Optimizing Industrial Equipment: Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability

Safety and Equipment Management

Safety Plan (Human):

Availability: Plan technical reliability, maintainability, productivity, durability (technical-economic Plan)

Costs: (planeconómico-Direct: (preventive or corrective)-Indirect: (for damage)

Inventory: Nomenclature encoded to maintain the park, established by logic tree-family groups.

Dossier-machine: It allows the knowledge of a team source, its technologies, and behaviors. 2 parts:

  • Event of the builder: Provided documents and contractual correspondence.
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Understanding the Enterprise: Concepts, Elements, and Social Responsibility

The Concept of Enterprise

A company is an organization that buys and transforms factors to produce goods and services in the market.

The Company and Production

The aim of the company has been meeting consumer needs by producing goods and services. The economic system solves basic economic problems.

Relationship Between Firms and Households

Production and consumption are two key activities in which exchange relationships exist between firms and households.

The Circular Flow of Income

It represents the functioning

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History and Evolution of Quality in Products & Services

History of Quality

In recent years, businesses have been looking for quality as a means to enhance competitiveness and increase profits. During World War II, there was a strong demand for production. W. Edwards Deming argues that quantity was prioritized over quality, and independence led to companies starting to earn money, leading to consequences. The emphasis on quality over quantity brought a crisis to the West because the quantity produced was not consumed. Key points are: quality is as important

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APQP, FMEA, and Poka-Yoke in Manufacturing

Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)

APQP defines and establishes the steps needed to ensure product quality and customer satisfaction. The goal is to facilitate communication between all involved parties.

1. Program Planning and Definition

The objective of this stage is to identify customer needs and expectations for subsequent tackling of project planning and quality plan definition.

  • Inputs:
    • Customer requirements
    • Market research
    • Functional analysis of the product
  • Outputs:
    • Design objectives
    • Product specifications
    • Preliminary
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Understanding Networks, IP Addresses, and Cloud Computing

Unit 1: Network Types

PAN (Personal Area Network): A network covering a small area, like a home or office.

LAN (Local Area Network): A network connecting devices in a limited area, such as a building.

MAN (Metropolitan Area Network): A network covering a larger area, like a city.

WAN (Wide Area Network): A network spanning a large geographical area, like a country or the world.

Understanding IP Addresses

An IP address is a numerical label assigned to each device connected to a computer network that uses

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Understanding Production Economics, Management, and Quality

Production Economics: A Conceptual Overview

From an economic standpoint, production involves the creation of goods using basic productive resources to satisfy needs. From a technical perspective, it’s the combination of elements to obtain property or services. Functionally, production adds value to things and creates property value.

Factors of Production

Effective production requires a combination of:

  • Material Factors: Natural resources
  • Human Factors: Labor
  • Capital: Financial resources
  • Organizational Factors:
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