June 09, 2005 Maintenance Tip
Never substitute a missing bolt without making sure that it is the correct bolt for the application. The maintenance manual should have the correct information and the bolt head marking should verify the bolt particulars. Sometimes because of work pressure people will replace a bolt without checking, just to hurry and complete the work.
Tip provided by the Reliability Center
http://www.reliability.com
Tel: 804-458-0645
June 09, 2005 Utilizing a CMMS to Develop and Support Key Maintenance Performance Indicators by Terry Wireman
CMMS-2005 Pre-Conference Workshop
Computerized Maintenance Management Summit
July 26-29, 2005
Indianapolis Indiana
This workshop not only instructs on the use of basic indicators for managing maintenance and how to link them to a company’s financials, it addresses further advancements in the management of maintenance.
The Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance workshop utilizes techniques based on other management measurement systems, such as the balanced scorecard. What’s more it presents a maturing of measurement technique for maintenance and asset maintenance and development techniques that will allow companies to be competitive into the future. It is a necessary learning event for any company that has a maintenance organization to learn how to effectively measure and manage the entire spectrum of maintenance activities.
Workshop attendees each receive a hardcover copy of Developing Performance Indicators For Managing Maintenance as part of the one day course.
Join Terry plus more than 35 other presenters, workshop leaders and learning labs directors at CMMS-2005.
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June 09, 2005 The 29th Annual Meeting - Vibration Institute
June 13-17, 2005
Omni Richmond Hotel
Richmond, Virginia
The Vibration Institute will conduct its 2005 National Technical Training Symposium (formerly termed the Annual Meeting) in Richmond from June 13 through June 17 at Omni Richmond Hotel. The purpose of the Symposium is to provide specific training in practical vibration technology.
June 09, 2005 Airborne Ultrasound Tip
When corona is detected during a closed door switchgear inspection, after appropriate safety precautions, be sure to slowly open door as to keep the environment inside from moving. Moving particles inside can cause the corona activity to stop. Making is difficult to again spot the corona with the airborne ultrasonic detector. Some corona activity can be the results of dust or contamination around sharp edges of bakelite and/or upon insulators, movement of the air or environment internally may cause this dusting or particles to release.
Tip provided by Jim Hall
Training Manager
Ultra-Sound Technologies
(770) 517-8747
June 09, 2005 Motor Testing Tip
The cause of current unbalance can be quickly identified in three phase systems. The process is referred to as ‘rotating phases.’ The trick is to identify the current readings of each phase, such as: A = 10 Amps; B = 12 Amps; and, C = 15 Amps. You then switch the conductors such that phase A is moved to phase B, phase B is moved to phase C and phase C is moved to phase A. This preserves the rotation of the motor. Restart the motor and re-measure current.
If the current balance remains the same, with the A, B and C phase currents remaining low, medium and high, then the unbalance is due to the motor. If the unbalance rotates such that A = 15, B = 10 and C = 12 (or close), then the current unbalance is due to the power supply.
Tip provided by Howard W Penrose, Ph.D.
T-Solutions, Inc.
http://www.tsoln-inc.com
Read the Penrose Lecture Series MotorBlog at MaintenanceTalk.com
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June 09, 2005 Vibration Analysis Tip
To help justify your vibration analysis program, try providing your machinery’s health in a report. Print out a statistical report showing how many pieces of equipment are within acceptable limits versus how many are outside acceptable limits. Often, you think management only wants to see the bad equipment, but one of the major benefits is showing a problem in its infancy, before the failure.
Tip provided by LUDECA, INC.
ALIGNMENT * VIBRATION * BALANCING
http://www.ludeca.com
Tel: 305-591-8935
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June 09, 2005 Inventory and Purchasing Maintenance Tip
Inventory and Purchasing Maintenance Tips to
Enhance Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
(Tip 3 of 6 in a series) Archived at
http://maintenancetalk.com/blog.php/tipsblog
Proper Inventory and Procurement Staffing
This maintenance tip deals with having the proper staffing levels to care for all of the maintenance inventory and procurement activities. This is an overlooked area when the maintenance department has the inventory and procurement responsibility. In many cases, when business is good, the maintenance organization will properly staff the storeroom. When headcount is the maintenance department is reduced, the tendency is to reduce storeroom personnel and transition to an open storeroom, leaving the maintenance workforce intact.
The overall efficiency of the stores and purchasing function is dramatically reduced when the remaining personnel are inadequate to care for the:
• Issuing
• Reordering
• Receiving
• Locating in the proper Row, Shelf, Bin locations
• Cycle counting
• Analyzing Usage patterns
• Monitoring max/min levels, re-order points and quantities
• Identifying vendors for routine and specialty spare parts
• Negotiating delivery terms and pricing
• Etc.
This results in poor service levels from the inventory and procurement function. The resulting impact is that the maintenance inventory and procurement function can no longer support “best practice” maintenance activities. Activities, such as planning and scheduling are impacted, since the materials cannot be planned from accurate inventory records. This has an additional impact on the equipment availability, since the right spare parts will not be available when required resulting in unnecessarily long repair times.
While it may seem expensive to properly staff a maintenance stores location, a complete business analysis should be performed. For example, while the cost of the location and the labor to staff the location may be easily calculated, consider the cost of not staffing the location. These costs would include:
• The dollar value of all parts that no longer in the location without their costs being charged to a work order
• The cost of downtime that can be attributed to a part not being carried in the storeroom location when the inventory system indicated that it was
• The cost of lost productivity (labor hours X hourly rate of technicians X number of technicians assigned to the work) for each delayed job due to parts
• The cost of expediting a part in, when it was supposed to be on hand
• Etc.
When all costs are considered, properly staffing in a maintenance storeroom location can almost always be cost justified. Proper staffing of the maintenance storeroom will contribute to “Best Practices” in maintenance planning and scheduling.
Tip provided by Terry Wireman
GenesisSolutions
http://www.GenesisSolutions.com
Tel: (203) 431-0281
