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Reliability engineer

You remove failures from the system rather than repairing them faster. Your tools are failure data, criticality and the discipline to change the maintenance plan.

Routine

Daily

  • Watch the bad-actor list and new breakdowns on critical assets

Weekly

  • RCA review: are actions addressing the physical, human and system causes?

Monthly+

  • MTBF / MTTR trend on critical assets
  • Bad-actor ranking by downtime and cost

Your kit, task by task

  • MTBF / MTTRMonthly · Calculator · MTBF / MTTR / Availability
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  • Bad actor listMonthly · Calculator
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  • Weibull analysisQuarterly · Calculator · Weibull Reliability Calculator
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  • PM optimisationQuarterly · Document generator
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  • Asset criticality rankingAnnual · Calculator · Asset Criticality Calculator
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  • Failure analysis / RCAWhen it happens · Document generator
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  • FMEAWhen it happens · Document generator
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  • RPN rankingWhen it happens · Calculator · FMEA RPN Calculator
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  • System reliabilityWhen it happens · Calculator · System Reliability Calculator (RBD)
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  • RCM worksheetWhen it happens · Document generator
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KPIs you are measured on

Top pains and how to handle them

Failure data is poor

Start with the top bad actors and fix their coding first; perfect data plant-wide is not needed to act.

PMs added after every failure, never removed

Run PM optimisation: each task must map to a failure mode and be keep, change or delete.

No time for analysis

Protect a fixed weekly slot and limit RCAs to failures above an agreed consequence threshold.