Musings on Reliability and Maintenance Topics
Short essays and thoughts (musings) on reliability and maintenance engineering topics.
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The home of this blog has moved to Accendo Reliability. A reliability engineering professional development hub I’m developing. The set of articles in the Musings series for the core of the articles section of the site.
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- March 28, 2023So, What’s Still Wrong with Maintenance
ENTERPRISE ASSET MANAGEMENT AND MAINTENANCE WILL ALWAYS BE SPECTACULARLY UNSUCCESSFUL AT DELIVERING FAILURE-FREE EQUIPMENT, UNTIL YOU CHANGE TO AN EQUIPMENT WELLNESS PARADIGM — The role of Maintenance … - March 28, 2023Foundation of Great Project Outcomes – Structures
Guest Post by Malcolm Peart (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission) Structures are all around us, even chaos has structure albeit fractal. We humans too involved in str … - March 27, 2023What is the Difference Between Quality Assurance and Quality Control?
One of the most commonly asked questions about quality engineering is “What is the difference between quality assurance and quality control?” Quality assurance (QA) is a systematic approach to ensurin … - March 27, 2023Covariance of the Kaplan-Meier Estimators?
What are the covariances of Kaplan-Meier reliability estimates at different ages? I need them for the variance of actuarial demand forecasts and for confidence bands on reliability. I thought cohort r … - March 24, 2023Use Of RFID In Process Safety: Track Hazardous Chemicals And Track Personnel
RFID stands for Radio-Frequency IDentification. It is a small electronic device that consist of a chip (capable of carrying 2000 bytes of data) and an antenna. A RFID device provides a unique identifi … - March 22, 2023How to Reduce Maintenance Cost The Right Way
How to reduce maintenance cost the right way comes up a lot for our clients. Unfortunately, many organizations often have the goal of reducing maintenance cost. While the maintenance cost is an import … - March 21, 2023Significance Over Success. Innovation Over Change. Anticipation Over Agility
Guest Post by Daniel Burrus (first posted on CERM ® RISK INSIGHTS – reposted here with permission) Question for all who read this: to succeed at any business venture, you merely need to have huge reso … - March 21, 2023Maintenance Planning and Scheduling for World Class Reliability and Maintenance Performance
3-Day Training Course Day 3 Maintenance Planning and Maintenance Scheduling Slides with Complete Explanations Welcome to the final day of the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling for World Class Reliab … - March 20, 2023Self-Discipline Part 1
In our previous chapters, we talked about how the topics of the three previous chapters work together. In our analogy, we’re sailing a sailboat to the North Pole. This is done by using self-awareness … - March 17, 2023Is Safety Training Helpful?
Workplace Safety training is a big industry…every year companies are spending millions of dollars on training their employees. I have always doubted the efficacy of repetitive and boring training sess …