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Achieve World-Class Production Through Reliability

Alumax of South Carolina is an aluminum smelter that produces in excess of 180,000 MT of primary aluminum each year. It began operation in 1980 after a 2-year construction phase. The plant is the last greenfield aluminum smelter constructed in the U.S. Alumax of SC is a part of Alumax, Inc., which has headquarters in Norcross, Georgia; a suburb of Atlanta, Georgia. Alumax, Inc. is the third largest producer of primary aluminum in the U.S. and the fourth largest in North America.

Leadership for Reliability

Building a Reliable Plant Through Constant Evolution

Greenfield Global’s ethanol plant in Varennes, Quebec, Canada, demonstrates the power of maintaining and evolving a strong reliability plan. Reliability is a key term in manufacturing that plenty of people talk about, but often find difficult to tackle in a practical way. Often, when discussing reliability, people imagine it to be achievable only for large scale, high capital organizations with a great deal of manpower. This misunderstanding stems from the misconception that reliability is a goal: just put the right equipment in place, spend enough money and somehow the plant will become reliable. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

Asset Condition Management

Industrial Internet Adoption: Senior Leadership Sought

For a successful condition monitoring program, you have to have an overall Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) plan. Sure, you can put monitoring devices on your equipment and extract significant value, but without an overarching plan, over time you will spend unnecessary capital funds, run into scalability issues, and underestimate the impact IIoT will have on your organization.

Work Execution Management

The Eight Critical Elements of Asset Management. An in Depth Industry Based Survey

OneSteel is a fully integrated, global manufacturer and distributor of steel and finished steel products, self-sufficient in both iron ore and scrap metal. They have major manufacturing facilities across Australia as well as facilities in New Zealand, Asia and the Pacific and the USA, and they manufacture and distributes products that are used in the construction, manufacturing, housing, rail, mining and agricultural industries. With a significantly diversified range of assets in many locations, improvements in Asset Management had been based on the knowledge and drive of the local plant employees and this was acknowledged as a significant issue for the company.

Internet of Things Digitalization (IoT)

Mobideo Unveils Gamechanger for Turnaround Management

The MobideoSTO Operating System dramatically improves turnaround performance and manageability of the key factors that determine turnaround success – scope, cost, schedule, quality, and EHS.

HOUSTON, TX - Announcing the launch of MobideoSTO at an online event entitled “When the going gets tough, the tough get digital”, Mobideo is releasing the premier Digital STO (Shutdown, Turnaround, Outage) Operating System, representing a paradigm shift for turnaround groups to manage the full STO lifecycle.

MRO Inventory: The Expert’s Monument to Failure

Have the experts failed us? Lean experts teach us to "see" the hidden factory and all its "waste," so why can't we see the mountains of MRO materials? And while Six Sigma efforts focus on vendor lead times or improved fill rates, why do few Black Belts apply the correct statistical analysis for determining stocking parameters?

Sadly, reliability engineering efforts to predict failure and develop risk management plans have failed to stop excess investments in MRO stock.

CMMS and EAM

Master Records are Not Optional - Get the Detail Work Behind You

Originally presented at Reliability 2.0

by E. Todd White, MRG

In the United States alone there is a $738 billion dollar potential annual benefit from improved asset reliability (calculated from Department of Commerce current-cost net stock of private fixed assets in 2003 (total $4.9 trillion)). Executive leadership at all organizational levels is beginning to see the financial opportunity, seeking to understand the hidden dollars and saying we have to have reliable equipment and processes. Traditionally executives have not been steeped in the Engineering and Maintenance processes or systems that support and drive reliability. As such, they are typically unaware of the “gaps” in such systems and struggle to understand why actionable data is not readily available to support business decisions (As is often said, you can’t manage what you can’t measure.). One major area of contention and concern is the impact that the quality and availability of the Master data records contained in the management systems has on the ability to aggregate meaningful data.

Luminant’s Condition Monitoring Program Achieves Notable Successes

By Keith Lawson

The true success of Luminant’s condition monitoring program is a direct result of the commitment from company leadership to entry-level employees and the processes and procedures put in place to protect employees and equipment. It’s that dedication to excellence and safety that will ensure its success.

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Achieve World-Class Production Through Reliability

Building a Reliable Plant Through Constant Evolution

Industrial Internet Adoption: Senior Leadership Sought

GPAllied Announces Strategic Hire: Erich Scheller

The Eight Critical Elements of Asset Management. An in Depth Industry Based Survey

Past, Present, and Future of Maintenance

Mobideo Unveils Gamechanger for Turnaround Management

MRO Inventory: The Expert’s Monument to Failure

Why Vibration Monitoring and Analysis Are Essential

Master Records are Not Optional - Get the Detail Work Behind You

Precision in Practice: Designing Optimal Work Requests - Part 1

Luminant’s Condition Monitoring Program Achieves Notable Successes