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.
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