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.
April 23, 2008
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April 23, 2008
Number 1 Reliability Metric - What is it?
From a recent Blog post at the Association for Maintenance Professionals
What does your plant consider the most effective way to measure the reliability of your assets? Uptime, Downtime, MTBF, Health of the Assets through ID of defects through PdM / PM monitoring?
This is a tough one. I want to know who has seen success in this area
April 23, 2008
Condition Based Monitoring
A benchmark study by the Aberdeen Group supports the findings of prior benchmarking indicating: “Best-In-Class Performers will have 45-55% of their total labor hours driven by Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) inspections and the elimination of defects identified through CBM activities”. Without a thorough understanding of the defects present in a facility, it is virtually impossible to effectively plan and a schedule work. The professionals at Allied Reliability can show you how Return on Asset Reliability (ROAR) can measure the success of investments in plant reliability.
Find our more about Condition Based Monitoring and other Allied Reliability offerings
April 23, 2008
Enterprise Asset Management – Right from the Start
by Stephen A. Mislan, Maintenance Support Technician, Charleston Water System, Environmental Resources Department, Charleston, South Carolina
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” - Colin Powell, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93)
In the last thirty years of working in the maintenance and operations fields, I have come to realize that the success or failure of any endeavor is almost always dependent on the attitudes and capabilities of the people involved. I don’t expect this to be big news to many people. After all, we have probably heard these kinds of statements from many sources whether it is in books, speeches or at conferences like this. What makes this statement different this time is that you are hearing it from someone who had to learn this lesson on the road of experience. For most of the time it’s been a toll road. Often I didn’t have the exact change either.
Today I want to share with you some of that journey. More…
