Weibull Analysis, Asset Management, Life Cycle Cost, and Accelerated Testing will be the subject of five workshops March 6-10, Houston. Led, respectively, by world-class experts Dr. Robert Abernethy and Wes Fulton, John Mitchell, Paul Barringer, and Dr. Wayne Nelson.

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Please join us for EAM-2006 - The Enterprise Asset Management Summit, March 8-10, 2006 in exciting Las Vegas Nevada.

EAM-2006 is the only event dedicated to Enterprise Asset Management and Computerized Maintenance Information Management including Maintenance Inventory, Maintenance Planning & Scheduling and Maintenance Work Management.

You will take away new solutions for maintenance information management that you can put to immediate use as peers and industry experts share knowledge and experience in a non-commercial environment.

There will be several real world “how we did it” EAM Case studies, 4 different 90 minute short courses each day and four excellent full-day workshops. There are plenty of opportunities to network with people who have to solve the same issues you face on a daily basis.

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The Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) will also offer the CMRP Certification Exam at EAM-2006 to enhance your professional development. EAM-2006 provides a certificate for credit toward re-certification for those who already are Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals.

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When conducting real Root Cause Analyses, uncovering the truth, or the Latent Roots, can be a very sensitive subject. Imagine if you conclude in your RCA that your boss’s boss wrote a flawed start-up procedure that an operator followed and resulted in an explosion. How are we going to communicate this to our management in an effort to correct the problem and prevent it from recurring?

Oftentimes. Managements may be the ones who sign the checks to support RCA efforts, but they were never made aware of the methodology that would ensue. Therefore they would not be educated on the concepts of Human Root Causes and Latent Root Causes.

In our above scenario, trying to express the FACTS of our RCA to a group of managers that are not educated in the RCA process can be “career-limiting”. Therefore, we must strategize on how to get what we want without alienating the wrong people. In these cases, we would educate such bosses weeks before our final RCA presentation so that they would know what the terms were and how they were being used. Then we would express our conclusions in an unbiased fashion without giving or insinuating any names of people or groups. For instance, in our case above, the Latent Root might be labeled as “Inadequate Start Up Procedure”. It does not matter who wrote it, what matters is that it is corrected and that the system that allowed it to exist is corrected.

Tip provided by the Reliability Center Inc.
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Free — yet rich in ideas and solutions. That’s what maintenance people are saying about the unique one-day PMS2 seminar coming near you. You’ll learn how to best apply early warning technologies — infrared, ultrasound and motor electrical analysis — to your predictive/preventive maintenance programs. Three technology leaders have combined forces in an industry first — a unified team approach to integrating predictive monitoring and analysis technologies. Mikron Infrared, UE Systems, and ALL-TEST Pro are bringing the free PMS2 Seminars — a double dip of Proactive Maintenance Solutions and Process Monitoring Solutions — to various locations in North and South America.

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SAFETY PRIOR TO ALIGNMENT

The number one item that should be taken care of prior to aligning machinery is to ensure that the machines are locked out and tagged accordingly. Isolate machinery from all forms of mechanical and electrical energy. If equipment is accidentally started up while an alignment is being performed, serious injuries can occur. Be sure to close check valves so back pressure from another pump can’t make yours start spinning backwards; tie down fan blades so sudden gusts of wind won’t cause your shafts to turn or expose you to danger from the blades, etc.

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The Six Criteria for Evaluating Best Practices in Reliability

Everyone seems to be looking for “Best Practices” today - and they are very illusive, almost seeming like a myth or fable. Are there really defined “Best Practices in Reliability”? Yes, there are defined practices in reliability which have been successfully used by many companies.

Best Practices are the standardized activities that:
• enable an organization to maximize efficiency and effectiveness
• are typically employed by the leaders in an industry (lowest cost/highest quality providers)

To define best practices for a given function usually requires that we combine capabilities from multiple companies, as no one company performs best at all things. Since best practices relate to the performance of a function or activity, best practices in reliability must be defined in terms of the elements a proactive business process for reliability. Each element of the process should be evaluated in terms of the following 6 criteria:

1. Current Practices (observable duties, tasks or behavior)
2. Roles and Responsibilities (job descriptions are defined, understood and accepted)
3. Information (information is available, communicated and acted on)
4. Resources (people, tools, materials and facilities)
5. Training (training needs are evaluated and core skills are maintained)
6. Performance Assurance (the quality of work within each element is monitored)

For example, some of best practices for the Work Planning Element of a Reliability Process are:
1. Practices
• All work orders are accurately detailed to the right level
• Work plans include collection of condition data
2. Roles & Responsibilities
• Roles and responsibilities are well defined for Planners
3. Resources
• We have a sufficient number of planners
4. Training
• We have a training program for planners
5. Information
• Planners have access to the required information for their role
6. Assurance
• We measure the effectiveness of our planning function

Tip provided by Ricky Smith, CMRP
Ivara
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