January 28, 2009
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Ultrasonic Frequency of Turbulence
I have a Ultraprobe 201 Grease Caddy and my questions are:
Can I use this device to detect turbulence in a pump?
What frequency and decibel levels does turbulence occurs at?
Vibehigh
Trinidad & Tobago
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Counterfeit Bearings
I wanted to post here about a problem our company is facing with nefarious people selling counterfeit bearings. Our company is on a mission to educate engineers (especially field engineers that interface on-site with clients) on identification of counterfeit bearings.
It seems that some people around the world take cheap substandard bearings, grind off the markings on the side of the bearings, remark them with a premium brand, and sell them at a premium price. Other times they’re repackaged in boxes that are knock-offs of the original. Amusingly, sometimes the boxes have horrible misspellings!
Kestas
Plymouth, Michigan
January 28, 2009
Reliability Roadmap Web Workshop Playback
We archive the Reliability Roadmap Web Workshops for on demand playback 24/7 because the life of a maintenance and reliability professional does not always adhere to the plan or to a schedule. Feel free to learn from these workshops at your convenience.
Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools by Ron Moore
January 28, 2009
Uptime® Magazine Dec/Jan 2009 Digital Edition Online
Uptime® Magazine Dec/Jan 2009 Digital Edition Online
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January 28, 2009
Condition Based Monitoring
SPM Instrument offers early fault detection and data evaluation for Condition Based Monitoring, from portable instruments and permanently installed warning devices to large scale, online monitoring systems.
January 28, 2009
Economic Crisis
January 28, 2009
Efficiently Store & Dispense Bulk Fluids
Spectrum Bulk Oil Storage System replaces 55-gallon drums with clean, stackable tanks of 70, 121, 145, or 230 gallon capacity. Translucent tanks allow quick visual checks of contents, and molded-in volume markers provide content information.
January 28, 2009
Video Presentation-The ABC’s Of Failure – Getting Rid Of The Noise In Your System
by Winston Ledet, The Manufacturing Game
Delivered as the keynote address at RCM-2008 Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum
As part of the process of gathering, analyzing and condensing data from manufacturing sites around the world over the last 20 years of our work, it became apparent that it could all be simplified into ABC.
Aging of equipment, Basic wear and tear and Careless work habits account for all of the production losses and equipment down time experienced by industry. There are very simple ways to address the ABC’s. Unfortunately the Planned Domain, pursued by most industries in the Western World will not get organizations to the goal they are trying to achieve since it is an unstable state of existence.
Achieving a high degree of Planned and Scheduled work is a consequence of working correctly not the goal for which we should aim. In order to achieve Best in Class performance a site needs to be able to get rid of 40% of the existing work. The work that must be eliminated is the unplanned and unscheduled work that continually keeps you in the Reactive Domain. You must eliminate the “noise” in your system if you expect to make a real and sustainable change.
January 28, 2009
Story Musgrave To Present Keynote at RCM-2009/EAM-2009
March 23-26, 2009
Daytona Beach FL
Click here to hear a Podcast with Story Musgrave
The Design Principles of Low Cost, Useable, Reliable, Maintainable and Safe Systems by Story Musgrave, Astronaut
Story Musgrave will take you on a journey from farm machinery to military aircraft, construction equipment to the Hubble Space Telescope, to illustrate how the design principles of simplicity and beauty can create low cost, useable, reliable, maintainable, and safe machinery. Discover how, after 30 years as the maintenance test pilot on the Northrop T-38 aircraft, Story contributed to the most reliable and maintainable, high performance aircraft in U.S. Air Force history. Attention to these sound principles also led to the existence of the magnificent, robust, and dependable Apollo Saturn vehicles.
Story will also explore, on the other hand, how poor maintenance designs can lead to increased cost, inefficiency, and unsafe, unreliable equipment. He will share his years of Space Shuttle maintenance experience to demonstrate how the complexity of design can cause massive problems.
Designing for serviceability in the earliest stages of development is key to maintenance success. Story’s first-hand experience working for 17 years on the design of serviceability and maintainability for the Hubble Space Telescope demonstrates this.
He will share details of his Shuttle adventure as lead mechanic on the infamous repair mission, where these design concepts were the principle reason for 100% success of this, and every Hubble servicing mission.
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January 28, 2009
Economic News - All Bad?
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.
- Ronald Reagan
Economic News - All Bad?
If you are reading this at your place of work - you can use this period to focus on the things that you CAN have an effect on. Maintaining a positive attitude is a great way to contribute to all around you. It is too easy to dwell on the negative headlines. Being a positive example will lead others to a better place.
In addition, being as proactive as possible in your work can make a huge difference to your company as well as to your life. Companies with a proactive reliability culture will find themselves with lower operating costs and more opportunities to compete on delivery, quality and price. People who are doing meaningful work are happier.
I hope that the resources we have included in this email can contribute to your efforts in some small way.
- Terrence O’Hanlon, CMRP
January 21, 2009
RCM-2009 Reliability Centered Maintenance Manager's Forum
March 23-26, 2009
Hilton Ocean Walk Village - Daytona Beach Florida
The Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum is designed for beginning and advanced maintenance professionals to discover ways to create new maintenance programs and to ensure that current maintenance programs include the right work at the right time to ensure operational reliability.
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