental concepts in machine reliability. Continue reading.
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It is becoming increasingly evident that the lack of world-class support from the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) stores is having a significant and detrimental effect on maintenance reliability programs. Fill rates (i.e., availability of needed parts from stores) average less than 75 percent. This means the availability factor of parts needed is not reliable. A reliable plant requires all functions in maintenance's lean reliability programs to be reliable. Since availability of parts needed is a component of the reliability program, an unreliable MRO storeroom becomes detrimental to reliability goals.
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| 7 Leadership Takeaways From The Battlefield To The Boardroom |
[...] Below are seven leadership takeaways from the battlefield for the boardroom:
1. Location is everything. Location affords opportunities that otherwise wouldn't occur-just ask a street vendor, a realtor, or a police officer waiting behind a bush with a radar gun. The people with whom you interact daily help increase idea flow (or completely block it). What does this mean for business? Plenty.
The silos that divide businesses do so physically and culturally, as communication flow becomes stifled and trust deteriorates because interaction is less frequent.
Furthermore, reporting to the same desk every day and interacting with the same people restricts new conversational sparks. Remember Einstein's quote: "no problem can be solved from the same thinking that created it." In other words, constancy and habit can void the potential for any opportunity to evolve , and location is a significant determinant of this. Location is everything.
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VIBRA Reliability Engineering Services
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VIBRA can help you improve your equipment maintenance plan through the following reliability and value-focused services:
As part of a risk-based asset management strategy, effective Equipment Maintenance Plans (EMP) and associated tasks will help eliminate your current bad actor problems, and improve asset availability while decreasing total cost of ownership.
Our services adjust to your specific needs. Contact us for more information.
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FEATURED PRODUCT
The
Certified Reliability Leader Uptime Elements Passport Series
This set inlcudes:
- Certified Reliability Leader Travel Guide: Reliability Leadership
- Certified Reliability Leader Uptime Elements Passports (29)
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May 10-12
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1,310/p.p.
in San Juan, PR
This course provides foundational training in industrial lubricants, machinery lubrication and oil sampling. It lays the groundwork for establishing a lubrication and oil analysis program. Training will be conducted in Spanish.
Participants will have the option to take the certification exam, MLT-1 or MLA-1, offered by the International Council of Machinery Lubrication.
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August 22-26 in San Juan, PR
$1,795/p.p. includes certification exam
You will come away with a solid understanding of why we monitor the condition of rotating machinery (and other critical assets), the importance of improved reliability, and how the vibration can be successfully measured and analyzed to provide an early warning of a wide range of fault conditions. After the training, you will be able to take the exam to obtain the international certification in Vibration Analysis Level 1, accredited by Mobius Institute.
Mobius Institute is a worldwide provider of Reliability Improvement, Condition Monitoring and Precision Maintenance education to industrial plant managers, reliability engineers and condition monitoring technicians.
Mobius Institute Board of Certification (MIBoC) is ISO/IEC 17024 and ISO 18436 accredited, providing globally recognized certification to Category I-IV vibration analysts in accordance with ISO 18436-1 and 18436-2.
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