There’s More Than Meets The Eye With OEE
It’s an important lagging indicator (one that’s covered extensively and quite well in The RAM Review). Using the multi-faceted OEE metric effectively requires a good understanding of what it can and can’t do.
The Power Of Contextual Performance Measurement
The power of performance measurement lies in its ability to tell “stories” that allow a current approach to maintenance or machine use to be verified, supported, or improved. How good is your site’s story-telling?
Lagging Metrics For Asset Management: OEE’s First Element (Availability, Part 2)
Here, the author continues his discussion on availability and, by extension, “unavailability,” of which there are two types: planned and unplanned. This article focuses specifically on the unplanned variety.
Part I: Electrical Signature Analysis & Transformers (A Case Study)
Despite the widespread use of Electrical Signature Analysis (ESA) to analyze motors and generators, little esearch has been published regarding its use with transformers. That’s about to change, and for good reason.
Some Rules Of The Road In Litigation Support
The author always calls it like he sees it. Here, he offers tips for engineers and other industry experts who get involved in legal cases. FYI: Becoming an advocate of anything but the truth can be dangerous.
Resetting Maintenance Field Supervision After The COVID Lockdowns
During the pandemic, most maintenance organizations made a variety of significant changes in their daily routines. But now, with the return to a tentative new normal, a reset is probably in order.
Engaging Your Entire Plant Floor Workforce For Improved Reliability
When attempting to drive reliability improvements at your site, don’t overlook the value of untapped talent in the workplace and multi-disciplined-group collaboration. It’s enormous. And powerful.
Successful Interfacing Ensures Uptime Goals Are Met
Reliability and the meeting of uptime goals don’t just happen. Desired plant-project outcomes depend on specific up-front activities and interactions between owner-operator representatives and contractors.
Assessing Criticality For Maintenance Purposes
Assets must be regularly assessed for criticality as operations change and improve. When it comes to maintenance of plant assets, understanding criticality is crucial to effective planning and scheduling.
Part VII: Machine Learning (ML) With Raw Electric Motor Data
This article wraps up a series that has walked readers through development of a simple machine-learning tool. The last step is to convert the tool into code that allows compilation of truly useful data.
