January 25, 2006
Leadership and the SAP Plant Maintenance Tool at EAM-2006
EAM-2006 March 8-10
Pre-Conference Workshop
March 8, 2006
Las Vegas
Engaged leadership by any measure is the key success characteristic in any effective SAP Plant Maintenance Implementation.
As a leader, the organization will respond to what your values are and participation in the SAP PM implementation. As the saying goes “We tend to respect what the boss inspects”.
Understanding the basic SAP PM tool set and providing leadership support for the organization is the foundation required to ultimately developing reliable maintenance practices and ultimately achieving your goal of increased reliability and lower cost to achieve that reliability.
This workshop is designed to educate leadership within a manufacturing environment on the functionality of the SAP Plant Maintenance Module and its interdependencies with the other SAP Enterprise Modules.
Leadership’s role of champion of the SAP Plant Maintenance reliability effort is to demonstrate and lead the value proposition. The workshop will conclude with a leadership evaluation of key skills and action items to benchmark success.
The topics addresses include:
• How to obtain and utilize the information at a leadership level to manage the business of Reliability Improvement.
• What roles and skills are needed to effectively execute to SAP PM Module and Reliability effort.
• How Maintenance Best Practices align with the SAP PM Module.
This workshop has been successfully given in many manufacturing organizations to leadership teams providing leadership team members, both SAP novices and users, an overview and understanding on how to better support the organization and expedite reliability improvement.
Space is limited and this course is already filling up so please register today for early bird discounts and $60 per night 4 star hotel rooms. EAM-2006 includes more than 40 more CMMS, EAM and RCM short courses and sessions from March 8-10.
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January 25, 2006
Here are some recent postings at MaintenanceForums.com
There is a dynamic information resource available for maintenance and reliability professionals from around the world at MaintenanceForums.com. Here are just a few of the conversations from the past week:
• Why are boundaries so important in RCM?
• Hidden-failure-finding frequency
• Maintenance Orders Data Entry
• Oil carry over problems on Oil-Flooded Compressor
• MTBR on Motors and Screw Conveyors
• Damaged Shim
• Tying together PdM Technologies
• PdM Tools for Instrumentation
• Entek Vs CSI
• Transformer Oil Condition Monitoring
• Mystery frequency on chiller compressor
• Thermal Growth Calculations
• Thermal Borescope
• Question about infrared on a welding robot cable
• Validation of SAP Upgrades
If you are new to maintenance & reliability you can ask a question or simply read the current posts. There is a great deal of learning to be had from the various posting boards. If you are a seasoned maintenance and reliability veteran - why not contribute your knowledge and experience to some one else asking for some advice?
An online community - commercial free - privacy assured!
January 25, 2006
Predictive Maintenance Case Studies Wanted for PdM-2006
We are seeking people who would be willing to share the trials and tribulations of working to make a predictive maintenance program successful as well as specific case studies using Vibration Analysis, Ultrasonics, Infrared and Motor testing.
PdM-2006 The Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference takes place September 12-15 in Chattanooga Tennessee.
Please email with a brief 100-300 word description and we will contact you right away,
January 25, 2006
Flashback: An Introduction to “The Maintenance Scorecard” by Daryl Mather
The Maintenance Scorecard - A Structured Approach
Financial analysts have long told us that developing strategy is good, but it is the implementation of strategy that separates successful organizations from average and failing organizations. The MSC “” approach provides companies with a tool to implement and communicate corporate strategy throughout the company. It is also a means of facilitating innovative thought within an organization, particularly in terms of new and more efficient means of creating economic growth or the management of risk.
January 25, 2006
A Real Conversation about RCM-2006
If you have not figured it out yet - we like to do things differently at the Reliabilityweb.com network.
So instead of an advertisement for RCM-2006 - The Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum, we thought you might get more value from an ongoing conversation posted at MaintenanceForums.com.
It an honest and frank conversation about Reliability Centered Maintenance and how we hold it.
I think it will illuminate the reason we host the Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum. More..
January 25, 2006
New Portable Balancing Instrument & Vibration Analyzer
LORD Corporation has announced a new portable balancing instrument and vibration analyzer.
Designed with an intuitive user interface, the LORD Balance Check can be used to detect unbalance, identify the correction capacity required to offset unbalance, and verify balance once it is restored. With its flexible instrument platform, the tool can be used in the field for machinery diagnostics, quality testing on production lines, vibration or FFT analysis, bump (rap) testing, and live signal recording. Such flexibility provides users with a single tool for effective maintenance, inspection and diagnostic solutions for a broad range of services. To find out more, visit http://www.lord.com or call 800-929-3218.
January 25, 2006
The Power Of Unwavering Focus
Using Performance Metrics to Achieve Breakthrough Performance
An iPresentation tutorial by Daryl Mather, Author of The Maintenance Scorecard
This 18 minute iPresentation tutorial is aimed at giving you a few tips that will help you to begin down the path of breakthrough performance in asset management, improve your personal career, and to increase the level of enjoyment you get from your day-to-day duties through having a different perspective.
It is titled “The power of unwavering focus” and is derived from the recent book “The Maintenance Scorecard”, published by Industrial Press, and written by Daryl Mather.
The Maintenance Scorecard is a method for focusing the efforts of the organization on the strategies needed for achieving breakthrough performance in the management of physical assets.
January 25, 2006
Living Reliability: Principles and Learning
By Robert J. Latino with contributing material provided by Charles J. Latino, Reliability Center, Inc.
The key to Reliability is more a mind-set then the hard technologies that exist on the market today. When we travel to conferences and shows for Reliability we are inundated with vendors that supply technologies to execute Reliability strategies. Such technologies are integral to the ultimate success of a Reliability endeavor. However, if the organization does not have the foresight and vision needed at the executive level to set the stage, then the principles of Reliability will likely not take hold enough to change the culture. Does your organization practice the principle of Reliability?
January 18, 2006
Join Recent Discussions at MaintenanceForums.com
If you have not signed onto MaintenanceForums.com you are missing a daily education in all things related to maintenance and reliability.
Here are some recent discussions:
• Valve leak/closure test
• RCA using TapRoot Software
• Oil carry over problems on Oil-Flooded Compressor
• SRCM analysis implementation practice
• Reliability Report
• Oil Change @ 3 Months or 3000 Miles
• Motor vibration
• Motor Hi Frequency peak
• IEEE-Formulas/Tables
• Thermal Boroscope?
• Datastream Availability and Utilization Tracking
• CMMS For Semiconductor Fab?
Commercial free - Privacy assured - Value Packed
January 18, 2006
Ivara Corporation Acquires Aladon LLC
Acquisition supports Ivara’s growth strategy and commitment to RCM 2
Ivara Corporation, an industry leader and innovator in asset reliability solutions, today announced that it has acquired Aladon LLC, specialists in the application of Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM). The acquisition, effective January 1, 2006, further extends Ivara’s reliability leadership, broadens its market reach and ensures the continued growth and success of the Aladon Network - licensees of Aladon’s RCM training, consulting and support services.
With the acquisition, Ivara is committed to the continued availability and success of RCM 2, developed by Aladon’s founder and RCM thought leader, John Moubray. RCM 2 is a comprehensive approach to RCM that determines the maintenance strategy for industrial equipment and systems. It has been applied at more than 1,500 sites in 44 countries. Ivara will leverage its resources to ensure the continued growth and success of the Aladon Network in delivering RCM training and consulting services.
“We are proud and excited to be able to announce that Ivara has acquired Aladon. Ivara has been a licensee of the Aladon Network for six years and we’ve enjoyed a close working relationship,” says Edith Moubray, executive officer, Aladon LLC. “Ivara has the infrastructure, experience and commitment to continue and expand Aladon’s business and we are confident that our world class product is in very safe and reliable hands.”
Ivara will retain Aladon’s US operations based in Asheville, North Carolina. The company will also utilize the Aladon Network to deliver RCM services to a growing international customer base, providing Ivara with global RCM capabilities. Roger Zanatta, Ivara’s current vice president of Business Partners, has been appointed as the general manager of Aladon. Roger will continue to report to Gerry Bleau, chief operating officer of Ivara.
“There are tremendous synergies between our organizations - Aladon commercialized RCM thinking and Ivara’s reliability solution was founded on RCM principals. Together we offer a compelling value proposition that is unmatched in the reliability industry,” says Roger Zanatta, general manager, Aladon. “As Ivara expands its operations beyond North America, we will leverage the Aladon Network’s world-leading RCM expertise to better serve our new collective customer base.”
“Our acquisition of Aladon is a critical milestone in our growth strategy and commitment to the expansion of our offering in key world markets,” says Bill Shaw, president and CEO, Ivara Corporation. “We are increasing our market share and strengthening our delivery of services to bring even greater value to customers worldwide.”
