THE ESSENTIAL “TOOLS” FOR A NEW RELIABILITY ENGINEER

Your company is going through an asset management initiative and they need ‘reliability engineers’ to support this new focus.  One day your title begins with ‘Maintenance _____’ and the next day you come into the office and the title on your door now reads ‘Reliability _____’.  Undertaking new asset management initiatives as a newly titled “reliability engineer” can be daunting.

Reliability Engineering isn’t typically something one would go to school for or get a certificate in, so what does an R.E need to know?

Your “toolkit” as an R.E. should consists of various methods that you can employ with the goal of optimizing maintenance strategies to achieve operational success, including:

• root cause analysis

• reliability centered maintenance

• failure modes and effects analysis

• failure data analysis

• reliability block diagrams

• lifecycle cost calculation

To be successful at increasing the reliability of your plant, reliability practitioners should utilize these ‘tools’ that can deliver the best results, applying them based on the type of problem you’re facing.

Approaching Maintenance Strategy Optimization with Your Toolkit

It’s essential for a newly appointed reliability professional to be aware of common maintenance issues. The more time maintenance personnel spend fighting fires, the more their morale, productivity, and budget erodes. The less effective routine work that is performed, the more equipment uptime and business profitability suffer.

Here’s the good news: An optimized maintenance strategy is simpler and easier to sustain than a non-optimized strategy, resulting in fewer issues and downtime. It’s easy for organizations and new reliability engineers to be intimidated by the idea of maintenance strategy optimization. An important tip to remember is that small changes can make a huge difference. Maintenance optimization doesn’t have to be time-consuming or difficult, nor does it have to be a huge undertaking. By creating a framework for continuous reliability improvement and understanding the methods to employ, you can ultimately drive towards higher reliability, availability and more efficient use of your production equipment.

Join us at the Reliability Summit, March 26-29, 2019 in Austin, Texas to learn the essential tools in a Reliability Engineer’s toolkit and how to apply them to achieve operational success.

Attendees will learn:

• History of Reliability

• Introduction to Reliability Concepts

• Benefits of a Reliability Based Maintenance System

• Performance Measures

• Definitions of Terms and Measures in Reliability

• Introduction to Reliability Engineering Methods

• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis

• Failure Data Analysis

• Reliability Centered Maintenance

• Maintenance Optimization

• System Availability Analysis

• Lifecycle Cost Calculation

• Problem Reporting

• What Tool When

• Key Factors for Success

• Key Steps in a Reliability Program

• Summarizing the Business Case for Reliability