Category Archives: CBM
Data analysis precedes reliability analysis
Modern diesel engines are reliable. Nevertheless internal components do fail occasionally. More often failures occur in ancillary components such as injectors, coolant pump, fuel pump, lubricant pump, and other components. When performing a reliability analysis we don’t prejudge the outcome … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Videos
The purpose of this entire website is to convey to the maintenance management and engineering world the indispensable Living RCM (LRCM) approach towards continuous improvement in maintenance. The videos on this page will demonstrate how the LRCM philosophy and methodology … Continue reading
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Tagged CBM and CMMS, Continuous improvement, EXAKT, LRCM
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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