This is the place to post questions about Jim Taylor's Reliability Roadmap web workshop presentation "Machinery Centered Maintenance".

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This is an article by Jim Taylor that ran in Uptime Magazine December 2005.

Machinery_Healthcare_Dec_2005.pdf (1,145 Kb, 111 downloads) Machinery Centered Maintenance

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Will be for next time, I will be alert, thanks and have a nice day.

Jim,

Thanks again for a great workshop.

When someone applies Machinery Centered Maintenance - should they expect to add more maintenance labor hours and spend more in maintenance repair material?

On the other side - can they count on removing some non value added maintenance work that they are performing now?

Terry O

By the way, I´m outside of US & Canada and have suscribed for the digital edition of the magazine, but never received a single issue. What´s going on ?

Thanks, I enjoyed doing it.

In my experience, you can expect to see an increased manpower and parts requirement in the first six months or so. This is because you are finding potential problems you did not know existed. But after that period, you should expect to see the requirements fall below what they were prior to implementation.

You have a better handle on the machine, and so can anticipate problems. This will let you avoid cascading and secondary failure, off quality product and extra overtime. It lets you catch problems before they require "surgery".

Jim

Missed the second part of your question. Yes, you can expect to reduce the non-value added maintenance. I personally think that a lot of the PM's we're doing are because we can, not because they make any significant contribution to the machine's health. We also do them too often.

Walter

Re: Digital edition.

As you may have seen and read if you gut some of the print editions of Uptime, Jeff Shuler does not do things the way other editors do so when it came time to produce the digital edition, our suggestion of web pages and plain PDF files did not represent Uptime the way he had envisioned it digitally.

We have just completed the first fours issues of Uptime Digital and they will be posted next week.

Note: You will have to be a subscriber (don't worry - it is free) to get the digital editions.

We should be posting current digital issues as soon as Uptime mails as well for the future.

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Terry O

Jim:

Great presentation! Terry, kudos on a great idea!

I have seen a great deal of issues related to PM's and CBM, as well. For instance, I have seen a large number of redundant PM's in a number of companies and times where the application of CBM should remove PM's but don't. One of my favorite examples is, during a site visit, a CBM inspection involved a physical inspection of air filters and a view of the static pressure on a gage for the filters. If they pass, they are kept in place, if not they are replaced. A PM that seems to happen the following week involves replacing the filters regardless of condition.

Howard

Howard,

Thank you for the kind comments.

Your observation about redundent PM matchs mine. That's what I mean when I say that all the information needs to come together at one point. Then that machines "personal trainer" can catch things like that and rationalize the program.

Jim

Here is a link to Jim's Web Workshop

It is in Flash format

Slides and narration transcript are available in PDF as well.

There is no cost to access this material.

Terry O