May 11, 2006 Please help is re-invent maintenance and reliability conferences
Please help is re-invent the way maintenance and reliability conferences are delivered to you. This survey should take no longer than 10 minutes for you to complete. Your answers will have an impact on us for sure. We are pleased to offer a drawing for ten (10) $25 Amazon.com gift certificates and one grand prize of a $100 Amazon.com gift certificate as a thank you for sharing your ideas with us. Your suggestions will be read by a highly motivated group of human beings that are interested elevating the importance of maintenance and reliability. The Amazon.com Gift Certificate drawing will be held on June 9, 2007.
May 11, 2006 TPM Tip
Operations New Job Descriptions
Deterioration Prevention
• Correct Operation
• Clean, Lubricate, Tighten
• Make necessary adjustments
• Record breakdown and malfunction data
• “Team” with maintenance to work on improvements
Deterioration Measurement
• Perform daily inspections
• Work on larger periodic inspections
Equipment Restoration
• Perform minor repairs
• Report promptly and accurately on breakdowns
• Assist in breakdown repairs
Tip from Terry Wireman’s Total Productive Maintenance, Published by Industrial Press, ISBN 0-8311-3172-1
http://www.industrialpress.com
May 11, 2006 A vibration training course like nothing you have experienced before
Register now for Lake Tahoe or Niagara Falls, and your training begins immediately with iLearnVibration. Utilizing the Mobius simulators, Tony DeMatteo will give you an unforgettable course. The course and certification exam follow ISO and ASNT standards.
Contact: Gary Peterson on 206 842 8721
May 11, 2006 Reliability Tip
Avoiding Reliability Improvement Pitfalls
Who’s leading the effort?
You can train people, you can assign them projects, you can give them tools and you can track results but without a reliability leader - your project is destined to fail. A leader creates a greater result than the simple sum of the parts. The Reliability leader provides direction and serves the team. One person must take responsibility for leading the project.
Tip provided by Terrence O’Hanlon, CMRP
May 11, 2006 Vibration Analysis Tip
WATERFALL PLOTS
Vibration waterfall plots are a very good analysis tool to identify changes in equipment condition. Waterfall plots can reveal the development and progression of specific equipment failures. Also, waterfall plots can be used to show management the progression and severity of identified faults.
Tip provided by LUDECA, INC.
ALIGNMENT * VIBRATION * BALANCING
http://www.ludeca.com
Tel: 305-591-8935
May 11, 2006 Two-Day Lean Maintenance Workshop – by Ricky Smith
Ricky Smith, experienced reliability expert and renowned author of the book ‘Lean Maintenance’ invites you to attend his latest two-day workshop. Take your Maintenance organization to the next level –implement Lean thinking in Maintenance. Ricky’s insightful, dynamic and engaging teaching method will help you learn the fundamental principles of this powerful concept. Learn how to implement “Lean” through a simple approach, focused on reliability.
Attend this workshop to:
• Bridge the gap between Lean Manufacturing and Lean Maintenance
• Learn how to achieve Lean Maintenance, step-by- step
• Participate in interactive group activities to build Asset Reliability Programs with Lean thinking, including the 5 S’s of Lean Maintenance
• Capture valuable best practices for Lean Maintenance and review Lean Maintenance Metrics
Don’t miss this opportunity to attend Ricky’s next Lean Maintenance workshop, June 6 – 7, in Phoenix, Arizona.
May 11, 2006 Motor (VFD) Testing Tip
With the increase in use of Variable Frequency Drives (VFD’s), and increased machine uptime expectations it helps to have a few tricks in the tool box. When confronted with a faulted drive, make your usual visual inspection for obvious defects to the associated equipment if nothing is notable is found disconnect the motor leads from the drive, reset the fault and enable the drive, if the fault reappears with no load the the drive needs to be repaired/ replaced. If the drive ramps up normally then the problem is with the motor or wire run, with the wires disconnected at the drive the drop can be tested quickly. If the drop shows good replace the motor. I have had 100% success with this method.
Reader tip sent in by Mike Lynch, United States All Trade, Harvard Illinois
Thanks Mike - Your Maintenance Tips Hat is on the way!
May 11, 2006 Which KPIs are Leading and which are Lagging?
A simple way to remind yourself if a KPI is leading or lagging is to ask yourself the question “Am I looking into the maintenance process measuring this KPI or am I outside of the process looking at the results?
Process measures are Leading Indicators. They monitor if the tasks are being performed that will ‘lead to successful results’. For example a leading maintenance process indicator would measure how proactive the planning function was in preparing preventive maintenance work packages or to monitor the percentage of condition inspections completed per schedule. If people are doing all the right things then the expectation is that results will follow. The leading process indicators are typically more immediate than lagging results measures. It is the leading indicators that management must manage by.
Result measures are Lagging Indicators and occur after the fact. They monitor the output of a process. Maintenance lagging indicators include maintenance cost (as a contributor to total operating cost), asset downtime due to planned and unplanned maintenance (as a contributor to availability) and number of failures on assets (the measure of reliability: this can then be translated into mean time between failures). Results measures lag and thus cannot be directly managed.
Tip provided by Al Weber
Ivara
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