An Operations and Maintenance Information Open System Alliance

Whitepapers

Whitepapers

Condition Based Maintenance: What is its Condition?

I recently had a conversation with the president of a major Predictive Maintenance software company. The topic was the lack of attendance at a recent PM/CM tradeshow. While expressing his frustration, he jokingly suggested that everybody must have had the flu and instead of passing out coffee mugs, they should have given away chicken soup!

Condition Based Operations for Manufacturing

Condition Based Operations for Manufacturing, A White Paper Co-written by the OpenO&M Joint Working Group composed of leaders from the ISA SP95 Committee, OPC Foundation, and MIMOSA, October 2004

Financial Justification for CBM: Is EVA® the Right Answer?

So how do you justify your Condition Monitoring (CM) program? Number of saves? Less downtime than last year, or do you use more sophisticated terms like Return on Investment (ROI). If you`re looking at this article to provide another way to calculate savings based on an event that might never have happened, then I suggest you stop reading now.

Integrated Condition Monitoring as a Business Model - A Year in Review.

It`s hard to believe that it`s been almost one year since I first set out to write this series of articles. While not as popular (and profitable) as J.K. Rowling`s Harry Potter series (anyone with a pre-teen son or daughter will appreciate the reference), it has nonetheless been an enjoyable exercise. Many thanks for the continued requests for reprints, feedback, general support and most of all to Coxmoor Publishing for providing the forum. We`ll begin with a short synopsis (quiz at the end)…

Integration: Are we going in the right direction?

I recently had a conversation with the president of a major Predictive Maintenance software company. The topic was the lack of attendance at a recent PM/CM tradeshow. While expressing his frustration, he jokingly suggested that everybody must have had the flu and instead of passing out coffee mugs, they should have given away chicken soup!

Maintenance as a Part of the Enterprise, Initiating the Dialogue with MIMOSA

What is the Machinery Information Management Open Systems Alliance (MIMOSA) and why should you care? MIMOSA is an alliance that enables Enterprise Asset Optimization resulting from the productized integration of building, plant and equipment data into and with Enterprise Business Information. Users, vendors and integrators of maintenance related technology should care, because their future is dependent on their ability to integrate and communicate effectively with the enterprise.

MIMOSA Brochure

MIMOSA Brochure

MIMOSA White Paper on Prognosis of Remaining Machine Life Based on Condition

During the past decade, many industrial manufacturing organizations have implemented condition monitoring programs on production machinery. The objective is to track various condition and performance measurements related to a specific machine (or component of a machine, e.g., electric motor) over time in order to deduce pending machine failures.

OpenO&M for Manufacturing Summary

OpenO&M for Manufacturing Summary, A White Paper Co-written by the OpenO&M Joint Working Group composed of leaders from the ISA SP95 Committee, OPC Foundation, and MIMOSA, July 2005

Profit Centered Maintenance: 5 Papers and an Overview

The technology for machine condition monitoring has advanced dramatically over the past twenty years. Most flaws can be identified in sufficient time to avoid outright failure or even an unscheduled interruption in production. Many organizations have reduced maintenance costs by 50% or more and have achieved a state of equipment reliability where mechanical problems no longer determine availability.