When a large electric generation and distribution utility company needed Reliability Centered Maintenance training and analyses on critical systems and assets, they turned to Aladon for support. Challenge: Critical assets for a large utility company with multiple facilities needed a more cost-effective, standardized and reliable maintenance process across all their assets The utility company generally […]
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Case Study: Large WWTP completes RCM3™ analyses prior to plant construction
Traditionally, water and wastewater utility companies generally use OEM recommendations for asset care and maintenance. As always with OEMs, they ignore the Operating Context and some of these OEM recommended tasks are not needed (not technically feasible) and a general waste of time, money, and resources. This is not only because the OEMs are wrong, […]
How Risk Centered Spares can help solve supply chain woes
By Theuns Koekemoer As the world slowly recovers from strict global lockdown and travel restrictions, we continue to experience the impact of supply shortages. Many industries have been hit hard due to the short supply of critical components, with no end in sight. This has led organizations to struggle to decide where to apply scarce […]
RCM: On-Condition Task Interval Determination
Written by Gary West The P-F curve shows the time interval between when a failure-in-the-making can be identified (potential failure, P) and the actual failed state where acceptable performance standards are no longer sustained (functional failure, F). This P-F interval is also known as: The warning period The lead time to failure The failure development […]
Why resilience is so important during times of crises
By Marius Basson, president of Aladon I have been talking and writing about ways to build resilience over many months leading up to the COVID-19 lockdown, not knowing that we would actually test our own resilience and witnessing what our clients experience during this very challenging time of COVID-19 and the disruption of business. Following […]
Aladon expands cutting-edge asset management and reliability solutions; announces new software development office in South Africa
Aladon, a global asset management thoughtware company announces the addition of a new office in South Africa designed to develop asset management software. The software works seamlessly with the Aladon methodologies. The goal for the global leader in reliability centered maintenance is to expand into software development as a continued commitment to deliver high quality, […]
Rethinking N+1 redundancy design guidelines in the public utility industry
How often do we challenge long accepted design practices, especially in the utility industries such as power, water and wastewater? In order to do so, we must look outside public utilities and apply lessons from other industries. Airline and auto industries are two that rely less on redundancy by focusing on increasing the reliability of […]
South Korea Welcomes RCM3™
Considered the most wired and educated country in the world by CNN, 82.7 percent of South Koreans are connected to the Internet and 98 percent of the population receives a high school education. However, in the realm of asset management, the Asian country is not as advanced. Dr. Gang-Min Lim, PhD, CEO, Asset Technology Group, […]
Beyond OEM Recommended Maintenance: Take Control of Your Maintenance Through RCM3
Asset managers and maintainers are, by nature, a risk averse bunch of people. And why wouldn’t they be? One poor decision can result in consequences ranging from the merely costly to the fatally disastrous, often with an added layer of spectacularly bad publicity to top it off. When names like Chernobyl, Deepwater Horizon and Piper […]
3 Ways to Create a Culture of Reliability in Your Organization
Many senior managers initially support the idea of reliability. Who wouldn’t?! But these same individuals mistakenly think this is an easy fix that they can do on their own or that can be bought and then installed. When that doesn’t happen, these same managers will give up on a reliability plan before the organization makes […]