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An ounce of prevention is worth...how much exactly?
Finally, the Macondo oil well in the Gulf of Mexico has finally stopped leaking after workers succeeded in sealing it shut with cement. On April 20th, a little over 5 months ago, a "blowout preventer"...
View ArticleAsset Performance Management and Emerson Global User Exchange
Meridium partner, Emerson Process Management, is hosting their annual Global User Exchange. This event bring in thousands of people in the process industry. There are numerous tracks including asset...
View ArticleSafety Instrumented Systems at Emerson Global User Exchange
Mike Boudreaux and I have never met but we're good Twitter friends. I hope to meet him someday soon - preferably in Austin at Torchy's tacos!Mike is Brand Manager for Delta V SIS. He has been leading...
View ArticleRegistration now open for free reliability best practice workshops!
Improved failure elimination. Optimized asset strategies. Guaranteed mechanical integrity. Protected assets. Increased safety.Companies around the world are seeking to make improvements in these...
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APM Work Process Workshop 1: Assess risk and improve performance
While reliability initiatives are becoming more prevalent, companies issuing them don't always know where to begin. Asset performance itself is a complicated issue involving many facets. To help...
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APM Work Process Workshops: Much better than impersonal webinars!
The world has become so technologically advanced that webinars have started to replace face-to-face meetings. While webinars benefit hosting companies with increases in attendance at their events,...
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APM Workshops: Achieving good "chemistry" in your maintenance organization
Chemistry at its most basic level teaches us what things are made of. From simple water molecules to complex polymers, all matter is comprised of simple atoms. Often the same fundamental elements...
View ArticleLooking forward to Meridium Conference 2011
For the past few months, Meridium's reliability experts have offered free training to maintenance and reliability professionals in the Houston, TX area. Professionals from many different industries...
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Keep it Safe: Asset Safety as a key component of APM
Companies are always looking for a competitive advantage over the rest of the industry. To gain the edge, upper management seeks to cut costs as much as possible. Especially in the process industry,...
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Dates set for Meridium's Mechanical Integrity and Asset Safety workshops!
"Keep it contained" and "Keep it safe." Oil spills and oil rig explosions happen when maintenance is ignored. For companies hoping to avoid such catastrophes, effective asset performance management...
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Asset Safety: Assessing Operating Risks
As we have discussed in previous posts, effective work processes are the key to improving reliability and asset performance. With the APM Foundation work process, maintenance managers and reliability...
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Asset Safety: Design and Implement
As we discussed in previous posts, the Asset Safety work process is focused on ensuring that the safety and protective functions of instrumented assets are properly defined and managed. In order to...
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SGS: Optimizing Data Quality and Faster Reporting
Travis Keener of SGS spoke to Meridium Conference attendees about how SGS's services help companies optimize data quality and enable faster reporting. During his presentation, he also spoke about the...
View ArticleHow well is the role of Safety Instrumented Systems understood?
Bring up the topic of Safety Instrumented Systems in any industrial forum and you will get a spectrum of responses that could range from "fear and mistrust", to "not my job, don't need to know" to...
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How to optimize Instrument Calibration Intervals
Accurate and reliable Instrumentation and control systems should be considered during any asset performance initiative. Meeting safety and regulatory requirements often necessitates the adoption or...
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How to reduce common SIF/SIS mistakes
A recently published study by Great Britain’s HSE broke the safety lifecycle into three major areas: Hazards Assessment/SIF Specification SIF Design and Verification Operation and Maintenance Not...
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When does the "Grandfathering" of Protective Functions end?
Those of us in the Instrumentation and Controls fields are all too familiar with the terms of: “Grandfathering” and “Protective Functions”, as they relate to industry standards such as: IEC-61511, and...
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