November 23, 2006 RELIABILITY Magazine Presents A Series Of Interactive Reliability Learning Events
A NEW Method For Learning Reliability — the “A+” Way!
Learning is a two-way street! The typical method of transferring information to the Reliability Community has been a one way street — speaker to participant with very little input from you, the customer. RELIABILITY Magazine offers a new, more interesting, meaningful and significant method of learning:
• You determine conference content. Extensive pre-conference surveying of Event Topics will pre-set the conference agenda.
• Benchmark your Program/Process. Benchmark your current program/process with other participants via on-site surveying using audience response technology – participants provide data in complete confidentiality but view group benchmarking data instantaneously!
Learning Event 1
Root Cause Analysis
February 21 –22
Charlotte, North Carolina
Learning Event 2
Scorecard and Key Performance Indicators
May 16 – 17
Jacksonville, Florida
Learning Event 3
Planning and Scheduling
July 18 – 19
Cincinnati, Ohio
Learning Event 4
Lean Maintenance and Operations
October 24 – 25
Kansas City, Kansas
November 23, 2006 Ultrasound Tip
Scan 360° to locate corona, arcing and tracking.
When scanning electrical overhead lines with airborne ultrasound, be sure to walk around the power pole or tower 360° while scanning. The molecules that disperse into the air during corona discharge are subject to wind direction. You will find that the sound of corona for instance will be louder when standing downwind and aiming upwind at the target.
Tip provided by Jim Hall
Ultra-Sound Technologies
November 23, 2006 MIT Lubrication Study
I am not sure if anybody can help me with this. I read recently on Dow Corning’s website that there is an often quoted MIT study that:
quote:
“calculated that six to seven percent of America’s Gross National Product (about $240 billion) is spent repairing wear damage caused by poor lubrication”
I am fascinated by this figure, and a little disbelieving, and would like to find the study that they reference here.
Has anybody on the forum ever seen this report, read it, or even knows of its existence?
November 23, 2006 More Maintenance Tips Feedback
Regarding the tip below in your recent Tips: I have known of situations where threaded fasteners have experienced fretting due to vibration. The nut may not move from the original torqued position, but due to thread wear, the nut can be unfastened using only your fingers. The scribe method as described below can not indicate this particular condition.
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Tip for Inspecting bolt/nut tightness
First: Install a nut to proper tightness.
Second: Scribe a line through the nut to the equipment frame around the nut
On PM inspections just verify that the scribed line is unbroken.
Tip provided by Joel Levitt
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Maintenance Tips Feedback provided by Richard Danks
November 23, 2006 The Dirty Dozen: 12 Ways to Wreck Your Maintenance Program
Ignore the Needs of Your Customers (4 of 12)
As maintenance professionals, you interact with other departments and personnel who depend on you to keep their equipment and processes in good condition. If you ignore them, they are helpless, and it can be really funny to observe them jumping around in frustration when they get nothing from you. They may treat you like a servant, but you do have some power over them.
There are many ways to ignore the needs of your customers, but here are a few gems:
• When you get a call for help because some equipment failed, drink one more cup of coffee before you amble down to assess the situation. It’s not like they can call someone else, right?
• When you work on equipment, don’t waste your time communicating that the job is done. If you do, all you are going to get is a bunch of questions, somebody checking your work, and they’ll probably ask you to stick around to assist with startup. No thanks. Fix it fast, and then beat it back to the shop.
• Stay off the floor as much as you can. Someone will call you when they need help. Otherwise, stay out of sight, and keep your head down.
• It’s best to avoid learning at all times. If you gain new skills, the next thing you know, people will expect you to use them. Pretty soon, they will be bothering you constantly. In fact, it’s a good idea to pretend you know even less than you do. That way, if you get a request to help, you can just say, “Sorry, I don’t know much about this. Maybe someone else would be a better choice.” It is a masterpiece if the whole department can do this in unison, so nothing can get done.
Tune in next week as we continue to expose the secret lives of seriously disturbed maintenance “professionals” with The Dirty Dozen Tip #5: Don’t Plan Anything, or Make Rotten, Useless Plans.
“Tip” provided by NoBreakDowns.com
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Receive a complimentary Dirty Dozen: 12 Ways to Wreck Your Maintenance Program electronic poster
November 23, 2006 What is your Balancing IQ?
If everything was balanced as it was built and installed - imagine how much maintenance work could be avoided!
Reliabilityweb.com is proud to announce that Ludeca has launched a new Balancing IQ Quiz to test your knowledge of this valuable precision maintenance technique.
The quiz is self checking and correct answers are displayed if you happen to miss an answer or two.
November 23, 2006 A Global Enterprise Asset and Reliability Management Exchange
RCM-2007 - The Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum
Plus
EAM-2006 – The Enterprise Asset Management Summit
2 Learning Events – 1 Price!
Certificate Workshops April 3-4, 2007
Conference and Expo April 5-6, 2007
Sheraton Waikiki Hotel
Honolulu Hawaii
• Proven Asset Management and Reliability Strategies, Techniques and Technologies in a focused learning environment
o RCM-2007 is designed for people who are considering or practicing Reliability Centered Maintenance programs
o EAM-2007 is designed for people involved in implementing or managing physical asset information (CMMS/EAM) including maintenance management for companies and enterprises
o New in 2007 – SAP –Plant Maintenance Track added
A wide selection of workshops, short courses and learning zone sessions ensures a full agenda for beginners as well as advanced maintenance and reliability professionals.
November 23, 2006 Shutdown Tip
Work Validation in Shutdowns
Work Validation is one of the keys to a successful shutdown or outage. Validation is answering a series of questions about all the jobs on the work list.
Its function is to eliminate all unnecessary work, clarify all jobs and eliminate duplications.
Questions to be answered for every job:
• Does the work have to be done during this shutdown?
• Is this a duplicated job or is a small job part of a larger job already on the schedule?
• Is this a job that will be undone by a job later in the shutdown?
• Is this the simplest wording? The work content should be entirely clear.
• Is this routine work being transferred into the shutdown?
• Is this nice-to-do work for which there is no business justification?
• Is there any work done as a custom every shutdown without adequate analysis?
• Is this desperation or blackmail work (that is work added to the list just before start-up)
Three steps of the Validation Process:
• Check: duplication, approval, request is accurate
• Challenge: the need to perform the task either at all or during this shutdown
• Analyze: safety, quality, engineering, material, resource requirements
Important point: Agree on final wording and add to work list (it can make a difference).
Idea for action: What about running a class in how to write up the “work requested” field on the work order? The issue of how work requested is written up is important for day-to-day maintenance jobs and doubly important for shutdowns.
Tip provided by Joel Levitt Author of Lean Maintenance in a Nutshell
