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Equipping A Field Service Team to Do Shaft Alignment

by Alan Luedeking

I am often asked, What tools and equipment does a millwright team need to do shaft alignment? Beyond the obvious safety equipment, such as hearing protection, steeltoe shoes, work gloves, hard hat, safety glasses and fire retardant clothing, some of the other essential equipment is not so obvious. So here’s a little list, with commentary, based on nearly 30 years of field experience.

Leadership for Reliability

Q&A with an Industry Leader

While at IMC 2013, Uptime® Magazine had an opportunity to catch up with Rey Marquez, CRL, with Goldcorp, Inc. Rey is based in Toronto, Canada, while corporate headquarters is in Vancouver. Rey is the Manager of Maintenance and Mechanical Engineering Canada and USA. He is responsible for leading the development and implementation of maintenance reliability strategies for Goldcorp mine sites. He supports regional, site and project business plans. Additionally, he is responsible for the application of reliability strategies, root cause analysis and team based problem solving.

Leadership for Reliability

Amazing Risk Management

by Sam R. Harkreader

Managing risk is like working a maze, the kind you find in puzzle books.

Each maze has a beginning and an end, and often rules are applied. It would be unwise to begin a maze without first learning the end point and the rules of the game. If the rules allowed you to simply pick up your pencil and jump to the end, the game would be simple, albeit not very fun. If, on the other hand, the rules required you to start at the beginning, not lift your pencil and not backtrack, the game would be more difficult and challenging. Clearly, the strategy for winning differs based on the rules.

Identification and Characterization of Work Shift Maintenance Time in Titanium Dioxide Plant

by Roberto Máscia

Faced with the current level of globalization, mergers of companies seeking market leadership and the tough competitiveness between them, there is a constant search for process optimization, as well as materials, contracted services and workforce optimization. Increasing productivity in all areas has become an important and differential element for reducing business costs.

Work Execution Management

Achieving Cost Reduction Targets Through MRO Data Cleansing

As competition and technology continue to evolve in today’s industrial and manufacturing industries, companies are faced with the ever-increasing challenge of reducing costs and improving efficiency while maintaining production uptime. These manufacturing companies often have multiple sites spread across large geographic regions, each with thousands of MRO spare parts on hand to keep operations running. In such large organizations, several different employees enter items into various enterprise systems at each site with little or no standard guidelines and often in multiple languages. Over time, this lack of standardization causes materials data to become inconsistent and inaccurate, resulting in many negative effects that can be felt throughout all units of the business.

Leadership for Reliability

How to Get People to Do What You Want Them to Do

by Garrison Wynn

If this article title pulled you in, maybe you’ve recently realized that having a better tactic or using your (seemingly imaginary) charisma is not producing the influence you would have hoped. You’ve read the leadership and negotiation books and you’ve witnessed some disturbing YouTube videos that appear to prove you no longer need talent or a point to be in front of a camera. However, your all-consuming problems still remain: Your employees just can’t get the job done, your boss is a low-IQ narcissist and your 22-year-old kid has just told you, “I don’t, like, see myself as, like, working every day at a job and stuff.”

Two-Plane Field Balancing of an Overhung Rigid Rotor

by José A. Méndez-Adriani

This article compares the cross effect produced using the effective static/couple solution with the cross effect produced employing the new static/couple solution for two-plane field balancing of an overhung rigid rotor. The analysis proves that the cross effect is exactly the same for both solutions. For practical applications, the new solution is more direct than the effective solution.

The Class 1.5 CMMS - History, Features and Challenges

by Rui Alves

Most maintenance professionals have heard of a computer maintenance management system or the term CMMS and know the general benefits such a solution provides. CMMS utilization has been on the rise since the late 1980s and it’s hard to find any large company involved in equipment maintenance that doesn’t use a specialized software package to assist in its equipment maintenance efforts.

Articles

Whose Job Is Leadership, Anyway?

Critical priority

Equipping A Field Service Team to Do Shaft Alignment

Q&A with an Industry Leader

Amazing Risk Management

Reliability Through Correlation and Collaboration

Identification and Characterization of Work Shift Maintenance Time in Titanium Dioxide Plant

Achieving Cost Reduction Targets Through MRO Data Cleansing

How to Get People to Do What You Want Them to Do

Two-Plane Field Balancing of an Overhung Rigid Rotor

The Class 1.5 CMMS - History, Features and Challenges

Acuren Group Takes Its Clients to Next Step in Reliability