March 12, 2009 EAM-2009 Enterprise Asset Management Summit
EAM-2009 Enterprise Asset Management Summit
March 23-26, 2009
Daytona Beach Hilton
March 12, 2009 Reliability Roadmap Web Workshops
Reliability Roadmap Web Workshops are designed to deliver non-commercial training to you from the convenience of your conference room or desktop computer. With our new Voice over IP (VoIP) these workshops can be accessed with NO FEE of any kind.
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No Travel - Non Commercial - No Sales - No Fee
Friday March 13 @ 1 PM EST - Electrical Safety
March 12, 2009 Audio - 1 Minute Maintenance Tip - Effective Work Procedures
March 12, 2009 Reliability Tip
This “learning” reminds me of a truism I heard in a reliability training class, “This ain’t no spectator sport.” We experienced a series of bucket elevator shaft failures last year, 4 broken shafts in about 2 months. The shafts are at the bottom of a 60 foot bucket elevator in coal service. It is a 2.75 inch diameter shaft, 1040 steel with a single chain sprocket about 20 inches in diameter. This shaft is the idler with tensioning adjustments. All the shaft breaks showed fatigue failure.
We went through all the likely causes, bearings binding, brake binding, coal plugging the elevator chute misalignment of the buckets and so on. Finally, our shift mechanic decided to watch the elevator in operation. He spent nearly an hour in “the pit” and discovered that the tensioners were tightening as they vibrated during operation. We slid a bolt through a hole in the tensioner shaft to keep them from turning and haven’t had a failure since. There is no substitute for applying field time to some problems.
Reader tip provided by Fred Esker
Reliability Engineer
Dupont
Washington, West Virginia
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March 12, 2009 Oil Analysis Tip
Oil Analysis Reference Samples
When using a lab, it is very important to keep your reference samples up to date. This includes sending in samples from your new batches of oil. Formulations change from time to time with little to no notice. Changes in additive levels and types can cause false positives; it may look as if the oil is oxidized due to a batch of oil with a naturally high TAN. Testing your new oils will ensure quality of the oil coming in to your plant and allow you to correct irregularities before the oil even gets to your machine. Your lab will appreciate this as well. They will be able to accurately detect any potential problems.
Tip provided by Kris Sonne
Trico Corp and Predict Inc.
March 12, 2009 Maintenance Tip
Stories of Salmonella; China’s food safety issues; large retail chains and consumers demanding a safe food supply seem to make front page headlines daily. No one should be surprised when new and stricter regulations are put into place for the food industry. There has been no better time for increased emphasis on integrating Reliability, Continuous Improvement, Quality and Engineering to achieve improved business performance.
March 12, 2009 Focusing on continuous improvement shouldn’t always be process oriented
Focus on your people and reap the rewards for the long term.
Reliability program success relies heavily on the foundation by which the program is built upon. Having the right people on the bus with the appropriate Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities or KSA’s is the cornerstone of a solid reliability program foundation. Managers and Leaders should encourage employee KSA improvement by advocating continuous learning, after all technology is changing almost daily. Commtest as well as many other organizations offer training and consulting services that can “kick start” or “reinvigorate” your Reliability Program. So be sure to focus on your people, they offer the best potential “Return on Investment” of all your capital assets.
Tip provided by M.D. Howard, MSc, CMRP, CSSBB
Commtest Inc.
865-323-9421
March 12, 2009 Motor Testing Tip
When your plant has different or newer motor diagnostic technology than your motor repair facility, conflicts may arise as a result of the differing capabilities of the technologies. A quick solution to eliminating conflict is to invite a representative from your repair facility to the same training your technicians receive. This insures the repair company understands the differences or similarities in the technology.
March 12, 2009 Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Tip
RCM – Documentation
It is important to capture RCM analysis in a documented format. An easy to use drill down provides ready access to the decision basis for others in the organization as well as providing a ready reference for the future. In a large corporate organization there are many opportunities to share information across similar equipment items. A corporate reliability group set up as a “Reliability Council” can provide learning’s and findings from individual sites through a company intranet. This will reduce the number of times individuals spend on ‘re-inventing the wheel’, ensure maximum leverage of solutions across the organization and provide a means to report and review Reliability Measures.
