Category Archives: CBM

Condition based maintenance

LRCM-EXAKT – a general solution

One might imagine that we can obtain practical improvement in maintenance effectiveness of LRCM more quickly and inexpensively by concentrating our efforts on a single CBM technology such as Oil Analysis. The supposition is reasonable, but avoids the underlying obstacle … Continue reading

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EXAKT’s Three Modules

EXAKT is a set of software modules for accomplishing physical asset reliability from maintenance related data that is commonly available in an industrial organization. There are three EXAKT modules. They are listed in the following paragraphs: EXAKT for Modeling. This is … Continue reading

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Measuring 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, their performance impact. The problem lies in the … 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 software 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 support, monitor, … Continue reading

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