Category: Machine Reliability & Asset Management
Jim Fitch authored articles & papers
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Ask Your OEM to Accessorize New Equipment for Lubrication Excellence
Has it ever occurred to you that it was necessary to specifically ask your OEM to add modern lubrication to the bill-of-material when you purchase equipment from him? Read More
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Demand Reliability Readiness from Equipment Builders
When it comes to modern concepts in the field of lubrication and applied tribology, many users these days are far more sophisticated than those who are designing and building the machines they operate. Read More
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Linking Enhanced Reliability to the State of Lubrication
The lubricant Optimum Reference State (ORS) is a critical concept in the journey to world-class lubrication and enhanced machine reliability. In short, it is the prescribed state of machine configuration, operating conditions and maintenance activities required to achieve and sustain specific reliability objectives. Read More
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Evolution of Maintenance Man
In the world of maintenance, there are two kinds of companies – those who are modernizing their maintenance programs and those who will. Companies on the trailing edge face one of two risks depending on their industry and geography: Read More
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Intervention is Key to Machine Life Extension
Try this simple experiment. With notepad in hand, go out into your plant and walk around a sampling of your most critical machines. These are the ones that have high probability of failure and/or the greatest consequences of failure. Read More
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The Importance of Sustainability for Transformational Change
We’ve all seen change that was well-intentioned and purposeful. Yet most examples of change are not sustained over time and sadly cycled back to the ways of the past. The cause of this seems to resemble a powerful magnet that’s imbedded in every organization. Read More
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The Power of Truthful Assessments in Jumpstarting a Reliability Transformation
By Jim FitchMachinery Lubrication Magazine One of the best examples of courage is the man who asks to hear what he doesn’t want to hear. While it’s human nature to fear or dread bad news, the wisest among us will frequently ask for it. Why? Because winners change what losers want to leave the same.… Read More
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A New Look at Criticality Analysis for Machinery Lubrication
For any given machine, how critical is its reliability? What if it failed suddenly and catastrophically? What would be the consequences – lost production, expensive repairs, fatality? Criticality is the logical starting point for all reliability initiatives. Read More
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The Hot Stove Effect in Precision Lubrication
The hot stove effect was first given to learning and management science by Mark Twain. He observed that if a cat happens to jump on a hot stove, he will never jump on a hot stove again. This of course is a good thing. However, not so good is the fact that he will not… Read More