Tag: Risk
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Deepwater Horizon
The Deepwater Horizon accident resulted in 11 deaths and 700,000 T of crude oil dumped into the Gulf of Mexico causing the largest environmental disaster in United States history. We discuss briefly some of the most significant Technical, Organizational, Regulatory factors that caused or contributed to the gravity of the accident. Water, crude oil, natural…
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LRCM and HSE
Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE) disasters occur when numerous seemingly unrelated conditions and events coincide in ways that have received little or no serious attention by maintenance and operational staff. Still, executives and government regulators expect that a logical set of rules and procedures overseen by responsible management can avert the worst from happening. Yet…
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The elusive P-F interval
This article discusses the P-F Interval for CBM decision making, its areas of usefulness, and those areas where it is inadequate as a predictive maintenance strategy. An alternative more general approach based on the EXAKT system is proposed. Two categories of decisions, the first driven by failure probability, the second driven by both failure probability…
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Criticality analysis in RCM
Criticality Analysis may be applied at two levels of the RCM process. First, it may be used to sort or classify a large number of equipment assets as to their priority for analysis. Secondly criticality analysis may be applied to individual failure modes as in the FMECA process. Criticality analysis when performed on failure modes…