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Journey to Overachieving Recruiting Practices

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 47:14
by Joel Crawford, Performance Consulting Associates

It does feel overwhelming, and is a reality, when real production dollars are lost every day because of unstaffed skilled positions. This is getting the attention now of C level executives across all industries, and strategy sessions are occurring throughout North America board rooms. Facts: 45% of skilled workers are over 45 years old, and about 19% are over 55 (US Bureau of Labor). Millions of skilled engineering and craft skills roles are remaining unstaffed and will continue to grow each year, costing an average of $7,000 in company profits DAILY for each role that goes unmanned (Manpower Group report). There are basic best practice business items that can be done NOW, which will fill open positions more efficiently and retain your talent. This presentation will outline the 5 fundamental steps, which will help your company focus on retaining human capital maintenance and reliability talent.

Asset Management

How The Simpsons Taught Me About Green Reliability

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 38:33
by George Mahoney, Merck

There is a Simpson’s Episode where Lisa Simpson gets gum in her hair. Over the course of 2 minutes, about 10 different characters give her suggestions on how to get the gum out. In the end, she got the gum out, but she had to shave her head to do it.

The video can be seen here.

This situation is not much different from what you would find in the Energy World. While in the maintenance world you need to “force” people to begin Reliability projects, the Energy World is much different. Everyone you know is lending advice on energy reduction ideas from LED lighting to Chiller Optimization to Solar Arrays.

These ideas lead an Energy Manager (who is also often the Reliability Manager) to jump from one initiative to the next without ever getting much done.

In addition, these ideas never seem to focus on improving equipment reliability. Not only does this cause energy waste for existing assets that have defects, it also can lead to new assets being installed without a focus on maintenance or reliability.

In this presentation, we will talk about how we got people to focus on “reliability first” on their Energy Management journey. We will discuss how reliability became the base of our Energy Roadmap and how it enabled the implementation and sustainment of all the other steps along the way. In addition, we will talk about how we linked our Energy and Reliability initiatives together so they could be easily learned and implemented. Most importantly, we linked them together so they wouldn’t have to compete for the same time and resources.

Asset Management

Engineering a Streamlined Fire Protection Life Safety Inspection Process

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 40:46
by John Connell, JFC & Associates

This session will present a case study on improvements to Fire Protection Life Safety (FPLS) inspections at an airport in the Northeast. The focus of the project was to move a paper based process to a handheld solution integrated with Maximo Asset Management. The effort consolidated over 100 paper based forms to a single point of entry. The presentation will cover:

Improved User Experience
Benefits of the Mobile Platform
Increased Accountability and Auditing
Data Integrity and Reporting Improvements
Maximo Integration, Alarms and Follow up Corrective Maintenance
Risks and Regulatory Requirements

Asset Management

Improving Services thru Entitlement and Technology

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 38:48
by David Auton, Cushman and Wakefield Services

All organizations face cost and performance challenges to remain competitive. Additionally, all organizations want to improve and demonstrate good stewardship of their facilities. The reality is that all organizations have process based components that can be assessed to determine the potential performance within existing structures. This presentation strives to help leaders understand how basic awareness of process capability and simple measures can be applied to what are often obscure processes and can be used to identify improvement opportunities. The approaches to determine what actions may be necessary to achieve improvements are reviewed with examples. Methods to estimate the impact of process improvements, technology and tools are reviewed. Using a pragmatic approach, organizations can quickly determine if proposed technology investments are warranted and reasonable.

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Smart Infrastructure Asset Management

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 41:20
by Michael Salvato, Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Productivity in infrastructure management is lower than it was 20 years ago. Infrastructure providers have not benefited from modern approaches to management and information technologies available for complex engineering systems and enterprises. Asset management systems, as defined by ISO 55000, outline the management requirements and capabilities necessary for smart Infrastructure, integrated supply chain management, more sustainable and resilient built environment, and better steward of our natural heritage. Smart infrastructure, resulting from the convergence of digital technologies with physical infrastructure, requires a radical paradigm shift in how critical infrastructure systems are managed to support lifecycle optimization and decision making to realize the value for money of continuously improving outcomes.

Asset Management

Optimizing Asset Management in Design Processes - Looking Outside the Box

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 42:45
by Lanny Floyd, University of Alabama at Birmingham

This session will explore lessons from a standard outside the domain of asset management: ANSI/ASSE Z590.3 – 2011 Prevention through Design Guidelines for Addressing Occupational Hazards and Risks in Design and Redesign Processes. This standard provides guidance for a life-cycle assessment and design model that balances environmental and occupational safety and health goals over the life span of a facility, process, or product. While the purpose of this standard is to enable an organization to reduce occupational safety & health risks, its methodology can be applied to reducing risks impacting asset performance. Organizations may realize benefits of aligning resources and processes impacting asset management and occupational safety & health.

Asset Management

Best Asset Management Program (Uptime Award Winner) - Southern Gardens Citrus

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 46:56
by Brendon Russ and Jim Sullivan, Southern Gardens Citrus

After the publication of ISO 55000 Asset Management Standards, it shined a light on a need to create an overall plan of how we deal with assets, not just maintenance. Southern Gardens Citrus is a worldwide supplier of Florida orange juice. We have an established Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) that is presided over and reviewed by executive management. The backbone of our asset management is our Management of Change (MOC) process.

This presentation will give an overview of asset management at Southern Gardens, showing the application of ISO 55000 guidelines and how they tie to how we approach creating a SAMP, asset knowledge, asset lifecycle management, performance indicators, continuous improvement, risk management, and decision making.

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Are We Actually Realizing Value from Our Asset Management Program?

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 42:44
by Dharmen Dhaliah, Town of Halton Hills

Realizing value is the main focus of asset intensive organizations. Organizations design, build, own, operate and maintain physical assets to derive tangible or intangible, financial or non-financial value from them over their entire life cycle. Eventually it is befitting to spend some time understanding what value is and how it can be realized. As a matter of fact ISO 55000 makes reference to 'value' and 'realize value' in its definitions of asset and asset management respectively. Realization of value requires the achievement of a balance of costs, risks and benefits, often over different timescales. So what does value derived from physical assets means to your organizations? Is it value to customers, value to stakeholders, or value physical assets contribute to achieve organizational objectives? How are these values quantified, measured and tracked to support the overall system? Do you have a process in place to actually identify and visualize the activities contributing to the realization of value from your physical assets? This session will describe the asset management value chain in organizations and explore the existing roadblocks and constraints that are stopping organizations to realize maximum value from their asset management program.

Asset Management

Profitable Reliability Control for Improved Asset Performance

IMC-2017 RAP Talk - 19:07
by Peter Martin, Schneider Electric Process Automation

As the science behind process control advanced over the past 4 decades, the equipment assets in industrial plants were pushed to, and at times beyond, reliability threshold limits. This led to the need for new and more advanced approaches to asset management. As a result, the science behind asset management has advanced significantly over the last 15 years. New approaches to equipment condition monitoring, predictive maintenance and prescriptive maintenance have proven their worth in terms of improved equipment reliability.

The rise of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is providing new opportunities to consider improving asset performance. With the reduced, cost, size, and power requirements, coupled with increased capability, capacity and interconnectivity of computer technology, new, highly agile automation system architectures are emerging which align tightly with the asset architectures of industrial plants and enterprises. This means that powerful computers in the form of cyber-physical systems can be aligned to individual industrial assets providing incredible compute power for each asset. Additionally, the expansion of control functionality from process and logic control for improved operational efficiency, to include the real-time control of reliability risk and operational profitability to provide the basic components of Asset Performance Control.

This IIoT-enabled, expanded control domain will operate under Asset Performance Management to provide new levels of measurable operational profitability from equipment assets all the way through entire industrial enterprises.

Asset Management

Why Big Data and the Digital Transformation Won’t Deliver Reliability

IMC-2017 RAP Talk - 23:44
by Jason Apps, ARMS Reliability

Bad data or poor-quality data costs organizations as much as 10-20% of their revenue. The premise of this RAP Talk from IMC-2017 is that you can have too much data. And too much data doesn’t deliver anything by itself! The focus at the moment is on asset health and performance monitoring. Let’s get back to basics.

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Edge, Cloud and Reliability

IMC-2017 RAP Talk - 21:16
by Jagannath Rao, Siemens

In the manufacturing world, one of the most not talked about phenomena is called the "The Hidden Factory." This can be broadly described as work arounds and other activities which result in poor efficiency, waste and reduction in quality. These phenomena go unnoticed most of the time as the data sources are either too disparate or transparency is lacking due to the inability to address the problem. The reason for the existence of a hidden factory is often multifold and can be categorized into three buckets - a) Reliability issue, both in the process and the machinery, b) Inadequate data transparency to get to the root causes and address them and c) supply chain & logistics bottlenecks.

In this modern age of digital transformation, not only is it possible to address these issues, but in fact a steep change in the manufacturing arena can be made. This demands the adoption of technologies like contextualized data integration, machine learning & analytics and IIoT. This talk is about how Edge Computing, IIoT and adoption of scalable cloud technologies can address and minimize the phenomena of the "Hidden Factory."

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Going Digital with Operationeering and Servitization

IMC-2017 RAP Talk - 22:05
by Chris Barron, Bentley

Historian and Professor, Yuval Noah Harar once wrote (Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow) "In ancient times having power meant having access to data. Today having power means knowing what to ignore.”

The industrial internet of things (IIoT) represents a huge opportunity in the availability and quality of data from connected devices, but a huge challenge for operators and maintainers in dealing with the deluge of information. Most organizations simply aren’t ready, and either don’t have the systems in place to do it or the people or skills associated.

We believe the answer lies in greater Servitization. This is not a new idea – Rolls Royce aero engines is the flagship example, from selling turbines to selling thrust-as-a-service – but it’s not easy for many companies to translate this to their business. In essence ‘Servitization’ is a digital transformation journey, involving firms developing the capabilities they need to provide and receive services and solutions that supplement their traditional approaches.

Gartner describes the trend towards increasing collaboration between owners, operators, service providers and OEMs. It is no coincidence then that this has been the year of Alliances for Bentley – with announcements with Microsoft, Siemens, TopCon and BV.

Through its AssetWise platform, Bentley is facilitating and enabling greater Servitization – converging and connecting data essential to understanding asset performance, embedding vendor knowledge and expertise, visualizing and putting data in context to enable better decisions. And in areas such as process manufacturing, energy management and power generation, OEMs are embedding their expertise and knowhow, providing a data-efficient expert system approach to compliment data-intensive diagnostic approaches.

This is freeing up organizations to focus on what’s most important to them, and giving them the power to ignore more!

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Enabling Asset Integrity

The RELIABILITY Conference Learning Session - 44:03
by Jeff Smith, Acuren

There are seven integrity enablers that must be managed, if they are managed not only is reliability insured it is cost optimized. The primary mistake observed in thirty years of reliability study is focusing on maintenance as a reliability optimization tool. To maintain is to keep in current state, so what is it the moves your asset out of its manufactured state? What type of loading creates stresses and strains that damage the asset? What operational parameters move your asset outside its comfort zone? How do your operators react to abnormal conditions? Is your automation control system protecting your asset or just notifying you of impending failures? Are your restoration and renewal programs aligned with your operational campaign?

Value optimization is enabled with integrity management; this complex problem is simplified by applying the simple process covered in this presentation. This process ties together all the value destruction issues and provides a methodology to enable integrity optimization.

You don’t “Maintain” the integrity of an asset you enable the integrity and maintain the results of that effort.

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Insights From the Nuclear Power Industry Implementation of Value Based Reliability

The RELIABILITY Conference Learning Session - 27:29
by Derek Valine, PG&E

Developing cost-effective equipment maintenance strategies is a complex and data-intensive task, but necessary to realize an effective reliability program in a competitive environment. Historically, in the nuclear power industry, maintenance strategies have not been objectively risk-based, but rather they have been based on prevention of all failures regardless of cost. This approach to maintenance leads to expensive strategies that do not necessarily deliver higher levels of reliability.

Last year, the nuclear power industry identified the need to reduce overall O&M costs while still maintaining high levels of equipment reliability. This requires the ability to analyze and understand the impact of a strategy change not only on reliability but on overall cost of the strategy as well. Diablo Canyon Power Plant determined Preventance Precision by Asset Performance Technologies was the tool best able to provide reliability and cost projections in order to enable the development of cost-effective maintenance strategies.

The solution contains templates for over 700 asset types based on operating context and risk. The templates contain content that was developed as a industry collective and then used by numerous international companies over the last 20 years. Leveraging this content has enabled Diablo Canyon and other nuclear power plant operators to quickly and effectively develop and revise maintenance strategies to provide for required levels of reliability for the least overall cost.

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IIoT, Smart Industry and Artificial Intelligence for Manufacturing

The RELIABILITY Conference Learning Session - 39:21
by Rajiv Anand, Quartic.ai

In the manufacturing and industrial world, Industry 4.0, Smart Industry and Industrial IoT have created a lot of buzz lately. In software and computing, Machine Learning and 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 IIoT and Smart Industry have the potential to transform entire supply chains, initial successful implementations focus on maintenance and asset reliability. Predictive maintenance is thus being transformed to prescriptive maintenance by combining existing and new condition monitoring sensors with Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition.

Is it all just hype and the fad of the season or as transformational and disruptive as it is being hyped up to be? How will it impact manufacturing, industrial maintenance and reliability, and the people responsible for running these operations? As a maintenance and reliability professional, what should I be preparing for, learning and applying to enable my company to benefit from this technological revolution?

This presentation will address why and how maintenance and reliability professionals should embrace these technologies and be the leaders for the digital transformation of their companies.

The talk will address some of the following topics:

That maintenance and reliability professionals and domain experts will now become some of the most valuable contributors to an enterprise's supply chain.
The technology will not--as hypothesized by fear mongers--replace humans. It will enable and empower humans to focus on creative and high value, rather than mundane contributions of their skills and expertise to advance the manufacturing industry.
That some of the unfulfilled value creation potential of reliability practices like RCM and Operator Driven Reliability.
That it is not as complicated, scary or risky as some laggards would have you believe; nor does it require everyone to become data scientists and programmers to implement it.
While cloud computing is one of the key enablers, Smart Industry does not mean running all your applications in the cloud.
That we can all begin our journey of learning and starting to apply these technologies today; without disruption to our existing operations and work processes.

Asset Management

Why You Need to Understand the Industrial Internet in 5 Simple Reasons

The RELIABILITY Conference RAP TALK - 18:43
by John Murphy, Reliabilityweb.com

In this 18-minute RAP Talk, John Murphy describes why we need to understand the Industrial Internet of Things. The IIoT accelerates transformations in businesses. We are seeing increases in safety concerns, regulation concerns and growth concerns in business and all of these things require automation to help us deal with these requirements. Eventually, everything is going to connect. People say that the IIoT is the next step in the Industrial revolution.

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Managing Assets or Asset Management?

The RELIABILITY Conference 2017 RAP Talk - 27:27
by Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO/Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine

In this lively RAP Talk from TRC-2017, Terrence O’Hanlon discusses the difference between asset management and managing assets. When you say asset management, do you really mean managing assets? This presentation provides important distinctions and helps to clear up confusion.

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Failure Modes to Failure Codes in Maximo- Part 3

IMC-2016 - 49:58
by Derek Burley, Blue Sky Reliability Consulting, LLC and John Reeve, Total Resource Management

When organizations wonder why their CMMS contains poor failure data, lacks analytical capabilities and is devoid of any form of failure analysis process, it is because the implementation team assumed the software itself would magically assemble meaningful data to identify worst offenders. Or, it is because the Core Team has not understood the benefits behind chronic failure analysis. Or, it is because the reliability engineer was never involved in the implementation and optimization of the system.
A few months ago, I was told the story of a maintenance engineer who spent 2 months reading through text fields on the work order to glean relevant information to help him identify the key failure modes of the asset in question. So why did this happen? Why weren’t the failure codes properly entered in the CMMS?
There are multiple reasons. But let’s first say this is one of the modern day puzzles within the CMMS community. After 2 decades (based on my field experiences) the majority of all sites - and all industries - have never successfully performed chronic failure analysis by leveraging actionable data direct from the CMMS. This is most unfortunate because 40-60% of all maintenance costs reside in this area.
This 3 hour seminar will involve the audience in a detailed discussion to discover a better solution. Key topic points will include:
Define failure data, failure codes, and failure mode (the language of RCM)
Define the ideal failure analytic, Pareto style.
Define the role of a Reliability Team
Describe how this entire process can be implemented.
Participants will absolutely walk away with an answer to this age old problem. Don't miss out on the largest potential benefit to your CMMS.

Asset Management

Failure Modes to Failure Codes in Maximo- Part 2

IMC-2016 - 49:05
by Derek Burley, Blue Sky Reliability Consulting, LLC and John Reeve, Total Resource Management

When organizations wonder why their CMMS contains poor failure data, lacks analytical capabilities and is devoid of any form of failure analysis process, it is because the implementation team assumed the software itself would magically assemble meaningful data to identify worst offenders. Or, it is because the Core Team has not understood the benefits behind chronic failure analysis. Or, it is because the reliability engineer was never involved in the implementation and optimization of the system.
A few months ago, I was told the story of a maintenance engineer who spent 2 months reading through text fields on the work order to glean relevant information to help him identify the key failure modes of the asset in question. So why did this happen? Why weren’t the failure codes properly entered in the CMMS?
There are multiple reasons. But let’s first say this is one of the modern day puzzles within the CMMS community. After 2 decades (based on my field experiences) the majority of all sites - and all industries - have never successfully performed chronic failure analysis by leveraging actionable data direct from the CMMS. This is most unfortunate because 40-60% of all maintenance costs reside in this area.
This 3 hour seminar will involve the audience in a detailed discussion to discover a better solution. Key topic points will include:
Define failure data, failure codes, and failure mode (the language of RCM)
Define the ideal failure analytic, Pareto style.
Define the role of a Reliability Team
Describe how this entire process can be implemented.

Participants will absolutely walk away with an answer to this age old problem. Don't miss out on the largest potential benefit to your CMMS.

Asset Management

Failure Modes to Failure Codes in Maximo- Part 1

IMC-2016 - 45:20
by Derek Burley, Blue Sky Reliability Consulting, LLC and John Reeve, Total Resource Management

When organizations wonder why their CMMS contains poor failure data, lacks analytical capabilities and is devoid of any form of failure analysis process, it is because the implementation team assumed the software itself would magically assemble meaningful data to identify worst offenders. Or, it is because the Core Team has not understood the benefits behind chronic failure analysis. Or, it is because the reliability engineer was never involved in the implementation and optimization of the system.

A few months ago, I was told the story of a maintenance engineer who spent 2 months reading through text fields on the work order to glean relevant information to help him identify the key failure modes of the asset in question. So why did this happen? Why weren’t the failure codes properly entered in the CMMS?

There are multiple reasons. But let’s first say this is one of the modern day puzzles within the CMMS community. After 2 decades (based on my field experiences) the majority of all sites - and all industries - have never successfully performed chronic failure analysis by leveraging actionable data direct from the CMMS. This is most unfortunate because 40-60% of all maintenance costs reside in this area.

This 3 hour seminar will involve the audience in a detailed discussion to discover a better solution. Key topic points will include:

Define failure data, failure codes, and failure mode (the language of RCM)

Define the ideal failure analytic, Pareto style.

Define the role of a Reliability Team

Describe how this entire process can be implemented.

Participants will absolutely walk away with an answer to this age old problem. Don't miss out on the largest potential benefit to your CMMS.