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Asset Management

Q&A with Scott Morris on ISO55000 Standards

Uptime Magazine recently caught up with Scott Morris, Associate Director at Genzyme, A Sanofi Company. Mr. Morris played a critical role in the development of the ISO55000 standards. Uptime had the opportunity to sit down with Scott and dive deeper into his role and involvement in the development of ISO55000 and other related standards.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Reliability through Optimized Setup and Changeovers Part 1

by Dan Miller

When Shigeo Shingo began his work in reducing changeover times for Toyota in the 1960s, the motivation was to reduce inventory in a densely populated Japan. If Toyota could change their production lines over from one model to another very quickly, they could better respond to market demands. Through careful planning and innovative engineering, Shingo was able to reduce changeover times from 30 hours to less than 10 minutes.

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Preparing for a Root Cause Analysis

by: Michael W. Blanchard

The effectiveness of a root cause investigation is predicated on several elements, but the time spent preparing for the subsequent analysis is the most important. Performing a thorough preliminary investigation, identifying the right team members and anticipating problems at the analysis meeting could mean the difference between a highly reliable asset and recurring failures.

Alarm Management of Permanent Vibration Monitoring on a Slow Speed Gearbox

by Han-Chian Gee

In any modern plant, condition monitoring is essential for allocating limited resources for repair when necessary and convenient to curtail downtime. Among the many available technologies, vibration is one of the leading measurements for rotating equipment reliability.

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Asset Management

Asset Management Culture: The “Missing Link?”

by Stuart Grant

With the advances that science, technology and regulation have brought, many companies today have excellent engineering capabilities, a fantastic technical framework and good governance. In theory, these companies should function reliably and also achieve great value. But often, that is not the case. What is going wrong? DuPont took a cultural journey to find the “missing link.”

RCM Providing the Line of Sight for ISO55000 Compliance

By: Tim Allen

The buzz at the 2014 International Maintenance Conference (IMC) in Daytona Beach, Florida, was the establishment of the ISO55000 asset management standard. Many reliability professionals who have been in the trenches for a long time gave enlightening presentations on just what this standard will do for our industry and most seminars were overflowing with attendees.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

The Journey to World-Class Pump Reliability

by Phil Beelendorf

What are the essential elements of a world-class pump reliability program? What best practices lower total cost of ownership and which ones create little value? Is mean time between failures (MTBF) the best measure of improved performance? Roquette America's search for the answers to these questions led the global leader of innovative nutritional ingredients processed from renewable, plant-based raw materials on a journey in search of excellence.

Where Have All the Bearing Scrapers Gone?

by: William Hillman

A 2013 paper titled, The Surprisingly Swift Decline of U.S. Manufacturing Employment, by Justin R. Pierce, an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and Peter K.Schott, Yale School of Management and the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggests that the sharp decline in U.S. manufacturing jobs is a result of imports from China1. Regardless of the cause, the fact is that U.S. manufacturing has declined over the past several years. Along with the decline in jobs, there has been a decline in the technical skills needed for performing manufacturing jobs. The loss of technical skills is largely due to the fact that as manufacturing jobs declined, job training refocused to other areas, such as service sector jobs.This all happened at a time when baby boomers, who were the backbone of American manufacturing, began leaving the workplace in droves due to retirement. The age of the baby boomers is rapidly coming to an end, but due to the decline in manufacturing, there's been no concerted effort to replace them.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Integral Asset Care

Integral asset care (IAC) is the result of the optimum combination of other methodologies, such as criticality analysis, risk-based inspection, reliability centered maintenance, failure mode and effects analysis, and cost risk optimization, that integrates all together for the design of care activities for dynamic, fixed and electrical equipment and instruments. This article presents the generation and application of IAC for the design of asset care integral maintenance plans.

Work Execution Management

Striving for Operational Excellence in Work Execution Management

Uptime Award in Work Execution Management: 

LOOP was honored to receive the 2014 Uptime Award for Best Work Execution Management, which was presented at the International Maintenance Conference on December 12, 2014 in Daytona, Florida. Our reliability group worked in concert with maintenance and operations to create a proactive culture by setting and achieving asset and work management goals. Thanks to our owner representatives from Marathon, Shell and Valero, executives, the management team and administrative support; this was truly received as a company-wide award for LOOP recognizing the accomplishments of the entire organization. 

Asset Condition Management

Tricky Business: Proper Lubrication for Greased Bearings

by Jarrod Potteiger

In the average plant, many mistakes are made with respect to grease selection, application amount and application frequency. The key to optimum grease lubrication for bearings is to add the maximum amount of grease without causing harm.

The Challenge of Change

by Kelly Ballew

The new trend for an already established maintenance program proposes the great challenge of change. For much of the past 30 years, the electrical field has seen little change in the way testing is done for industrial electrical equipment, mainly electrical motors, until the last 10 years. Recent advances in technology have provided industry with equipment capable of looking inside an electrical motor for early signs of anomalies that could lead to failure. There are numerous manufacturers of this type of motor testing equipment. Subsequently, the inception of these testers has changed the way maintenance is performed on electrical motors. Now, you can trend mechanical and electrical conditions of a motor starting with a baseline, testing every year to observe changes to the motor.

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