October 25, 2006
Reliability reigns in Chattanooga
Editors Note: Plant Services Magazine ran a very nice article about PdM-2006 and the Uptime Magazine PdM Program of the Year Awards so we are proud to bring it to you here. - TOH
More than 600 attendees ranging from PdM technicians to company presidents attended the co-located PdM-2006 and LubricationWorld events September 12-15 in Chattanooga, Tenn., to take advantage of workshops, sessions and vendor displays focused on reliability-centered industrial maintenance and lubrication.
Keynote presenter Bob DiStefano of Mangement Resources Group discussed the effects of reliability in today’s lean manufacturing environment. “Squeezing the supply chain puts pressure on reliability,” DiStefano says. More…
October 25, 2006
Why Is Industry Reactive?
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
I would like to share my point of view on why industry is reactive in nature.
First let me define what reactive means in simple terms, it simply means addressing a failure when it happens, failure will come first and maintenance will react upon it.
Even with the best structure on Preventive Maintenance and top of the line software at hand, time based Preventive Maintenance cannot capture all the failures?
Failures are inevitable and occur in three patterns, Infant Mortality, Random Failures and Wear or age-related failures, these were expanded by Nowlan and Heap who explained that 6 failure patterns exists. Understanding these failure patterns will definitely allow us to have a better perspective about how to derive a holistic structure that will capture majority of these failures. PM overhauls and replacement will only capture age-related component failures and likewise induce infant mortality failures but the problem is these only relate to around 20% of equipment failures.
Most specially when equipment’s are automated and full of electronic/electrical boards and components such as semiconductor, most failures encountered will be random in nature and this is the biggest percentage of equipment failure. This means that Preventive Maintenance cannot capture random failures and maintenance must divert to other options such as predictive, run to fail or modification. A good maintenance strategy will be developing a structured maintenance approach that will more or less capture not only the wear out or age related failures but as well as random and infant mortality failures.
Join the discussion on reactive maintenance at MaintenanceForums.com
October 25, 2006
Seminole Electric Generating Station Tour - December 8
Participate in a special tour of the maintenance and reliability program at one the top operating utilities is the Southeast.
The Seminole Generating Station is located in Putnam County, Florida. This 1,300 megawatt (MW) station has two 650 MW generating units. (Guidelines vary, but one megawatt of capacity can power approximately 660 homes that each use about 1,000 kilowatt hours of energy per month.) You can see the plant’s water hyperbolic cooling towers (450’ tall and 400’ across) and 675’ stack from many miles away. This plant generates electric energy from coal: petroleum coke (petcoke) is used as a secondary fuel.
Space is limited so reserve today!
October 25, 2006
Static-couple method
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
I am interested in the static-couple balancing method. I have read here a lot about it, but I need help with the mathematic background of this method. can anybody help me with this? Do you know any link or can attach any document?
I would like a general example, not only in the case where the rotor is symmetrical.
Is this method suitable for overhung rotors?
Please help.
October 25, 2006
Why you need Continuous Calibration
by Brian Graney, Vibra-metrics
Single point calibration is not a calibration at all. It is a sensitivity check at 100 Hz. An accelerometer is a dynamic sensor therefore it is required to have its sensitivity checked over its entire frequency range. There are two basic methods for doing this. More…
October 25, 2006
Join a 4 day "Community of Learning"
IMC-2006
The 21st International Maintenance Conference
December 5-8, 2006
Daytona Beach Florida
In just 4 days of productive learning you can participate in leading edge workshops by authors Ron Moore, John Mitchell, Steve Thomas, Jack Nicholas Jr., and Terry Wireman.
You will also learn how companies like Kennecott, Seminole Electric, Johns Manville, Invista, Southern Company Services, Eastman Chemical, American Airlines, Coors, Cleveland Cliffs, Saint-Gobain, Glass Container,Praxair, and Alcoa have made maintenance and reliability improvements while facing the same challenges that you do!
You will see MIMOSA’s Open O&M demonstration for sustainable reliability and plant floor data management between companies like SAP, Rockwell, Emerson, Yokogawa, IFS, Matikon and Suncor.
Subjects include the business effects of reliability, Six Sigma and reliability, reliability & safety, maintenance management, planning, data management, predictive maintenance, lubrication management and more.
Network with new friends at the welcome reception, Daytona USA Speedway Track night and the Daytona Beach Party. Everyone has a chance to win an Alienware Laptop as well.
Wrap up your IMC-2006 experience with a Plant Tour to Seminole Electric Generating Station to see one of the top operating utilities in the Southeast!
Space is limited to ensure quality so register today for early bird discounts and hotel savings. Call toll free (888) 575 1245 or…
October 25, 2006
Why Reliability Strategy Development Beats RCM
An iPresentation by Dennis Belanger, MRG
It’s true. RCM has its advantages. Whether you are looking to identify possible failures or return your equipment to its high-performance form, a rigorous RCM analysis can do the job. But where do you go from there? You have just completed a RCM analysis for 1 system but you have 42 others and your new practices will not be reusable or scalable across your enterprise. Unless, that is, you approach RCM within a comprehensive reliability strategy. This 15 minute iPresentation examines how a reliability strategy uses equipment criticality measures and Failure Modes Effects Analyses to deploy RCM in a cost-effective, business-driven way in order to create scalable, reusable practices and deliver consistent bottom line results. MRG has helped many organizations succeed through its approach to reliability strategy development. Think of this iPresentation as an invitation to you. Don’t be late.
October 25, 2006
Physical Asset Optimization Foundation Principles
A full chapter excerpt from the Physical Asset Management 4th Edition by John Mitchell (Courtesy of Clarion Technical Publishers)
Asset optimization is business oriented; profit centered and directed to attaining greatest lifetime effectiveness and value from physical production assets. The process begins at design and continues through procurement, installation and operation. It includes maintenance and finally ends at removal from service and disposal.
Asset optimization includes safety, environmental and social responsibility, institutional values and culture, organizational structure and reporting, process, practice and technology. Activities and improvements are prioritized for the specific business and operating conditions. They are implemented opportunistically within a value matrix to gain greatest return from increased production capability and effectiveness and optimized spending. Metrics that link to business and financial objectives are employed throughout the asset optimization process to establish objectives, identify opportunities and measure progress.
Information and management systems must be integrated and capable of effective mining to identify performance gaps as well as convey current status, predicted asset lifetime and capacity, effectiveness of operating, management and logistics processes. Asset optimization requires that maintenance is a vital part of production, partner of operations and managed as a core business activity to gain maximum asset effectiveness and return. More…
October 18, 2006
PdM Secrets Revealed #2: Why Do PdM Over PM?
An iPresentation Tutorial by Andy Page, Allied Reliability
PdM Secrets Revealed is an informative 7 part series of short presentations designed to supply you with specific information about world class PdM programs. This presentation will answer many of the questions you have with regard to the reliability journey such as:
• What is the overall mission of PdM?
• How does PdM help you plan maintenance better?
• How do you use PdM to enable the Proactive Workflow Model?
• Is there data to prove shifting work from Preventive Maintenance (PM) to PdM is beneficial?
• How much PdM should you be doing?
Please join Andy Page for a 10 minute overview of the business reasons for a predictive maintenance program.
October 18, 2006
Planning without a planner
From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com
Recently I was leading a panel discussion with various experts who all agreed that dedicated planners were an essential element for a successful maintenance and reliability program.
After the session closed, two people from a Japanese/American joint venture company approached me to let me know that they had a self-directed workforce and the “area owner” planned all required maintenance work. They smiled as if they were holding a valuable secret so I asked a few more questions thinking that they were probably reactive in nature and planning was really just reacting to daily needs.
That was not the case at all - in fact they seemed to have a pretty unique system (at least for the USA) set up that was working very good.
Does anyone else have comments on the advantage of maintenance planning through a self directed workforce or other effective alternatives to a dedicated planner?
Any comments or guidance would be appreciated.
Terry O
