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June 11, 2008

Root Cause Analysis Training: Cause Mapping Workshops

Cause Mapping is an extremely effective “systems thinking” approach to root cause analysis that significantly improves communication in group problem solving In the Cause Mapping workshop, participants will learn that problem solving is about identifying and eliminating specific causes. The simple three-step process benefits people at all levels of an organization (executives to front line employees) by creating a visual picture, the Cause Map, of how to prevent past problems for the purpose of improving business performance.


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June 11, 2008

Advancing Reliability Web Workshop

Advancing Reliability Workshop #5: Maintenance Study/Steering Group and Later Revelations Concerning Failure Profiles vs. Conditional Probability of Failure

Join us for a Web Workshop on June 20

In the web workshop Jack discusses:

* The Revelations of the Maintenance Steering Group relating to the nature of failure
* How equipment fails
* Bathtub curve type failures
* Determining the probability of failure
* Why Run-To-Failure is an acceptable strategy
* Condition directed tasks

Important Note: There is no fee for this web workshop - however participants must dial in using a telephone (long distance charges may apply from your phone company) to hear the presentation.

Space is limited.


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June 11, 2008

Planning and Scheduling in SAP

What if you could get a daily maintenance schedule out in minutes rather than hours?

You are invited to a special recorded presentation that will discuss approaches that can be taken to improve SAP Plant Maintenance usability and streamline business process. The discussion will cover notification creation, maintenance order creation, parts ordering, resource management, resource scheduling, shift level operation scheduling, shift turnover activity, and maintenance order management. SAP native capabilities in addition to complimentary products will be discussed.

The presented material will last 25-30 minutes minutes.


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June 11, 2008

Buy 3 - Get 1 Team Discount for PdM-2008 till June 15

Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference & Expo
September 15-18, 2008
Qwest Center
Omaha Nebraska

Please join us for PdM-2008, the Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference & Expo from September 15-18, 2008 in America’s Heartland - Omaha Nebraska. FREE Bonus workshops and the Association for Maintenance Professionals Breakthrough sessions are held on March 18.

This conference is designed for predictive maintenance beginners and seasoned condition monitoring professionals.

Buy 3 registrations - get 1 FREE till 6/15
Buy 4 Registrations - get 1 FREE till 7/15
Buy 5 Registrations - get 1 FREE till 8/15
Buy 6 Registrations - get 1 Free till 9/15


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June 11, 2008

Improve the Efficiency of Your Vibration Analysis Program

An iPresentation by DLI Engineering

This 4.5 minute iPresentation illustrates several different methods to improve any condition-based maintenance program utilizing recent technology advances. We will discuss several areas and methods available to improve your Machine Condition Assessment Program including new methods to collect, screen, analyze and distribute the data.


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June 11, 2008

e-Book Request: Beginner’s Guide to Machine Vibration

Commtest knows that vibration monitoring can be an easy and painless task – not a mysterious art. They have written Beginner’s Guide to Machine Vibration to give you the key information you need to be successful with your vibration monitoring program.


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June 11, 2008

Directions to Successful Change

An iPresentation Tutorial by Jim Hudson, Trico Corp.

As global competition increases in all manufacturing sectors, organizations are being asked to change to achieve increasing levels of equipment reliability within budgetary constraints. To meet these demands, maintenance professionals must become skilled at managing CHANGE while preserving existing production levels. This balancing act is not always easy, but there are some basic directions that must be followed if the change is to be successful. This 5 minute iPresentation provides information useful for all maintenance and reliability professionals.


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June 11, 2008

The Seven Questions of Reliability Centered Maintenance

by Bill Keeter and Doug Plucknette, Allied Reliability

Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM) is a phrase coined thirty years ago to describe a cost effective way of maintaining complex systems. The RCM method uses the answers to seven very basic questions to help determine the best maintenance tasks to implement in an Equipment Maintenance Plan (EMP). This paper focuses on those seven questions and how they help determine the EMP. More…


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