The Duties and Responsibilities of a Reliability Engineer The Reliability Engineer plays one of the most important roles in a business, especially for those whose operations depend on large, expensive pieces of equipment or technology. A reliability engineer is the … Continue reading
Improving Asset Lifecycles with a Quality Maintenance Management System Increasing an asset’s lifecycle is one of the best ways for a company to reduce its overall operation costs. Operating and maintaining large pieces of equipment are two of the most … Continue reading
This is the description of the RCM process as quoted in the SAE RCM Standard: Any RCM process shall ensure that all of the following seven questions are answered satisfactorily and are answered in the sequence shown below: a) What … Continue reading
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a process used to determine that systems are operating at their required levels of effectiveness, and ensure that they continue to do so. RCM is implemented with the aim of increasing cost-effectiveness, generating a greater … Continue reading
Chris Armitage and Reuben Wunder, Emerson, US, explain how asset reliability programmes help power plants keep the lights on. Most people only notice it when it is not there: the power to turn on a light with the flick of … Continue reading
An effective reliability program provides the right maintenance on the right assets at the right time. Rather than performing a critical evaluation of their reliability maintenance plans, many companies in the chemical process industries (CPI) replace malfunctioning or dated equipment … Continue reading
Ben Franklin once famously said, “nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Well, he left out another certainty – and that is that things fail. And unfortunately, they often fail at the most inopportune time. For … Continue reading
