Educate for the Trades
By Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) and Dr...
Failure Codes Key To Problem Elimination
Q: How important are failure codes? A: A better way to ask the question is, “What are failure codes...
TBM Can’t Stand Alone
Q: What’s wrong with time-based maintenance? A: Time-based maintenance (TBM) is running out of time...
Schedule 100% Of Available Hours
By Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) and Jeff...
ON THE FLOOR
Each month we talk with maintenance and technology professionals about their views and pressing problems on the factory floor.
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ISO 55001 Doesn’t Guarantee Best PracticesQ: Why should ISO 55001 be used to improve asset management? A: Asset management is about balancing opportunities, risks, challenges, and costs to enable value creation (defined by your company objectives/goals). This should be done with the entire life cycle of assets in mind.
Make Realistic Goals And Stick to Them
Q: Will you keep your 2021 reliability and maintenance resolutions? A: Based on 2019 data: • 7% of...
Develop Continuous Improvement Muscle Memory
Q : Is a Kaizen event or coaching kata best for continuous improvement? A : There are many tools...
Bad Systems Beat Good People
Q: Do you have metrics or KPIs? A: Metrics are detailed measures that feed and supplement KPIs (key...
Manage Your Groundhog Day
Q: How important is resilience in driving reliability results?
Precision Maintenance Drives Uptime
By Dr. Klaus M. Blache, Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) and Tim...
Outsource? Internalize? It Depends.
By Dr. Klaus M. Blache and Dr. F. H. (Skipper) Yocum Univ. of Tennessee Reliability and...
Reliability Engineering Students Share Views
Q: What are engineering students saying about reliability? A: Four reliability and maintainability...
Develop An Operator-Maintenance Partnership
Q: What is the role of the operator in reliability and maintenance? A: Although TPM (total...
