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April 16, 2009 Featured Book

Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices by Ramesh Gulati

To manufacture quality products or provide services at competitive prices is essential to survive in today’s business climate. We are forced to look for better ways of doing things on continual basis. To meet customer’s needs – on their schedule – requires (high) availability and reliability of equipment and systems when they are needed. But it is not as simple as putting something into effect. To truly realize a best practice requires learning, re-learning, benchmarking and implementing better ways of ensuring high reliability and availability of equipment and systems.

Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices is designed to support that learning process. Written by professionals with 60 plus years of shop floor and management experience in a variety of industries, this practical resource will help seasoned professionals and novices understand the basic principles of maintenance and reliability. Written in an easy-to-read format, each chapter discusses the concepts with specific questions and answers. Each topic answers the what, why or how of the topic being presented. Understanding and implementing M&R practices in a cost-effective way is essential. This is perfect book for all in the work force of an organization who need to have a solid understanding of M&R.

• Includes a list of questions and answers in most chapters which provide possible real-world scenarios.
• Answers the what, why, or how of the topic being presented.
• Provides a list of key terms and reference material within each chapter to enhance further knowledge.

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April 16, 2009 MARCON-2009

MARCON-2009
May 4-7, 2009
Knoxville Marriott

• Real Time Business Strategies Drive New Horizons in Maintenance (Reliability and Operations of Industrial Assets) by Dr. Peter Martin, Invensys
• Asset Reliability – Putting it All Together by Steve Toth, Covanta Energy
• Lessons Learned in Establishing an Effective PdM Program at AEDC by Walt Bishop, Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold, AFB
• Air Liquide Breaks Down Condition Monitoring Information Silos by Chad Broussard, Air Liquide / Heather DeJesus, Azima DLI
• Choosing and Using Maintenance KPI’s! by Scott Buker, DENSO
• Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) is about Process Change not just Sensors by Chris Sautter, University of Alabama in Huntsville
• A Unified Failure Mode Based Approach to Stockpile Reliability by Kelley Caflin, U.S. Army -Picatinny Arsenal
• Why Aren’t “Lean” Initiatives Working in the Maintenance Arena? by Thomas Carroll, NetJets, Inc.
• A Global Automotive Maintenance Management System Based on Reliability Analysis by Dr. D.E. Castro, Technical Federal Center of Minas Gerais
• Continuous Improvement Through the Eyes of a Career Maintenance Practitioner by Mike Chambers, Abidian, Inc.
• Making Maintainability Part of Your “Overall” Equation by Roger Collard, Wyle Laboratories
• Integrating Reliability Engineering Concepts into Capital Projects: Lessons Learned in a Case Study by Dan DeGrendel, Boehringer-Ingelheim Roxane / Bob DiFrancesco, ARMS Reliability Engineers
• BP Chemical and ABB Turn Reliability Initiative into Operational Excellence by Dan Glossner, BP Chemical
• U.S. Army Stockpile Reliability Programs (SRP) by Kevin James and Eric Hunt, U.S. Army – RDECOM (Redstone Arsenal)
• Wireless Sensors for Predictive Maintenance of Rotating Equipment in Industrial Environments by C.J. Kiger, AMS Corporation
• Analysis of Failure in Repairable Systems by Walter Lastinger, Naval Air Systems Command / David Nelson, Wyle Laboratories
• Management Considerations for CBM Success by Daniel Lynn, Lynn Reliability
• Design, Application and Use of an Asset Management Program Assessment Scorecard by John Mitchell, Consultant
• Implementing the Basics to Improve Manufacturing Excellence by Stan Moore, Solutia, Inc.
• ROI Case Study for Infrared Windows – Paper Mill by Martin Robinson, IRISS
• Reciprocating Compressor Condition Monitoring for Maintenance Optimization by Trinath Sahoo, Indian Oil Corporation Ltd.
• Role of Reliability in Sustaining Lean Systems by Dr. Rupy Sawhney, University of Tennessee’s Center for Productivity Innovation
• Root Cause Analysis Leads to the Active Control of Torsional Resonance to Reduce Fatigue by Jim Shackelford, Peabody Energy
• Effective Asset Management by Don Turner, Jacobs
• Case Study: Changing Cultures in a Heavy Industrial Environment by Robert Uncapher, Minco, Inc.
• An Analysis of Reliability Growth Models Using a Simulation Test Bed by Martin Wayne and Paul Ellner, U.S. Army – Material Systems Analysis Activity
• Leadership, Reliability & High Gas Prices: Building a Reliability Culture Foundation by Bob Williamson, Strategic Work Systems, Inc.