Category: CBM
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Combined analysis for early predictive maintenance
In an article in Machinery Lubrication Using ‘Unscheduled’ Oil Analysis for Early Predictive Maintenance author Jim Fitch expounds from the premise that we may advance potential failure detection by conducting other tests in addition to the primary PdM method. Figure 1. Early Predictive Maintenance P-F Interval Scheme (Source LivingReliability Inc. June 2103) Many RCM consultants…
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PM, PdM, Proactive Maintenance
Here are my definitions of these terms: Preventive Maintenance: A general category covering maintenance tasks (called policies) that seek to anticipate and deal with failures that could likely occur in the future. Preventive Maintenance is a super-set of strategies that include Time Based Maintenance (TBM) and Predictive Maintenance (PdM). Time (Age) Based Maintenance (PM): A…
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Automating CBM
It has been said, with considerable justification, that a condition based maintenance policy is of little practical use to a maintenance organization unless it can be automated. Proliferating oceans of condition data have outpaced the limited human resources that can be dedicated to CBM decision making. The solution is to automate CBM – not only…
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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…