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Value Stream Mapping as a Tool for Waste Time Elimination: A Case Study

One lean manufacturing tool used to eliminate non-added-value activities in production lines is value stream mapping (VSM). VSM identifies wastage of resources and eliminates or reduces them to improve productivity. VSM clearly shows the ineffectiveness of action, measures the waste level and supports in designing the appropriate changes, independently and economically.

Asset Management

Maintenance Rebuild Decision: Reuse or Replace

An often debated subject on maintenance rebuilds is exactly which parts or components should be replaced. There are two extremes when making this decision. There is a balance in replace or reuse to achieve the proper reliability and cost balance. This article will give some considerations around decisions to reuse or replace when executing maintenance.

Work Execution Management

Avoid DOWNTIME: Write Standard Operating Procedures

Write standard operating procedures (SOPs) to drive maximum efficiency on the manufacturing floor, in the restaurant, across the school campus, in the warehouse and in the fleet. Implement SOPs and regulatory checklists to ensure your operations are consistent across your company and to streamline business processes.

Work Execution Management

Keeping Critical Production Assets Running

Pieridae Energy is Canada’s only independent, publicly-traded LNG company, focused on developing the multi-billion Goldboro LNG Project and export facility off Canada’s East Coast, supplied with Canadian natural gas that the company owns. Prior to the project, Pieridae Energy's existing system was not able to manage nor meet all of their operations and maintenance processes.

Does High Voltage Testing Damage A Motor?

Asset Condition Management

Motor Insulation Life Curve

Maintenance professionals tasked with maintaining electric motor reliability are often concerned with testing their critical motors at voltages well above nameplate levels. It can certainly feel counterintuitive to test a 460V motor to 2,000V or a 4,160V motor to 9,320V. After all, the motor is only rated for this lower voltage, right?

Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

Q&A with Stéphane Côté of Bentley Systems

Uptime^® magazine recently met with Stéphane Côté, Fellow and Research Director in Bentley Systems’ Applied Research Group. Côté’s work explores the potential of augmented reality in the context of infrastructure engineering. Last spring, he and his team experimented with Microsoft^® HoloLens^TM, an augmented reality device that will shape how all of us will work going forward. Côté talked with us about the HoloLens itself, the benefits of implementing it, and much more.

Featured Reliability Leader: Anthony “Mac” Smith

Uptime^® magazine recently had the pleasure to speak with reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) pioneer and expert, Anthony “Mac” Smith. Terrence O’Hanlon, Publisher, sat down with Mac to discuss his life and the career that led him to be recognized as one of the early leaders and advocates for RCM. The complete video interview is available at the end of the Q&A.

Asset Management

Q & A with Suzane Greeman

Suzane Greeman, CMQ/OE, CAMA, CAMP, CMRP is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions Inc (GAMSINC). An accomplished asset management leader with over 22 years of experience, Suzane has worked across several asset management disciplines to implement asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment and airport assets. She is also a member of the Empowering Women in Industry 2020 Steering Committee and Women in Reliability and Asset Management (WIRAM). Uptime® magazine was fortunate enough to speak with Suzane about her company, asset management and the role of diversity in the industry.

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Value Stream Mapping as a Tool for Waste Time Elimination: A Case Study

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