Maintenance Planning and Scheduling: An Overview - Reliable Plant
WEBMaintenance planning and scheduling are two different functions that, when used together, form a maintenance program. Maintenance planning can be defined as an end-to-end process that identifies and addresses any possible issues ahead of time. This involves identifying the parts and tools necessary for jobs and making sure they're available and ...
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): An Overview - Reliable Plant
WEBThe quality part of the equation is calculated as: (12,000 - 3,000 defects) / 12,000 = 75 percent Quality. Another way to look at it is 3,000 bottles / 60 bottles per minute = 50 minutes lost quality. So, to calculate the overall equipment effectiveness (Availability x Performance x Quality = OEE), we'd take 62.5 percent x 66.7 percent x 75 ...
Fishbone Diagram Explained - Reliable Plant
WEBA fishbone diagram is a cause-and-effect discovery tool that helps figure out the reason (s) for defects, variations or failures within a process. In other words, it helps break down, in successive layers, root causes that potentially contribute to an effect. Sometimes called an Ishikawa diagram or cause-and-effect analysis, a fishbone diagram ...
How to Implement Total Productive Maintenance - Reliable Plant
WEBCompanies that have been successful usually follow an implementation plan that includes the following 12 steps: Step 1:Announcement of TPM. Top management needs to create an environment that will support the introduction of TPM. Without the support of management, skepticism and resistance will kill the initiative.
Magazine Archive - Reliable Plant
WEBMay 2006. March 2006. January 2006. November 2005. October 2005. September 2005. July 2005. January 2005. Reliable Plant offers industrial plant professionals information on reliability, maintenance, lean manufacturing, energy management and workplace safety.
How to Manage a Plant Shutdown - Reliable Plant
WEBThe key to a successful shutdown is to start the planning process early. Allow plenty of time to plan each job in detail, obtain competitive bids on contract work, manage the process inventory to gain access to tanks and other equipment for inspection, etc. A detailed "shutdown countdown" process should also be developed, including a list of ...
Maintenance Management: An Overview - Reliable Plant
WEBMaintenance management is defined as the process of maintaining a company's assets and resources while controlling time and costs, thereby ensuring maximum efficiency of the manufacturing process. Maintenance management has gone from an archaic, tedious, handwritten process to a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) — a …
Preventive Maintenance: An Overview - Reliable Plant
WEBThe ultimate goal of preventive maintenance is nothing breaking down, or zero downtime. The main objectives of preventive maintenance are as follows: Enhance asset/equipment productive life. Reduce critical equipment breakdowns. Minimize production loss due to equipment failures.
Reliability Engineering Principles for the Plant Engineer
WEBSo, for a simple system with three subsystems, or sub-functions, each having an estimated reliability of 0.90 (90%) at time (t), the system reliability is calculated as 0.90 X 0.90 X 0.90 = 0.729, or about 73%. Figure 9. Simple Serial System. Often, design engineers will incorporate redundancy into critical machines.
Predictive Maintenance Explained - Reliable Plant
WEBPredictive maintenance (PdM) is maintenance that monitors the performance and condition of equipment during normal operation to reduce the likelihood of failures. Also known as condition-based maintenance, predictive maintenance has been utilized in the industrial world since the 1990s. Yet, in reality, predictive maintenance is much older ...
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