April 26, 2006
Preventive Maintenance
Increasing Equipment Efficiency and Planned Work
By Rey Marquez
The idea of Preventive Maintenance has matured into a powerful factor throughout industry. PM’s or Preventive Maintenance has grown due to contributions of knowledge worldwide.
Three major areas any organization looks at are:
• Number of Work Orders produced
• Total Maintenance Hours
• Maintenance Costs
Critical to any organization is being able to identify and control activities within both the Operation and the Maintenance areas. Efforts to ensure the reliability and maintainability of equipment begin with a solid PM/PdM structure. More…
April 26, 2006
Work Order Aging Analysis
An iPresentation Tutorial by Mike Stone, AssetPoint
Does your maintenance work get completed in a reasonable time? This 10 minute iPresentation shows you how to analyze your work order backlog and improve your operation.
April 26, 2006
Learn how Dofasco, SONGS (Nuclear), Catalyst Paper, Cadbury & QCM (Mining) solved the aging workforc
What happens when highly qualified and experienced workers retire?
Their knowledge and experience physically leaves the building with them, leaving a gaping hole in the organization and high risk of degrading performance and reliability of equipment. Who will replace these workers? And even if organizations know who will be replacing them, how do they pass on the amount of knowledge retirees have gained through decades of employment?
These questions—and the overall problem—are really quite daunting. However, since the aging workforce’s impact is still a few years away, most companies have done nothing to-date to prepare for, alleviate & solve this issue.
Please join Ivara and Reliabilityweb.com for a one hour webinar to hear specific insights on how Dofasco, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Quebec Cartier Mining, Catalyst Paper & Cadbury-Adams have solved the aging workforce problem. Discover the processes, practices and tools used by these organizations in the Steel, Power Generation, Mining, Pulp & Paper and Food/Beverage industries while learning what you need today to put a solution in place at your organization.
Date: Friday May 19
Time: 11 am EST (GMT -5)
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April 26, 2006
MRO Excellence Training Course on CD
The objectives of this training course are to
1.0 Demonstrate and educate how good MRO management will result in higher customer service and lower cost of goods sold.
2.0 Demonstrate continuous improvement concepts for MRO business systems.
3.0 Define current state and world-class performance for operation, maintenance and MRO stores.
4.0 Describe roles and responsibilities for a MRO storeroom and each of the partners.
5.0 Define key Procurement/ Purchasing activities and how MRO stores can assist in optimizing these activities.
6.0 Define inventory management and how inventory management must be based on risk of failure and risk of business interruption.
7.0 Define data required by CMMS and purchasing systems to optimize asset management.
8.0 Define implementation steps to improve performance in MRO stores, maintenance and operation.
The outcomes of the training are to
1.0 An understanding of why managing MRO is key to minimizing cost and improving customer service.
2.0 Provide justification to present to management to ensure support for the changes and tools to assist in the implementation.
3.0 Use the implementation steps to proceed on implementing “MRO Excellence” (MROE) and improve business performance.
Learn More About The MRO Excellence (MROE) Training Course on CD
April 26, 2006
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April 26, 2006
Plan To Attend A Reliabilityweb.com Conference
These are not your Father’s Maintenance Conferences!
Reliabilityweb.com Conference Schedule
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2006 Events
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PdM-2006
Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference
Sept 12-15, 2006
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LubricationWorld
Sept 12-15, 2006
Chattanooga TN
IMC-2006
21st International Maintenance Conference
Dec 5-8, 2006
Daytona Beach FL
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2007 Events
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RCM-2007
Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum
April 3-6, 2007
Honolulu Hawaii
EAM-2007
Enterprise Asset Management Summit
April 3-6, 2007
Honolulu Hawaii
Space is limited at Reliabilityweb.com to ensure educational quality and networking.
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Work Order Aging Analysis
An iPresentation Tutorial by Mike Stone, AssetPoint
Does your maintenance work get completed in a reasonable time? This 10 minute iPresentation shows you how to analyze your work order backlog and improve your operation.
Start your iPresentation Tutorial now
Preventive Maintenance
Increasing Equipment Efficiency and Planned Work
By Rey Marquez
The idea of Preventive Maintenance has matured into a powerful factor throughout industry. PM’s or Preventive Maintenance has grown due to contributions of knowledge worldwide.
Three major areas any organization looks at are:
• Number of Work Orders produced
• Total Maintenance Hours
• Maintenance Costs
Critical to any organization is being able to identify and control activities within both the Operation and the Maintenance areas. Efforts to ensure the reliability and maintainability of equipment begin with a solid PM/PdM structure. More…
April 26, 2006
Are You Learning from Your Mistakes?
What Every Manager Needs to Know about Operational Reliability Engineering
An iPresentation Tutorial by Bill Keeter, Allied Reliability
Every failure represents a valuable piece of reliability information. Most of the time failures result in significant expenditures of valuable maintenance man-hours and direct expenses for spare parts replacements and repairs. The cost of the direct expenditures is usually far surpassed by the costs of lost production or off-quality products.
Learn how to use a well defined and proven process to help your company get the maximum benefit from the information contained in your equipment failures in this 10 minute iPresentation Tutorial.
April 26, 2006
Reliability Program Scorecard
— Description and Use
by John S. Mitchell
Scorecards are becoming an increasingly popular method for identifying the elements necessary for success in a specific category of Maintenance and Reliability, weighting their importance and providing an objective score to measure performance. Scorecards are available for evaluating the effectiveness of work and stores management processes (Reliability Magazine Volume 10, Issue 3). During 2005, Jack Nicholas introduced a comprehensive RCM scorecard to measure the extent and compliance of a RCM program. The Reliability Program Scorecard adds to this body of knowledge with a list of the principal elements of a comprehensive reliability program and proposed weights. The Reliability Scorecard is presented in a spreadsheet format that is easily optimized for specific applications. More…
April 19, 2006
PAS 55-1 Specification for Asset Management
From a recent posting at MaintenanceForums.com
Can someone explain Publicly Available Specification for Asset Management (PAS 55-1) published by the British Standards Institution (BSI)?
Terry O
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Reply 1:
Terry,
The PAS 55 is not a standard as yet, and there is a process in place to try to make it a standard through the British Standards Association.
It was sponsored by the Institute of Asset Management of the UK and developed by some consultants and company representatives. (Some of the nations leading institutions and asset management companies it needs to be stated)
Basically, it is an attempt to try to state all of the component parts of a asset management structure. More…
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Reply 2:
Gentlemen,
Find attach below a memo about the PAS 55 related initiative in the UK.
I also suggest visiting the website of the Institute of Asset Management at “www.iam-uk.org” in their “News” section where you can download some pdf presentations about asset management following PAS-55.
For the UK Office of Gas & Electricity Market (Ofgem), it is clear that capital funding for asset renewal can be made only with evidence of well-formulated asset management policies. More…
Read the rest of this thread at MaintenanceForums.com
April 19, 2006
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