Tag: RULE
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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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How to start LRCM
Most large maintenance organizations have a history of pursuit of excellence on the cutting edge of maintenance management. They are avid consumers of maintenance technology, their staff read maintenance related magazines, and they attempt to implement most of the new ideas that they find there. These often include: Condition monitoring, design for reliability and maintainability,…
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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, managers should periodically justify, in terms of profitability and safety, the resources allocated to CBM.…