Author: Murray Wiseman
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LRCM reliability analyst survey results
Mesh LRCM has two principal objectives. First, to ensure analyzable work order data, and second, to update the RCM knowledge base whenever it deviates from reality as observed by the technician. On a scale of one to 10, six maintenance engineers and reliability analysts, a half year after Mesh’s implementation, rated LRCM against their prior,…
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Inspections or CBM?
A maintenance professional comments: According to the definition that you provide, you would actually group inspections as CBM activities. This is semantics I think, but the term condition-based maintenance would make me believe that it relates to an activity that is prompted by analysis that indicates the condition is unsatisfactory for continued service. That is…
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Predictive analytics
The advent of the Mesh Living RCM cloud service brings true predictive maintenance to the forefront of Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) technology. The mind map describes the elements of this new capability offered to maintenance departments.
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Thoughts from a mine maintenance engineer
A mine maintenance engineer writes: My topic of interest is on how to evaluate the risk, failure effects and cost implications on components and work in general, in order to achieve the best cost per hour scenario and availability of equipment. For an example, if we look at a component. It has high hours!! but…
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Deploying the CBM model
Automated CBM decisions It has been said that unless CBM can be automated, its usefulness is minimal. That is because there just aren’t enough human resources in a maintenance department to eyeball data as it arrives and decide on a reasonable preventive action. As data proliferates driven by ever growing technology the gap will widen…