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At 10:45 15/05/01 -0400, Paul Gruhn wrote:
>We're changing threads here, but what Mike is describing is essentially
>'reliability centered maintenance', which has been around a long time. Mike
>even described what's involved. One would have to know the process and
>various other issues to predict downtimes and economic impacts. At that
>point, it's a simple cost/benefit (risk) analysis compared to other
>alternatives (such as not doing anything at all). Public failure rate data
>bases do exist (although plant maintenance records are better). Nothing
>really new here at all.
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I had rather thought that this would be the case. Is there a good standard reference method for applying this? If I am going to try this out? I would like to be able to tell people that I am applying a well established and accepted methodology rather than something of my own invention.
Also, where would one find these public failure rate data bases? Plant maintenance records are only useful if you keep detailed records and analyse the failed devices (many perfectly good devices get replaced).
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Michael Griffin
London, Ont. Canada
[email protected]
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>We're changing threads here, but what Mike is describing is essentially
>'reliability centered maintenance', which has been around a long time. Mike
>even described what's involved. One would have to know the process and
>various other issues to predict downtimes and economic impacts. At that
>point, it's a simple cost/benefit (risk) analysis compared to other
>alternatives (such as not doing anything at all). Public failure rate data
>bases do exist (although plant maintenance records are better). Nothing
>really new here at all.
<clip>
I had rather thought that this would be the case. Is there a good standard reference method for applying this? If I am going to try this out? I would like to be able to tell people that I am applying a well established and accepted methodology rather than something of my own invention.
Also, where would one find these public failure rate data bases? Plant maintenance records are only useful if you keep detailed records and analyse the failed devices (many perfectly good devices get replaced).
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Michael Griffin
London, Ont. Canada
[email protected]
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