Category: Data and samples
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Take the EAM data health check
If biological health depends on the quality of food we ingest a maintenance department will thrive on a diet of “good” data that it will convert to optimal decisions. Data analysis covers a vital role in maintenance management. Yet most managers doubt the analytic capability of historical data stored in their EAM work order systems.…
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Challenges to Achieving Reliability from Data
Slide 1 The objective (slides) We should think of data as an ocean over which we navigate hoping to arrive at our destination. Most maintenance organizations having been overwhelmed by limitless data, lose sight of their journey’s end. The shore they seek is the ability to “achieve reliability from data”. Slide 2 The milestones Many…
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Weibull exercises
We have seen that reliability analysis is about counting failure mode instances of failure and preventive renewal. The EAM should be our “counting machine” but, thus far, has not fulfilled that role for the reliability engineer. In these simple exercises we will perform reliability analysis and draw certain conclusions. Perkins marine diesel engine Problem background…
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LRCM – Reporting failure modes of rotable components
Living RCM demands that the technician transmit accurate, consistent information regarding the failure mode(s) found during the execution of a work order. But what if the technician does not know which failure mode in a removable complex component actually occurred? Introduction That would be the case when the event that causes the failure is due to…
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Does historical age data have value?
The following is a quote from a well known consultant: The biggest problem we have is lack of data… The data we do have in most cases is subject to different conditions as well. So if I have managed to collect 10 failures of a pump in 15 years, I am unlikely to be able…