How does the company business model determine our reliability engineering objectives?
One of the main tasks of the reliability engineer is something we could call “optimizing the performance ofthe asset”. But what does this mean? And which performance are we even talking about? What performance is relevant to the organization in achieving itsobjectives? ⚙️
For a steam turbine in a power plant this might for instance mean time-dependent availability, as usual suspect. Orat least, that what I think it should be. But a high availability doesn’t have to make sense for a fleet of rental equipment that are required to operate foronly a few hours per week. Even a ‘classic’ metric like OEE might not make sense in that case and we might be optimizing for the ‘wrong’ thing entirely;maybe ‘minimizing the probability of failure on demand’ is the thing we should be looking at.
Answering the above question does go back to a key question for every reliability engineer: why are we doing the things we are doing? ✔️
What would be your answer to this question?
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