Why does silicone cause carbon brush wear in DC motors? It is known that the presence of silicone will cause very rapid wear of carbon
Manufacturing facilities know downtime is money. Every hour you are offline for a shutdown (SD) is costly from both lost revenue and cost of the workforce
I interviewed a mine operations manager in Newcastle, Australia, who said, “I have no idea what work orders or reliability improvements have been finished in
What is corrective maintenance? In the simplest terms, corrective maintenance is defined as: All maintenance performed to correct a break down or failure. You can
Does rapid change of maintenance performance exist? If change is equivalent to sustainable improvements the answer to this question is “No”. My experience has shown
Jag har skrivit mycket om att arbeta i ett partnerskap i stället för att arbeta i ett kund och leverantörförhållande mellan drift och underhåll. Jag
Every plant or facility desires to have a documented PM program in place- one that is followed with discipline. Doing so provides the lowest overall
One of the exercises in IDCON’s Work Management Planning and Scheduling Training is to assign the right priority for jobs. Setting priorities for work requests
A successful partnership between operations and maintenance is rooted in unified work processes. IDCON defines work processes as something documented, executed and followed up on.
Companies tend to minimize the impact of basic cleanliness on equipment / components. Maintenance usually emphasize in condition monitoring programs such as vibration, temperature (motors,
Carbon brush grades are usually classified according to the manufacturing processes and the types of carbons, graphites, and other ingredients used. The 4 main brush
Management’s responsibility is to develop a process that the organization can follow in their daily job to execute or perform their work. Here are 4
The skilled millwright and pump specialist has experienced multiple breakdowns with a centrifugal pump. The pump has been rebuilt multiple times but it keeps breaking
If you want to improve production reliability in one or more facilities, it is important to have a clear picture of the reliability goal(s). At
Maintenance Training should always include “why” someone is doing a task. I’m going to tell you a story about my early days in maintenance to
We all know that in a reactive maintenance organization 60 – 70 % of crafts people’s time is wasted on finding out what to do,
Reactive maintenance is here defined as all maintenance work that was scheduled less than 20 hours before it was executed. It makes sense that there
As a result of this column I am risking to receive critique, but also to be given feed back expressing relief from readers who believe
The purpose of this article is to raise questions and challenge plant leadership on strategy, vision and execution of plant reliability and overall maintenance management.
In parts 1, 2 and 3 of this column series, I outlined the need for developing maintenance leadership (visit the Reliable Plant Web site at www.reliableplant.com to
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