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Be Proactive to Avoid Root Cause Fault Bubbles
No warning or short-warning failures are the worst kind. Think of a tire. It can wear out slowly over thousands of driving miles or rupture suddenly, at full highway speed, from a random piece of road debris. You can monitor tread loss over time and conveniently schedule a tire change. Conversely, who could predict the… Read More
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Don’t Forget Lubricant Criticality When Designing Oil Analysis Programs
It is intuitively obvious that smart maintenance decisions require a heightened sense of both the probability and consequences of machine failure. Read More
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Managing Reliability in Real Time – The Risk Management Grid (RMG)
In a past article,1 I mentioned that in the world of reliability, risk can be defined as the probability of failure multiplied by the consequence(s) of failure. This simple definition should be a reliability team’s most important daily metric. In this editorial, a two-dimensional matrix is proposed that serves as a real-time moving picture of… Read More