In an email from Chevron:

In the wake of hurricane Katrina, Chevron sent out a number of communications to its employees in the affected areas.  One of these communications was a technical document that field personnel could use with customers who had vehicles (commercial or personal) exposed to water.  Another is a letter to customers, marketers and field sales that addresses general safety issues, lubricant recovery and equipment start-up.  One is attached and the other follows...Post_Hurricane_Letter_9_12.pdf

Tuesday was a day packed with high quality presentations at PdM 2005.  Highlights of the day’s sessions included presentation topics like ‘Managing a Successful Condition Based Monitoring Program”, “The Value of Implementing Reliability Based Maintenance Practices”, a case study - “Using Predictive Technologies to Improve Equipment Reliaibility at Duracell” and “Oil Analysis - A Short Course”.

Many times we hear all about “Best Maintenance Practices” but you probably have not seen “Best Practices in Reliability”. I have posted a listing of Best Practices in Reliability. I hope you can use these practices to improve your asset reliability. by Ricky Smith, CMRP ---

On Monday, I went to Jack Nicholas Jr.’s workshop entitled ‘A Predictive Technology & Maintenance Management Overview.’ This was an excellent overview that helped outline what a high quality predictive maintenance program should look like.  Jack covered the goals and philosophy of a PdM program, including what a PdM program should strive to accomplish.  He went on to explain several PdM technologies, and what organizations should expect to spend on each type of PdM technology, categorizing them from an entry level program to an intermediate level program to a high level program.

I sat in on a really great meeting of the newly formed Institute of Electric Motor Diagnostics.  This is a non-profit users group set up to educate and inform any professional whose job involves any aspect of rotating machinery.  Check out their website where you can see what the group is all about and join if you’d like.  Institute of Electrical Motor Diagnostics

Jeff Shuler
Editor In Chief
Uptime Magazine

Welding destroys reliability of equipment and is typically not identified as the root cause of equipment failure. This session provide the first of a series of reliability problems caused by improper welding practices.
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You will find that 5 short questions will help you measure the effectiveness of your PM program and if your company experiences problems with it’s PM Program then I suggest you answer the questions honestly follow the suggestions at the end of each question.  I always say, “If you are performing Preventive Maintenance on equipment that continues to break down something is wrong.