Events

Web Workshop: Do I Really Need This in My Storeroom?

Do I Really Need This in my Storeroom? How Reliability Can Help Identify Critical Parts

Presented by Mary Houlihan/MRO Stores SME & Andy Page/Director, GPAllied

In this economic environment, storerooms are under the magnifying glass to identify ways to save. As such, the need to identify what stock is critical to an asset and what stock is expendable is imperative. This is where reliability processes, normally limited to maintenance people and reliability engineers, comes into the equation. Certain reliability processes such as Failure Modes Analysis (FMA), FRACAS, and criticality analysis can paint a very clear picture of what parts are likely to be needed and how often.

Web Workshop: How to Launch a Successful Reliability Initiative

No Silver Bullet for Reliability Series: Part 1 of 4: How to Launch a Successful Reliability Initiative

Presented by Leslie McHattie, Senior Reliability Practitioner, Ivara Corporation

Taking a silver bullet approach to reliability improvement tends to become very short lived and eventually becomes the flavor of the month. Experience has shown that a strategic and comprehensive approach to physical asset management is the best way to improve equipment reliability.

Web Workshop: The Field Balancing Mine Field

Presented by Greg Lee, Applications Engineer, LUDECA, INC.

Field Balancing can be a lot like walking through a mine field.
For example:
• The customer insists that a fan is out of balance when it is in fact misaligned.
• The customer wants to run a machine at a critical speed.
• Your scale gets dropped.
• The balancing measurements will not repeat.
• The trim weight makes the vibration worse.

Web Workshop: Discover the Hidden Value of Your CMMS

Presented by Remco Jonker, Partner, Mainnovation Inc.

Many CMMS implementations are input driven. Recent studies show that too often CMMS systems are used merely as a system just to collect data and cost figures and that it is rarely used to actually steer maintenance performance. Consequently many maintenance organizations contain a value potential that has not yet been realized. But where is this value treasure hidden and how can it be revealed?

This webinar shows how standardized business processes and innovative Business Intelligence tools and KPI Dashboards could support you to get the maximum out of your CMMS. How you could start switching the focus from data input to the desired output of your system: better maintenance & reliability decision support that generates tangible business benefits. Several real life cases of Volvo Cars, Essent Energy and ConAgra Foods show how these solutions can be embedded in an effective organization and achieve a true mindset of continuous improvement.

Web Workshop: The Absolute Basics of Analyzer Settings: Fmax and Lines of Resolution

Presented by Jason Tranter, Managing Director, Mobius Institute

Have you ever wondered what the Fmax and "lines of resolution" settings are for? Have you wondered how they affect your measurements and how they should be set for your individual machines? This Webinar will endeavor to clarify what these two settings do and explain why they are so important. We will demonstrate how they affect the time required to collect the data, and we will provide a few guidelines on how you should set them. We will keep it very basic, beginning by using photography as an analogy. Using our famous simulators and Flash animations you will see exactly how these settings work and how they affect the quality of your measurements. If you do not fully understand these settings and you are involved in vibration analysis then it is absolutely essential that you attend this Webinar.

3 - Day Practical Machinery Lubrication Training - Chicago, Illinois

Des-Case now offers a 3-day ICML-based educational course designed to give you the theory and the practical tools you can use to transform your lubrication program.

CBM-2012 Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance Forum

This focused-learning event is designed for anyone who is responsible for establishing, creating, or managing a condition-based maintenance or predictive maintenance program. Research shows that leading organizations use condition-based maintenance and predictive maintenance to direct corrective maintenance actions and avoid unexpected failures, while laggards are dependent on time-based or reactive maintenance.

Leading Sustainable Change

Unlock the doors of progress. Are you reduced to "fighting the system" to do the right thing? Are competing initiatives making it difficult to do anything well? Are you constantly adjusting to "flavor of the month" systems? Are problems "thrown over the wall" with nothing getting done?

Break the Cycle. We will teach you how to properly implement big change while minimizing resistance and accountability/execution problems.

Condition Monitoring Fundamentals

Strike the right balance between PM and PdM and eliminate unnecessary work. This course is designed to teach the fundamental principles of the five Predictive Maintenance Technologies (PdM) most prevalent in industry: vibration analysis, infrared thermography, airborne & structure-borne ultrasonics, oil analysis, and motor circuit analysis. Upon completion of the course, attendees will have an understanding of the capabilities of the technologies along with the common traps that may be encountered during application.

Excellence in Asset Management

Understand reliability and asset stewardship in the context of reducing risk within your manufacturing process and your business.