January 17, 2008 3 Learning Events - 1 Price!
March 18-20, 2008
Las Vegas Nevada
FREE Bonus Workshops March 17
• RCM-2008 Reliability Centered Maintenance Managers’ Forum
• EAM-2008 Enterprise Asset Management Summit
• New! MTrain-2008 - Maintenance Training Conference
Certificate Workshops include:
• Advancing Reliability and Maintenance
• PM Optimization Workshop
• Establishing a Competency Based Maintenance Training Program
• Planning and (Re) Implementing An EAM System
• Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
• Developing Effective Maintenance Work Processes and Solid Equipment Reliability Programs for SAP-PM
Bonus Workshops include:
• Introduction to RCM Blitz
• The Manufacturing Game®
• The Reliability Game®
• Breakthrough Session - Reliability Initiative Leadership
Register for a 3 day Pass and get an optional Bonus Workshop FREE!
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Please call toll free (888) 575-1245 to speak to one of our conference specialists.
January 17, 2008 Technical Knowledge Tip
Volunteer for projects that will likely increase your knowledge, skills, marketability, and value to the organization.
Tip excerpted from “144 Ways to Walk the Talk”
by Eric Jarvey and Al Lucia
January 17, 2008 New Ultrasound Scanning Port
Does your company perform ultrasonic inspections on live switch gear and other electrical equipment?
The IRISS VP12 is the designed for use as an ultrasound port, allowing technicians can obtain fast, accurate and safe indications of whether or not electrical equipment is arcing prior to opening the cabinet.
January 17, 2008 10 Steps to Improve Availability
1. Management
-Audits/Inspections in plant
-Improve response time for breakdowns
-Action plans
2. Shutdowns
-Pre-shutdown meeting
-Post shutdown meeting
3. Structure/Personnel
-Revise structure
-Fill vacancies
-Training for the people
-Management for extra people(contractors)
4. Risk Control
-Safety
-Less equipment damage
5. Training
-Establish what is needed
-Training roster
6. Stores
-Better response time for breakdowns
-Turnaround of repaired items
-Improve buying turnaround
7. Tools
-Replace broken tools
-Revise tool requirement
-Availability of drawings and manuals
8. Increase Spares Availability
-Revise all spares requirements
9. Action on 80/20 Delays
-Mechanical/Electrical
10. Planning
-Improve shutdown planning
-Revise all schedules
-Feedback on delays
-Shutdown planning
-Visibility of spares on system
Reader tip provided by Christo Hartzer
Senior Maintenance Planner
Duferco Steel
Saldanha Bay, Western Cape
South Africa
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January 17, 2008 Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Tip
Recruiting PdM Team Candidates
1) The best approach is to recruit internally
2) Identify those who express interest in a particular predictive technology (vibration,ultrasound,infrared etc...)
3) Give candidates ready access to the PdM equipment and the technicians that are currently in place (provide them with some basic PdM tools and see how well they do with them)
4) Do not exclude operators from the candidate pool
Tip excerpted from “Predictive Maintenance Management” by Jack Nicholas Jr. P.E. CMRP and R. Keith Young
January 17, 2008 Oracle Maintenance Summit 2008
Attend this FREE conference focused on the interdependence of software, systems and people in supporting a reliable Asset Lifecycle Management program.
You will hear from industry thought leaders, leading companies and content experts as they share best practices and insight into the latest solutions and service offerings.
January 30 – February 1, 2008
Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center
Kissimmee, FL
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January 17, 2008 Alignment Tip
Machine trains can be complicated jobs for alignment. Job preparation can save a ton of headaches while trying to align multiple gearboxes and spacer shafts.
One step I added only takes about 20 minutes to do but saved probably twice that.
Using a sheave aligning laser(or low tech version being a string) I attached it on a flat surface of the center gearbox and measure the shaft to the laser line, after loosening the entire machine train, we bump the gearboxes and shafts by hand until we are even to the laser.
Flip the laser pointing to the other half of the machine train and repeat. We then move the laser to one end and verify that the entire machine train is straight with a 1/8” end to end over a 15 foot length was done with in 20 minutes. Snug the bolts and begin laser alignment job as normal.
When we then proceeded with our laser alignment we were pleasantly surprised to find that we were in alignment horizontally down the entire length of the machine. Vertical adjustments were all that was needed to finish the job.
Reader tip provided by Joel Woodthorp
Vibration Analyst
Georgia Pacific
Green Bay, Wisconsin
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January 17, 2008 CMMS/EAM Tip
Stay out of the Weeds
In recently reviewing an organization’s CMMS implementation, the equipment numbering (hierarchy) went all the way down to individual input and output cards on the programmable logic controller (PLC) racks.
That’s way too deep in the weeds. The rule of thumb for implementing a new CMMS or fixing an existing one is to stop the equipment numbering scheme (hierarchy) at the level that where you no longer apply a maintenance strategy. The items below that level are simply parts. What maintenance strategy will be applied to the individual input or output PLC cards? They are parts.
Using a simple conveyor as an example, the parent equipment is the conveyor with the child equipment of a motor and gearbox. These children are the lowest level that a maintenance strategy is applied. The individual components such as the sprockets or pulleys, chain or belt, shafts, bearings, rollers, and conveyor belt are parts linked to either the parent or children as appropriate.
Tip provided by Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM
People and Processes
