Please join us for CMMS-2006, the Computerized Maintenance Management Summit from December 5 through December 8, 2006 in Daytona Beach Florida.

With over 60% of all CMMS implementation falling far short of expectations, we have created a conference to address the strategies, tactics and technology for more productive maintenance work process automation through Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).

CMMS-2006, the Computerized Maintenance Management Summit is the only event dedicated to Computerized Maintenance Management, Maintenance Inventory, Maintenance Planning & Scheduling and Maintenance Work Management.

You will take away new solutions for maintenance information management that you can put to immediate use as peers and industry experts share knowledge and experience in a non-commercial environment.

Learn more about CMMS-2006 online

Please join Terrence O’Hanlon in a lively 30 minute interview with Ron Moore about the role of leadership and purpose to achieve operational excellence. Aligning maintenance, reliability with operations and overall business objectives are also discussed.

We are pleased to host two IMC-2006 workshops by Mr. Ron Moore, an extraordinary visionary and book author with a common sense approach to aligning maintenance and reliability with operations and overall business purpose.

Ron is building on his first book “Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence” with the debut of his brand new second book, “What Tool? When? Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools” to be unveiled at IMC-2006.

Listen to the Audio Interview: Ron Moore on Reliability Leadership

“Each and every year billions of dollars are lost from companies because of downtime” said Stephen Ninnes at the recent MEX CMMS Software Seminar. “And the sad truth is that the majority of this can be avoided”.

Downtime costs in production and time is evident when something fails and the plant stops, but the true cost is wide and varying, and usually expensive. From the failure to deliver and staff discontent through to overtime increases and environmental issues.

While this can never be stopped in total, it can be significantly reduced through the effort of applying a simple Preventative maintenance program, good management of it and the ability to analyse where the faults lie. MEX is a CMMS solution that can assist immensely in helping to achieve these aims. “We have been able to achieve the halving of downtime in a plant over a 12 month period just by introducing MEX and applying processes to the maintenance work being done,” said Stephen Ninnes; owner and founder of Maintenance Experts Pty Ltd.

Now, with over 4,000 system users across the globe, from Wales to China to Oregon, MEX is providing solutions to virtually every industry sector including manufacturing plants, building facilities, local governments, fleet managers and maintenance contractors.

MEX will deliver benefits to any size company, from stand-alone installations to multi-site regionalised organisations. Whether a maintenance operation services five or 50,000 pieces of equipment, the MEX system gives users the power to take control, utilising either MEX Access or MEX Enterprise SQL Server.

For more information about MEX CMMS contact us via email at or…

Visit the MEX website to download a trial version

by Neil B. Bloom

RCM should be for everyone, not just for the corporate titans with megabucks to spend and an abundance of personnel available to them…but also for the “every man” who is in charge of preventive maintenance and reliability at a small or mid-sized facility.

Whether you work at a large plant for a large corporation, or a mid-size plant or a small plant, RCM is a universally accepted methodology for everyone who wants to establish a premier preventive maintenance program.

In this 1 hour training course, you will be introduced to the world of RCM, its origin, its present day applicability, and its importance in the future of global corporate competition.

• You will learn how and why RCM was developed for the commercial aviation industry.

• You will learn what the 3 phases of an RCM are.

• You will learn the seven SAE questions of RCM and why they were established.

This course includes a narrated lecture with slides (in Flash and Windows Media Player format), an e-Book, a quiz with scoring, practical exercises and the ability to communicate and interact directly with the instructor and other course participants.

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Audio CD and e-Book

Maintenance can be a pressure cooker. Emergencies, short staffing, vendor problems, high customer expectations all contribute to be stressors on the job. While removing the stressors is impossible, changing your attitude might be possible.

A person who feels mastery over his/her environment transforms the `bad’ stress into good excitement. Workings on time management as a skill helps people feel mastery. The goal is not to feel in control because that is an illusion. The goal of time management is feeling that you can master anything that comes at you.

This special audio CD and e-Book by maintenance expert Joel Levitt includes a one hour presentation, a comprehensive printable e-Book (PDF) and several practical exercises to begin your journey toward mastering time in your life.

Course Content:

1) The Nature of Time- how do you spend it?

2) 7 Daily Habits of Success

3) Scheduling Tips

4) Taming time killers

5) Resources

Note: This program runs on any standard Audio CD Player including car players.

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The Reliability Excellence Experience at IMC-2006
December 5-8, 2006
Daytona Beach Florida

Participate in the 4 day Reliability Excellence Experience - Develop a Business Case For Reliability for your organization!

IMC-2006 in conjunction with Life Cycle Engineering is offering an exclusive 4 day learning experience that allows you to participate in IMC keynotes, networking sessions, the Daytona USA Speedway Track night and attend the IMC-2006/CMMS-2006 Expo while attending a intensive dedicated 4 day Reliability Excellence learning session.

As a participant in the “Powered by Reliability Excellence” work stream of the International Maintenance Conference you will receive instruction and tools to build the business case for Midwest Manufacturing, a fictitious company, based on data provided during the conference. Then, using these same methods, you will be asked to develop the business case for your organization.

Through the use of the Excellence Model, basic mathematics, and benchmark data, this workshop will help you:

• Define the Excellence Model for implementing Reliability Excellence in your organization

• Understand the impact of direct labor utilization on maintenance costs

• Understand the value of leaning out the PM Program

• Understand how to apply benchmark data to improve reliability

• Understand how to determine the number of Planners, Engineers, and PdM Technicians needed to support the proactive workflow model

• Understand the value of optimizing maintenance spares to reduce the total cost of maintenance

• Understand the linkage between Reliability Excellence and initiatives like Lean, Six Sigma, and TPM

Space is limited to 40 people so sign up early to reserve your seat! Learn More here

21st International Maintenance Conference

“Manufacturing & Process Reliability”
December 5-8, 2006 - Daytona Beach Florida

1) Reliability Leadership Workshop by Ron Moore, Author, Making Common Sense – Common Practice

2) Physical Asset Optimization and Management Workshop by John Mitchell, Author of Physical Asset Management

3) Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) Methodologies, Metrics, Readiness Factors and Relationships to Other Elements of Asset Management - a workshop by Jack R. Nicholas, Jr., P.E., CMRP

4) Developing a Work Management Process Workshop by Terry Wireman, CPMM, Author, Benchmarking Best Practices for Maintenance Management

5) Improving Maintenance & Reliability Through Cultural Change Workshop by Steve Thomas, Author Culture Change for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals

6) Reliability Tools Workshop by Ron Moore, Author of What Tools When?

7) Scorecard Applications and Use Workshop by John Mitchell, Author of Physical Asset Management Handbook

8) Planning and Scheduling Maintenance by Joel Levitt Author of Managing Factory Maintenance

9) Developing Key Performance Indicators by Terry Wireman Author of Developing Key Performance Indicators

10) Value Driven Maintenance by Marc Haarman and Remco Jonker, Authors of Value Driven Maintenance

If you need more than 10 reasons to attend IMC-2006:

The next two days include real world reliability case studies by Alcoa, Kennecott, Seminole Electric, Johns Manville, Praxair, Invista, Southern Company, Timken, Eastman Chemical, American Airlines, BP, Suncor, Nova Chemical, Saint-Gobain, GE, Coors, US Air Force, Chevron and more.

Watch for full program details in the next issue of Uptime Magazine.

Super discounts apply for early bird, group or International registrations. Please call toll free (888) 575 1245 or…

Learn to Manage Maintenance Effectively and Achieve Reliability at IMC-2006

The 3 Phases of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) by Neil B. Bloom, Author of Reliability Centered Maintenance - Implementation Made Simple

RCM consists of 3 phases.

Phase 1: The RCM decision logic to ascertain what equipment in the plant or facility requires a preventive maintenance effort to prevent failure.

Phase 2: The second phase is the PM task phase.

Phase 3: The third phase is the execution or the implementation phase.

Neil Bloom leads a one hour course to teach the 3 phases of any successful Reliability Centered Maintenance project. The first phase is the heart and soul of RCM. It consists of the RCM decision logic to ascertain what equipment in the plant or facility requires a preventive maintenance effort to prevent failure. It is the phase of the process that determines whether a component is critical, potentially critical, economic, commitment, or run-to-failure.

The second phase is the PM task phase. There is a whole world of PM activities ranging from a lubrication management program to sophisticated laser alignments, to cutting edge vibration analyses. However, these cumulative activities are only an ingredient of the entire RCM program. In itself, Phase 2 is no more than a PM selection process. Many people think of this as their entire RCM program. Rather, it should more appropriately be referred to as the PM optimization process….. or the PM template process…... or the process where time directed overhauls are replaced with condition directed tasks…... or where PdM is introduced. In any case, Phase 2 alone DOES NOT represent an RCM program. I have even read articles, listened to lectures, and heard many times over that ….. “We are implementing an RCM program and it consists entirely of incorporating PdM tasks.”

The third phase is the execution or the implementation phase. As astounding as it may seem, some people even consider this phase to comprise their entire RCM program.

This course includes a narrated lecture with slides (in Flash and Windows Media Player format), an e-Book, a quiz with scoring, practical exercises and the ability to communicate and interact directly with the instructor and other course participants.

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Safety issues are of paramount concern in electrical testing of rotating machinery. The main purpose of the newest gadget from Baker Instrument Company is safety minded. The RC3000 operates the EXP3000 from outside hazardous zones. This Remote Control is wireless and programmed for full function of the instrument offering safe and quick information gathering.

The RC3000 is lightweight (less then 2 lbs) and durable. It offers a touchscreen and is programmed with a typical EXP3000 interface, making operation simple. Baker Instrument Company is always striving to provide instrumentation that offers the end user competent information on their rotating machinery along with providing this information in a safe environment. The RC3000 is the latest offering that stays true to this goal.

Learn more at Baker Instruments Web Site

Introducing the Fixturlaser XA

Fixturlaser has reinvented laser shaft alignment. The XA, Fixturlaser’s next generation laser shaft alignment system, is designed to get alignments done fast. Really fast. The all new XA features:

• Animated Flash™ onscreen graphics that prompt the user through alignments;

• Extra large rectangular 30-millimeter detectors coupled with line laser beams to ensure measurement of gross misalignment;

• CCD detector technology for enhanced accuracy;

• Wireless connectivity that lets you cut the cord;

• Large 640x480 high resolution backlit color touch screen for maximum visibility in all conditions;

• Tough, laminated touch screen, with an easy-clean function that freezes screen functions for clean-up any time;

• Results can be displayed with extra large live values for monitoring adjustments from long distances;

• Ethernet and USB ports…you can even download the results to a flash drive!

XA stands for Express Alignment. Now you can be first to the finish line. Contact VibrAlign for a demo today at
800-379-2250 or…

Visit our website to find an XA road show near you.