April 30, 2008
There’s More to Training than Skills Development
An iPresentation Tutorial by Ken Bass, CMRP, MRG
Reliability Improvement initiatives involve significant resources, take time, and are expensive to an organization. Employee training becomes an essential part to sustaining the success and gains of any Reliability initiative. But have you considered what type of training leads to success? There’s more to training than skills development. It takes more than the traditional training on re-vamped processes and methods to ensure a program’s success. It requires a more holistic approach to your Reliability Improvement training program. In this 5 minute iPresentation, Ken Bass, Field Manager will review and bring to your attention, the other aspects involved in training that you may want to consider.
April 30, 2008
Trico Launches New Web-Based Lubrication Library
The Lubrication Library provides subscribers a central-point of reference on lubricant specifications and technical information from major lubricant suppliers. It allows users to easily build, print, and save a reference list as well as the manufacturer’s data sheets and MSDS’s.
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April 30, 2008
The Association for Maintenance Professionals is conducting a study to determine the interest in Uni
The Association for Maintenance Professionals is conducting a study to determine the interest in University degrees for Reliability and Maintenance.
Please take 5 minutes and complete the study by clicking here
April 30, 2008
The Development of a Local and Distance Delivered Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Master
by Wes Hines, Director, Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Program, College of Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Abstract: This paper presents the development of a Master of Science (MS) degree program in Reliability and Maintainability Engineering at the University of Tennessee. The maintenance program at UT began a decade ago with the formation of the Maintenance and Reliability center and the academic program grew through a National Science Foundation curriculum development grant. The academic program was initially limited to a few classes leading to undergraduate and graduate certificates. This paper describes the curricular development process including surveys designed to measure industrial demand and presents the final MS curriculum. Lastly, the dual delivery system, that includes a web-based distance delivery system, is presented.
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April 30, 2008
Remote Turbine Vibration Monitoring
Numerous eight to 215 megawatt electrical generators owned by Calpine Corp., San Jose, Calif., help supply the enormous amount of energy needed for the power distribution grid spread across the North American continent. And the turbine-driven generators must continuously run smoothly without much vibration; otherwise they could sustain significant damage. Machine downtime costs could easily run in the thousands of dollars per hour. So, to keep the systems up and trouble free, their vibration signatures are recorded endlessly. The experts who watch over the equipment can frequently detect an imminent failure just by noticing changes in the shape of the waveform. The data acquisition equipment that monitors the health of these generators is permanently connected to vibration sensors...More
April 30, 2008
Has anyone found MTBF to be an Effective Metric?
From a recent Blog post at the Association for Maintenance Professionals
If anyone has found Mean Time Between Failure to be an effective metric please share the results and your recommendations to someone trying it for the first time.
April 30, 2008
Web Workshop Series Schedule
Reliabilityweb.com and the Association for Maintenance Professionals are pleased to invite you to the following FREE educational workshops delivered over the Internet and telephone:
Advancing Reliability Workshop #4: History of Reliability Centered Maintenance & Rationale for RCM Variants and Derivations by Jack Nicholas Jr.
In this 4th of 12 web workshops Jack Nicholas Jr. discusses:
* The History and origins of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
* The Rational for RCM Variants and Derivations
* Key features of RCM
There are several polls conducted throughout the Web Workshop that provide a real time snap shot of attendees practices. Results will be discussed to highlight workshop lessons.
The presented material will last 50-55 minutes with extra time (30-45 minutes) set aside for questions and answers. Please allow extra time to attend if you are interested in participating in the question and answer sessions.
April 30, 2008
Life Cycle Asset Management:Conception to Disposal Asset Management
An iPresentation Tutorial by Keith Mobley, Life Cycle Engineering
Effective Life Cycle Asset Management (LCAM) is a fundamental requirement—a necessity—in any well run organization. Without LCAM, a plant is forced to operate in a purely reactive mode and in total ignorance of impending risks that could result in permanent closure of the business. Over recent years, we have seen too many examples of plants, many of them profitable, that did not recognize incipient risks and as a result either closed or were seriously damaged by their failure to manage the facility’s asset and associated risks. Business is always a gamble, but that does not relieve senior management from the responsibility to manage risks and make every effort to reduce the probability of failure.
April 23, 2008
Web Workshop Series Schedule
Reliabilityweb.com and the Association for Maintenance Professionals are pleased to invite you to the following FREE educational workshops delivered over the Internet and telephone:
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Friday
April 25
11 am EDT (GMT-5)
Ricky Smith
How to Develop Proactive Key Performance Indicators by Ricky Smith
The Association for Maintenance Professionals (a not-for-profit organization) is pleased to invite you to attend a free web workshop on How to Develop Proactive Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by Ricky Smith, CMRP
Participants will:
* Gain common understanding of “KPIs” in Reliability and Maintainability
* Identify key maintenance and reliability metrics
* Learn the difference between leading and lagging indicators
* Take away your next steps to develop proactive KPIs
* Learn how companies are measuring reliability in their plants without a CMMS or EAM
Reserve your Web Workshop seat now
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Thursday
May 1
2 pm EDT
(GMT-5)
Jason Tranter
Bearing Analysis Web Workshop #2: Early Detection of Lubrication Problems and Stage One Bearing Faults
In part two of our four part workshop we will focus on the vibration monitoring techniques that focus on the earliest stage of bearing faults and poor lubrication. Certain analyzers and hand-held meters are able to detect faults at this early stage; if they are used correctly. We will demonstrate that during stage one, very low amplitude, short duration, high frequency vibration is generated. This vibration is known as called ‘stress waves’ or ‘shock pulses’. With the correct testing strategy these conditions can be detected. The nature of the damage and vibration will be discussed, and the optimum testing strategy will be discussed. Techniques such as acoustic emission (airborne ultrasound), shock pulse, spike energy and PeakVue will be reviewed.
Reserve your Web Workshop seat now
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Friday
May 2
11 am EDT (GMT-5)
Jack Nicholas Jr.
Advancing Reliability Workshop #4: History of Reliability Centered Maintenance & Rationale for RCM Variants and Derivations by Jack Nicholas Jr.
In this 4th of 12 web workshops Jack Nicholas Jr. discusses:
* The History and origins of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
* The Rational for RCM Variants and Derivations
* Key features of RCM
There are several polls conducted throughout the Web Workshop that provide a real time snap shot of attendees practices. Results will be discussed to highlight workshop lessons.
The presented material will last 50-55 minutes minutes with extra time (30-45 minutes) set aside for questions and answers. Please allow extra time to attend if you are interested in participating in the question and answer sessions.
April 23, 2008
Save Money, Lower Noise Levels
by Jim Hall
How noisy is your plant? Hearing loss depends upon how loud noise is and how long you are exposed to it. Noise greater than 85 dB can damage hearing if the exposure is long enough. Do you use your iPod at work? iPod’s are being linked more and more to an increase in hearing loss among America’s youth. Have you ever walked up next to someone using earphones or headphones and noticed that you could hear the songs they’re listening to from several feet away? Is so, their device is almost certainly louder than 85 dB. Someone better start saving for a hearing-aid!
Just recently my crew and I finished an air leak audit in a plant. Imagine 151 leaks found in three days? Some of these leaks were very obvious, and some were not, but one particular leak chimed in at 78 dB on the ultrasonic instrument. Audibly, it was ear piercing.
