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Should we ban the word fail and failure and replace it with defered success?
How important are the words we use?
Terry O
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For all that are interested, this CMMS has many of the best features from other programs wrapped into one simple program. www.performancemms.com. Your feedback is needed to keep improving the program for other maintenance professionals.
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Are we all farmers and gearheads? I have been discussing the tendency to overlubricate with greases with my contacts in maintenance in many industries, and there seems to be a common theme about how we decide to add grease. In the absence of guidance for the proper quantity of a...
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“Now you have your program running, what do I need to do to keep it running, how do I build “TRUST”???”
Now that you have finished your lists, the work begins, so you have just:
1. outlined the equipment you want to check, using Excel or some other program...
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Happy Almost New Year!
Well, we are looking to either re-emerge the Institute of Electrical Motor Diagnostics (IEMD) come this January, or kick it off as an SMRP Special Interest Group (SIG), which would put it under the umbrella of SMRP, instead.
I am looking for comments.
Are you...
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Should we ban the word fail and failure and replace it with defered success?
How important are the words we use?
Terry O
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When you have developed a network of people, either through conference attendance or training classrooms, to bounce things off, or now the more informal avenues like Blogs and other PdM forums, which is even easier today than when I started, you have a place to use as a sounding...
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From Geoff Generalovic, Maintenance electrician at ArcelorMittal Dofasco Inc.
My career in predictive maintenance (PdM) has evolved since my formative years in 1995 and my first exposure to it via simple Excel charts tracking resistance to ground readings on our runout...
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One of the things that always leaves me curious is why do change initiatives created by inteeligent well meaning people fail to take hold and deliver the value for which they were intended? Any ideas? I'd like to get people's thoughts on this topic.
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This is a question posted in the LinkedIn Group- Lubrication Excellence on a Global Scale. I felt it is important enough to share here as well: "In a previous discussion Matt talked about #2 grease and the oil viscosity in the grease. Every day I see a manufacturer's recommendaton that states...
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Getting your lubrication technicians trained and certified is only the first step. Without proper support and drive for program improvement, there are no benefits in certification. You’d be surprised at how many times I’ve actually seen the situation play out exactly as mentioned...
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I'm now 42 years in maintenance from ARAMCO, Kodak, Union Carbide to consulting for Power, Paper,...
SS Mark - we were talking about removing the WORD 'failure' not the failure itself! LOL
Greg -...
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sniffer
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The words we use
Predicting failure before it occurs and predicting a diagnosis is the best path to avoidance. By...
Without "Failure" I'm out of work. No failure then OTF, we can all go home.........
My "RCM and...
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Greg Quilter
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The words we use
In addition to what the others have said, I think by avoiding "failure" you're playing semantics...
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jimtaylor
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The words we use