April 29, 2009
Reliability Roadmap Web Workshops
Reliability Roadmap Web Workshops are designed to deliver non-commercial training to you from the convenience of your conference room or desktop computer.
Reliability Roadmap Web Workshop Series Include:
• Root Cause Failure Analysis by Jack Nicholas Jr. P.E.
• Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools by Ron Moore P.E.
• Improving Maintenance & Reliability Through Culture Change by Steve Thomas
• Infrared Thermography Basic Level 1 by Wayne Ruddock
• Reliability Centered Lubrication by Mike Johnson, CLS
• Electrical Safety
No Travel Required!
April 29, 2009
Reliability Roadmap Web Workshops
Treat Your Team to Lunch and Learn!
No Travel - Non Commercial - No Sales - No Fee
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Presented by Jack Nicholas Jr. P.E
Title: Root Cause Failure Analysis Session 5: Technical Analysis Part 2
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009
Time: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT
Space is limited.
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Presented by Wayne Ruddock, Advanced Infrared
Title: Infrared Thermography Basic Level 1 Session 9: Radiation
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009
Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Space is limited.
April 29, 2009
Flashback: Last Weeks Most Popular Links
The Analysis Advantage - Reliability Incident Management and Strategic Data Collection
by Mr. Steve Turner BEng MBA, OMCS International
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The Navy’s Nuclear Work Model applied to the Concorde Crash
by Lloyd Hamilton, ThinkReliability.com
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April 29, 2009
Reliability Centered Maintenance using ... RCM Blitz
A new book by Douglas Plucknette
Work alongside the author as he walks you through his step-by step method for applying Reliability Centered Maintenance, RCM Blitz, that focuses on manufacturing assets. RCM Blitz is a 5-part process, with an easy to follow flow diagram
April 29, 2009
Industrial Repair Services Study
Please help us with a study we are conducting about the use of industrial repair companies and services. This survey will run from April 27 through May 26, 2009.
You can take the survey anonymously or you can choose to enter the drawing for a Garmin Nuvi 200 Global Positioning System (GPS) at the end of the 10 question survey.
The survey should take no longer than 5 minutes
April 29, 2009
The Basics of Starting Up a Predictive Maintenance Program
Tips for getting your program off on the right foot
A 6 minute iPresentation Tutorial by Mark Roether, the Timken Company
Plant maintenance can be expensive and time-consuming. It also is well documented that proper maintenance practices are critical to helping reduce downtime and protecting the bottom line. However, many of us take the ‘break-fix’ approach or practice preventative maintenance where work is performed on a time or schedule-based scenario regardless of actual need. Advancements in technology and services are allowing plants to improve productivity and machine uptime through the philosophy of predictive maintenance.
Join the Timken Company’s Mark Roether for a 6 minute tutorial on the basics of establishing a predictive maintenance program.
April 29, 2009
Workforce Development
by Ramesh Gulati, CMRP, Author, Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices
Co-author: Bill Hall
Originally Presented at Reliability 2.0
Big changes are happening in today’s workforce. These changes have nothing to do with downsizing, global competition, or stress; it is the problem of a distinct generation gap. Young people entering the workforce are of diversified background and have much different attitudes about work. They want a life-work balance. They want to be led, not managed — and certainly not micro-managed. The new mode is flexibility and informality. A large proportion of our managers of the veteran era have been trained in relatively autocratic and directive methods that don’t sit well with today’s employees. Are we preparing our workforce to meet tomorrow’s need?
Why do so many Reliability / RCM programs fail or don’t get implemented? What are the key obstacles we need to overcome for a successful implementation? Are our people trained – aware of best practices? Do we have the right people available to implement the best practices? This paper will attempt to answer some of these questions.
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April 29, 2009
Air Liquide Breaks Down Condition Monitoring Information Silos
Originally Presented at Reliability 2.0
In an industry where it is not uncommon for companies to allow individual mills or plants to maintain their own autonomous condition monitoring operations, Air Liquide chose to go down a different path when it announced that it would partner with Azima DLI to manage all of its plants across the United States. The contract was one of the largest in the condition monitoring industry and indicates a growing trend for leading companies to instill consistency within their operations as opposed to allowing their own mills or plants to compete against each other.
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April 29, 2009
When does it pay to use Reliability Centered Maintenance?
By Paul Dufresne, CMRP, CPMM, Trico Corp.
Originally Presented at Reliability 2.0
When does it pay to use Reliability Centered Maintenance? Maintenance practices have long focused on time based “preventive maintenance” techniques and non-value added PMs. The availability condition of a production facility makes notable impact to the productivity. The results of having no clear strategic approach to preventive maintenance lead to many undesirable consequences. The reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) considerations underlie the identification of equipment monitoring requirements and help establish the need for, the type of, and the frequencies of preventive and predictive maintenance. This presentation is a case study in how one paper company utilized the RCM methodology to identify the most cost effective, value added preventive and predictive maintenance tasks to improve equipment reliability and machine availability within the Neenah Cold Spring Facility.
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