Wacky Winter Weather....in MAY

I woke up around 6:30 a.m. yesterday (Sunday) and couldn't believe my eyes. Winter was back-aargh!! Okay, I'm thinking "wait a minute...this is May. Right? I was just wearing shorts two days ago because it was 70 degrees outside. And then I remembered...I live in Minnesota. They say only in Minnesota can you go from having the defroster in your car on in the morning to the A/C in the afternoon. I guess they are right. Anyone else having any Wacky Weather?

90% Early Mortality for Equipment?

I spent some time with a group of Operations and Maintenance personnel from a water treatment company over the past week, and got a great opportunity to see some of their plans for enhancing reliability at their plants.

Now, this is not a secret, but I saw a figure that really woke me up to the HUGE reliability savings that are still waiting to be claimed on one of the slides they had in their presentation. These figures were collected from known sources, so verify away!

As maintenance professionals we need to know that 90% of the equipment we install and operate fails earlier than it was designed to fail! Wow! Why is that?

- Bad design of the system
- Installation errors
- Lack of precision assembly
- Poor care
- Improper operation
- Contamination
- Improper lubrication
- Overload
- Bad environment
- and so on....


We have a long way to go Amigos! Don't retire early. There is a lot to do yet.