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Leadership in Reliability Central Arizona Project

Most people are aware that the State of Arizona has grown considerably over the past few decades. In fact, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the state’s population grew 40 percent from 1990 to 2000, second only to Nevada. Phoenix, the state’s largest city, stands today as the nation’s sixth largest city and is poised to be fifth soon. Interestingly, the five cities besting Phoenix in population all reside on great bodies of water along the East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast and Great Lakes, each with a river, port and shipping fleet. Contrast that to the metropolitan area of Phoenix with 4.4 million people living in a desert community with an annual average rainfall of less than eight inches. Ever wonder how that is even possible?

Asset Management

Internet of Utilities Asset Management

With the advancement of new technologies, the world is moving toward intelligent devices and assets. Although sensors have been around for a long time, they have always been local to a machine and do a specific job, without much communication to the outside world. But if these sensors can communicate with other sensors, machines and human beings over the Internet, then this setup can form an Internet of intelligent devices.

Leadership for Reliability

A Journey to Shape Reliability Excellence at BMS - Part 2

Part 1, published in Uptime Magazine’s December/January 2016 issue, discussed the initial implementation of Uptime Elements at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMS), including an exercise in which our sites prioritized the elements to determine our path going forward as a company. As we wrapped up our exercise, the sites were challenged with taking this framework back to perform similar exercises and integrate the framework into their local strategies. Part 2 demonstrates how the adoption of a common framework translates at the site level and how the unique use of this framework begins to drive the culture at BMS.

Work Execution Management

Get the Bugs Out With the Uptime Elements

Pop Quiz...

In the next 10 seconds, close your eyes and recite your maintenance department’s mission statement. Ready ... 3-2-1 ...

Go!!!

Probably 99 percent of you sat in complete and utter silence during those 10 seconds. But before you go off feeling guilty about being a subpar employee, you should really think about just what makes your mission statement so unmemorable. If one had to guess, more than likely it is too long and filled with vague buzzwords that make absolutely zero impact in how you approach your work.

At this point, you are probably thinking, “Okay, tell me what is the perfect mission statement for a maintenance department.” Well, since you asked nicely, here it is ...

Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

How to Develop an Industrial Internet of Things Solution

At the CeBIT and CED Tech Venture conferences last year, the Internet of Things (IoT) was surely one of the hottest topics discussed. Wearable gadgets are monitoring our fitness activities, home doors are recognizing our touch to let us in, and consumer shopping patterns are monitored and processed using beacon technologies. These are just a few examples of those dreams we once had coming true today.

Things to Think About and Do (2014)

Big thoughts and small actions make a difference. Check out what we're working on and thinking about.

Reliabilityweb.com® invited thought leaders in the maintenance reliability and asset management community to contribute a simple message directed toward creating a new idea or action on the part of the readers, the maintenance and reliability professional community at large.

Asset Condition Management

Two-Tiered Predictive Maintenance Programs for Multiple Plant Organizations

By Brent Miley, Predictive Maintenance Team Leader, Metropolitan Sewer District (MSD) of Greater Cincinnati Wastewater Treatment (WWT) Division; Jack R. Nicholas, Jr., P.E., CMRP, Self Employed, Sole Proprietor; John Shinn, Jr., P.E., Maintenance Manager, MSD of Greater Cincinnati, WWT Division

The Wastewater Treatment Division of the Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati recently established a two-tiered predictive maintenance (PdM) program. The two-tiered PdM program has both centralized and decentralized components to serve its seven (7) widely separated plants.

Asset Management

Not Safe to Work Here? Do this:

You can rest assured knowing that in a safety and reliability poll of 1,000 industry chief executive officers, all 1,000 professed the desire to lead and/or head safe and reliable companies. But there is a gap between aspiration and achievement, and there is much work to be done in closing that gap, as an Uptime reader’s letter shows. The reader asked for direction, which this article will try to provide.

Work Execution Management

Q&A with an Industry Leader - Saar Yoskovitz

Mr. Yoskovitz, an avid entrepreneur, has extensive experience in Machine Learning, Signal Processing Algorithms, and System Architecture. Prior to founding Augury Systems, Saar worked as an Analog Architect at Intel. Saar holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a B.Sc. in Physics from the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion). During his studies, Saar initiated a voluntary project called “Select - Students for Technological Advancement,” for which he received the Israel’s Council of Higher Education (MALAG) award for social involvement.

Asset Condition Management

How a New Reliability Maintenance Program Delivered a 705% ROI

In 2012, E. & J. Gallo Winery’s spirits making plant committed time and resources to transition its current asset management and lubrication program to a world-class reliability maintenance program utilizing professional services and enhanced lubricants. Plant management’s key objectives for the new reliability maintenance program were targeted to accomplish three plant goals: improve overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), reduce cost and increase plant profitability. Here’s how the successful transition took place.

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Leadership in Reliability Central Arizona Project

Internet of Utilities Asset Management

A Journey to Shape Reliability Excellence at BMS - Part 2

Get the Bugs Out With the Uptime Elements

10 Components of a Successful Vibration Program: Part 2

How to Develop an Industrial Internet of Things Solution

Things to Think About and Do (2013)

Things to Think About and Do (2014)

Two-Tiered Predictive Maintenance Programs for Multiple Plant Organizations

Not Safe to Work Here? Do this:

Q&A with an Industry Leader - Saar Yoskovitz

How a New Reliability Maintenance Program Delivered a 705% ROI