Reliability Engineering
Involves proactive leadership in creating PdM/PM programs that drive out repetitive failure and solve chronic problems.
Articles
- Are You a Reliability Linchpin?
- Eliminating Defects through Equipment Reliability
- Failure Codes to the Rescue: A Reliability Engineer’s Experience with an Unsuccessful FMEA
- Fatigue Failure in Bolted Joints
- Five Time Wasters for Reliability Engineers to Avoid
- Four Reliability and Maintenance Projects That Provide Immediate Results
- How a Reliability Engineer Improves Reliability
- Integrating Risk Analysis into Deferred Maintenance Decision Making
- Line Performance Optimization: A problem-solving process for pharmaceutical manufacturing
- PAS 55 – What is it and what’s the next step?
- Planning a Facilitation Strategy
- Preparing for a Root Cause Analysis
- Realizing the value of risk-based management
- Reliability Engineers: Your Effectiveness Depends on Your Leadership Skills
- The Reliability and Maintainability Plan
- The Value of Risk-Based Asset Management
- What is Mechanical Integrity and what are the requirements of an MI program?
- What’s the role of the Reliability Engineer?
- When Are OEM Recommendations Not Enough?
- Why is Criticality Analysis important?
- Defining Holistic Asset Criticality to Manage Risk
- Introducing LCE's Asset Management System Framework
- Integrating Reliability into an Asset Integrity Dashboard
- Integrating Performance Standards into an Asset Management System
- Are you working on the wrong problems?
- Choose the Right PM Task – and the Right Frequency
- How complex should maintenance procedures be?
- The People Side of Root Cause Analysis
- What do you do if you can’t find the root cause of an RCA?
- Help Your Reliability Activities Earn the Respect They Deserve
- Incorporating Risk-based Asset Management into your Drug Shortage Prevention Program
- The Top Six Reasons Why RCFA Initiatives Fail
- The Role of Critical Spares Analysis in Validating Spare Parts Recommendations
- How do you determine which repair parts are critical?
- What Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tool is best for Operators?
- Best Practices for Using Value Stream Mapping as a Continuous Improvement Tool
- Finding the Root Cause of Energy Consumption
- How Do You Measure the Effectiveness of Root Cause Analysis?
- Eliminate These Obstacles Before You Implement Predictive Maintenance
- Managing Risk: GMPs are Not Enough
- Analyzing the Relationship of Preventive Maintenance to Corrective Maintenance
- Determining an OEE Goal Based Upon Customer Takt Time
- One Skill That Takes Good Engineers to Great
- Involving Operators in Your Equipment Maintenance Plans
- Is There Value in Identifying Criticality of Spare Parts?
- Life Lessons My Father Taught Me About Reliability
- Establishing a Root Cause Failure Analysis Program at a Pharmaceutical Facility
- The Value of Loss Measurement Systems
- FMEA: The Heart of Equipment Maintenance
- Reliability Centered Maintenance: 40 Years Young and as Relevant as Ever
- Ordering a new piece of equipment? Make sure you answer these 20 questions
Whitepapers
Presentations
Resource Downloads
- FAQ Series - Root Cause Analysis
- Root Cause Analysis Investigation Guide for Oil Rigs
- Asset Maintenance Program Self-Assessment Tool
- ISO 55000 Overview and Simple Assessment
- Four Ways to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Root Cause Analysis Process
- FAQ Series - Reliability Engineering
- Building a Business Case for Reliability Whitepaper
- Predictive Maintenance Program Self-Assessment
Videos
Facilitators Make The Difference: Featuring Paul Borders- Meeting Increased Market Demand Through Reliability Excellence
- Facilitators Make The Difference: Dave Berube
- MTBF Metric: The Pitfalls of Its Misuse
- Facilitators Make The Difference: Featuring Roger Corley
- RCM is Still Good for Business
- Reliability Engineering Certification
- Reliability Centered Maintenance eLearning
- eLearning Reliability Centered Maintenance (eRCM)
- In Search of Operational Excellence: Six Sigma and Standard Work
- In Search of Operational Excellence: The Toyota Production System
- The Importance of Culture Change in Work Management and Reliability
- Are you ready for the next generation of PdM?
- What RCA Tool is Best for Operators?
- Facilitators Make The Difference: Featuring Mike Smith
Customer Success
- “C” Shredder Trip Elimination
- A Metallurgical Coke Producer Addresses Financial Challenges with Reliability Excellence
- Alumina Refinery Drives Continuous Improvement with Reliability Excellence
- An Australian Power Plant Harnesses the Power of Reliability Excellence
- Australian Offshore Drilling Fleet Transformed from Out-of-Compliance to World Class
- Chemical Processing Plant Uses Asset Management Best Practices to Build Total Process Reliability
- Employing Materials Management Best Practices to Drive Down Costs and Improve Support for Operations
- Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Company Partners with LCE to Improve OEE and Save Millions
- Global Chemical Leader Uses Risk-Based Asset Management to Improve Maintenance and Reliability Performance
- High Pressure Steam Heat Exchanger
- Hot Stuff! Heating Up Reliability at AltaSteel
- Implementing Reliability Excellence Yields Big Gains in OEE for a South Carolina Steel Company
- LCE’s Asset Management Services Team Creates Stability and a 25% Increase in Production Rate
- Power Plant Embraces Reliability to Improve Performance and Mitigate Aging Workforce Issues
- Reliability Excellence Helps a Network of Power Plants Reduce Outages and Maintenance Spending
- Reliability Excellence Transforms the Production of a Snack Food Manufacturer
- 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
- USSC Agriculture Division Harvests Success From Implementing Reliability Excellence
- Aluminum Smelter Improves Asset Reliability and Reinvigorates Operations with Reliability Excellence
- RBAM Guides Energy Company’s Asset Conundrum
- Reducing Asset Life Cycle Cost by Designing for Reliability
- Life Cycle Engineering Sharpens Maintenance Strategy for Premier Automation Manufacturer
- LCE Provides Chemicals Corporation with Equipment and Facility Condition Assessment
- Hot Strip Mill Regaining Former Status
Case Studies
Courses
Podcast Episodes
- Episode: Top 10 Most Frequently Asked Questions of Work Management and Planning and Scheduling
- Episode: How to Establish a Reliability Focused Organization
- Episode: 2017 Retrospective: The Pulse of the Reliability Community
- Episode: Reliability and the Path to Achieving Excellence
- Episode: How to Establish a Reliability-Focused Organization
- Episode: How to Combat the Growing Risk of Counterfeit Parts
- Episode: 4 Stumbling Blocks to Effective Asset Management
- Episode:Make Your Storeroom Great Again
- Episode: Cancel Save changes OpX Leadership Network: Addressing Today's Manufacturing Challenges
- Episode: OpX Leadership Network: Addressing Today's Manufacturing Challenges
- Episode: 12 Steps to Inventory Recovery
- Episode: Breaking Down Barriers with a One Plant One Team Approach
- Episode: How to Build a Business Case for Reliability