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Shon
What is Transitional Root Cause Analysis? How can it simplyfy my RCA efforts?
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Transitional Root Cause Analysis reliabilitynow.net
When I discuss RCA I use a method called Transformational Root Cause Analysis or TRCA for short. It is made up of 10 tools that can be explained and understood in a very short period of time. In the next few minutes I will...
Shireen
Shon
What work should be included in Wrench Time Studies?
Blog with the answer from reliability guru Andy Page is at reliabilitynow.com
Questions from the Field: Wrench Time Studies reliabilitynow.net
Questions: You had mentioned that we should only conduct a wrench time study on planned work. What is the reasoning behind this? If they get pulled off of their scheduled job to work on a“sponsored” job, should we terminate the...
Shon
How Long Does it Take to get from P to F on the Curve? We dont know.
Check out the latest post and let us know what you think. www.reliabilitynow.com
How Long Does it Take to get from P to F on the Curve reliabilitynow.net
The P-F interval (shown to the left) is sometimes taken as a graphic that shows how equipment fails and how long that failure will take. This is sometime called prognostics or remaining life. The truth of the matter is that it...
Charles
StudyL 79% of businesses at risk due to poor asset integrity management!
Asset Integrity Management -- or the lack thereof -- could pose a risk to industry. According to this study IFS North America just ...
While many industrial companies in a recent study report having asset integrity management plans and sustainability plans on file, only 21 percent are using information technology that would ensure those plans are being followed.
Shon
Are you using FMEA for more than just your equipment maintenance plan?
New post on other uses of failure modes effects analysis and FMECA in your quest for improved performance at ReliabilityNow.com
FMEA: Its Not Just for Maintenance Anymore reliabilitynow.net
I find it very interesting how many of the tools we reliability and maintenance engineers use within our jobs apply in a much broader sense. The obvious one is root cause analysis or RCA as it is known. It could be applied by...
Shon
What do helicopter PMs have to do with improving your Preventive Maintenance Strategy?
New blog post on a recent trip to have a helicopter serviced and the 5 things that we could learn from their "not quite best practice" ...
Are You Doing PM Right: 5 Things to Keep You in Flight reliabilitynow.net
So earlier this week I had the opportunity to fly the helicopter shown to the right in for its 100 hour Preventive Maintenance Inspection, which lead to many of the thoughts in this post. Private or General Aviation as it is...
Shireen
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David
How Important is Compressed Air in Your Plant?
How Important is Compressed Air in Your Plant?
I will state up front that my company is in the business of doing compressed air leak ...
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Shon
Five Why "Nots" Five Reasons Engineers Should Not Use 5 Whys
Blog post is here http://relnow.com/zyuoTI
Five Why "Nots": 5 Reasons Why Reliability Engineers Should Use More... reliabilitynow.net
5 reasons why Reliability Engineers should use more than 5 Whys for Root Cause Analysis First of all let's talk about what Five Whys is before we mention what it is not. It is a problem solving tool used in many facilities and...
Shon
Four ideas to improve ROI on RCA
Root Cause Analysis: Getting the Maximum Return On Investment from RCA
http://www.reliabilitynow.net/2012/03/root-cause-analysis-gettin ...
Root Cause Analysis: Getting the Maximum Return On Investment from RCA reliabilitynow.net
Many Root Cause Analysis (RCA) practitioners tend to rest a bit when they finish the report. They think “Wow that’s a good looking report, now off to solve another problem” and they miss the fact that they have not solved the...
Shon
Maintenance and Reliability Engineers: How Are They Different, And How Many Should I Have?
This is a quick look at a common question ask by many organizations around reliability and maintenance engineers http://www.reliabilityn ...
Maintenance and Reliability Engineers: How Are They Different, and... reliabilitynow.net
So another common question that folks ask when designing a new reliability organization is about the maintenance engineer (ME) and how he is different from the reliability engineer (RE) and how many of each they should have. We...
Bob
Get more involved with Plant Engineering
As a valued member of the Plant Engineering group, I want to first thank you for your participation. And I would like to take this ...
Shon
So is it a Planner, a Scheduler, or is it a Planner/Scheduler? What should you consider when designing your organization structure.
New Blog post at reliabilitynow.net
So is it a Planner, a Scheduler, or is it a Planner/Scheduler? reliabilitynow.net
Shon Isenhour Shon is the Director of Education for GPAllied and specializes in the philosophy, tools, and processes that provide sustainable overall reliability improvement and increased profits. View my complete profile The...
