August 17, 2006 Time is running out to register for PdM-2006
The Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference
September 12-15, 2006
Chattanooga TN
Learn everything you need to begin a Machinery Condition Monitoring Program in just 4 days at PdM-2006
PdM Manager’s Sessions
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• Managing a successful condition monitoring program by Jason Tranter
• Why Leadership, Proactive Maintenance Strategy and PdM are important - Keys To Success in Condition-based Maintenance by Phillip Pinkston, Allied Reliability and Chris Hein, Cargill Sweeteners
• Southern Company Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) Case Study by Steven Newton
• Understanding and Implementing Predictive Maintenance Excellence by Kenneth D. Peoples, The Boeing Commercial Airplane Company
Motor Testing Sessions
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• Elements of an effective motor maintenance program by Jerry Honeycutt Tennessee Valley Authority
• The Story of Dofasco Steel’s Motor Management: Past, Present and Future by Vlad Djuric, CMRP, Dofasco
• What to Do When a Major Motor Dies Prematurely - Case Study with Multiple Issues by Jack Nicholas Jr.
• A Proven Electric Motor Re-greasing Program used in the Nuclear Power Industry by Jerry Honeycutt, Tennessee Valley Authority
• Alcoa Motor Circuit Testing Case Studies by Jim Zuidema, Alcoa
• Dynamic Electric Motor Testing of DC Motors by Noah Bethel, PdMA
• Motors The Past is Present by Howard Penrose
Infrared & Electrical Application Sessions
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• Getting Started with Infrared Thermal Imaging by John Snell
• Avoiding Flashover in Medium Voltage Switchgear by Chuck Humphrey Highvec Canada
• Electrical Inspections with the use of Thermography & Ultrasound
• Ultrasound War Stories: Electrical Inspection by Jim Hall
• Infrared Surveying and NFPA 70E Mock Trial by Greg Stockton, ISPoT and cast
• Techniques for Accurate infrared Temperature Measurement by Jim Seffrin, Infraspection Institute
• Infrared Windows Case Studies by Darren Billings
Lubrication and Bearings Sessions
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• Lubrication Excellence by Ken Peoples, The Boeing Commercial Airplane Company
• A comparison of detecting bearing problems using ultrasound and vibration by Tom Murphy
• Oil Analysis basics by Ray Thibault
• Pump Bearings and Lubrication by Ross Mackay
• Acoustic Bearing Lubrication by Jim Hall
• A Proven Electric Motor Re-greasing Program used in the Nuclear Power Industry by Jerry Honeycutt, Tennessee Valley Authority
Many more real world case studies plus the Business Case for Predictive Maintenance Keynote address.
2 Day - 3 Day - 4 Day Passes to meet any schedule and budget!
Hotel discounts only available till August 28!
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August 17, 2006 Vibration Analysis Tip
Acquisition and storage of Time Waveforms can be useful in ways that many vibration analysts may not have considered. Most PdM trending platforms will store the TWF (and FFT) in a digital format that may not include re-processing capability. Many newer PC based acquisition systems give the user the option to store a TWF “clip” in an individual file. These files can be post-processed multiple times and/or in multiple ways without having to collect additional data sets. Storing a 10-12 second TWF will allow fairly high FFT spectral resolution, without impeding speedy data collection, or enormous data storage problems. Consider the possibilities:
• High Resolution Overall Amplitude Levels
• Computing Crest or Form Factors on the Original TWF signal
• High & Low FFT Spectral Range Analysis
• Signal Re-processing: Resolution, Averaging, Windowing
• Transient Waterfall, Cascade Maps of data.
• Retaining TWF Phase relationships (with Reference)
Granted that these functions may be beyond the capabilities of most trending software platforms, but are easily within the realm of most PC based data acquisition systems.
Tip from Dan Ambre, P.E., Full Spectrum Diagnostics, PLLC,
http://www.fullspec.net
Don’t miss Dan’s Introduction to Vibration Analysis Workshop at PdM-2006
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August 17, 2006 Oil Analysis Tip
The key to quality sampling is to pull the samples the same way each and every time. Write a procedure for each piece of equipment stating the exact location with a very descriptive procedure to follow. One of the best ways is to install a pitot tube if that is possible for the equipment in your facility. If plastic tubing is used to obtain the sample, use a permanent marker to mark the depth the tubing should be inserted to get a representative sample in the same part of the gearbox/equipment each time. Each system or application may be different, just set up a procedure that each employee pulling samples will be able to follow. This is the only way that trending conditions will be accurate.
Reader tip provided by Jerry Weeks, Monsanto, Soda Springs ID
Thanks for entering the Maintenance-Tips Challenge Jerry - Your PdM-2006/LubricationWorld Proceedings CD and Maintenance Tips hat will be shipped as soon as the CD is published.
August 17, 2006 Shutdown Tip
The 9 most important factor’s for the success of a Shutdown
1.To ensure the turnaround (possible modification) is executed within plant standards.
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Engineering Standard (Eng change req)
- Safety Standard
- Quality Standard
2.To ensure the work scope is properly defined.
- Requirements
- Eliminate unnecessary and duplicate work
- Check material specs
- Finalize work list.
3.To ensure all requirements for major tasks.
- Information gathering
- Specify tasks
- Task procedure
- Task hazard study
- Drw & documentation
- Preparation of plan
4.To ensure all projects are properly define and resourced
- Specify project
- Define key dates
- Finalize drw & documentation
- Materials - equipment
- Specify interactions with turnaround (modifications) work
5.To ensure all inspection requirements are resourced.
- Specify inspection list
- Inspection techniques
- Types of inspection
- Safety and access requirements
6.To ensure all contracted out work is properly managed
- Work packaging
- Types of contract
- Contractor availability
- Invitations
- Contractor control and management on site.
7.To define items (spares) to be supplied within plant standards.
- Spare availability
- Check specifications
- Withdrawal from plant store
- Issue and control
- Return and control
8.To develop a safe system of work for the shutdown
- Safe working routine
- P.P.E.
- Safety inspections
- Accident investigation
9.To ensure the site is properly organized
- Site plot plan
- Stores lay out
- Craneage/Transport
- Services/Utilities
- Facilities/Personnel
Reader tip provided by Christo Hartzer, Senior Maintenance Planner, Duferco Steel Processing, Cape Town, South Africa
Thank you Christo - Your Maintenance-tips hat is on the way!
August 17, 2006 Ivara Reliability Leadership Summit – Includes FREE, Hands-on Workshop!
Want to learn how to achieve key business results by improving plant performance through reliability? Attend a full- or half-day workshop at the Ivara Reliability Leadership Summit and learn from the best!
In addition to 4 concurrent tracks, 39 sessions and plant tours of Dofasco and Cadbury-Adams, Ivara’s reliability-focused conference also offers 6 hands-on workshops at no extra cost.
Choose from six dynamic conference workshops when you register:
1. Integrating Predictive Technologies led by Larry Cote, Dofasco
2. Developing KPIs led by James Nesbitt & Dan Hillman, Ivara.
3. Reliability – Workplace Simulation Game led by Frank Godin, EMA
4. RCM Scorecard led by Jack Nicholas Jr.
5. Applying Cultural Change to Improve Maintenance & Reliability led by Ricky Smith & Carlo Odoardi, Ivara.
6. Building an Asset Reliability Program with MTA led by Bill Fulton, Ivara .
The Ivara Reliability Leadership Summit runs from October 2-5, 2006 at Queen’s Landing Resort in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
August 17, 2006 Human Error Tip
Symptoms of Overconfidence:
a. “We have been doing OK so far….”
b. “This task is easy, I have done it a 1000 times…”
c. We are the experts. They do know little about…”
d. Inferred experience. “I’ve done other things like this before…”
Tip provided by Reliability Center Inc.
http://www.reliability.com
Human Error Reduction for Supervisors
August 17, 2006 Maintenance Tips Feedback 3
The following tip was posted in the July 7th email:
“Maintenance Tip”
The purpose of maintenance
The fundamental purpose of maintenance in any business is to provide the required capacity for production at the lowest cost. It should be regarded as a RELIABILITY function - not as a repair function.
By Ray S. Beebe, Author, Predictive Maintenance of Pumps Using Condition Monitoring”
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I too would like to put my two cents in about the role of maintenance. I have found that in the short turn maximizing the ability of production to produce at the lowest cost possible has been the direction that most facilities wants to go. What have you done for me lately seems to be the rule.
In fact maintenance has two huge mandates they have to balance. The first being production needs and the second being long term preservation of shareholder capital. Maintenance is the only organization in manufacturing that has a responsibility to the assets being used and the responsibility to ensure they will be usable tomorrow. These somewhat opposing missions and the lack of a shareholder representative at the facility lead to a continuing dismissal of the shareholders capital cost at the expense of production. Life cycle costing takes some of this into account.
Feedback provided by Clint Mileur, Project Manager, Lincoln, NE
