Aug 12, 2019 | MRiAM News
In 2014, the Water Corporation instigated the “Legionella High Level Risk Assessment Initiative” (LHLRAI), a prioritised work plan to capture cooling tower assets subject to AS3666.1-4 and the Department of Health WA requirements for assessing Legionella risk (Code Of Practice, 2014). As part of this initiative, inclusion of other “aeration” type assets such as plate aerators and spray basins were assessed and the outcomes compared with compliance against national and available industry best practice standards.
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Mar 27, 2018 | MRiAM News
What can asset managers do to prevent the deferral of critical maintenance? And how can they use analytics to assist with this?
When budgets are tight, or there are competing priorities for funds, deferring maintenance is an easy target for decision-makers in Finance, or Executive Budget Committees.
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Feb 16, 2017 | MRiAM News
The Asset Management Council has released the next issue in its series of e-books exploring commonly asked Asset Management Questions. This paper addresses the belief that there is no difference between maintenance based on the assessed condition of an item and the maintenance of an item that degrades to the point of functional failure.
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Aug 18, 2016 | MRiAM News
Physical plant assets are tending to remain in service for beyond their design lifetime. Arguably, a greater professional input is needed into the maintenance and reliability engineering of these assets, yet few universities offer such content in undergraduate engineering degrees. Accordingly, postgraduate programs have been developed.
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Jul 28, 2016 | MRiAM News
A Split System Approach (SSA) based methodology is presented to assist in making optimal Preventive Maintenance decisions for serial production lines. The methodology treats a production line as a complex series system with multiple PM actions over multiple intervals.
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Jul 21, 2016 | MRiAM News
Maintenance management is a complex partnership between the people directly or indirectly involved in maintenance, the processes and strategies to direct the people’s actions, the physical assets being maintained, and the Computerised Maintenance Management Systems – the main link between the “people”, the “processes and strategies”, and the “asset”.
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