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Making Your Facility’s Plumbing More Reliable

When it comes to the reliability of the plumbing in your facility, there are several things you can do to prevent failures and downtime. Certain parts of the system will always be more prone to breakdowns than others and upgrades, while sometimes costly, actually help to save money by promoting efficient operations. With a targeted maintenance plan and scheduled upgrades, you can keep your plumbing system running smoothly.

Asset Management

The Onesteel Eight Critical Elements of Asset Management

by Mark Brunner, Reliability and Systems Superintendant-Wire, OneSteel Rod Bar and Wire, Newcastle, NSW, Australia

OneSteel is a fully integrated, global manufacturer and distributor of steel and finished steel products, self-sufficient in both iron ore and scrap metal, with revenues in excess of $6 billion Australian dollars. They have major manufacturing facilities across Australia as well facilities in New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific and the USA.

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Work Execution Management

Work Execution Management - Refining Processes

In this webinar, Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO and Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine and Kahn Ellis, COO, Vesta Partners discuss the importance of Work Execution Management in your asset reliability program.

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Maintenance and Stores – A Partnership?

In my many years of experience in working with hundreds of industrial operations, the storeroom or spare parts is one of the most frequently criticized functions, and the self-assessments at these operations suggest the criticism is justified — at least in the eyes of the maintenance department.

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.

Uptime Awards Stories 2013

Uptime Magazine congratulates the following outstanding programs for their commitment to and execution of high-quality Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Programs.

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Dragan Trivanovic with Zellstoff Celgar Limited Partnership accepts the Uptime Award for Best Operator Driven Reliability Program

More Than Math - Key Performance Indicators Are Not Just Mathematical Equations

by Tarek Atout

When I decided to write about KPI's, I wanted to see this famous terminology "Key Performance Indicators" from a different prospective. This article will not focus on what KPI's need to be measured in a maintenance organization nor what best practices values are expected, but will discuss how to motivate the principle itself and how to manage the process of developing, measuring, analyzing results and correcting the maintenance process path to achieve the required targets.

Motor Performance Management

The art of saving money by extending motor life and optimizing motor performance

Derek Norfield

Electric motors are the prime movers in the industrial environment. Although motors are efficient and reliable, they do eventually fail - and those failures often disrupt production, causing lost revenue that can be many times the cost of the motor. Managing motors saves both direct costs and the disruption of lost production.

Why Managers Don’t Endorse Reliability Initiatives

Don Kuenzli, as a plant manager, successfully transformed two oil refineries to highly reliable and sustainable performance by creating a culture of Continuous Improvement through defect elimination. He had a vision to create "a world class facility with pacesetter performance" for these refineries. When Don shared his vision with his boss at one of these sites, he was told that they could not afford to create this level of performance. Managers often make the assumption that the best performance is gained by paying a high price. There are many benchmark studies that demonstrate quite the opposite.

Reliability Incident Management – Linking Incident Management with your Reliability Assurance Prog

Most organisations try to eliminate defects and investigate reliability incidents. Observations across many industries and companies lead the author to the conclusion, that this process, while very important, is one of the most fragmented and poorly executed of all.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Integrating Your Electrical Equipment into an Existing Reliability Program

Programs, techniques, methods and technologies that are used to integrate electrical equipment into a reliability program will be shared during this presentation, as well as to review and demonstrate success stories, culture change and failures.