Category: Data and samples
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So you’re getting an EAM
Maintenance engineers are constantly aware of obstacles impeding their organization’s maintenance goals. Hence they explore specific actions, activities, and projects that would remove those barriers and support the goals. In the context of their on-going EAM investment, given real day-to-day time and human resource constraints, how can the maintenance department leverage its substantive knowledge and data to achieve physical…
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The reliability data Catch 22
Ever wonder why poor historical work order data in the CMMS has been tolerated all these decades? One reason is that the fix is a human one. And human behavior is difficult to change. We tend to avoid difficult human problems, ultimately seeking a technological solution to everything. But there’s also a kind of paradox…
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Data is the key to the way forward
We all believe or we suspect that data is the key to the way forwards – i.e. the quality, type and timely input into a software program will turn out optimal inspection frequencies and other types of maintenance decisions. More specifically, there are two broad categories of data needed for analysis and decision modeling: Condition…
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Maintenance software
Understanding how all the different products EAM/CMMS/RCM/AIP etc fit into the mining or energy space and then how they could be applied to a particular business can be daunting. Where does each product type fit? What are the differences among EXACT/LRCM, Meridium, Ivara and Utilicase products? Would they be competitors or would EXAKT/LRCM support those…
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How much data is required for RA?
What is the minimum number of failure events needed for Reliability Analysis (RA)? If a company does not have good historical data do we have to wait for those events to occur before being able to build predictive models? A related question would be, what do we do with all the PM or overhaul data, where…