Uptime Magazine - October/November 2008 - (Page 30)

EAM. In order to improve your program you must have good history, which can be achieved by following the process in Figure 2. Improving Lubrication Program Phase After your lubrication program has been developed, implemented and managed for a certain amount of time, you must review your equipment history. In order to improve your program, you must identify, from detailed equipment history, where your lubrication issues occur within your facility. When assessing your equipment history, you must ask yourself, “Is the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) you have acceptable? Does your plant have a reliability goal for what the MTBF should be? Is your associated cost for maintaining your pieces of equipment acceptable?” If the answer to any of these questions is no, you must create a paretto analysis to determine your priority in what equipment needs to be evaluated through failure and/or cost. Once the paretto has been completed, the decision can be made to conduct a Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA) or go through the Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Methodologies to determine if the current PM’s are acceptable. Once these processes are conducted and the cost to make the neces- Analyze Equipment History Is MTBF Acceptable? YES Are Costs Acceptable? YES Schedule Annual Review to Ensure Tasks & Frequency Are Acceptable NO NO Create Pareto Analysis Cost Acceptable YES Conduct Root Cause Analysis & Reliability Centered Maintenance (80/20 Rule) Evaluate the Cost of Solution(s) Cost Not Acceptable NO Implement Solutions Figure 3 - Improvement Process Work Flow Chart sary recommendations is deemed acceptable, adopt these changes and make the corrections or additions to the current PM process. After these changes are implemented you must come back later and continually address these issues as they arise. If the costs are not acceptable, you must go back to the drawing board to de- velop a strategy to implement the change. The improvement process can be seen in Figure 3. Other areas concerned with improving your lubrication program include both your lubricant analysis program and establishing goals and 30 october/november 2008 http://www.hansfordsensors.com http://www.hansfordsensors.com

Table of Contents Feed for the Digital Edition of Uptime Magazine - October/November 2008

Uptime Magazine - October/November 2008 Contents Upfront Upclose: An Asset Management Oasis in the Desert Information Technology: Streamlining Through Simplicity Lubrication: Phases for Framing a Solid Foundation Infrared: Do Your Homework Before You Buy Maintenance Management: Get It Together by Getting Together Motor Testing: Key Elements in Motor Decision Making Precision Maintenance: Shedding Some Light on Tolerances Reliability: RCM & the Mortgage Meltdown Ultrasound: A Multidimensional Tool Vibration: The Whirling Pump Mystery, Solved with ODS Upgrade: Are You Looking in the Right Place for Your Wear Debris?

Uptime Magazine - October/November 2008

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