PdM-2008
September 15-18
Qwest Center
Omaha Nebraska
Please join us for PdM-2008, the Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference & Expo from September 15-18, 2008 in America’s Heartland - Omaha Nebraska.

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FREE Bonus workshops and the Association for Maintenance Professionals Breakthrough sessions are held on March 18.

This conference is designed for predictive maintenance beginners and seasoned condition monitoring professionals.

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This one event provides a venue for all of the techniques and technologies required for reliable machinery operation. 

PdM-2008 provides leading techniques and case studies for:

Vibration Analysis
Airborne Ultrasound
Infrared Thermal Imaging
Motor Testing
Oil and Wear Particle Analysis
Other condition monitoring technologies
World class best practices indicate that up to 50% of your maintenance activity should be spent on condition directed tasks to replace ineffective time based maintenance.  Finding and implementing the right combination of predictive maintenance and condition monitoring technologies is a challenge.

Like other Reliabilityweb.com conferences, PdM-2008 features a wide selection of pre-conference workshops, FREE Bonus Workshops, 16 different 60 minute short courses, dozens of focused learning zone sessions and plenty of networking opportunities with people who face the same issues you do on a daily basis.

A Very Special Keynote by Reliability Expert and noted Author Heinz Bloch, PE
“Emphasize People, NOT PdM - Or You Will Affect Uptime”

New at PdM-2008 - iLearnLab for Vibration Analysis!

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All Condition Monitoring - All the Time!

This is the only independent Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring focused conference for PdM practitioners and is designed for Rotating Equipment Engineers, Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Managers, Maintenance Supervisors, Predictive Maintenance Technicians, Vibration Analysts, Infrared Thermographers, Motor Testing professionals, Electrical Engineers, Lubrication specialists and anyone else who may be involved in planning, implementing or using a Condition Based Maintenance Program or Predictive Maintenance Program.

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The PMOptimisation is a revolutionary method for improving the effectiveness of maintenance programs and strategies. PMOptimisation starts with the existing maintenance program used within the plant.

Working in cross-functional teams from the shop floor, the PMO team identifies what duplication exists within their own environment and what elements of the current maintenance program are useful and what are inappropriate.

Find out more about PMOptimisation and download a copy of PMO2000

The Laboratory Services Division of PdMA Corporation offers solutions to reduce lubricant contamination.

Now new items are available for your storage room: a labeling system

-LABEL SAFE™, and grease storage solutions

–GREASE SAFE. Both products offer the same ten colors available with OIL SAFE products.

It is much easier and cost effective to reduce and keep contamination out of equipment, than it is to get the contamination out once it is introduced!

E-mail
Tel: 813-621-6463 ext.111

Find out more about Oil Safe and the new products available from PdMA

The Asset Health Standard Flow looks at two general questions that must be addressed:

- How Much?
- How Well?

With regard to the often utilized P-F Curve, most “maintenance initiatives” focus on Point F and try to “manage the event’. When your focus is on Asset Health, your focus is on Point P – “early identification and elimination of the defect”. So, as soon as an inspection (though either a PM or condition monitoring) can identify that a defect is present (Point P - “Early Signal”), that asset is RED!

Find out more about Asset Health Assurance

Kittiwake Developments are pleased to announce the launch of the DIGI Insolubles meter. A unit designed to put on-site, instant and actionable oil condition results in the hands of the engineer.

A build up of insolubles will generally increase the oils viscosity and create other problems such as foaming.

Increased oil viscosity will cause:

• Wear of bearings and running surfaces.

• Blockage of oil ways and filters.

• Fouling around the piston pack and piston top land.

The Kittiwake DIGI Insolubles meter will give the user an accurate quantitative result in under two minutes and has a range of 0-2.5%.

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Find out more DIGI Insolubles meter

Vibration analysis is not easy to master.

Rather than going to a course that bombards you with facts that you need to remember, come to a Mobius Institute course where you learn “why”. You learn why vibration changes the way it does. You learn why the spectrum has peaks, harmonics, and sidebands. You learn why the analyzer should be set up the way we recommend. And you learn so much more! Vibration analysis makes so much more sense when you understand why. Watching the animations and software simulators makes this all possible.

The course is filled with Mobius “Ah ha!” moments when everything suddenly makes sense.

To have your own Mobius “Ah ha!” moment, sign up for a Mobius class, or buy the self-paced iLearnVibration system.

Please call 877 550 3400, e-mail

Find out more about having your own Mobius “Ah ha!” moment

The CSI 555 Vibration Strobe Light allows for phase measurement without stopping the machine. Built for portable applications the CSI 555 provides accurate results with no loss of production.

• Determine the speed of the machine while tracking speed changes

• TTL output for balancing and phase determination on machinery

• Visually inspect high speed rotating machinery through Freeze Motion

• Interfaces between accelerometer and CSI 2130 Machinery Health® Analyzer for speed and phase information

Emerson Process Management
865-675-2400

Find out more about the CSI 555 Vibration Strobe Light

Displacement sensors output 4-20 mA vibration data that works with a PLC, DCS or SCADA system for simplified, real-time machinery health monitoring.

• Displacement can unmask hidden problems with easy to understand measurements

• 4-20 mA displacement sensors integrate at the measurement point for the cleanest vibration data

• Displacement measurements are ideal for pumps, fans, and balance of plant equipment

• 4-20 mA monitoring is simple and cost effective

Wilcoxon Research, Inc.
800-WILCOXON
+1 301 330 8811

Find out more about displacement sensors

PM Builder is an inexpensive, entry level application that can help facilities maximize staff effectiveness, minimize maintenance costs and increase facility productivity. It has been designed for large or small companies that do not have a comprehensive or well defined/documented PM program and do not have the resources to commit to a full RCM or PMO analysis.

• Administer and deliver a well documented Preventive Maintenance program.

• Dramatically reduce the time to create a site wide PM program.

• Embark on a formal means of approval and document control.

Download your PM Builder evaluation version

SenGenuity manufactures the robust solid-state low shear ViSmart viscosity sensor packaged at 0.5 inches diameter and 3 inches long for in-line and on-line fluid applications.

The sensor instantaneously measures a wide range of viscosity while rated for temperatures up to 125˚C, with custom options and configurations available.

Find out more about the ViSmart viscosity sensor