Equipment & Process Design

Considers the design, engineering specifications and methodology to minimize the asset's total life cycle cost.
Articles
- Change is a Personal Choice
- Designing for Sustainability: “Begin with the end in mind”
- Improving Availability Is Much More Than Maintenance
- Integrating Risk Analysis into Deferred Maintenance Decision Making
- Is Your Shutdown Planning Hurting Your Routine Corrective Planning?
- Shift your Plant from Reactive to Reliable
- What is Mechanical Integrity and what are the requirements of an MI program?
- When Are OEM Recommendations Not Enough?
- Working without Supervision: Overcoming Inefficiencies and Lost Productivity
- Reliability Lessons from the Aircraft Industry
- Why is my kitting process not working?
- Integrating Reliability into an Asset Integrity Dashboard
- The People Side of Root Cause Analysis
- Maintenance Planning and Scheduling: the Key to Reliability Excellence
- Maintenance Planners: At the Center of It All
- Taming the Backlog Beast
- What Drives Asset Life Cycle Costs?
- Maintenance Really is Really Not the Problem
- Ordering a new piece of equipment? Make sure you answer these 20 questions
- Preparing for Post-COVID Demand
- Six Attributes to Look for When You Hire Your Next Maintenance Planner
- How to Align an Industry 4.0 Strategy with your Asset Management Strategy
Whitepapers
Presentations
Institute of Asset Management Certificate Workshop
ISO 55000: Asset Management System Workshop
Leadership for Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages Workshop
Maintenance Management Certification
Optimizing Shutdowns: 10 Ways to Cut Maintenance Costs the Right Way
Planning for Shutdowns, Turnarounds and Outages Workshop
Reliability Engineering Certification Program
SMRP Body of Knowledge Guided Study Slide Share
Stakeholder Risk Management
Shutdown Turnaround and Outage Competency Improvement Program
Resource Downloads
Videos
Cycle Counting for Storerooms
Maintenance Supervisor Coaching
Maintenance Work Planning: 5 Elements to Consider
Meeting Increased Market Demand Through Reliability Excellence
Operations-led Reliability
Reliability Engineering Certification
eLearning Reliability Centered Maintenance (eRCM)
In Search of Operational Excellence: Why Work Management is Important to Business Performance
The Importance of Culture Change in Work Management and Reliability
Using Kitting for Maintenance Repairs
Four Reliability Excellence Competencies
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Course Preview
Customer Success
- A Metallurgical Coke Producer Addresses Financial Challenges with Reliability Excellence
- Alumina Refinery Drives Continuous Improvement with Reliability Excellence
- Chemical Processing Plant Uses Asset Management Best Practices to Build Total Process Reliability
- Hot Stuff! Heating Up Reliability at AltaSteel
- Minnkota Improves with LCE
- Power Plant Embraces Reliability to Improve Performance and Mitigate Aging Workforce Issues
- The Swagelok Reliability Journey Includes an Important Role for Reliability Engineers
- Truck Manufacturing with World-Class Operations
- United States Sugar Corporation Improves its Operating Margin With Reliability Excellence
- Sweet Success at U.S. Sugar
- Reducing Asset Life Cycle Cost by Designing for Reliability
- Hot Strip Mill Regaining Former Status
- How a Cheese Manufacturer is Meeting Growing Customer Demand
- Calculating Total Cost of Ownership Requires Knowing the Cost of Materials
Courses
- Maintenance Management Skills
- Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
- Planning for Shutdowns and Outages
- Reliability Engineering Excellence
- Reliability Excellence for Managers
- Reliability Excellence Fundamentals
- Risk-Based Asset Management
- SMRP Body of Knowledge Guided Study
- Maintenance Planning and Scheduling eLearning
Podcast Episodes
Episode: Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions of Work Management and Planning and Scheduling
Episode: Combining Technology Processes and Change Management to Address the Aging Workforce
Episode: 4 Stumbling Blocks to Effective Asset Management
Episode:Make Your Storeroom Great Again
Episode: Predictive Maintenance A Proactive Approach to Achieving Reliability Part 1
Episode: Predictive Maintenance A Proactive Approach to Achieving Reliability Part 2
Episode: Breaking Down Barriers with a One Plant One Team Approach
Episode: How to Build a Business Case for Reliability