Reliability Masters Track at IMC-2008

December 8-11, 2008
Hyatt Resorts Coconut Point
Bonita Springs, Florida
Tel: (888) 575-1245
http://www.maintenanceconference.com/imc

Save $100 if you register online by September 26 - use discount code relm12

The Reliability Masters Learning Zone presentations are only available at IMC-2008 and include:

• “The Awakening” by Ricky Smith CMRP, Author, Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers

• The Journey To Improve Business Performance by Steve Thomas, Author, Change Management for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals

• MrP or mRP? by Ron Moore, Author, Making Common Sense Common Practice

• Maintenance Leadership Greatness by Joel Levitt, Author, Lean Maintenance

• Measuring Empowerment of the Workforce Through Socio-Technical Network Theory by Winston Ledet, Founder of The Manufacturing Game

• Why the Asset Reliability and Maintenance Management Business Functions Need to be Regulated by Terry Wireman, Author, The Maintenance Strategy Series

• Effective Maintenance Does Not Equal Reliability by Keith Mobley, Author, Maintenance Engineering Handbook

• Taking Total Control of Maintenance Management by Becoming a P&PBO by Jack R. Nicholas, Jr., P.E., CMRP, Author, Advancing Reliability and Maintenance

Save $100 if you register online by September 26 - use discount code relm12

Faircrest Steel Mill Plant Tour - Canton Ohio

Association for Maintenance Professionals Breakthrough Session and Faircrest Steel Mill Plant Tour
October 20, 2008
Canton Ohio

Please join the Association for Maintenance Professionals for a breakthrough benchmarking exercise,learning sessions and plant tour at a special one day event.

The day begins with a benchmarking exercise and learning presentations at the Timken Campus in Canton and concludes with an afternoon plant tour of the most advanced alloy steel plant in the world - Faircrest Steel Mill.

Space is limited to 50 so sign up today!

Reliability Engineer's SAP Integration Portal

The SAP Integration Portal will help SAP Plant Maintenance users seamlessly transfer data from your specific SAP instance as well as Isograph’s Availability Workbench - RCMCost module so as implementation of your results can be efficient, effective and actioned every time you make an investment into a Reliability project.

Watch a recorded presentation

ALL-TEST PRO 31 Drawing

This month the folks at ALL TEST Pro are giving one lucky winner - drawn at random, an ALL TEST PRO 31 motor testing system.

The hand-held ALL-TEST PRO 31 incorporates tests for faults to ground, internal faults such as turn-to-turn and coil-to-coil and phase balance. Electric interference from residual or stray currents from test-object or surrounding power sources is measured by an included EMI test.

Find out more about the ALL-TEST PRO 31 Drawing

Motor Bearings: Sealed vs. Greaseable

From a recent post at MaintenanceForums.com

On TEFC motors - is it better to have sealed bearings or bearings that can be lubricated.

This facility has some of each on a couple of roaster ovens. I have my opinions, but figure that some of you probably have better informed opinions (than mine) and wondered what your thinking is on this question.

Regards,
Rusty

Read replies and post you own here

Are you compliant with NFPA 70E?

Arc Flash is a serious issue.

In today’s environment, you need to identify electrical issues quickly in order to avoid downtime, and safely to protect your workforce.

Mikron offers the perfect solution

Reliability 101 Part 1

An iPresentation Tutorial by Ricky Smith, CMRP, Allied Reliability

8 minutes of Pure Reliability, what a deal. What does Failure Patterns, PF Curve, and the P-F Interval has to do with Optimizing Asset Reliability? Take a seat and be prepared for the short ride. This session is one of 5 mini-E series on Reliability 101. You ask for short sessions, we got it; I heard you loud and clear.

WARNING: No one said this journey will be easy and good luck.

Start your iPresentation Tutorial now

Maintenance Is Not Effectively Applied

We just returned from PdM-2008 Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference and Expo collocated with LubricationWorld in Omaha Nebraska.

Please look for updates and lessons learned from the conference soon.

As if on queue we had an opportunity to review Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global), a large industrial insurer, report on operations and maintenance losses.

Here is what the report stated:

Loss experience with maintenance related incidents is extensive. FM Global experience shows that, all too often, maintenance is not effectively applied.

Most frequently reported reasons for the occurrences were:

• Testing/inspections not performed

• Maintenance not performed

• Inadequate maintenance

• Failure to document maintenance actions

• Electrical failures

• Improper installation or construction

• Failure to adapt to change of function or use

Wow! Only one of the primary loss/failure causes was not human induced!

Is your experience similar?

Please post your comments here

Faircrest Steel Mill Plant Tour - Canton Ohio

Association for Maintenance Professionals Breakthrough Session and Faircrest Steel Mill Plant Tour
October 20, 2008
Canton Ohio

Please join the Association for Maintenance Professionals for a breakthrough benchmarking exercise,learning sessions and plant tour at a special one day event.

The day begins with a benchmarking exercise and learning presentations at the Timken Campus in Canton and concludes with an afternoon plant tour of the most advanced alloy steel plant in the world - Faircrest Steel Mill.

Space is limited to 50 so sign up today!

Angelo Agresti: New Blogger at the Association for Maintenance Professionals

Maintenance value misrepresented

I read an article with interest from a site claiming to be a “premier maintenance news website”.

It was interesting because of the usual moaning I have seen about maintenance people being misunderstood and undervalued by the rest of the business.

The article title announced “profits to be hit by maintenance”.

What if the article had read “ …. maintenance work at a refinery which accounts for almost half of its capacity will ensure future profit targets are achieved.

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