March 30, 2005
Important Vibration Monitoring Research Survey
You Can Shape the Future for Vibration Monitoring and Win an Apple iPod Music Player
Reliabilityweb.com has been contracted to perform an important research project relating to vibration monitoring.
You are invited to participate in a 20 questions survey that should take no longer than 10 minute to complete.
At the end of the survey - you will have an opportunity to enter a drawing for one of five Apple iPod Music Players that will be given away as a thank you.
Your answers are important and they will help shape the future of vibration monitoring for years to come.
March 30, 2005
ReliabilityResumes.com - A New Career Resource
We are pleased to announce a new career resource for our readers with a 100% focus on supporting maintenance and reliability professionals.
At ReliabilityResumes.com, you can post a position at no charge as well as find an abundant array of career service links.
Learn More About ReliabilityResumes.com
March 30, 2005
Certified Lubrication Preparation Class At MARTS-2005
The Maintenance & Reliability Summit
May 23-26, 2005
Chicago IL
The highly acclaimed Certified Lubrication Preparation class taught by Ray Thibault will be offered for the first time at the MARTS Conference from May 23-25.
This highly successful class has been presented 35 times in the last three years but mainly privately to major lubrication companies. It has never been offered at a public conference. All 16 areas on the CLS exam are covered in depth with the use of 750 PowerPoint slides resulting in a high pass rate for those who have previously attended this class.
This class not only prepares you for the CLS exam but is one of the most comprehensive lubrication classes ever offered which will make you more effective in your lubrication practices. The class is intense, fast moving, and fun and utilizes practice exams and homework to aid the learning process.
Early registration is recommended because a preparation package consisting of a lubrication handbook, practice questions, and a list of key definitions will be sent as preparation for the class.
March 30, 2005
Recent posts at MaintenanceForums.com
• The Definition of a bad actor
• What or who is a vendor?
• Someone has changed oil viscosity…
• Life cycle cost & uptime from SAP?
• KPI and Balanced Score Card
• Who influences CMMS Purchase
• Radial tilted pad subjected to overheating - reliable after repair?
March 30, 2005
CMMS - The Hub of Strategic Asset Management
By Jim Charboneau, PopWare Inc.
Everyone in transportation and transit organizations knows that their assets are critical to the overall success of the business. Asset availability and reliability is key to minimizing interruptions of the revenue stream. As a result, many transportation and transit organizations are looking at asset management as a strategic component in their quest for operational excellence.
The Strategic Asset Management Wheel>More…
March 30, 2005
Tracking Production Losses: A critical step to maximizing asset performance
A Sponsored White Paper by Meridium
Asset performance management focuses on enhancing plant production efficiency. Full utilization of your assets leads to both capital and operating efficiency: Un-reliability hinders both. Do you have a corporate or plant requirement to measure un-reliability? Tracking production losses will identify, and quantify your opportunities for improvement. After all, what gets measured gets managed. Author Guy Gimlen of Gimlen Consulting, shares his 30 years of experience in refining in this paper that describes the what, why, and how of repeatable work processes to track production losses.
Click here to download this white paper sponsored by Meridium
March 30, 2005
Capture the Expertise of Your Aging Workforce
An iPresentation by Andrew Boushy, Ivara Corporation
According to the Hudson Institute’s latest study of the state of the workforce in North America, more than 30-40% of maintenance trades people will be retiring over the next five years. This problem is particularly acute in the utilities industry where estimates are as high as 50%. While retiring rates are increasing, fewer people are entering the maintenance profession. Apprenticeship programs are at their lowest levels in decades. There are various reasons for this trend, but they all lead to a simple conclusion…
… organizations must capture the expertise of the retiring workforce before this critical information is lost forever. Please join Andrew Boushy in a 4 minute iPresentation tutorial that is focused on Capturing the Expertise of Your Aging Workforce.
March 30, 2005
Mission & Vision Statements for Maintenance & Reliability
A Report compiled by Terrence O’Hanlon, CMRP, Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com
I firmly believe that people can create remarkable results with the combination of a declaration (example: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal …) and a commitment.
If you are seeking to change the status quo and lead people for a new result in maintenance at your company, it will certainly be useful to declare or state your mission and your vision in a written form that everyone who will be affected can support and better yet, make happen.
In a world where we are quick to seek easy solutions in a new gadget or software or process, leadership, mission and vision will be required even if you have just discovered the equivalent of the “Kitchen Magician” for maintenance & reliability.
Remember, people create things – and you need people to be successful. People who all agree to a defined mission and are led with a clear vision will move mountains. People how are left to guess the mission surely will do so.
In February 2005, we placed a call for Reliabilityweb.com readers to share their Maintenance Mission and Vision Statements. We also invited our good friend, Terry Wireman to write the forward to the statements that people shared with us. More…
Download Mission & Vision Statements for Maintenance & Reliability (62K PDF)
March 23, 2005
MaintenanceTalk.com Blogs
Great news!
We have found a system to make the MaintenanceTalk.com blogs even better and we hope to launch the new system the week of April 4, 2005.
If you are one of the 20,000+ who use the Reliabilityweb.com Tristana newsreader to get RSS feeds delivered to your desktop - you may notice some temporary interruption of new feeds until we restart the new server with the new Blogging system.
For others- yes that was in English!
March 23, 2005
Last Call for Benchmarking Maintenance Distance Learning Course
8-10 week course starts April 1, 2005!
Course Leader: Terry Wireman, CPMM
Today’s marketplace demands you provide a high-quality product at a fair price in a timely manner. In order to achieve those goals and maximize profit companies are implementing programs such as JIT (Just-In-Time) and TQM (Total Quality Management), just to name two. The goal is top achieve “World-Class” status.
This 8-10 week class will help show you how to make the maintenance function help achieve the goals of high-quality, fair price & timely delivery by supporting other World-Class programs in the organization. The course provides models, data and techniques to benchmark your own organization and compare it to “World-Class” maintenance programs.
This Class Will Help You Understand:
• When you should benchmark - and when you should NOT
• How to conduct an internal maintenance assessment
• How to develop the right benchmarks for your company
• How to sell upper management on benchmarking
To register or learn more please call toll-free 888-230-5280 or email or
