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Reliability Insights

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Reliability Insights

A collection of short, to-the-point and pratical posts on all aspects of maintenance & reliability.
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The Waddington Effect

Is doing more maintenance ‘good’?   It’s common to think so. I mean, it makes sense that the more maintenance you do… the less likely your

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In-Depth Articles

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Escaping the Vicious Cycle of Reactive Maintenance: The 4 Essential Steps on the Road to Reliability

Escaping the Vicious Cycle of Reactive Maintenance: The 4 Essential Steps on the Road to Reliability

Most industrial plants around the world are trapped in the vicious cycle of reactive maintenance. These plants and their teams silently suffer from low reliability, high maintenance costs, low morale, and too much stress. Unfortunately, the journey to create a Reliable Plant has been made unnecessarily complex. In this article, I will show you how to escape the reactive maintenance environment in 4 simple steps. The Reactive Maintenance Trap But first, let’s set the scene. Imagine it's a typical Tuesday afternoon when suddenly, a critical piece of equipment fails. Production grinds to a halt, stress levels soar, and you're at

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Your CBM Efforts Will Fail Without Effective Planning & Scheduling

Your CBM Efforts Will Fail Without Effective Planning & Scheduling

This article first appeared in reliable plant. You can read the first version of this article here. Many maintenance organisations around the world are reactive. They experience excessive breakdowns, low productivity, and high maintenance costs. To break this reactive cycle, a common solution organisations implement is Condition-Based Maintenance. The problem is this strategy rarely works. They pay for CBM solutions but get the results of a run-to-failure strategy. Here’s how to avoid that. Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) technologies are some of the most sold solutions in the field of maintenance. And with the recent interest in AI and the Industrial

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The Reliability Culture Ladder

The Reliability Culture Ladder

When it comes to improving reliability in your plant, culture is key to your long term success. Without establishing the right culture your hard-won improvements will simply erode over time. And before you know it, you’ll be back in that vicious cycle of reactive maintenance. But what is reliability culture? And how do you measure it? Can you even measure it? In this article, I will introduce the “Reliability Culture Ladder". It is a simple concept to help you assess your reliability culture. A Word of Warning: This is a long, in-depth article. I share in detail how I explored

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MTBF: What is it? And should you use it or ditch it?

MTBF: What is it? And should you use it or ditch it?

Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is one of the most widely recognised and yet least understood indicators in the maintenance and reliability world. Manufacturers quote it as a rating of their products and industry uses it as a measure of success. But there is so much misunderstanding associated with MTBF that there is even an online movement to abandon MTBF. In this article, I will explain in simple terms what MTBS is, what it’s not, when to use and when not. What is MTBF? It is said that the great Greek philosopher Socrates argued that “the beginning of wisdom is

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The Reliability Culture Ladder

When it comes to improving reliability in your plant, culture is key to your long term success. Without establishing the right culture your hard-won improvements

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