Bad Actor

Asset or component that repeatedly creates disproportionate failures, downtime, maintenance cost or risk.

Examples

01Reliability engineering identifies one pump as a bad actor: it causes 22 % of all downtime in the utilities area but is only 1 of 140 assets.
02The bad actor list is reviewed monthly, and each one gets a root-cause study before its maintenance strategy is changed.
03Replacing the bad actor pump's seal type, based on its failure history, cuts its downtime by 80 % and frees spare parts budget.