Tie condition monitoring into RCM and RCA. Use information to assess machine health. In brief: Where does CM come into play in the RCM process? RCM draws clear and accurate boundaries around a physical asset. CM is not only easy to incorporate into both RCM and RCA but is essential in achieving RCM and RCA [...]

The health of your equipment is critical to your company’s success. Asset health reporting is an excellent way to understand and convey the current health of your equipment in a very meaningful way.  If a condition monitoring (CM) technology identifies a failure condition on a machine, then the asset health of the machine is usually [...]

Many plants have routine morning and weekly meetings to discuss equipment issues or upcoming repairs that could affect production or maintenance activities in the facility.  Are your condition monitoring (CM) and reliability efforts represented in these meetings?  Failure to have representation of your CM and reliability efforts in these meetings means that important information will [...]

It is common knowledge that it is critical to document the financial savings that result from Condition Monitoring (CM) activities such as vibration analysis. It is also common knowledge that it is often difficult to get management to provide routine funding for additional CM technologies and/or related training. Have you considered the possible value in [...]

PLANT ENGINEERING • March 2012 Don’t contribute to unnecessary maintenance costs A condition monitoring analyst encounters many challenges. One of the primary ones is to determine when to report a defect finding. Should it be reported now or should reporting wait until the severity of the defect increases? How near is the problem that has been [...]

Back in July 2011, ArcelorMittal Point Lisas, Trinidad awarded TOSL’s Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Department with a one year contract for Reliability and Condition Based Monitoring. It was the first time a process like that would be implemented at ArcelorMittal. The contract is being executed by our Senior PdM technician, Mark Dwarika, and PdM technicians, Samir [...]