Category Archives: KPIs
Measuring and Improving 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, a project’s impact on maintenance or on asset … Continue reading
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Two philosophies in maintenance improvement
Maintenance managers improve performance in two ways, described roughly as: technology centric, and people centric. Technology The technology centric approach relies on two main types of information systems: automated testing and diagnostics, and work management systems Automated diagnostic systems provide … Continue reading
Leading and lagging performance numbers
One point of discussion is the role of high level (lagging) KPIs. In mining, over the last decade, given the unrelenting world demand for resources, the KPI of greatest concern has been Availability, almost to the exclusion of other considerations. … Continue reading
Reliability engineer’s work cycle
LRCM changes, in a fundamental way, how our reliability engineers work. Previously the job cycle proceeded in the sequence: Decide what type of reliability analysis should be applied. Extract, clean, and convert data into an analyzable sample as required for … Continue reading
Performance metrics – Low and High level KPIs
Performance metrics should point us to precisely what we need to improve currently in our maintenance process. That is, they should trigger a control action. Subsequently they should confirm and measure the extent to which the control action had the … Continue reading