December 20, 2006
When to use lifetime lubricated ball bearing?
lease share your experience related to when to use 1, 2 or 3 :
1.- Sealed, lifetime lubricated bearing.
2.- Regreasable bearing, or
3.- oil lubrication.
For points 2 and 3 what would be the regreasing intervals for each one ?
December 20, 2006
Poll! PdM department in a company management hierarchy
Question:
For those having PdM (or Condition Based Maintenance) group/department with a supervisor leading it, to whom in the company management hierarchy this department has to report to ?
Choices:
• Plant Manager
• Maintenance Manager/superintendent
• Plant Project/Engineering Manager
• Plant Production Manager
• Plant Quality Control Manager
• Corporate PdM manager (if exists)
• Other
December 20, 2006
Operational Excellence Through Reliability and Asset Management
RCM-2007 - The Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum
EAM-2007 - Enterprise Asset Management
New for 2007 - SAP PM Track
April 3-6 Honolulu Hawaii
Sheraton Waikiki
Workshops include:
• Reliability Centered Maintenance and Root Cause Analysis
• FMEA Opportunity Analysis
• The Reliability Game
• Collected Event Data for Effective Reliability Analysis
• Value Driven Maintenance for SAP-PM (EAM) and Datastream 7i
• Things You Should Know Prior to an SAP PM Implementation
• Reliability Assurance: PM Optimization and Reliability Incident Management
• Using the Classical RCM Method
• The Reliability Game
• Value Driven Maintenance for Maximo
• MP 2 Tips and Tricks
• Effective Asset Integrity: RCM & RCA Integration with SAP
• Basic Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
• Using the publicly available NavAir IRCM
• The Manufacturing Game
• CMMS Implementation
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
• How to Make SAP PM Work for You
• Basic Human Error Workshop for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals
• Using the RCM2 Method
• The Manufacturing Game
• EAM Failure Coding and Functional Hierarchy Development
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
• Work Management Essentials: Gain Control of your Business
With 18 half day workshops over 2 days followed by 42 case studies and 2 keynotes - when does your boss think you will be at the beach? Better yet – bring your bosses along to hear the business story of reliability and asset management for themselves.
Seating is limited so please call (888) 575 1245 or…
December 20, 2006
Uptime Magazine Digital Edition Archives
Uptime Magazine is a monthly publication that is dedicated to Predictive Maintenance and Machinery Condition Monitoring.
In addition to the free Print edition, each issue is archived as fully interactive digital edition as well.
Please visit the Uptime Magazine archives and request your free subscription while you are there
December 20, 2006
Reliabilityweb.com Hat worn by Florida shark
Our friend James Nesbitt from Ivara Corporation pulled a shark from the waters in Florida and was surprised to find it wearing the latest style of Reliabilityweb.com hat!
If you have funny photos featuring Reliabilityweb.com, Maintenance-Tips, Uptime Magazine or Reliability Magazine - please send them in and we will feature them here.
December 20, 2006
Introducing the New PM / PdM Best Practices Training & Tools Workshops
Now you can transform your preventive and predictive maintenance programs into best practices with a new series of training workshops from Allied Reliability.
Here’s your chance to go behind the scenes and learn how to apply the secrets from the most successful PdM programs - and program managers - in the world.
You’ll find out why this new series of workshops is uniquely different from all the other PdM training you’ve ever seen.
Classes start November 7th at Life Cycle Institute in Charleston, South Carolina.
But the class if filling up fast.
December 20, 2006
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) - Implementation Made Simple
by Neil Bloom
Reliability Magazine is pleased to host a full chapter excerpt of Neil Bloom’s exciting new book on Reliability Centered Maintenance (courtesy of McGraw Hill).
We would also like to invite interested readers to join the new Reliability Magazine Reading club where we will be reading and discussing this book beginning the first week in January, 2007.
December 20, 2006
The Principles Driving Safety & Reliability: A Look at the History of DuPont
by Winston P. Ledet
The Manufacturing Game
During my 27 years with DuPont, the safety culture was apparent. It was a part of everyone’s job every day. As a result of a benchmarking study in the late 1980’s and creation of a System Dynamics model to explain the benchmark results, it became clear that safety and reliability operate on the same principles. Both are significantly affected by defects and both require a commitment from everyone in the organization for improvements to be achieved.
Beginnings as a Gunpowder Manufacturer. More…
December 13, 2006
Specifying Reliability when Purchasing New Equipment
A few years back I attended the Turbomachinery Symposium in Dallas and was amazed at the equipment reliability expected by that industry.
I am now in a different industry and find myself specifying a new, one of a kind packaging machine.
Does anyone have any methods they are willing to share about specifying reliability when purchasing new equipment (especially packaging equipment)?
December 13, 2006
Furnace Tube Inspection and Analysis Advice
As a Thermographer at an oil refinery I am often called on to shoot tubes on our Coker and Crude furnaces.
We use a Flir PM390 (shortwave) camera with flame filter installed.
I have tried to gain as much knowledge as I can by reading and researching this subject, but I still do not feel comfortable with analysis and setups for this special application.
I would really like to become more knowledgeable so that I can feel comfortable with my analysis when asked.
Any tips, advice or other information would be greatly appreciated.
