Infor EAM Asset Sustainability Edition Brings Energy Efficiency Capabilities to Enterprise Asset Management

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infor today announced Infor EAM Asset Sustainability Edition, an enterprise software solution that allows organizations to integrate energy consumption and emissions management into their asset management practices. Infor EAM Asset Sustainability Edition enables organizations to substantially reduce energy costs, while minimizing carbon emissions and the impact of their operations on the environment.

The Association for Maintenance Professionals is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to connecting and empowering maintenance and reliability professionals and groups from around the world.

• Maintenance.org offers private member access to a vibrant online community of peers, subject matter experts and solution providers

• Personal profile - with full control of your choice for privacy settings

• Screen names – to avoid compromising your privacy as well as allowing you to represent yourself – not your company

• Blogs or Journals – you can create a monthly, weekly or daily web log (blog) and build an audience that wants to share your experience and learn

• Connect with peers – you can use profile information and an internal messaging system to invite others to add you to their network of contacts or to form a group (based on shared subject interest, local geography or based on people attending an upcoming event for example)

• Groups can be private or public, open or by invitation. Group can have their own blogs, event calendars, forums, video and photo uploads and more. Have a group that needs a web site? New groups are created by request

• Multimedia – you can post audio or video files (uploaded and automatically converted to flash) or from hosted sites (like YouTube or Google Video)

• Document sharing – you can also post/share Word Documents, spreadsheets, PDF, Slide Presentations and more

• Event Calendar – public or private with RSVP feature to track attendees

• Threaded discussion forums – you can post a question or share advice

• Privacy – you have control who can contact you and who has access to your profile and other content, no personal or company information is ever displayed or revealed

• Exclusive Web Workshops led by Jack Nicholas Jr., H. Paul Barringer, Joel Levitt, Steve Thomas and more

• Live training events - members enjoy free access to a variety of training events held around the world

• Much much more…

Join now and start taking advantage of all the benefits offered by the Association for Maintenance Professionals

Raising an Asset Performance Management Program by John Mitchell, Meridium

Having worked in the industry for more decades than anyone would want to admit, it is now amusing to observe first-hand a fast-moving, high-technology company that has an abundance of younger people just entering their parenting years. For an individual like me who has been through “the program” with both children and grandchildren, the enthusiasm and innocence I see in these new parents is often quite humorous.

Drawing a parallel between developmental milestones and reliability improvements, one engineer integrated his child’s sonogram into a presentation – but totally neglected the crucial KPIs: sleeping through the night and potty training!

Parenting is clearly a top down activity – left to themselves the little darlings would eat sugary cereal, watch too much TV, leave their junk around, go to bed late, and never, ever help with the routine chores. Standards of behavior and household chores must be established by an authority – mom and dad!

An asset performance management (APM) program shares many of the same characteristics with parenting. More…

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An iPresentation tutorial by Todd White, CMRP, MRG

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how populating your CMMS/EAM with correct master records will allow the transactional data to lend itself to valid and useful analysis that bolsters critical thinking and identifies the vital opportunities that are worthy of pursuit. In this 10 minute iPresentation, Todd White, CMRP, illustrates the importance of quality foundational data to Maintenance and Engineering who have to own the processes and be responsible for the availability and integrity of the master records and transactional data to drive and support business decisions.

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by Al Weber, Eric Wegscheider and Aaron Beasley, Ivara Corporation

How to prevent equipment failure with SAP PM and EXP

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.

View this recorded 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”.

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Did you know there was a SAP transaction code called “search_sap_menu” which allows you to search the entire menu structure for a particular transaction code by entering text characters?

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Plant Engineering and Maintenance Show
May 6-8
Knoxville Marriott

Workshop 1
Return On Asset Reliability (ROAR™)

Return On Asset Reliability is a non-traditional approach to financial metrics and how they can be used to justify reliability improvement initiatives. Most companies have institutionalized their inefficiencies. Which is a nice way of saying, they have little clue about how much hidden capacity their existing operations have. And instead of identifying and eliminating the sources of these inefficiencies, they find it easier to ask for capital monies to expand their current operations. ROAR provides a way to quickly and easily understand the costs associated with these decisions.

In this one day workshop, you will step through building a plant level ROAR and learn what data you will need to collect to build a model for your plant. You will calculate the cost savings associated with achieving Best Practice in Maintenance and be introduced to how to utilize Reliability Process Plots to quantify the true Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) improvement opportunity for your facility.

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How do you apply ISO14224 in SAP PM?

In which fields in SAP PM do you use:

- the failure modes
- maintainable items
- failure descriptors
- failure causes
- maintenance activity
- detection methods of ISO14224?

Josh

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by Craig Read, Divisional Engineer: MGO2 and SAP Planning, AMIMechE, Sappi Saiccor (Pty) Ltd

A brief overview of the development and management of instrumentation calibrations in SAP.

Introduction

A major SAP upgrade from SAP3.1 to SAP4.6 was implemented at Sappi South Africa between 2003 until 2004. Many of the Sappi business process were reviewed during this project and particularly in the plant maintenance area of the business.

SAP PM has been well entrenched in the business since the first implementation of SAP in 1998 and is used to schedule all maintenance work. One area in which work scheduling using SAP PM had proved challenging and where we’ve had limited buy-in was in the area of instrument calibrations. More…

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