June 28, 2006
What Key Performance Indicators do you monitor?
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
Q: What Key Performance Indicators do you monitor to manage the maintenance and reliability of your plant?
Reply 1: In my opinion, too many.
Reply 2: MTBF and MTTR are simple for maintainability and reliability performance measurement and much more..
Reply 3: I currently have 1 Key Performance Indicator. Planned x Reactive Maintenance.
June 28, 2006
Lean Reliability Webinar Playback Now Online
Ricky Smith and Paul Casto
Reliabilityweb.com Webinar Sponsored by Ivara
Originally broadcast June 16, 2006
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. Please join Ricky Smith and Paul Casto in a recorded version of the 50 minute Reliabilityweb.com Webinar on Lean Reliability.
June 28, 2006
PdM-2006, the Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference
Please join us for PdM-2006, the Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference & Expo from September 12 through September 15, 2006 in beautiful downtown Chattanooga Tennessee.
This conference is designed for predictive maintenance beginners and seasoned condition monitoring professionals
This one event provides a venue for all of the techniques and technologies required for reliable machinery operation.
PdM-2006 provides leading techniques and case studies for:
• Vibration Analysis
• Airborne Ultrasound
• Infrared Thermal Imaging
• Motor Testing
• Oil and Wear Particle Analysis
• Other condition monitoring technologies
World class best practices indicate that up to 50% of your maintenance activity should be spent on condition directed tasks to replace ineffective time based maintenance.
Finding and implementing the right combination of predictive maintenance and condition monitoring technologies is a challenge.
Like other Reliabilityweb.com conferences, PdM-2006 features a wide selection of pre- and post-conference workshops, 10 different 60 minute short courses, 35 focused learning zone sessions and plenty of networking opportunities with people who face the same issues you do on a daily basis.
All Condition Monitoring - All the Time!
Please call us toll free (888) 575 1245 before August 1 to register and save $200!
June 28, 2006
Wear particle size
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
I am trying to track wear particles in two large open gear sets that are lubed with Lubriplate spray. They have repetitive cast off and replenishment of the lubricant, so I don’t think I will be able to rely on counts.
What I am wondering is, will I be able to get a decent trend of wear from the particle size alone?
June 28, 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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Projection by James Huzdovich-PhD, PE, CMRP, CPE, CFEI, CVFI
The advent of new technology usually consists of many ideas that have not undergone the creative process to practicality. So, while these new technological ideas may be feasible, no one has demonstrated that they are practical, economical, and effective. Since the creative process requires significant resource investment, these ideas accumulate untested, but not discarded, giving rise to the expression, “ideas are a dime a dozen.” After some period of time, like the next decade, many of these current ideas in maintenance and reliability will be exposed as “half baked” and only about 10% of all the current literature and hardware/software systems will survive. Remember the dot-com bust of a few years ago? More…
June 28, 2006
Ivara Reliability Leadership Summit
Join cross-industry reliability experts at Ivara’s first Reliability Leadership Summit, October 2-5, 2006 at Queen’s Landing Resort in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON.
You’ll hear dynamic keynote sessions from Ricky Smith, author of “Lean Maintenance”; Andy Harshaw, VP Manufacturing, Dofasco Inc; and Terrence O’Hanlon of Reliabilityweb.com
Learn from leading companies that have improved asset reliability to achieve key business results. Hear from:
• Cadbury-Adams: Reliability for Breakthrough Performance
• Catalyst Paper: Asset Reliability Process - Strategy to improve mill performance
• Earth Tech Waste Treatment Centre: Asset Reliability – a Shared Responsibility Between Maintenance & Operations
• Alberta Pacific Forest Products: Planning & Scheduling in a Proactive Environment
• Epcor Utilities: Diversified Mobile Implementation; Enabling Mobile Workforce
• Dofasco Steel: MTA and How to Choose a Work Identification Methodology
• Catalyst Paper: Single Functional Failure Analysis - Root cause failure analysis of a key critical system in Catalyst Paper’s Thermo-mechanical Pulping Operation
Learn more about the Ivara Reliability Leadership Summit online
June 28, 2006
The Maintenance Effectiveness Review
by Howard W Penrose, Ph.D., CMRP
President, SUCCESS by DESIGN
One of the more common tools utilized as part of a Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) program is Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM). The RCM process is a front-end program designed to develop a maintenance program to provide the right maintenance, on the right equipment, at the right time and for the right reasons. Unfortunately, most RCM programs do not contain a continuous improvement aspect as many assume that the rigorous process will provide accurate and sustainable results. However, with this process, errors do occur and changes to technology, or the identification of improved tests and inspections not identified during the process, may change the best practice maintenance identified through the process. With the implementation of a program developed within the military, the Maintenance Effectiveness Review, a continuous improvement process can be implemented. More…
June 28, 2006
Successful RCM Application – Lessons Learned
by Anthony M. (Mac) Smith, AMS Associates
Glenn R. Hinchcliffe, Asset Performance Technologies
The authors, having been involved with RCM from its first introduction to the U.S. commercial and industrial world in the early 1980s, have experienced virtually every characteristic that contributes to successful and likewise not-so-successful RCM programs. In this chapter, we will attempt to give you the benefits of our 35-plus combined years of RCM experience and the lessons we and others have had to learn along the way. It is our hope that, by knowing where the more significant potholes lurk, you may avoid them. More…
June 21, 2006
New oil delivery
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
Is it reasonable to expect a certain level of cleanliness from lubrication suppliers?
The chain of custody is complex and container transfers are plentiful between the refinery and the customer. Each adds to the contamination load.
Is it best practice to filter new oil before using?
June 21, 2006
Knowledge continuation at your company
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
Over the next 10 - 15 years the baby boomers will be leaving the industry in droves. As with every other aspect of their lives they will create a ruckus when they do so!
In this case they will be taking out a large amount of the experience, knowledge and skills that they have built up over a lifetime.
In the generations since this one entry levels have declined, there are more gradute entry engineers than experience trained engineers (generally) and this is a situation that is getting worse with each year.
As the average experience levels in your company drops - and the quality of some of the remaining knowledge becomes less (overall) than the baby boomers.... what is your company doing to try to head off this bow wave of problems that are coming down the pipeline?
I have done some work in this area recently, and I am very keen to see what else is going on throughout the world.
All replies greatly appreciated…
