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January 24, 2008 Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Management Tip
Cost avoidance: Monetary benefits of PdM can be expressed as the difference between the total lost opportunity cost (Hours down) x (Cost of Loss Production) and the (Cost of Maintenance) without PdM Participation and the cost of maintenance with PdM participation.
Tip excerpted from “Predictive Maintenance Management” by Jack Nicholas Jr. P.E. CMRP and R. Keith Young
January 24, 2008 Optimize your maintenance strategy
An iPresentation from Lawson
Asset reliability has a significant effect on most organizations. Poor asset availability could mean delayed customer orders, poor quality product, delayed revenues, or even service level penalties. Find out more about optimizing your maintenance strategy in this 14 minute iPresentation from Lawson.
January 24, 2008 Engineering Design Tip
Engineering Design -
1 easy access for maintenance, to prevent long downtime
2 on electronic equipment design “Hot Swappable Modules”
3 Implement and monitor sensors at risk equipment
4 RAM Analysis to determine Possible failure items (MTBF)
5 FRACAS - Practical History data- to be applied in current/future maintenance planning
6 Proper Job Card - with failure and repair detail
7 Planned maintenance and Skilled workers, correct tools
8 Quality Control and Quality Management
Success for maximum availability is:
-Attitude of workers: If they also want the system to be available
-Knowledge of workers: if they know how to maintain the system
-Tools of worker: if they have the correct tool for the specific task
Reader tip provided by Corrie Kruger
PM
System Control
Centurion South Africa
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January 24, 2008 Alignment Tip
Check sheave run-out (what you don’t know)
Frequently when aligning belt drives with taper-lok bushing-type sheaves, I find that the sheaves does not run true as the shaft is rotated. This is caused by uneven tightening of the bushing bolts (usually 3). The result is- the belts will always be misaligned.
Our corrected procedure is to monitor the sheave faces with a dial indicator while rotating the shaft to show which bolt to take-up. Checking both sheaves avoids questions if you have problems completing the job.
As a quality check with the laser alignment tool, we move the laser to a 2nd position (90 degrees) on the sheave and also reverse the laser & buttons between the sheaves.
Dial indicators are such a valuable tool in everyday repair activities but are seldom used.
Reader tip provided by Wes Allen
Lead Analyst
Allied Reliability
Plainview Texas
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January 24, 2008 Maintenance Tip
Think having proper procedures to accomplish maintenance activities isn’t important? Read this… from the USA Today January 16, 2008…..
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Blast kills 1, inures 9 at New Jersey plant
-An explosion at a New Jersey metal casting plant killed one worker and injured nine others. The accident occurred when Maintenance workers were performing maintenance on an air pressure vat used to cast molten metals into machine parts when the vat exploded.
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Although unknown whether having a lack of detail procedures was a contributing factor in this tragedy it makes me wonder. Evaluate the on-going maintenance activities in your organization; look for some key behaviors displayed:
· Detailed step by step procedures are provided for maintenance activities.
· These detailed step by step procedures are utilized by the maintenance and operations workforce.
· Supervisors and managers are monitoring to ensure these procedures are available and utilized.
· These procedures are in a state of constant improvement based on utilization and the changing equipment environment.
For the sake of your company’s and employee’s future do not leave this critical element out of your maintenance program. Make the utilization of the proper procedures a normal part of your employee’s culture. So, where are you at with standardized procedure development and implementation?
Tip provided by Dave Bertolini of People and Processes, Inc.
http://www.PeopleandProcesses.com
January 24, 2008 Leadership Tip
Support Risk Taking
“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.” ~ James B. Conant
Develop a common (shared) definition for “intelligent risk taking” to be used as a guideline for future activities.
Identify specific behaviors that encourage risk taking and those that discourage it. Make a commitment to adopt encouraging behaviors, and ask others to do the same.
Turn failures into developmental experiences by asking, “What’s positive about this? What have we learned that will help us do better in the future?” Bottom line: Make it okay to fail.
Recognize and celebrate intelligent risk taking no matter the outcome. Make it something to brag about. Consider establishing an Intelligent Risk Taker of the Month Award.
Tip excerpted from “144 Ways to Walk the Talk”
by Eric Jarvey and Al Lucia
