Tag: Data
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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…
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What’s the right data?
Most meetings or conversation about quantifiable reliability improvement usually end up in a discussion of data and how bad it is. How do we navigate around this impasse? It does seem as though most maintenance discussions, whether in formal meetings or in the corridor, include a frustrated restatement of the inadequacy of data. Why are…
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Elevator description of LRCM
Someone asked for a LRCM description that is easy to grasp in a short sales oriented narrative? In other words what is elevator pitch? Here it is. This might be a longer than average elevator ride, though: For many decades now, maintenance engineers have tried to harvest data to improve the reliability and cost of…
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The data barrier to analysis
For years one maintenance organization has invested significant resources in all forms of improvement technology. These include a state-of-the art oil analysis laboratory, RCM, CBM integrated with CMMS, vibration analysis, diagnostics, real time monitoring, RCA, six-sigma, LEAN, TPM, Weibull, Proportional Hazard Modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, ISO 9000, 14000, 55000 and the list goes on. Yet…