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PolyOne Wins Maintenance Reliability Award, Demonstrating Global Operational Excellence

Established in 2006, The Uptime Awards acknowledge organizations and individuals who have achieved high levels of performance in maintenance reliability.  PolyOne earned the honor as a result of its internal PolyOne Reliability Program - a three-year global initiative to increase material supply reliability to customers, through improved on-time delivery and increased equipment and asset longevity, while maintaining world-class safety standards.

“Congratulations to PolyOne, whose commitment to their customers through its robust and world-class maintenance program has generated performance worthy of this year’s honor,” said Terrence O’Hanlon, CEO and Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com / Uptime Magazine.

The PolyOne Reliability Program operates in conjunction with the company’s award-winning Lean Six Sigma culture and processes.

“After three years of dedicated work throughout our facilities, we’re thrilled to have been recognized for operational excellence in our maintenance reliability processes and practices,” said Brett Warland, director, process improvement, PolyOne Corporation. “Our manufacturing teams have been tireless in their efforts to translate operational excellence into value for our customers, and we’re extremely proud to have been recognized with the Uptime Award.”

About PolyOne
PolyOne Corporation, with 2013 revenues of $3.8 billion, is a premier provider of specialized polymer materials, services and solutions. The company is dedicated to serving customers in diverse industries around the globe, by creating value through collaboration, innovation and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Guided by its Core Values, Sustainability Promise and No Surprises PledgeSM, PolyOne is committed to its customers, employees, communities and shareholders through ethical, sustainable and fiscally responsible principles. For more information, visit www.polyone.com.

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A large water utility decided to investigate maintenance reliability best practices. There were eight different treatment plants and eight different maintenance managers.

So What?

A week after the plant started up after an annual planned outage, an injection pump motor failed. The motor’s insulation had failed, shorting between phases.

Why Things Don’t Go According to Plan

We worked with Newark Airport, NJ, testing lube samples from ground service vehicles. For years, results were unremarkable until, during cold months, gasoline engines showed elevated abrasives with corresponding Fe (iron) wear and Si (silicon), an indicator of abrasives.

Do Not Forget Key Staff

A large water utility decided to develop and implement a corporate risk management program that could identify and manage the top twenty-five risks across the organization considering three focus areas: corporate, operational and asset risks.

Enable RAM by Capturing Quality Asset Data Through an Effective Mobile Solution

Skookum maintains infrastructure and equipment across twenty national sites and is committed to providing customers with higher reliability and enabling their asset management program. These objectives require quality asset information to improve maintenance outcomes, make repair versus replace decisions, and drive the cost curve lower.

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Is It the Missing Link for Asset Management?

In 2006, British mathematician Clive Humby famously stated that “data is the new oil,” recognizing that the transformation of data into useful information would become a global driver of economic growth.

It’s All About the “Benjamins”

It was a dark and stormy night as we sat around the conference table discussing the best way to arrange the grid connection of the company’s new wind farm that was in design. Everyone was friendly, but it was a feisty conversation.

Realizing Organizational Change in Three Stages

Research published by Harvard Business Review indicates that 60-70% of change initiatives do not succeed, primarily due to employee resistance and lack of management support.

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At 2:37 a.m. one Tuesday morning, an electrical fault inside a motor control center (MCC) room caused roughly ten hours of downtime. The E&I supervisor was called in and the maintenance manager was notified.

Critical thinking in Risk based decisions

Risk-based asset condition management programs have been around for years now, and have been a vital part of LOOP’s success in our quest for operational excellence.

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