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Learn to Make SAP PM Work For You At EAM-2008

Enterprise Asset Management Summit
March 18-20, 2008
FREE Bonus Workshops: March 17
Orleans Hotel - Las Vegas

If you use the SAP Plant Maintenance module as an Enterprise Asset Management resource you will learn how to make it work even better at EAM-2008. This is the only independent reliability focused event with a dedicated SAP PM Strategy Sessions & Learning Zone.

This new feature includes a full day reliability focused SAP Plant Maintenance workshop and 7 SAP PM User case studies and a live SAP PM Learning Lab led by some of the world’s best SAP Plant Maintenance Experts who have helped hundreds of clients develop technically-based maintenance plans in SAP-Plant Maintenance.

This conference is independent from and has no connection to SAP AG.

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Breaker Noise Using Airborne Ultrasound

From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com

I recently conducted an airborne ultrasonic survey of our plant’s 480 volt Motor Control Center (MCC).

I didn’t open any cabinets but scanned the outside with an Ultrasonic detector. I didn’t really expect to find anything, but I discovered several breakers that had unique sounds. I’d to be able to give more info to my maintenance electricians other than just a simple “noisy breaker”.

I’m only going to attach one wave file but I have several others if anyone is interested. Any help would be appreciated.

Dasteve
Honolulu

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ABB Full Service

ABB Full Service® provides a structured reliability management program to improve and sustain the performance of production assets. Through a performance-based partnership, we assume responsibility for a customer’s maintenance operations and bring together world-class maintenance methodologies, professional reliability leadership and business management skills to improve productivity and reduce costs.

By combining deep expertise with proven best practices, we move maintenance from a cost center to a strategic asset.

In a Full Service engagement, ABB helps…

• Improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
• Optimize maintenance costs
• Improve safety, compliance, and profitability

For more information, contact us at 877-234-6756 or or…

Find out more about Performance-based services for industrial markets

Wanted RCM Project Participants

We are conducting a virtual Reliability Centered Maintenance analysis online at MaintenanceForums.com and we are recruiting new project participants.

The analysis is a being conducted on a motor/fan system and we are in the failure modes and failure effects stage of the project. Please take a few minutes and review our work to date and if agreeable - please jump in and lend us a hand.

This has been a great learning experience and we hope we can attract a expanded group of people to get involved.

Find out more about the Virtual Reliability Centered Maintenance analysis

Vibration Analysis Basics IQ Quiz

An iPresentation Quiz by LUDECA, INC.

Test your knowledge and experience with a Vibration Analysis Basics IQ Quiz by Ludeca. Quiz questions are interactive and a narrated explanation of the correct answer ensures a valuable learning experience for all participants.

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Reliability Skills Training

North America, Australia & Europe – 2008 Training Schedule Now Available

How do you transform a reactive maintenance program?

What are the keys to sustaining a proactive maintenance approach?

How do you transform a maintenance culture that is used to fighting fires?

How much can you save?

For over 10 years organizations around the world have been turning to ARMS reliability Engineers to help improve the skills, knowledge and expertise of their engineering, maintenance, production, operations and safety teams. ARMS Reliability Engineers have expert trainers and facilitators who teach a wide variety of disciplines:

• Reliability Centered Maintenance

• Plant Modeling

• Apollo Root Cause Analysis

• Managing Reliability Improvement

• Reliability Leadership

• Expert Reliability

• Life Cycle Costing

• Hazop

• System Safety

• Fault Tree & Event Trees

• Reliability Week

Click here to find out more or to view ARMS 2008 training calendar

Slow Speed Bearings

Ultrasound the Earliest Form of Fault Detection
by Jim Hall

Typically, bearings under 300 rpm’s are not tested using vibration analysis. So how do you keep an eye on them? For those technicians familiar with airborne ultrasound for bearing inspections, they know that slow speed bearings, that is bearings 300 rpm’s or less, can be tested with airborne ultrasound. More…

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Initiative Overload

by Winston Ledet, The Manufacturing Game

The source of all reliability, safety and environmental problems are defects in equipment, processes, policies and practices. While some of these defects are created through normal wear and tear, the largest portion is created by random events that could be avoided through good organizational discipline and precision in the way work is performed. A method is needed to rationalize all initiatives into one integrated initiative that can be understood by all the employees: operations, business services, and maintenance – planners, schedulers, and mechanics. More…

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SAP PM Strategy Sessions & Learning Zone at EAM-2008 in Las Vegas

If you are a Maintenance and Reliability professional utilizing SAP PM for Plant Maintenance, you will learn how to
make it work better at EAM-2008.

This is the only independent reliability focused event with a
dedicated SAP PM Strategy Sessions & Learning Zone. This new feature includes a full day reliability focused SAP Plant Maintenance workshop, 7 different SAP PM User case studies and a live SAP PM Learning Lab led by SAP PM experts.

This conference is independent from and has no connection to SAP AG.

Find out more about the SAP PM Strategy Sessions & Learning Zone at EAM-2008 in Las Vegas

Get Up To Speed on Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

The members at MaintenanceForums.com have been conducting a fantastic “Virtual RCM Analysis” on a motor/fan system. They have just finished with the Failure Mode segment and are moving into the Failure Effect segment.

This project provides a rare opportunity to learn from some of the best RCM practitioners around as well as being able to observe or participate in a Reliability Centered Maintenance project from the inside.

Find out more about the Virtual RCM Analysis project