Darrin Wikoff shares the final installment in his three part series on Asset Criticality.

Darrin Wikoff shares the second post in the series on criticality. WHAT CAN BE LEARNED FROM THE NUMBER? This is the point where most asset management processes go wrong. Many models in use today will set a criticality ranking based solely on the scoring range. For example, an asset which scores between 75 and 100 may be considered “critical”, while an asset that scores less than 25 may be...

In this weeks post Darrin Wikoff shares the first of of a series on criticality. Although most asset management processes are based on managing risk, many organizations fail to fully understand the meaning behind an “asset criticality” ranking. Most asset management professionals will tell you that the “critical” assets have the greatest impact on the plant’s mission, be it production rate,...

Belts, chains, and sprockets, chances are you have at least one if not all of these in your facility, and chances are you’re relying heavily on experience and judgment instead of quantitative inspection criteria. All too often the importance of proper inspection techniques and defined replacement criteria for these critical parts are overlooked. Don’t believe me? Just pull up some of your PM...

June 4^th through the 6^th we welcomed iBL students from Weyerhaeuser and Mondelez to Charleston for our summer graduation ceremony aboard the USS Yorktown. We were also fortunate enough to have Kim Kallstrom attend the event to present the University of Tennessee Reliability and Maintainability Center (RMC) certificates to the graduates. The attendees included plant managers, divisional engineers,...

Preventive Maintenance can be a lot like exercise but we will talk about just three of the ways they are the same and one major difference in today's post. The three ways they are the same include the following: Both of them can prolong the life of the asset. That asset may be a body or a machine but by doing the right activity at the right time it gives you the improved reliability that you...