Reliability Engineering Articles
How Do You Select The Right KPIs?
As appeared in the January Edition of Noria’s Lean Journal e-newsletter
Principles are beliefs, codes or morals used to guide any client company’s business behavior. They bring consistency, predictability, integrity and trust to performance measurements across all functions so that employees can understand their role within the system. The target is to create employee ownership and the belief in ONE CULTURE, ONE TEAM.
Fatigue Failure in Bolted Joints
By Sam McNair, CMRP, of Life Cycle Engineering
As appeared in Plant EngineeringFatigue failures can be particularly hazardous because they often occur with no visible warning signs and the failure is often sudden and total. While most maintenance technicians understand how to torque fasteners properly, very few understand the reason why it is so critical to torque properly in applications subject to fatigue…
The Payoff – Alcoa Power Plant Reaps Rewards of Reliability
By Paul V. Arnold of Reliable Plant
Big rewards, new reputation, good publicity among the results of Alcoa's power plant's journey to Reliability Excellence…Analyzing the Relationship of Preventive Maintenance to Corrective Maintenance
By Robert (Bob) Call, CMRP of Life Cycle Engineering
As appeared in Maintenance TechnologyWhen establishing an effective maintenance program, one must determine not only which Preventive Maintenance (PM) routines to accomplish, but how often should they be done…
