MTrain-2008 Maintenance Training Conference
March 18-20
Las Vegas

Is your training program designed to deliver the competencies you need to meet the maintenance and reliability challenges of an aging workforce, lack of written procedures, increased workload with decreased workforce?

If you would like to learn how to build an effective competency based training program MTrain-2008 is an event you should attend.

In just 3 days you will learn to develop an effective maintenance training program that included pay for performance, certification and competency mapping.

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Using a laser infrared thermometer you can find a dead cylinder on an engine, without ever touching the engine itself.

Just point it at each cylinder until you find a drastic change in temperature ,the one with the lowest reading will be the dead one.

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Sail the High Seas of Motor/Asset Management with PdMA Corporation’s Annual Motor Reliability and Technical Conference, scheduled May 13-15, 2008 in St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Please call PdMA toll free (800) 476-6463

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#8: Not enough money to hire an expert

The corporation VP calls and tells the plant manager that the plant is loosing money and must stop spending money. The plant manager immediately tells everyone to stop spending. I spoke to a friend at this plant who called me the other day and was looking for help. I ask if he had called a reliability consultant to come in to help them. He stated he did but he said they were too expensive (by the way I knew the company he mentioned and they are one of the best in the business, real help was knocking on their door). He told me the plant was loosing millions of dollars and could not afford any help right now. I ask how I could help. He said his plant manager had read one of my books and wanted my advice. I told him he could not afford not to hire someone to hire an expert. The first step the expert should do is to develop a return on investment and show him how much money he is loosing and how their assistance can return his plant back to a secure financial footing.

Tip by Ricky Smith, Asset Reliability Advocate
Co-author Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers

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Standardize Your Emissivity for Quicker, More Accurate IR Inspections

During the installation of IR windows, while the electrical equipment is shut down, it is important to take the opportunity to standardize the emissivity of the components within the switchgear or other electrical equipment that you wish to inspect through the infrared window / viewing pane. This can be done using Glyptol Paint, electrical tape or IRISS IR-iD high Emissivity Target Labels.

Standardizing emissivity will provide you with targets that you can trust, which can reduce future inspection time while increasing the accuracy of your T and Delta T data, which will in turn help you make “better calls” with greater confidence. Utilizing emissivity stickers in a variety of different shapes will also aid with identification of trouble spots when communicating with the electrician.

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Insight Services has put together a practical reference handbook on lubrication, oil analysis and sampling procedures. This easy to understand guide is a must read for any maintenance professional.

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RCM Benefits

One of the major benefits of RCM projects is a deeper understanding of how to operate equipment properly. An RCM project may be the first instance in the life of the equipment where the operators, maintainers, and technical resources in the facility have actually sat down together to discuss how operating and maintaining practices impact the reliability of the equipment.

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The Responsibility of Being Our Leader

Even though we work for an organization, you are our leader. We don’t follow the company’s mission statement, senior management memos, annual reports, or what the stock market watchers say about us as much as we follow you. And, like it or not, you’re not only our leader but also a large part of our career success. Our job happiness depends on our relationship with you.

Please don’t take this lightly. Sometimes we lie awake nights worrying about you and how you feel about things. We wonder why you pass us in the hall without even acknowledging our presence. We wonder why you take some of us behind closed doors while leaving others outside. As our leader, you influence all of us!

Believe it or not, we DO understand that leadership isn’t easy. We watch every day and see you assume incredible responsibilities. You’re accountable for your actions and for our actions, plus all the fiscal requirements, employee problems, feedback, training, technology changes, hiring, de-hiring, communicating, staff development, prioritizing, eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy, and much more. Your job is tough. But it is the job you chose.

What we ask of you is to accept responsibility for being the very best at your job so we can be the best at our jobs.

When you became a manager, supervisor, or team leader, the game changed. You’re now held to a higher level of accountability than before. In fact, everything you do is exaggerated; you are under a magnifying glass. And when you’re down, we’re down. When you’re up, we’re up. You set the tone…you shape the environment in which we can be successful.

Because of this, we expect more from you than from anyone else in our organization. And we need you to lead us without excuses.

The leadership you display and the decisions that you make contribute more to our success than all other factors combined.

Everything you do counts.
Make it count!

Tip excerpted from Listen Up, Leader
by David Cottrell

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