Category: Case studies

  • Maintenance Decision Support Pilot at Orica

    Abstract – Does condition monitoring deliver the results you expect. Can we sharpen the saw and make a more informed reliability decision? The project investigated the use of a Maintenance Decision Support tool and how it may be used to improve reliability decisions based upon failure prediction. Data collection and manipulation proved to be the…

  • LRCM at Cerrejon

    Without an adequate data sample there can be no reliability analysis (RA). Without analysis there can be no systematic, verifiable improvement in reliability nor in operational economy. A sample is a collection of life cycles. A beginning and ending event define a failure mode life cycle. Well known obstacles impede the reliability engineer in his…

  • LRCM Lessons Learned

    A prominent mining operation uses the SAP maintenance module as their CMMS, As well they use the OSIsoft PI system. However, they admit that their data is messy, non-standardized, and unreliable as a result of a multitude of approaches and changes throughout the years. In other words, the “normal” situation. As a result of previous…