June 05, 2008 Bonus Workshop at LubricationWorld
LubricationWorld
September 15-18, 2008
Omaha Nebraska
Introduction to Oil Analysis & The Oil Analysis Game™ by Ray Thibault, CLS, OMA and Paul Goldman MRT Laboratories
Level: Intermediate or Advanced
This hand’s-on workshop will give you the tools necessary to select the right program for your equipment and to interpret report data on making the correct decision for your equipment.
The class will be divided into two sections:
Report interpretation- Many real life situations will be examined by the use of oil analysis reports. Proper evaluation techniques will be stressed. After this session you should feel comfortable analyzing your own reports.
The second half of the course will involve team work in evaluating reports. Each team will be given basic data and also they will be able to purchase additional data to evaluate a piece of equipment. Five real world case studies will be evaluated. The team who utilizes the data most economically and effectively will receive a prize. A prize will be given for each of the five case histories.
June 05, 2008 Leadership Tip
Make Sure They Have the “Tools” They Need
Imagine this scenario: We’re out in the middle of a field. I’m the supervisor and I give you an assignment to dig a trench. After explaining why the trench is necessary, I give you the go-ahead to start digging. You inquire, “Where’s the back hoe?” I respond, “It’s in the shop.” You then ask, “So how am I supposed to dig this trench?” I hand you a shovel, and then I leave. I return two hours later and find that you haven’t made much progress. You’re tired and frustrated…and I’m ticked off.
A far-fetched story? Maybe so. But it does make a simple and important point: it’s tough for people to do a good job – to do their best work – when they don’t have the “tools” (resources) they need. That’s something your team members may be facing more often than you think. And as a leader, you need to do your best to do something about it.
Ask yourself, What do my people need in order to meet or exceed my expectations? Better yet, ASK THEM! Maybe it’s a new piece of equipment – or the fixing or updating of an existing one. Perhaps it’s a new software program, additional training, or an expanded supplies inventory. Or it could be that what they really need is more time, more help, or more information. Whatever your team needs, get it for them. And if you can’t, tell them why, look for other ways to support their efforts, and appreciate the fact that many of their achievements are happening in spite of how they are equipped, rather than because of it.
Tip excerpted from Start Right, Stay Right …LEAD RIGHT: Every Leader’s Straight-Talk Guide to Job Success by Steve Ventura
June 05, 2008 PdM-2008: Register 3 get 1 Free before June 15
Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference & Expo
LubricationWorld
September 15-18, 2008
Qwest Center
Omaha Nebraska
Learn about PdM Program Management, Vibration Analysis, Infrared, Motor Testing, Ultrasound, Oil Analysis and Lubrication at PdM-2008 and LubricationWorld
PdM-2008 Preconference Certificate Workshops September 15
• PdM Managers Workshop by Jack Nicholas Jr.
• Bearing fault detection: Three keys to great results by Jason Tranter
• Save Energy – A 3 Part Workshop on becoming a Greener, Leaner Company
by Howard Penrose PhD, Paul Klimuc, SDT Ultrasound and John Snell, Snell Infrared
• Establishing Predictive Maintenance and Lubrication Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by Ricky Smith
• Leveraging the Visibility of your PdM Program at the Corporate Level by Carl Schultz, MRG
• Basic Failure Analysis Techniques by Neville Sachs
• OMA 101 - Oil Monitoring Analysis by Jack Poley and Michel Murphy
Conference Highlights
• Keynote address by acclaimed author and reliability expert Heinz Bloch, PE
Emphasize People, NOT PdM - Or You Will Affect Uptime
• 36 Predictive Maintenance and Lubrication Case Studies
• Solutions and Innovation Sessions
• Advanced Interactive Vibration Analysis Learning Lab
• Uptime Magazine PdM Program of the Year Award Presentations
• Professional Certification Exams by STLE and SMRP
• Optional 3 day Roadmap to PdM Excellence
• Casino Night for Networking, Prizes and Fun
• Biggest Challenges Discussion and Take Away Summary
• Alienware Laptop Giveaway
• 70 Leading PdM and Lubrication Solution Providers
• Conference Special Interest Group at the Association for Maintenance Professionals
FREE Bonus – Post-conference Certificate Workshops (included with all conference passes)
• Association for Maintenance Professionals Breakthrough and Benchmarking Session – Asset Health Management
• Reliability Game
• Oil Analysis Game
• Lubrication Fundamentals
• Alignment Fundamentals
Bring your entire PdM and Lubrication Team
Progressive Team Discounts and Early Bird Registration Savings
Register 3 get 1 Free before June 15
Register 4 get 1 Free before July 15
Register 5 get 1 Free before August 15
June 05, 2008 Ultrasound Tip
Sounds terrible, “Sniff the Bag House”. Doing so may be able to reduce the run-time on vacuum pumps and at the same time reduce the particles in the air.
If you are a manufacturer of paper products or textiles, or any manufacturer who employs the use of a “dust collector system”, you may want to try scanning the bag house exterior with an ultrasound receiver.
This is a rather simple application for you to use your airborne ultrasound receiver. Consider taking your instrument without the rubber cone or long range horn on the front of the instrument, use the standard scanning module (wider- field of view) to scan and listen for leaks.
No success? Then use the long range horn or long range module and/or parabolic dish and scan with high sensitivity both the duct work leading to the bag house, as well as the bag house structure or frame. If you have a flexible wand or short extension these are great to use also to help you focus in on the leak.
What’s it going to sound like? Try holding your scanning module under your nose (instrument on) and with the headphones on your head and over your ears the breathe thru your nose. Vacuum or in-leakage sounds is what you should hear.
You’ll be quite surprised at how many leaks you will hear. A little caulking, putty or my favorite “DUCT TAPE” will help seal those leaks. Pay attention particularly around the doors and/or windows of the structure, as well as bolted frames, etc.. Take it a step further and try and read the amperage of your compressor. When does it cycle off? Does it cycle off? Or does it stay ON and continuously run?
Please don’t forget to scan the bags themselves. Minute holes in the bags can allow fiber or dust particles to escape the bags and float into the air. This may also allow much needed air that is normally used to circulate those same particles for filtering to escape (no wonder your compressor never stops).
Tip provided by James Hall
Ultra-Sound Technologies
phone: 770-517-8747
June 05, 2008 Top 10 Common Sense Fallacies in Maintenance
Maintenance Fallacy #7
Preventive Maintenance Compliance is a good metric as long as it is completed in a reasonable amount of time.
– PM Compliance is loose and should not be held in strict control.
Example A: A PM states the bearing must be lubricated every 30 days. On the first of the month there is not enough time to lubricate the bearing, too much emergency work. At the end of the month the crew has time to lubricate the bearing, PM Compliance is met. At the beginning of the next month (on the 3rd) things are going well so the bearing is lubricated again because it is a new month even though it was lubricate 4 days ago. Next month things are not going well at the beginning of the month so it is lubricated at the end of the month. The PM Frequency is out of control, 4 days and 48 days, over-lubricated, under-lubricated. Bearing failure will occur prematurely.
Example B: The right way. The bearing is lubricated every month within 3 days of the designated due date or it is out of compliance. In this case this bearing is on as critical asset which requires 100% PM Compliance and so the schedule is met every month. Bearing failure is a rare occasion.
Provided by Ricky Smith, CMRP
Cell: 843-725-8378
http://www.alliedreliability.com
Find out more about Ricky Smith’s new book Rules of Thumb for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers
June 05, 2008 Lubrication Tip
Keeping Equipment Clean
More reasons than one for keeping equipment clean should be considered. Each reason, by itself, may seem insignificant. But when put all together, can be significant.
Dirt and dust tend to hang onto water longer than a clean surface. Clean equipment is not only for looks. Clean equipment runs cooler, but perhaps more important is that moisture that is trapped in dirt is slowly released. This slow release of moisture, when near a breather, will get past the breather into the head space.
This small amount of moisture adds up and becomes droplets of water. And we all know the effect water in oil has on bearings.
Reader tip provided by Garry Sands
Lube Tech
Tembec Inc.
Temiscaming Quebec
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June 05, 2008 Mark Your Calendar! IMC-2008
The 23rd International Maintenance Conference™
“Mastering the Maintenance Process”
December 8-11, 2008 - Bonita Springs Florida
Reliabilityweb.com, Uptime Magazine and the newly formed not for profit Association for Maintenance Professionals invites you to participate in one of the longest running and most respected maintenance and reliability conferences in the world.
IMC-2008 is being held at the Hyatt Regency Coconut Point in Estero (Naples) Florida - a fantastic resort on the Gulf of Mexico.
The International Maintenance Conference attracts industry leaders who seek new ideas to improve reliability.
June 05, 2008 Maintenance Tip
Tracking the Origin of Corrective Maintenance Work
Track the origin of your corrective maintenance work. Proactive organizations with good control of equipment condition find that the majority of their corrective work – work that is needed to remedy a substandard condition – comes from the results of structured preventive and predictive maintenance activities.
These are usually reported by the Maintenance organization. Reactive organizations typically wait until there is a noticeable problem or loss of function until a work order is generated. This work is typically reported by Operations.
The best way to get this information is to create separate work types in your CMMS for corrective work from PM and PdM and classify the work accordingly. A simple query of hours by work type will show the source.
If you don’t have separate codes for this work, however, you can run a query of corrective work orders by requestor. If the requestors of most of the work are from Operations, you know you have a problem!”
Tip provided by Bruce Hawkins, CMRP
Management Resources Group, Inc.
http://www.mrginc.net
iPresentation Invitation: Maintenance Management 101 and 201
