February 25, 2008
Solution Partners for Effective SAP PM
Use Solution Partners for SAP Plant Maintenance™ to help you move from ineffective software and processes to world class reliability.
This All Star team of independent Solution Partners for SAP Plant Maintenance offer an amazing set of solutions that simply work or put another way - work simply!
February 25, 2008
Webinar Playback: Planning and Scheduling in SAP
What if you could get a daily maintenance schedule out in minutes rather than hours?
What if you could use one interface to interact with both SAP and your other business applications?
What if there was a way to get all of your maintenance information into one interface?
What if you regained ownership of your business process?
You are invited to a special recorded webinar that will discuss approaches that can be taken to improve SAP Plant Maintenance usability and streamline business process. The discussion will cover notification creation, maintenance order creation, parts ordering, resource management, resource scheduling, shift level operation scheduling, shift turnover activity, and maintenance order management. SAP native capabilities in addition to complimentary products will be discussed.
The presented material will last 25-30 minutes minutes with extra time set aside for questions and answers.
February 25, 2008
Preventive Maintenance Scheduling by Day of Week
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
Has anyone implemented any Preventive Maintenance Plans to be scheduled by Specific Days of the week? We have a number of Gas Compressors that need to be scheduled for operations reasons on specific days of the week.
Example
Station 1 Compressor needs to be scheduled the first Tuesday of every month for a 4 hour PM.
Station 2 Compressor needs to be scheduled the first Wednesday of every month for its 4 hour PM.
Station 3 Compressor needs to be scheduled the first Thursday of every month for its 4 hour PM.
Because these are on different pipelines, operations schedules a 4 hour outage and shuts the lines down and everyone schedules their work on these days.
How can I get the Maintenance Plans to show the specific days of the week that the plan is due?
JW99
Texas
February 25, 2008
How to prevent equipment failure with SAP PM
Please join us for a Webinar on March 6
Asset Performance Management in an SAP World
SAP PM is a powerful tool for effectively managing maintenance work. But is it helping you to prevent equipment failures? Unlock the full potential of your SAP plant maintenance strategy by integrating Asset Performance Management software with SAP PM. The next evolution in Enterprise software is an equipment-centric system to manage and monitor equipment health to prevent failures and optimize performance.
Attend this webinar to learn how Peabody Energy, ArcelorMittal Dofasco, Southern California Edison, and Catalyst Paper are leveraging Ivara EXP Asset Performance Management software in a new approach to asset care.
Includes 30 minute presentation followed by 15 minute software demonstration of Ivara EXP Enterprise and SAP PM. Ivara EXP is certified “Powered by Netweaver”.
February 25, 2008
SAP Tip
1. If you do not know what a particular field is for/means, click on that field and press the F1 key. A window will pop up with “help” on that field.
2. The short cut key F3 will take you back to the previous screen.
3. The short cut key F4 will open up the Restriction Values Ranges Screen to take you to the option list of values available for that relevant field.
4. To fill an empty date field with the current date quickly: Strike the key F4 (or click on matchcode symbol) and press ESCAPE. The current date will automatically be set.
5. The short cut key F11 will save your work.
6. The short cut key F12: Use this short cut key to exit from the transaction.
Tip provided by Dave Army
Strategic Asset Management Inc.
+1 (860) 675-0439
February 25, 2008
Reliability Focused SAP PM Strategy Sessions & Learning Zone at EAM-2008
600+ maintenance and reliability already registered
The Enterprise Asset Management Summit
March 18-20
The Orleans Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas Nevada
Free Bonus: Benchmarking Workshop March 17
• Asset Performance Management in an SAP World – an Integrated and Cohesive Strategy by Eric Wegscheider & James Nesbitt, Ivara Corporation
• SAP PM in Your Future? – How to Plan for Success & Ensure Your Asset Performance & Reliability is Maximized by Mike Schultz, Reliability Specialist, ArcelorMittal Dofasco
• The Secret Sauce Behind Integrating 35 Different Equipment Reliability and Condition Data Sources with SAP PM by Darryl Barney, Project Manager, Reliability Engineering, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)
• Rapid ROI Approach to a Multi-Site Reliability Improvement Strategy by John Keller, Manager of Maintenance Engineering, Peabody Energy
• SAP Managing Calibrations by Craig Read, Sappi, South Africa
• People – Managing Through the Hardest Part of Implementing a Reliability Program Utilizing SAP PM by Ryan Sletmoen, Catalyst Paper
• Open Panel Discussion: SAP PM and Reliability, What’s Next?
• 35 additional “real world” RCM and EAM case studies
• 100% Independent – this event has no connection to SAP AG and is delivered in the context of all Reliabilityweb.com events – putting the maintenance and reliability professional first!
February 25, 2008
Putting Corporate Asset Management Programs into Business Language
An iPresentation Tutorial by Scott A. McWilliams, CMRP, SVP-Operations, MRG, Inc.
This 15 minute iPresentation gives the non-financial professional the basic tools to build a business case for reliability that financial professionals will understand and accept.
While Corporate Asset Management (CAM) has been a hot topic amongst global companies for the past decade, the demands of the transformational requirements (culturally, technologically, procedurally and philosophically), compounded with the time to achieve, often mask or even prohibit the visibility of bottom line financial benefits.
The question becomes, “How do we implement a Corporate Asset Management strategy so that real business value can be seen at each phase of the transformation?” In this iPresentation, Scott McWilliams focuses on the business tools necessary to communicate the business value to corporate decision makers.
February 25, 2008
Leadership and the SAP Plant Maintenance Tool
By John Hoke & Lorri Craig
Reliability Solutions
Using a software package to administer maintenance activities is nothing new to most of us. As a matter of fact, the vast majority are experiencing our second implementation of the latest and greatest CMMS (Computer Maintenance Management System). We struggled with the first one just getting used to the complexity of using a computer and its awkward commands to do the things that we handled so quickly with the paper system of the good old days. In those days, the world was much different. There was no real pressure from Wall Street at the operating floor level, and we all seemed to remember the failures and what happened and why, and took the time to make sure it did not ever happen again. More…
February 11, 2008
SAP Plant Maintenance Learning Lab at RCM/EAM 2008
New Reliability Focused SAP PM Strategy Sessions & Learning Lab at EAM-2008
Enterprise Asset Management Summit
March 18-20, 2008
FREE Breakthrough benchmarking session - Reliability Leadership: March 17
Orleans Hotel - Las Vegas
You are invited to visit the hands-on Learning Lab –your ONE opportunity at RCM/EAM 2008 to participate in a simulated plant environment that will show you first-hand how to get more performance and reliability out of your equipment.
Get hand’s-on experience at one of the work areas in the Learning Lab that has a fully integrated asset performance solution loaded including SAP® PM, Ivara EXP Enterprise asset performance management software and Timken Status Check, a wireless system designed to detect and monitor excessive levels of temperature and vibration. You can experience a complete end-to-end asset performance management system from start to finish.
Picture this (one of many scenarios you can try live in the lab):
Imaging you are monitoring the condition of your critical equipment using visual inspections and various predictive technologies fed into EXP (so you get one view of equipment health). The latest reading fed into EXP indicates an alarm. It’s an abnormal condition that needs to be addressed to avoid functional failure. You acknowledge the alarm in EXP which creates a notification for corrective work to be executed using SAP PM. You plan, schedule and execute the work order in SAP PM and close the work order. EXP automatically records the potential failure and avoided failure costs. You view your up-to-date KPIs and failure history and are amazed to see the costs you have avoided –and how easy it was to manage equipment performance and reliability.
Not convinced? More reasons to attend…
· Ask the expert to answer your maintenance and reliability questions (about SAP PM, EXP or general problems related to maintenance process and practices).
· Pick up your EXP/SAP PM Asset Performance Management Handbook. If you use SAP PM (or you are about to), you need this book.
If you don’t use SAP PM…
Drop by anyway since Ivara EXP Enterprise Asset Performance Management software works with any CMMS/EAM. Experience first-hand how it can work for you…
And attend the sessions in the SAP track:
Hear from reliability and maintenance professionals at:
· ArcelorMittal Dofasco –Reliability Specialist Mike Schultz talks about how to plan for success & ensure your asset performance & reliability is maximized.
· Catalyst Paper – Ryan Sletmoen reveals how Catalyst managed through the hardest part of implementing a reliability program (managing the people).
· Peabody Energy – Neil Waugh discusses a rapid ROI approach to a multi-site reliability improvement strategy.
· Sappi, South Africa – Craig Read shows us how to manage calibrations with SAP PM.
· Southern California Edison – Darryl Barney talks about how they integrated 35 different equipment reliability and condition data sources with SAP PM.
· Open Panel Discussion: SAP PM and Reliability, What’s Next? – Join Al Weber, founding chair of the SMRP, with a gathering of experts from many different industries for a lively discussion on hot topics, as directed by you - the audience.
PLUS 35 additional “real world” RCM and EAM case studies
• 100% Independent – this event has no connection to SAP AG and is delivered in the context of all Reliabilityweb.com events – putting the maintenance and reliability professional first!
Now you and your team can attend 3 great learning events in one place - for one price!
• RCM-2008 Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers Forum
• EAM-2008 Enterprise Asset Management Summit
• MTrain-2008 Maintenance Training Conference
Request a Brochure
Register today and get:
- Free Association for Maintenance Professionals membership
Learning Outcomes:
• End unexpected breakdowns and failures
• Eliminate work orders that do not add value
• Use maintenance software more effectively
• Develop a competency based maintenance training
We are so sure you will get value from your participation – we offer an iron-clad 100% satisfaction guarantee or your money back!
$70/night 4 star hotel rates apply - so sign up today!
Call toll free (888) 575-1245 to speak to one of our conference specialists.
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This conference is independent from and has no connection to SAP AG.
February 01, 2008
Core 7 Technologies, Inc. Acquires Fields & Screens, Inc.
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Core 7 Technologies, Inc., the creator of the very successful, customer-focused Officetrax.com® services and a leading developer of web-based maintenance management software applications designed for the retail chain store industry, today announced the acquisition of all the assets of Fields & Screens, Inc. a Dallas, Texas based maintenance management software development company. The acquisition includes the entire portfolio of Work Order Wonder (WOW) maintenance management software products. As a result of this acquisition Core 7 also announced today the creation of a U.S. based company targeted at the commercial real estate service and maintenance management business, called Core 7 US, Inc.
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