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Interviews
Interview with Murray Wiseman
by John Little, Consultant, Dynamic Maintenance Safety and Risk Assessment, jelittle@oricom.ca
Q: Murray, I want a better feel for the ties between a CMMS, RCM and plant/process maintenance and related safety. I am, however , very curious as to the actual methods and practices used to assess failure modes and their consequences. Is this a team based exercise using vendors, design engineers, process engineers, IT(DCS) experts, process control specialists, safety specialists, users, operators, maintenance supervisors-managers-technicians, etc?
Q: Professor Jardine, why did you develop EXAKT?
A: Condition based maintenance is the most desirable form of maintenance, yet, former students, now maintenance professionals, told me that they find often that their current CBM programs, such as oil analysis, don’t deliver the intended results. I asked how “exactly” their staff interpreted condition monitoring data. In other words, how did they decide whether or not to remove an item for repair? Their answers led me to investigate whether a more rigorous decision methodology might improve the payback on the rather large investment they were making in condition based maintenance.
Interview with Dragan Banjevic
Q: Dr. Banjevic, I understand that EXAKT uses past failures, to develop a predictive model. Does that mean that companies must have many catastrophic functional failures before they can use your program?
Q: Dr. Banjevic, I understand that EXAKT uses past failures, to develop a predictive model. Does that mean that companies must have many catastrophic functional failures before they can use your program?