Maintenance & Reliability
HP Reliability: How installation and operation influence MTBF
Mean-time-between and mean-time-to-failure (MTBF and MTTF) can differ for the same equipment. The differences are often attributable to quality of installation and grade of operation. This situation i..
HP Reliability: What to do with reliability indices
This issue is often raised, or even debated. A simple explanation would be that reliability data can be converted into uncomplicated, figure-of-merit performance indices. Consider these indices as coa..
HP Reliability: What to do with reliability indices - Fig 1
This MTTF data from production, maintenance Remember: MTTF is a meterstick- and purchasing records. not a micrometer ..
HP Reliability: Plans needed to train proficient engineers
More than once, this column has dealt with the importance of training the reliability professional. Thirty-five years ago, my section supervisor at New Jersey-based Exxon Research and Engineering disc..
Use equipment failure statistics properly
These data can help in deciding which reliability improvement efforts are feasible and reasonable
Economics of ‘world-class’ turnarounds
Understand the principles and substantially reduce costs
Use equipment failure statistics properly - Fig 1
Fig. 1. Life spans of machinery commponents and ..
Use equipment failure statistics properly - Table 1
 Table 1. Machinery availability / reliability.Industry covered: HPI Basis:8,760 hr/yrYear: 1996 DowntimeForced outage     IMR&O,Forced DT,Proactive Mtc.,MTBF,I..
Keep your partner supplier alert, cooperative
Relax, I'm only kidding. Call off the inquisition task force. This is only a hypothetical story and would never happen to you or your company, certainly not in America! But suppose, for the sake of ..
HP Reliability: Machinery reliability starts with clean lubricants
In their quest for improved machinery reliability, many companies have rightly turned their attention to such opportunities as synthetic hydrocarbon lubricants, dry sump oil-mist lubrication and autom..
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