November 06, 2008 Lean Maintenance Workshop only at IMC-2008
IMC-2008 - 23rd International Maintenance Conference
December 8-11, 2008
Hyatt Regency Coconut Point
Bonita Springs Florida
Lean Maintenance by Joel Levitt, Author, Lean Maintenance
As a practical workshop, Lean Maintenance, will take the student on a journey from uncovering waste, designing projects to address the waste, selling the projects to management and delivering the projects. Every area in maintenance is covered, including your Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) effort, storeroom, Preventive Maintenance (PM) tasking, work orders and computer systems.
What’s more, the user will be able to immediately what you learn in this workshop to start the process of saving money, energy, or time as soon as you return to work!
Topics include:
• Introduction to Lean Maintenance
• Distinguishing Lean Maintenance from Everything Else
• Lean Maintenance and World-Class Maintenance
• Lean Worker
• Lean Maintenance and Safety
• Lean Organization and Maintenance Support
• Lean Maintenance Parts and Storeroom
• Lean Maintenance and the Work Order System
• Lean and the Use of the CMMS to Uncover Waste
• Enabling Technology for Lean Maintenance
• Lean Planning and Scheduling
• Lean Fire-Fighting
• Lean PM
• TPM and Lean Maintenance
• 5 S’s Contribution to Lean Maintenance
• The Lean Machine
• RCM and Lean Maintenance
• Lean Outsourcing
• Initiating Lean Projects
• Where to Look for Waste
• Developing the List of Wastes into a List of Projects
• Once a Project for Refinement Has Been Chosen
• Putting the Finishing Touches on Written and Verbal Presentations
• Publishing Lean Projects
Limited space so sign up today. Please call a Reliabilityweb.com conference specialist toll free (888) 575 1245 or…
November 06, 2008 Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Tip
Reliability Centered Maintenance analysis is a practice that seeks to answer the following questions:
• What functions are performed by machinery in use in my business?
• What functional failures occur or most likely to occur?
• What are the consequences of these functional failures?
• What can be done that is applicable and effective to prevent these functional failures?
Tip excerpted from Advancing Reliability and Maintenance by Jack Nicholas Jr., PE, CMRP and R. Keith Young
November 06, 2008 Microturbine Condition Monitoring Application Note
Microturbines are increasingly being used at various consumer sites to generate 480 VAC, three-phase electrical power, typically in the range of 25 to 500 kW. They are relatively small, combustion-gas turbines that run on natural gas, hydrogen, propane, diesel fuel, landfill gas (methane), and even some bio-diesel fuels.
Because the microturbines run at extremely high speeds, acquiring test data is critical to ensure that vibrations are not dangerously out of tolerance and cause the microturbines to fail. More…
November 06, 2008 How can your Business Achieve Best-in-Class Results?
Download the Aberdeen Group Report from Lawson and find out what best-in-class companies are doing to maximize Return on Assets and reduce risk from asset failure.
November 06, 2008 Leadership Tip
Communicate the Rules of the Game
People become confused when there are no established performance standards, when the rules are contradictory, or when the stated values are not being followed.
For instance, we may communicate that we respect employees’ time, yet we consistently begin our meetings fifteen minutes late – wasting fifteen minutes of everyone’s time. Perhaps we say employees are our most valuable assets, but we hire the first “warm body” we can find to be on the team. Or maybe we tell people that we value excellence, yet ask more and more from our top performers, while tolerating mediocrity and poor performance from others.
Earning employees’ trust begins with clearly establishing acceptable standards of behavior for the team. To do that, managers must first answer the question, “What are the team’s values?” Then they can determine the “rules of the road” and decide which behaviors are “non-negotiable.” If the standards are not clearly established, are continually changing, or are contradictory, you can’t expect to develop personal trust. After all, what would they be trusting?
When people understand the rules of the game, generally speaking, they will do their best to play by the rules.
Tip excerpted from The Manager’s Communication Handbook: A Practical Guide to Building Understanding, Support, and Acceptance by David Cottrell and Eric Harvey
November 06, 2008 Does your IR Inspection Program Need a Jump Start?
Experience Isn’t Everything… Attend an intensive infrared course from the Academy of Infrared Training, Inc. (AIRT), and you’ll learn things that you can’t pick up with years of on-the-job experience:
“This AIRT course enlightened me that even after managing a global maintenance organization … we were missing the boat when it came to providing accurate qualitative and quantitative reports.”
—D.C., Ford Engineering
AIRT can help you start, update, or improve your current infrared program.
Find out more about AIRT scheduled IR training levels and locations
November 06, 2008 Bearing Tip
Plain or sleeve bearings are designed to support shafts that rotate, oscillate, or reciprocate. Though seemingly simple, and certainly one of the least expensive of mechanical parts, sleeve bearings are highly engineered components. They range from porous self-lubricated power metal parts only a fraction of an inch in diameter to stationary power plant bearings, which often exceed 18 inches in diameter.
With few exceptions, sleeve bearing lubrication is hydrodynamic, that is, during operation, the shaft floats on a thin film of the lubricant. Because of this, friction and wear are minimized. However it is important to realize that so-called minimum film thickness is NOT the same as the bearing clearance. While the latter may be up to several thousandth of an inch, the minimum film thickness is typically on the order of one ten-thousandth of an inch. Nevertheless, sleeve can have almost unlimited life, provided proper maintenance practices are followed. When replacement does become necessary, following proper refurbishing and assembly procedures will assure extended life of the replaced parts.
Tip excerpted from Maintenance Engineering Handbook (7th Edition)
by R Keith Mobley, Lindley Higgins and Darrin Wikoff
Published by McGraw Hill
November 06, 2008 Maintenance Management 201 Tip
Tip 9 - A good Predictive Maintenance program will allow you to sleep at night
The Maintenance Manager position can either be very frustrating or very rewarding. Frustrating in that breakdowns can occur at any time, and (in strict compliance with Murphy’s Law) invariably at night or on weekends when the equipment is needed most and when your family is depending on you to be with them and not at the plant. Rewarding in that there is a proven answer to those breakdowns if you have the foresight to implement a sound Predictive Maintenance program.
The key to maximizing your free time is to know the condition of your equipment. PdM technologies enable you to identify potential defects within equipment, usually while the equipment is still in operation. Often, some of these problems may be caught early enough that the condition can be corrected before the equipment suffers damage. With the right training, feedback, and experience, PdM technicians will also be able to give you a prognosis of the equipment’s remaining life which will allow you to take care of the problem on your terms and your schedule instead of at Mr. Murphy’s whim.
Not every potential failure is detectable, but the vast majority are with the right technologies employed – and new technologies are being developed every day. PdM is not “magic”; it’s hard science. The warning signals are real if we are perceptive enough to listen. Applying the right technology to the right equipment and potential failure mode will give you the ability to determine equipment health and increase your confidence that you can make plans with your family that won’t be interrupted.
Tip provided by Bruce Hawkins
MRG
http://www.mrginc.net
