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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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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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