Tag Archives: Confidence
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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Tagged automation, Confidence, Continuous improvement, KPIs, LRCM, Optimization, RULE
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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 … Continue reading
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Data or reliability analysis is the main role of the Reliability Engineer (RE) in maintenance. In support of his quest for good data, the RE should organize and teach technicians, planners and supervisors how to complete maintenance work orders so … Continue reading
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Tagged Conditional density function, Confidence, Free text, KPIs, LRCM, Sample, Shape parameter, Standard deviation, What I did, What I found
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Confidence in predictive maintenance
Without a mechanism to evaluate a Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) program’s evolving performance CBM activities will degenerate to “busy work”. Data will continue to be collected, manipulated and filed as a matter of routine. To counter this tendency towards apathy, … Continue reading