When you think of machinery for industrial use, often images of refineries, oil & gas production sites and other visual images come to mind. But what about the machinery and other equipment in industries with shiny stainless steel everywhere, such as...
Reliability
Transforming Reliability Work Practices
Every day, our lives continue to be digitally transformed in how we communicate and engage with each other. It's not just the technologies in smart phones, smart watches and applications; it's how we use these technologies to change the way we accomplish things. The...
10 Critical Steps for Digital Transformation Initiatives
We see digital transformations all around us in our daily lives—music, streaming movies and shows, transportation, etc. But what about in our world of manufacturing and production that relies on the tried and true? Many initiatives are underway as pilots and successes...
5 Questions for Operational Certainty Consultant Jerry Chen
Emerson's Jerry Chen joins our continuing podcast series, 5 Questions for an Emerson Expert. As an Operational Certainty Consultant, Jerry works with clients to help build a reliability culture for their maintenance professionals. He works with them to implement the...
PeakVue Analytics for More Reliable Machinery Performance
Yesterday, in a post, How to Prevent Bearing Failures, we described how PeakVue analytics technology can provide early warning for bearing problems. In this 6-minute YouTube video, PeakVue Signal Processing Demo, Emerson's Robert Skeirik describes how these advanced...
Optimizing Power Generation Maintenance Strategies
Emerson's Alex Flick presented Optimizing Power Generation Maintenance Strategies Using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Analysis at the 2018 Ovation Users' Group Conference. Alex opened by sharing a story of a North American generating station. The plant was...
Early Project Planning of Asset Data Standards
Capital project team members are under constant pressure to meet project deadlines and get the manufacturing or production process up and running. But how do they ensure that the capital assets installed will run reliably over time? In an Efficient Plant article, Data...
Fostering Collaborative Maintenance Practices
Tools that advance collaborative efforts among co-workers, especially for maintenance teams in manufacturing operations, help increase reliable and efficient operations. Here's an under 3-minute YouTube video example, Managing Device Configurations with AMS Trex,...
Designing for High Performance Reliability during Project Phase
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...
Operational Excellence in Packaging Operations is Key to Remaining Competitive in Today’s Market
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,...
Organizational Readiness for Top Quartile Reliability Performance
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...
Plant Reliability and the Industrial Internet of Things
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...
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