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Leadership for Reliability

Journey to World-Class Maintenance

In 2005 Corbion, global market leader in lactic acid, lactic acid derivatives, and a leading company in emulsifiers, functional enzyme blends, minerals, vitamins and algae ingredients, started with the improvement of the maintenance programs at their plants.

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Effective Maintenance Cost Optimization While Enhancing Plant Reliability

The following presentation discusses Abqaiq Plants Maintenance Cost Index (MCI) where the maintenance cost optimized while maintaining the high level of plant reliability and availability.

Leadership for Reliability

The Journey From Reactive to…

This presentation will focus on the journey of a plant that is in the process of going from a highly reactive culture to becoming a highly reliable organization. This will focus on the development and implementation of the reliability work process, leadership endorsement of the new reliability focus, and culture change for the entire organization.

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Strategic Maintenance Leadership: Steps to Reliability

The presentation focuses on the strategic maintenance leadership principles and particularly on the aspect of reliability.

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Leadership Is Vital to Success

Leadership is vital to the success of all companies. It is a journey which requires reference points to ensure we remain on course and continue to grow. Almost all companies need more deliberate and focused leadership development.

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Early Benefits of the Uptime Elements Journey

The SGL Composites Maintenance Department was formed in 2013, but began its journey to Reliability after Lee McKinley was positioned as the Head of the Maintenance Department in late 2014 and started discussions with Jim Carrel, CRL (Reliability Coach, Reliability Management Strategies) in the Spring of 2015.

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Reliability and Asset Performance

IMC-2018 RAP Talk 17:59

by Bill Cronin, President & COO, Rental Division, Cintas

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Maintenance Safety Certification

IMC-2017 Learning Session 39:50
by Tommy Cocanougher and James Wagoner, Cintas.

Maintenance professionals face hundreds of decisions each day all of which impact their personal safety and safety of the organization. Each maintenance situation or decision is usually unique. How do companies ensure the decisions and actions are made safely every time? The Maintenance Safety Certification is a great tool to empowering safety and leadership. In this presentation, you will learn how the Maintenance Safety Certification was developed at Cintas. You will also learn the details and scope of the Maintenance Safety Certification. Finally, you will learn the impact it has had on the workforce and safety.

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Improving Reliability at Ajinomoto

IMC-2017 Learning Session 48:46
by Darren Blaha, Ajinomoto and Stan Moore, Emerson

Ajinomoto is embarking on a reliability improvement initiative that is in its genesis. Ajinomoto, located in Eddyville, IA is the primary US producer of monosodium glutamate, (MSG). In a competitive market with increasing demand, Ajinomoto has recognized the need to improve the management of their assets. Increased capacity utilization presents a real improvement opportunity for the site and these improvements started with the recognition that their foundational asset data was inadequate, lacking in both content and accuracy. This is a journey of both cultural change and recognition of the bottom-line business value of a reliable plant.

The primary focus of the presentation will center on building a robust dataset consistent with the tenets of ISO 14224, the configuration and implementation of a new CMMS, asset walk downs necessary for accurate data, development of robust work process flows that fully describe and define the life cycle of a work order from its inception to final closeout and completion, and finally criticality ranking to support prioritized and targeted strategy improvements.

This presentation will discuss Ajinomoto’s journey to improved profitability and capacity utilization through more reliable assets. The challenges encountered along the way, the successes achieved, the benefits realized and to be realized, along with the work remaining will all be discussed.

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Operationalizing Reliability

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 41:47
by George Williams and Joe Anderson. B. Braun Medical

Reliability as a whole is not a maintenance initiative, but an overall business strategy that should drive a company’s culture, systems and processes. So, how do you get a seat at the table? How do you sell it to your organization? Where do you begin? These are all great questions that will be answered during this session. Learn how to get the seat at the table and have others take you seriously. Learn how to sell the initiative, project or change needed within your organization. Also, learn how to set a strategy for a path forward to drive success within your organization.

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Effective Reliability Leadership: Habits of Effective Reliability Leaders

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 26:06
by Ramesh Gulati, Jacobs

Are you a Reliability Leader (RL) or trying to become one? Basically, anybody, at any level in the organization, can be a Reliability Leader. Anyone who helps another person, a machine or a gadget to do a better job is a Reliability Leader. Question is, are you an effective reliability leader? Do you have the right attributes – habits to be an effective reliability leader? Some of the attributes of good leaders are:

They create (or help) create a Vision- see into the future
They have the Courage and are willing to take risks
They Focus on results - needs of the organization and the situation
They believe in high Integrity / Humility
They are great Communicators
They are truthful and self-confident
Etc..

This paper will discuss how you can form lasting habits, form a culture within you, to do the right things and become an effective Reliability Leader.

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Reliability Leadership: How to Engage People in the Culture of Reliability

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 47:20
by Luis Alberto Tilleria, Schlumberger SPM Shaya

In the industry, it is intended to implement the Asset Management Strategies supported by Reliability Engineering, one of the biggest challenges in implementing complex methodologies, is the difficult task of convincing people to win adherents, obtain the support and commitment of the personnel involved in the area of production, maintenance and projects, as well as, the senior executives of the organization. It is important to demonstrate that Reliability Engineering contributes to reduce operational risk, improve decision making and increases environmental care and safety to people, as well as sustainability, productivity, and profitability of processes. It is required that not only a strategic and technical implementation plan be drawn up, but this strategic plan must also contain a marketing, training, and communications plan for the staff. This will be demonstrated with practical and complex examples of how these methodologies were helping the staff to get involved to support the implementation of the Reliability Engineering Management. Demonstrating how these complex techniques can improve the quality of life in the workforce, increase the profitability of the process and contribute to the improvement of safety in the environment, makes it possible to obtain the necessary support to achieve the success of these Asset Management programs.

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Reliability Excellence Needs a Roadmap: Convert What-Why to an Action Plan

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 41:10
by John Reeve, EDI

This presentation will create a horizontal line of sight. By doing this, we will establish a sequence of events that will help your organization develop an asset management system. Using 3 decades of field experiences, the facilitator will also tie in advanced processes as related to the elements chart. Specific topics to be discussed:

What foundational elements should be addressed first?
What chronological order makes the best sense regarding the five main verticals?
How do I inform leadership as to the significance of optimized asset management?
What is CRL accreditation and why is this of value?
And lastly, what would a master schedule look like for pursuing a roadmap to excellence?

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Selling Reliability: Getting the Buy-In Is Essential to Successful Implementation

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 30:10
by Keith Staton, Weyerhaueser

How many times do we have reliability projects that appear to be a no-brainer on paper, but we fail to get the buy-in from the “powers that be.” Sometimes even the best projects don’t sway the decision makers. Sometimes reliability has to be sold. This is a light-hearted look at how we sometimes don’t consider the presentation of a potential reliability project and fail to get the buy-in necessary to get it off the ground. A brief case study on how selling lubrication training was accomplished and is still moving forward to this day.

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The ROI of Reliability Leadership

TRC-2018 Key Note 58:23
by Terrence O'Hanlon, Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine

Technical skills abound in the reliability community, but it's common knowledge that 70% of the improvement initiatives launched do not generate sustainable business success. Learn how to create cross-functional awareness, desire and knowledge to drive sustainable change.

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Building the Workforce of the Future: Uniting Industry and Education

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 40:34
by Gail Norris, Siemens

Innovative technologies are revolutionizing manufacturing. Many companies are fast-tracking these game-changing technologies and smart factories needing high-tech workers are no longer a vision – they are a reality. Industry’s reliance on advanced technologies, combined with the skills gap created by the ongoing generational change-out are driving organizations to find new and innovative learning methods to ready their employees for this transformational change. Join us to experience new learning approaches that will ensure your organization will succeed in the digital era.

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Early Benefits of the Uptime Elements Journey

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 38:59
by Jim Carrel, Reliability Management Strategies and Lee McKinley, SGL Composites

The SGL Composites Maintenance Department was formed in 2013 but began its journey to Reliability after Lee McKinley was positioned as the Head of the Maintenance Department in late 2014 and started discussions with Jim Carrel, CRL (Reliability Coach, Reliability Management Strategies) in the Spring of 2015. After coaching Lee to a better understanding of Reliability, Jim invited Lee to join him at IMC 2015 and be immersed in the reliability discussions. Lee returned to the plant after the conference filled with hopes and expectations. He began the long process of organizational and cultural change and invited his peers, the Head of Production and the Head of Excellence, to join him at The Reliability Conference in the spring of 2016. Together, the three of them chartered the course to be followed over the next few years. Since the initial days of their journey to reliability, the plant has experienced improvement in the ratio of planned to unplanned maintenance, rising from 19% planned, to a current 53% in just 2 years. They’ve seen a 61% reduction in maintenance costs in less than 6 months in the Winders Sections. Over the past two years, they have trained and certified personnel and implemented specific Uptime Elements. The most important metric is, of course, production; and SGL has seen a significant increase in the percentile of Total Metered Length Spools (their corporate production KPI) from the low-70’s to mid-80’s. (Current KPI is 85% TMLS with 0 Defects) This presentation will detail the planning, actions, challenges, and results-to-date SGL is experiencing. This is not a finished story, but a mid-journey glimpse into their challenges and successes. It is our hope that this story can encourage those who are contemplating the journey to see the benefit of making the commitment to begin.

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Addressing Culture Change in IIoT and AI Projects

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 43:15
by Blair Fraser, Lakeside Controls

In the manufacturing and industrial world, Industry 4.0, Smart Industry and Industrial IoT have created a lot of buzz lately. Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data are at the top of the hype cycle. Digital transformation and the digital enterprise are on the top of the strategic initiatives list of every board room and C-suite. While Machine Learning and IIoT have the potential to transform entire supply chains, initial successful implementations are clearly emerging in maintenance and asset reliability. Predictive maintenance is being transformed to prescriptive maintenance by combining existing and new condition monitoring sensors with Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. This new technology has the promise to solve problems never capable of being solved before, however, we have learned over the last five decades of implementing traditional condition monitoring technologies like vibration monitoring, the common pitfall is the adoption of new technology and work processes is the people. More so than ever, technology like machine learning and artificial intelligence will have a bigger impact on people as it can learn and adapt without humans in the loop. But can people still play a role in AI projects? Is subject matter expertise still required? This presentation will review how through implementing many IIOT and AI projects over the last two years, I learned how people play the biggest role in the success of these projects and tips to address the "who moved my cheese" culture changed required for projects to be successful.

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It’s Not You, but It’s You

TRC-2018 RAP Talk 18:16
by George Williams and Joe Anderson, B. Braun Medical

This RAP talk will explore why we need to look in the mirror if we are not happy with the results we are getting. Moreover, we will encourage and challenge the audience to take ownership of their reliability success.