Data is key for reliability engineering, it provides the maintenance department with information about the condition of the equipment. It is of the highest importance that the reliability team understand what the data represents and what factors impact the quality of the data. This understanding will allow the RE team to prioritise what issues are having the greatest affect on the business and the equipment. Each site needs to review what data they have and where it comes from, to determine the most effective data set for managing their equipment.
Teams that don't review the data and always focus on what they have always used, don't improve their understanding of what has the largest impact on the fleets. If the analysis of the equipment performance is not regularly adapted and review the mine site will never be able to reach world class reliability.
Quality data will lead to good decisions about what projects to focus on for reliability improvements. While it is not commonly the responsibility of the RE team to enter the data, it is their role to develop the maintenance department process to improve the quality of the data.
The department must understand their data and the data must drive their decisions.
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Mining Reliability is Live!
Miningreliability.com is now up and running!
Our website has been created to share what reliability engineering is relative to the mining industry. There are many books and articles that focus on reliability engineering with fixed plant. We have found that these can provide some good ideas, but were not very applicable to reliability engineering within the mining industry and open cut equipment.
Alex and I worked on what steps you would take to achieve world class reliability and what the reliability role entails. How do you manage large amounts of mining equipment that can be hard to monitor and how do you engage a large workforce to promote a reliability culture.
We are going to each post once a week discussing a topic, commenting on the mining industry or reviewing technology that can help achieve world class reliability.
Our website has been created to share what reliability engineering is relative to the mining industry. There are many books and articles that focus on reliability engineering with fixed plant. We have found that these can provide some good ideas, but were not very applicable to reliability engineering within the mining industry and open cut equipment.
Alex and I worked on what steps you would take to achieve world class reliability and what the reliability role entails. How do you manage large amounts of mining equipment that can be hard to monitor and how do you engage a large workforce to promote a reliability culture.
We are going to each post once a week discussing a topic, commenting on the mining industry or reviewing technology that can help achieve world class reliability.
Saturday, 21 April 2012
Mining Reliability is almost live!
A few more edits and the site will go live at www.miningreliability.com
Once the website is done, Alex and I will begin to provide weekly blogs about reliability and the mining industry.
A few more edits and the site will go live at www.miningreliability.com
Once the website is done, Alex and I will begin to provide weekly blogs about reliability and the mining industry.
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