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Tucson Electric Power: Builds Award-Winning Predictive Maintenance

by Gary Gardner

In 2012, the predictive maintenance team at the Tucson Electric Power Springerville Generating Station (SGS) helped the company avoid more than $1 million in maintenance and replacement costs. In the first three quarters of 2013, predictive maintenance efforts at SGS saved more than $750,000. This documented return on investment is one of the factors that led Emerson Process Management to recognize Tucson Electric Power (TEP) with the Reliability Program of the Year Award for 2013, an honor for which 64 programs around the world were nominated.

Asset Condition Management

VibrAlign introduces the Smart Machine Checker, the Fixturlaser SMC

VibrAlign introduces the Smart Machine Checker, the Fixturlaser SMC. The SMC is a machinery diagnostic tool that empowers mechanics to instantly diagnose the health of their industrial machinery, while requiring no vibration training or certification.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Solution Awards 2015 Winners

Uptime® Magazine and Reliabilityweb.com® are proud to bring you the Solution Awards to recognize innovative products, software, training and services for maintenance reliability and asset management.

Categories:

Best Reliability Engineering for Maintenance
Best Asset Condition Management
Best Work Execution Management
Best Leadership for Reliability
Best Asset Management

Winners were recognized at a special ceremony held at Solutions 2.0 on August 3, 2015 in Houston, Texas.

Congratulations!

Asset Management

Manufacturing and Business Excellence - Part 1

The Scene

Kaohsiung Industries, an international manufacturing company, has recently made substantial inroads into US and European markets, shaking the confidence of investors in competing US and European manufacturers. Around the globe, manufacturers like Kaohsiung are capitalizing on lower trade barriers, a growing global economy, and substantial growth in the Asia-Pacific economies, challenging other manufacturers' long-standing position in their traditional markets.

Beta International, a large manufacturing conglomerate, is under intense pressure from domestic competitors with newer technologies, from foreign competitors with cheaper products, and from within- there's so much politicking that much of the work that's done by many individuals is related to positioning for survival in a streamlined organization. They have just named a new CEO, Bob Neurath, who is determined to get the company back on track and reestablish itself as the leader in its markets, especially its chemicals sector.

Safety and Reliability Concepts

A Review of the Pyramid and Swiss Cheese Models

by Ron Moore

The safety pyramid was first proposed by H.W. Heinrich, whose 1931 book, “Industrial Accident Prevention: A Scientific Approach,” stated that 88 percent of accidents are caused by “unsafe acts of persons” and put forth what is often referred to as Heinrich’s accident pyramid.

Asset Management

Systematizing Your Asset Management Operation

In the movie Deliverance, Burt Reynolds's character says, "Sometimes you have to lose yourself before you can find anything." That statement is never truer than in discussions about asset management. When you're focused on what you already know, it's easy to miss a better way of doing things

Asset Management

Is outsourcing the answer to improving municipal service delivery?

Asset management giant Pragma sees independence as important for success

The majority of metros and municipalities in South Africa don’t know how to translate the ‘what’ into the ‘how’ with regards to co-ordination and management of their asset care function and should consider outsourcing as either an interim or long term solution to the situation. This is according to Dean Griffin, head of consulting and partner at the leading asset management firm, Pragma. Recently, the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality reappointed Pragma Africa to operate their Asset Care Centre within their Electricity directorate until June 2013. For the last five years 14 Pragma staff members have been placed at the metro looking after the high and medium voltage distribution assets, totaling approximately 62 000 maintenance significant items, with a total replacement value of R24 billion.

Leadership for Reliability

The Vanishing Workforce and How to Deal With It

For over 10 years, the country has seen a shift in the workforce. Older workers, known as baby boomers, have begun to leave in droves before younger replacements are trained or, in some cases, even onboard. You keep hearing, “jobs, jobs, jobs,” but what should be heard is, skilled workers, skilled workers, skilled workers. That’s right, there is a worker shortage more than a job shortage. Why, you may ask? There are several reasons, but more importantly, very little is being done to solve the problem.

Leadership for Reliability

The Human Factors’ Influence on Maintenance Reliability Management

Human factors play a vital role in influencing maintenance reliability management in an organization. This article presents some specifics on the influence of culture and leadership in the process and chemical industries.

Motor Testing - Which Road Will You Take?

by Dave Humphrey, Allison Transmission, Indianapolis, IN

Introduction

Allison Transmission, General Motors Corporation is the world leader in design, manufacture and sales of commercial-duty automatic transmissions, hybrid propulsion systems, and related parts and services for on-highway trucks, buses, off-highway equipment and military vehicles. Aside from its primary location in Indianapolis, IN, Allison Transmission, part of GM's Powertrain Division, has International regional offices in The Netherlands, Japan, China, Singapore and Brazil and is represented in more than 80 countries via its 1500-member distributor and dealer network.

The Total Motor Maintenance (TMM) concept is a strategy that is used every day from motor inventory and delivery, to testing and reliability of motors.

tales from the shop

The Foundation for a Successful Reliability Journey!

Our story goes way back to the very beginning of our journey, to the inception of an idea that we can be better at what we do, that there is more to learn and a better way of doing business.