fbpx

Reliability Insights

Read our short, to the point, practical ‘Reliability Insights’ and delve deeper into a topic with our in-depth, actionable ‘Articles’

Reliability Insights

A collection of short, to-the-point and pratical posts on all aspects of maintenance & reliability.
Filter by:
Reliability Insights

Maintenance Planners deserve BETTER. 

Maintenance Planners are the unsung heroes responsible for increasing your team’s productivity by at least 30%, translating to hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of

Learn More

In-Depth Articles

Delve deeper into a topic with our In-Depth Articles that provide action knowledge:

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

Read More
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

Read More
Cutting maintenance: 4 steps to sustainable maintenance cost reductions

Cutting maintenance: 4 steps to sustainable maintenance cost reductions

Cutting maintenance costs is easy. Just stop doing the work and the costs are gone. Most industrial plants will keep running longer than we think when we adopt this type of indiscriminate maintenance cost reduction. But chances are we’ve all experienced the longer-term effects of bad decisions when it comes to cutting maintenance cost like that. With COVID-19 the pressure is on once again as all industries struggle to work through this global economic downturn. But instead of indiscriminate cutting, how about this time we adopt a more sustainable way to reduce maintenance costs?  Let me provide you with a

Read More
Why the FMEA is my equipment not reliable?

Why the FMEA is my equipment not reliable?

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis – or FMEA for short – is widely used across many industries. Often in the design phase of new equipment. But also to troubleshoot poor performing equipment. In this article, I will give a detailed overview of FMEA’s. The origin of FMEAs, when to use them, and how to conduct an FMEA. I’ve also included an easy-to-use FMEA template. This is a long and detailed post, I will always bring it back to our main focus. And that is how to use FMEAs to improve plant reliability. What is FMEA? A Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is

Read More
reliability culture matters
Leadership & Culture

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

Learn More