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Is there life after the death of predictive maintenance?
It is sad how quickly a good predictive maintenance program dies, even though the program has gotten a manager promoted, convinced you and others that there is a lot of value in doing PdM to improve maintenance practices, saved money and gained credibility. The demise of a good program is usually due
P-FIRST: Success in plant reliability is in the hands of the people
Thermal scanning, automatic balancers and levelers, predictive equipment, fluid scans, ultrasonic testing, PM programs, reports and logs, more reports and logs, and yet even more reports and logs. These are all great ways to track, detect or predict possible real, and future failures. I know many companies
How do you justify the investment made in PdM?
“How do I quantify my PdM finds? Where do I go to establish my credibility?” Grow a thick skin, fast. You have to develop some way of bringing some sense to the finds you have made in your predictive maintenance program. Now that trust has been established and your routes are being executed,
How to build trust and obtain plant-floor buy-in
“I finally have a predictive maintenance program off the ground. What do I need to do to keep it running? How do I build ‘trust’???” Now that you have finished your lists, the work begins. You have outlined the equipment you want to check, using Excel or some other program where
PdM program success starts with hard work, effort
When you have developed a network of people - either through conference attendance or training classrooms, or more informal avenues like blogs and predictive maintenance forums - you have a real sounding board for developing your PdM program. In my experience, though, the only way you are going to develop
When speaking at conferences, you learn as much as you teach
My career in predictive maintenance (PdM) has evolved since my formative years in 1995 and my first exposure to it via simple Excel charts tracking resistance to ground readings on our runout table motors. This was actually the topic of my first-ever presentation at a conference. It was the Society for
Do you want to be involved in predictive maintenance?
My career in predictive maintenance (PdM) at Dofasco’s Hot Mill started late in 1995 - September to be exact. It started with a question: “Do you want to be involved in predictive maintenance?” I didn’t know what I was getting into, but it sounded a lot better than what was
