Asset Management / Life Cycle Cost

Asset Management

Physical Asset Management: Turning your Vision into Reality

Almost every maintenance manager has thought to themselves, “there has to be a better way to achieve this goal,” only to realize the organization and its governance are critical to the successful implementation of improved physical asset management. For those of you with a vision of improving physical asset management within your manufacturing operations, perhaps the largest threat to successful implementation are the past practices which have already been widely accepted and deployed.

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Root Cause

Metal Fatigue Failure

Metal fatigue is the common name used to describe the unexpected failure of metal parts by progressive fracturing while in service. The article is a basic introduction to the mechanism of metal fatigue failure. An introduction into accepted theories is provided and relevant design practices to reduce metal fatigue are presented and explained.

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Root Cause

Studying Fractures: Recognizing and Understanding Failure Modes

To understand why a part or equipment failed, how it failed must be first diagnosed. Different failure modes such as fatigue, brittle, and corrosion all have very different causes and very different solutions. If an investigation were to guess at the failure mode and guess wrongly, the planned remediation may not address the true cause of failure and additional failures may occur. This article considers three failed chain links and demonstrates the importance of identifying how something failed.

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Asset Management

Asset Performance Management Improvement by the Numbers

Supply and demand out of phase, finished goods and raw materials supply chains disrupted, energy costs instability, and skilled workers shortages are all common concerns across the globe. Solutions for relief are paramount. In these troubling times of global financial uncertainty any improvements in how we operate our equipment is sought. It is said that the product of asset management (AM) is reliability, that is, poor management equals poor reliability and good management practices will provide good equipment reliability.

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Preventive Maintenance

Brinelling and False Brinelling

What is the difference between Brinelling and False Brinelling? What causes Brinelling and False Brinelling? Brinelling is an indentation in the surface of a material; a permanent plastic deformation that occurs when the yield strength of the material has been exceeded.

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Condition Monitoring

Common Mechanisms of Failure & Preventive Methods

Why do components fail? – This article explains common failure mechanisms, component types to which each applies, and suggests non-intrusive monitoring techniques to discover components in various stages of progressive failure. 

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Preventive Maintenance

Linear and Nonlinear Vibrations

Linear and nonlinear vibrations as they pertain to machinery vibration monitoring are not hard concepts to grasp when properly explained. Alian Friedman of Zenco – Vibration Experts, explains the concepts in an easy-to-understand, non-mathematical way.

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Condition Monitoring

Gaps in Your Electric Motor Reliability Program

Costly oversights occur repeatedly despite thoughtful planning dedicated to maximizing the operation and lifespan of the motor. One unsettling realization is that testing, considered part and parcel of preventive maintenance, is not preventing anything because there is nothing to indicate that analyzing the data was even considered. This is a major pitfall and a classic example of a gap in a company’s motor management program.

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