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Thoughts from a mine maintenance engineer

A mine maintenance engineer writes: My topic of interest is on how to evaluate the risk, failure effects and cost implications on components and work in general, in order to achieve the best cost per hour scenario and availability of … Continue reading

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Mesh: 12 steps to achieving reliability from data

Mesh is a Living RCM (LRCM) knowledge management system. It interfaces with the EAM in order to achieve two principal objectives: Ensure systematic knowledge update whenever a technician encounters divergence between the RCM analysis and an observed failure behavior, and, … Continue reading

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How to assess EAM and CBM predictive capability

The article Take the EAM data health check provided maintenance engineers with a form for submitting their CBM and EAM data for assessment of its predictive decision support capability. In this article we’ll describe the methods we use to scrutinize … Continue reading

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EXAKT cost sensitivity analysis

Progress seldom proceeds smoothly. It occurs in steps. A new strategy of some kind usually precedes each step. If the strategy is right the individual or organization moves forward and benefits. The wrong strategy, however, will generate decisions that delay … Continue reading

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RCM – Reliability analysis in more than two dimensions is CBM

EXAKT basic tutorial This tutorial can be run using the EXAKT program. Please download  a fully functional trial version. Tutorial 1 will familiarize you with the basics of Weibull PHM analysis, how to create an optimal CBM model, and how to … Continue reading

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