February 01, 2006
Discuss Maintenance & Reliability Online
You are invited to join over 3000 maintenance and reliability professionals from around the world for candid discussions about real world maintenance and reliability problems and solutions like the ones posted this week:
• Improve Efficiency of Crew Time
• Seminar Dilemma
• Differentiate shock pulse spectrum and vibration spectrum
• Shaft Current Probe Setup
• Acid Build-up
• Turbine Oil Moisture Requirements
• Inaccessible drain plugs in motors
• Is this as insane as it sounds?
• Substation Survey’s
• Validation of SAP Upgrades
• Have you used capacity planning in SAP PM?
• Problem Cause Remedy list for Maximo 5.2
• Asking for information About Datastream 7i
• MP2 Data Entry Question
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February 01, 2006
The Reliability Game at National Manufacturing Week
Rosemont Convention Center
Monday, March 20, 2006
9:00AM - 4:00PM
Whoever Says RELIABILITY Can’t Be Fun Hasn’t Experienced The Reliability Game
The Maintenance Reliability Exercise is a very effective tool that demonstrates the financial impact and the importance of equipment reliability. It is used raise awareness of the need for rapid change - from a reactive to a proactive reliability environment.
What do you learn by playing the game?
* Understand the size of the financial opportunity associated with proactive maintenance
* Where the money goes
* How to stop spending the money
* How to make the transition from Reactive to Pro-active maintenance
Trying to change organizational culture is difficult even when it goes well. People have a hard time “seeing” the objective.
The Reliability Game clearly demonstrates to all stakeholders the value of good proactive reliability practices and the effect on the bottom line. It’s a great way to make your point and have fun in the process.
Price Per Person just $345
February 01, 2006
The Case of the 13kV Polymer Insulator, Corona and the Caravan
Ultrasonic War Stories is short stories that the author, Jim Hall of Ultra-Sound Technologies
Several years ago (1998), I was often brought in to use airborne ultrasound for detection of radio/tv interference throughout the southeastern United States. One such utility company in south Florida asked me to come to a residential community along the ocean causeway to test the ability of the equipment I was using on recently installed 13kV polymer insulators on power lines for radio/tv interference. More…
February 01, 2006
Anticipating Unpredictable Demand: Better Management for 80-90% of your MRO inventory
An iPresentation Tutorial by Ron Schroder, The Prudent Advantage Group
Better Management for 80-90% of your MRO inventory.
Since the vast majority of MRO spares are used less than once per month, slow and non-moving spares generate little excitement most of the time. Shortages are harsh, acute events where the losses in operating income and the effects on career paths are usually clear. Overstocks are a much softer problem and may easily lure you deeper into a very real trap. The resources wasted by overstocks can be quite large. So when an already overstocked item comes up for reorder, a clearly defined opportunity exists. View our 5-minute iPresentation “Anticipating Unpredictable Demand” to find out more.
February 01, 2006
The Bearing Expert Is Now Online
Now with 1,000,000 ball bearings, roller bearings, wheel bearings, linear bearings, pillow block bearings, sleeve bearings, thrust bearings, oil seals and much more in the interchange + over 200,000 vibration frequencies used in Condition Monitoring.
This data is available for all major manufacturers including Fafnir, Timken, SKF, NTN, INA, FAG, Torrington, Dodge, etc.
The Bearing Expert Quick Search allows for multiple bearings and data points from a single search. Reports are generated automatically including the bearing prefix and suffix interchange guide, harmonics, multiple manufacturer vibration report, and much more (calculations and formulas already computed). The Bearing Expert is by far the most extensive source of bearing data available. Combined with an “intelligent” search engine, International Source Index puts the “right” information at your fingertips immediately. The Bearing Expert works the way you think!!!
February 01, 2006
Living Reliability: Principles and Learning
An iPresentation Tutorial by Robert J. Latino with contributing material provided by Charles J. Latino
Reliability Center, Inc.
Last week we published an article of the same name here:
http://www.reliabilityweb.com/art06/living_reliability.htm
Please join Robert J. Latino for a narrated iPresentation Tutorial that brings this lesson to life!
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?
February 01, 2006
Do You Make These Mistakes In Condition Monitoring?
A valuable story by By John Schultz, Allied Reliability
That’s when it hit me. “So what I’m hearing is that you are applying the technology to 6% of your asset base and it’s generating 5% of your workflow. Does it make sense that if you applied the technologies to 60% of your asset base that it could generate 50% of your workflow?” More…
