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.
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.
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Mr. Yoskovitz, an avid entrepreneur, has extensive experience
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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.
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.
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.
Whether you call it the Internet of Things (IoT) or the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the simple fact is everyone is talking about the technological shift taking place today that is creating previously unimagined connectivity between myriad of devices. Many say IIoT isn’t actually new, as sensors have talked to controllers and other systems for decades and maintenance technicians have used tablets for at least 15 years. However, there is a different viewpoint, which this article explores.
It is becoming increasingly evident that the lack of world-class support from the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) stores is having a significant and detrimental effect on maintenance reliability programs. Fill rates (i.e., availability of needed parts from stores) average less than 75 percent. This means the availability factor of parts needed is not reliable. A reliable plant requires all functions in maintenance’s lean reliability programs to be reliable. Since availability of parts needed is a component of the reliability program, an unreliable MRO storeroom becomes detrimental to reliability goals.
If you’ve attended ultrasound training courses, then you most likely learned about how to use a four point inspection for valves, no matter the valve type. However, the discussions within this practice or application always lead to other valve inspections. Among them is the use of ultrasound to listen to a valve through non-contact, or simply aiming the instrument at the valve to determine its condition. This would be like having an inverted bucket steam trap that has a “blow-by” condition (steam blow through). By simply aiming the ultrasound at the inverted bucket trap, the user would be able to hear the steam rushing through the valve and creating enough high frequency to determine its condition. However, a more favorable practice is making contact with the trap.
As an organization, Merck & Co., Inc.’s core values are driven by a desire to improve human life, achieve scientific excellence, operate with the highest standards of integrity, expand access to its products and employ a diverse workforce that values collaboration. To support these values, Merck & Co., Inc. strives to deliver strong operational performance supported by cost-effective asset utilization over the entire asset’s lifecycle. Merck & Co., Inc., in West Point, Pennsylvania, is a multi-divisional, 397-acre site that produces a diversified portfolio of vaccines and sterile products. As such, asset management is critical to successful, sustainable performance.
This two-part article forms the basis of findings from PhD research conducted by Johann Stimie into the factors that prevent successful execution of asset management strategic initiatives.
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