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What Failure Reports do you use to Manage Asset Failures?

What is it you want to know about Failures?
  • What equipment is giving me the biggest losses and why?
  • What component is failing the most and why?
  • Where should you focus your RCA efforts?
  • Frequency of a failure mode – decrease?

 Tell us what report you like and why.

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posted by: rsmith@gpallied.com

091201 :What Failure Reports do you use to Manage Asset Failures?

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4 Comments:

Lucas Velozo de Melo Bento said...
how unsafe is scaffolding offshore?

Thu Dec 10, 07:38:03 AM CST

Daniel said...
How can I get a hold of the maintenance process/workflow and the gaps that exist with current s/w offerings addresing asset management?

Thu Dec 17, 12:57:41 PM CST

Frank said...
I'd like to suggest a little different methodology. Instead of looking at reports of what failed, why not get reports about what's going to fail. VEXTEC Corporation, recently named as the Most Promising Company in America by Forbes, has developed Virtual Life Management, a predictive analysis technology that accurately and efficiently simulates the performance, durability and failure of any component or system, from a single part to an entire fleet -- even before they're built. I invite you to learn more about our capabilities at www.vextec.com.

Fri Dec 18, 02:04:30 PM CST

Ricky Smith CMRP said...
You know identifying the potential for a Functional Failure before they occur is great but most people do not think like this. Their brain is programmed to focus on a total functional failure (typically the equipment fails). Software would be great but I believe we must start with education of the senior leadership staff at the site and at corporate. I am working a large oil and gas company right now where we are designing a program to identify a partial functional failure which has not impacted production however it will if left alone. We have established triggers for an RCA on this equipment with identified potential losses defined up front if no action is taken.

Mon Dec 28, 06:32:37 AM CST

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Ricky Smith CMRP
by Ricky Smith CMRP

Ricky has over 30 years in maintenance management, maintenance engineer, maintenance training specialist, maintenance consultant and is a well known published author to include his latest book “Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers”.

Ricky Smith is Chairman of the Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical SIG for the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals, is the Reliability Engineering Discipline Manager for PetroSkills.

Ricky has worked as a professional maintenance employee for Exxon, Alumax (this plant was rated the best in the world for over 18 years), Kendall Company, and Hercules Chemical providing the foundation for his reliability and maintenance experience.

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