YELLOWSTONE ENGINEERING ASSOCIATES
Your industry partner for reliable operations
Industry is as competitive as ever to deliver safe, clean, reliable, and affordable products.
Yellowstone Engineering Associates bring industry expertise and deliver proven, practical, and effective solutions.
We partner with our clients to address today's challenges and develop a sustainable future together.
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Yellowstone performs Reliability Engineering Consulting for various clients across multiple industries. Our goal is to make your operations safer, compliant, efficient, reliable, and more profitable. Our services include:
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Failure Modes & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
- Asset Criticality Assessment
- Preventative Maintenance (PM) optimization
- Predictive Maintenance (PdM) optimization
- System De-Bottlenecking
- Critical spare parts strategy
- Operator driven reliability
- Operations procedure review and development
- Maintenance procedure review and development
- Operations cold eye review
Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a systematic process used to identify the underlying causes of problems or incidents. The goal of RCA is to determine:
- What happened
- Why it happened
- How to prevent it from happening again.
This method is widely used in various industries, including engineering, business, healthcare, and manufacturing, among others.
The key steps we help guide our clients through include:
- Problem definition
- Investigation
- Identify causal factors
- Identify root causes
- Define solutions (prioritize and implement)
- Monitor performance
- Continuous improvement
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One of the major steps in development of a reliability program using Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a Failure Modes & Effect Analysis (FMEA). An FMEA is a step by step process to identify the potential failures in a system, equipment, process, or procedures. They are effective in a range of industries from refining, mining, commercial facilities, healthcare, and water treatment, to name a few.
An FMEA is composed of two parts, and you guessed it!
- Failure Modes
- Effects Analysis
Failure modes are how the system, equipment, procedure, or process could fail to meet it’s objective. It’s critical to define the goals of the organization to better understand a failure. The next major step is performing a risk matrix to identify the likelihood and consequence of the failure. We want to make sure we’re solving real problems for your organization.
The second half of the FMEA is to analyze the impact to the organization. One way to think of this, is a reverse Root Cause Analysis (RCA). We want to understand the first and second order effects from the most likely and highest consequence failures. This steps identifies where to target our reliability strategies towards.
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We offer engineering services to improve system performance and energy consumption. Rising energy, labor, and maintenance costs are making industry more competitive than ever. We offer:
- Operation performance audits
- Process performance optimization
- System energy consumption audits and optimization
- Heat loss audits – heating, cooling, and refrigeration systems
When have a team of professional Project Managers to lead your projects to success. Our team has systems, processes, tools, and workflows to ensure the project scope, schedule, and budget meet the stakeholder’s goals. Our team has experience managing projects across a variety of industries, with multi-disciplinary teams, up to $400,000,000 USD in total Capital cost. Allow us to execute your projects and programs to ensure they’re done right the first time.
Our project leadership will improve communication, team alignment while reducing risk, cost growth, and schedule creep.
Our Consulting Services
Our team performs Reliability Engineering Consulting for various clients across multiple industries. Our goal is to make your operations safer, efficient, reliable, and more profitable. We develop long term reliability strategies, including:
- Asset Criticality Assessment
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Preventative Maintenance Program
- Predictive Maintenance Program
- System De-Bottlenecking
- Critical spare parts strategy
- Additional other subjects by request
When your organization has complex problems they need solved, we are the solution. We help our clients when they don’t have the time, resources, or expertise to determine the root cause and solutions to their challenges.
We help investigate, analyze, and record the problems you’re facing. We’ll partner with you to determine long term solutions and how to implement them.
We simplify complex problems that involve people, procedures, and equipment. Our solutions are sustainable and allow your operations to run as expected.
The only constant in our future is change. We help leading organizations with the complexity of change management. We develop unique framework and strategies to minimize risk and increase effectiveness with your organizations current changes. Our systems were developed from the oil and gas industry where Change Management directly impacts safety. Our solutions are proven to improve project success, team engagement, compliance, and safety.
If your projects need better organization, planning, documentation, and reduced risk – let us help you develop a Change Management Process for a better future.
When have a team of professional Project Managers to lead your projects to success. Our team has systems, processes, tools, and workflows to ensure the project scope, schedule, and budget meet the stakeholder’s goals. Our team has experience managing projects across a variety of industries, with multi-disciplinary teams, up to $400,000,000 USD in total Capital cost. Allow us to execute your projects and programs to ensure they’re done right the first time.
Our project leadership will improve communication, team alignment while reducing risk, cost growth, and schedule creep.
Our team can manage your project or program cost control and schedule. We know that the success of your project needs systematic proactive management of the ongoing costs and schedule. Let our team build the appropriate systems and processes to ensure your projects no longer go over budget and beyond the expected schedule.
Our Training Services
Our experienced team is passionate to train the next generation of Reliability Professionals for success. Our training courses include:
- Asset Criticality Assessment
- Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
- Root Cause Analysis
- Preventative Maintenance Program
- Predictive Maintenance Program
- System De-Bottlenecking
- Mechanical Integrity
- Equipment specification development
- Critical spare parts strategy
We train leadership and frontline team members on the systems and framework of Root Cause Analysis. We provide the tools you need to be successful for complex problem solving.
Our team can teach you the procedures and systems to solve complex problems. Our steps include:
- Problem Investigation
- Analyzing the contributing factors
- Brainstorming solutions
- Implementing sustainable solutions
- Training and team engagement
Our team members have safely and effectively implemented major changes in hazardous and high risk situations. Our team can train your leaders on how to proactively implement Change Management. Our team will develop appropriate procedures and tools for your organization.
- Company culture assessment
- Change management procedure development
- Organizational definition of Change
- Hazard and risk matrix
- Pre-Startup Review
- Training
- Documentation
Industries We Serve
Aerospace and Defense
Chemical, Food & Beverage
Manufacturing
Mining
Oil and Gas
Pharmaceutical
Pipelines and Terminals
Water Treatment
