May 31, 2006
Last Call: PdM Program of the Year
Entry Deadline: June 1
How Good Is Your Predictive Maintenance Program?
Are you interested in a no cost way to get an outside perspective on your Predictive Maintenance programs strengths as well as the opportunities for improvement?
Do you want to generate a Return on Investment (ROI) from your maintenance program?
Enter Uptime Magazine’s PdM Program of the Year Competition to see how your program compares to dozens of other winning programs. There is no cost to enter.
We have been very impressed with each of the entries to date and we encourage you to spend a few minutes to tell us about your program. You have to be in it to win it!
Simply applying for the PdM Program of the Year will make you a winner.
Learn About Opportunities to Improve Your Predictive Maintenance Program
May 31, 2006
Encore iPresentation: 5 Pillars: Maintenance & Reliability Professional Review
This 10 minute iPresentation tutorial details a comprehensive distance learning course that emphasizes proven techniques for building high performance maintenance programs. The course is based on the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) 5 Pillars of required knowledge for maintenance & reliability professionals, and is backed by extensive benchmarking and real-world application. SMRP does not endorse any commercial activities including this training course. Completing the 5 Pillars course does not ensure that you will pass the CMRP exam.
May 31, 2006
A vibration training course like nothing you have experienced before
Register now for Lake Tahoe or Niagara Falls, and you will receive a free iLearnVibration student edition system. Utilizing the Mobius simulators, Tony DeMatteo will give you an unforgettable course. The course and certification exam follow ISO and ASNT standards. If you value training, you must check our Web site.
Contact: Bill Kilbey on 865-288-0086 or…
May 31, 2006
New Brochure: PdM-2006 The Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference
Mark Your Calendar!
Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference & Expo
September 12-15, 2006
Chattanooga TN
Some highlights this year include:
• Keynote by Bob DiStefano MRG - Predictive Technologies Increase Bottom Line
• 35 Case Studies and Presentations
• PdM Program of Year Awards
• Alienware Laptop Giveaway
• Plant Tour: Visit Arnold Engineering Development Center- the facility with over 55 Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals
PdM-2006/LubricationWorld Workshops by:
• PdM Managers’ Workshop by Jack Nicholas Jr., CMRP
• Guide to online and offline motor testing by Howard Penrose, PhD, CMRP
• Introduction to Vibration Analysis by Dan Ambre
• Pump Reliability by Ross Mackay
• Practical Machinery Lubrication by Ray Thibault, CLS, OMA
• Basic Failure Cause Analysis for Predictive Maintenance
Professionals by Mark Latino
• The Motor Testing Game by Howard Penrose
• Introduction to Modal Analysis and ODS by Dan Ambre
• The Ultrasound Game by Jim Hall
• Oil Analysis Game by Ray Thibault and Paul Goldman
May 31, 2006
Lean Reliability: It’s Time for Maintenance to Join the Lean Team!
Webinar Date: Friday, June 2, 2006
Time:11am EDT
Cost: FREE
While Lean Manufacturing has been a hit within operations for years, it’s now time for Maintenance to join the “Lean Team” - to think and act Lean about equipment reliability.
Learn how Maintenance and Operations can work together to apply lean thinking and principles. Focusing on waste reduction and continuous improvement within the equipment reliability process, watch as your new Lean Team can move your company to the next level in plant performance and reap unprecedented benefits, including:
• Increased production efficiency
• Reduced manufacturing costs
• Ensuring a safe environment
• Ensuring environmental performance
• Ensuring product quality
Attend this FREE webinar and hear two leading authorities – Ricky Smith, renowned speaker and author, AND Paul Casto, CRE, CMRP, from Eastman Chemical – discuss how Lean principles, applied to the equipment reliability process, can help bring maintenance & operations together to achieve breakthrough performance.
Ricky Smith is renowned in the world of reliability and maintenance. Author of “Lean Maintenance” and “Industrial Repair, Best Maintenance Repair Practices”, Ricky has more than 30 years of experience working in over 400 plants world wide in reliability and maintenance management and training —and holds designations as a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional from the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) and a Certified Plant Maintenance Manager from the Association of Facilities Engineering (AFE).
Paul R. Casto has more than 25 years in manufacturing with hands-on experience in engineering, maintenance, production and reliability. He has worked in the steel, aluminum, automotive, chemical, aerospace and consumer goods industries. He has worked internationally in Europe, Japan, South America, South Africa and Russia. Currently, his main area of focus is bottom-line value creation through the application of reliability technologies, the integration of Six Sigma and TOC techniques into reliability and the application of Lean principles to maintenance. This work encompasses methods to translate value to the profit line of the income statement, techniques to assess M&R performance and methods to improve M&R work processes.
May 31, 2006
Maintenance and Reliability in the Year 2016
Editors Note: We have invited some of the best minds in maintenance and reliability to write a series of brief essays on trends they see developing 10 years forward. Each week we will publish a new essay.
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Projections by Jack R. Nicholas, Jr., BS (Eng), MBA, P.E., CMRP, Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals Certifying Organization Exam Director
By 2016 the functions of maintenance and reliability (M & R) will be universally recognized as a combined, essential professional specialty area in the same way as fields of accounting, finance, engineering, marketing, information technology, management and other vital skills needed by business, government, academic institutions, public utilities and similarly focused organizations.
There will be over 20,000 persons, worldwide, up from about 1500 in mid 2006, who carry the designation “Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional – CMRP” More…
May 31, 2006
The best department to run predictive
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
I am a contractor/consultant handling Vibration Analysis, Thermography and administering lube sample analysis programs, both routine and troubleshooting work, plus some TEV and ultrasonics to a lesser degree.
My question: Should the maintenance department really be handling all this predictive work?
It may sound stupid at first, (please feel free to tell me so, I have a thick skin) but, Vibration Analysis, thermography, oil etc. gives us a accurate idea which machines are going to require maintenance, what type of breakdown is to be avoided and which one’s are relatively closer to breakdown than others.
The production schedules however are understood and operated in the production sphere, so the operators and their managers better understand the impact on the business of each machine breaking down.
So should I have been submitting my reports to the production managers so they can determine the real nose bleeders, which when we consider that a couple of days total plant outage due to a failure of a $100 gearbox that is not in the stores could easily outstrip the cost to replace a $100,000 gearbox that can be worked around.
I suppose that this could be considered a first step in a move away from adversarial production and maintenance systems to proper asset management.
Anybody want to suggest a name for predictive once taken out of the maintenance sphere?
Proactive Production Protection?
May 31, 2006
How Effective Is Your Planning and Scheduling System?
From Reliability Magazine Volume 11 Issue 4
By Jerry Wilson
Is your Planning and Scheduling system really providing positive benefits?
Have you observed a significant improvement in the effectiveness of your maintenance organization? Or are you simply assuming that you are getting a payback for your efforts? If you are getting positive payback from your Planning and Scheduling (P&S) system, how would it compare to what you could be getting if your system was optimized? Do you know? More…
May 24, 2006
Murphy's Laws for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
• When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves.
• Keep your boss’s boss off your boss’s back.
• Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing.
• There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but there is always enough time to do it over.
• The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time; the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.
Source: Murphy’s laws site - all the laws of Murphy in one place
May 24, 2006
SAP-PM vs Oracle eAM
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
“I am currently involved in a selection process. I am looking for clear areas of separation between the two products based on current users knowledge and anyone that may have had a similar experience in the recent past. All comments would be appreciated.
(Disclaimer: remember, I have had limited exposure to either solutions...so some observations listed below may be grossly erroneous due to first impressions and lack of depth of knowledge of systems...that is why I am asking, so no ranting when I mess up...I am quite aware of my lack of knowledge with these two systems.) “ More…
