Manufacturing capital projects have followed a similar path for many decades. The project team designs, executes and commissions the project, provides training for the operations staff, and hands it over to them to run. What is often lacking in this approach is the...
Author: Derek Thomas Today's manufacturers of consumer packaged goods (CPGs) are facing new and significant challenges stemming from extraordinary changes in consumer preferences, increasing global competitiveness and a diminishing skilled-labor workforce. Unchecked,...
As the technology and work practices have progressed, so has reliability practices from reactive to preventive to predictive maintenance (PdM). In a Plant Engineering article, The path to prescriptive maintenance, Emerson's Will Goetz describes prescriptive...
Tools and methodologies to improve plant reliability have existed for many years. Examples include criticality analysis, reliability-centered maintenance analysis (RCMA), failure modes, effects, and diagnostic analysis (FMEDA) and root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to...
Unplanned downtime remains the top issue for most process manufacturers and producers. At the ARC Industry Forum, ARC's Craig Resnick led a panel, Strategies to Reduce Downtime and Increase Plant KPIs. Emerson's Will Goetz participated in the panel to discuss the...
Process manufacturing plants with thousands or tens of thousands of measurement devices must keep these operating reliably and accurately for the process control strategies to perform effectively. Maintenance technicians have the responsibility to configure,...
Whether it's your car or an asset in your production facility, running it to failure can be costly, unsafe and inconvenient. In terms of maintenance reliability, the U.S. National Response center noted that "…it costs 50% more to repair a broken component than one...
Whether driving down the road in your car or operating your manufacturing facility, the safest times are when operating at steady-state conditions. It's the times in transient states, such as startups, shutdowns, turning at intersections, etc. where the probability of...
Author: Douglas Morris Today's fossil power plants are faced with the challenge of stabilizing the fluctuating grid power supply due to renewable generation and, as a result, plants originally designed for base load are subject to load cycling. A principal consequence...
In the face of scarce capital for manufacturers and producers across many industries, optimizing the performance of existing assets often increases in priority. In an ARC Advisory Group whitepaper, Driving Maximum Asset Capability (summary), author Dick Hill notes: In...
If your responsible for reliability and maintenance practices at your facility, I'm sure you're very aware of Uptime magazine and the Reliabilityweb.com site. Last week at the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, CEO and Publisher Terrence O'Hanlon recorded a 9:11...
At the Emerson Exchange conference in Austin, Emerson's Will Goetz presented, Best Practices for Using Condition Monitoring to Drive Maintenance Workflows. His abstract: A well designed condition monitoring system can find the early warning signs of failures but what...
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