Reliability and Maintenance Articles

Download TPM’s Planned Maintenance (size 554 kb, pdf)

RSA RELIABILITY & MAINTENANCE COURSES

REFERENCES ON LUBRICATION STRATEGY

REFERENCES ON ROOT CAUSE FAILURE ANALYSIS

REFERENCES ON TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE

REFERENCES ON PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE

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Issue No. 1 : May, 2007 : Learning’s From The Principles of Equipment’s Reliability

Issue No. 2 : Jun, 2007 : Can Equipment Failures Really Be Eliminated ?

Issue No. 3 : Jul, 2007 : Why Most Industries Are Reactive ?

Issue No. 4 : Aug, 2007 : How To Make Training Work For Your Industry ?

Issue No. 5 : Sept. 2007 : A Different Root Cause Analysis Experience

Issue No. 6 : Oct. 2007 : Where Does RCFA Fit In The RCM Strategy ?

Issue No. 7 : Nov. 2007 : Why TPM Is Hard To Implement ?

Issue No. 8 : Dec. 2007 : Does Oil Wear Out and Needs To Be Change ?

Issue No. 9 : Jan. 2008 : Where Do We End Our Probe In Root Cause Analysis ?

Issue No. 10 : Feb. 2008 : An Inconvenient Truth About Preventive Maintenance

Issue No. 11 : Mar. 2008 : The Lifeblood of Root Cause Analysis

Issue No. 12 : Apr. 2008 : My TPM Experience, A Successful Failure

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Download RSA Complete Training Modules on TPM (size 335 kb, pdf)

Issue No. 13 : May. 2008 : Top 10 Problems Experience on Preventive Maintenance

Issue No. 14 : June 2008 : Comparing TPM and RCM, w/c Is The Better Strategy

The distinction between a maintenance and a mechanic is that a maintenance uses his brain much more rather than his hands in analyzing problems while a mechanic uses more of his hand in fixing failures and then later on becomes good at fixing failures. Let us treat our people with the respect they deserve, let us treat them as maintenance people and not as mere mechanics . . . . .

Issue No. 15 : July 2008 : Why Many Root Cause Initiatives Fail ?

Issue No. 16 : August 2008 : The Case of Infant Mortality & Random Failures

Issue No. 17 : September 2008 : How To Fit RCM Into The TPM Strategy

Issue No. 18 : October 2008 : Maintenance - The Last Man Standing

Issue No. 19 : November 2008 : Is There Still Value On Training ?

REFERENCES ON CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT PRACTICES

Issue No. 20 : December 2008 : A Typical Maintenance Culture

Issue No. 21 : January 2009 : Is Reliability Just A Numbers Game ?

Issue No. 22 : February 2009 : TPM’s Planned Maintenance Pillar

Issue No. 23 : March 2009 : TPM and RCM Do They Contradict or Complement