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Fostering Asset Reliability from the Floor Level

Conventional road maps and training indicate more than 70 percent of reliability initiatives fail because the programs supporting them lack backing by senior leadership. However, an equally significant aspect that can quickly undermine program success is the absence of buy-in from craft workers. Such was the case at the Y-12 National Security Complex, a U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility. Here’s how the facility turned things around by cultivating asset reliability from the floor level.

Cloud Technology Condition-Based Monitoring

By Paul Berberian

Manufacturing and industrial facilities rely on rotating assets, such as pumps, compressors, fans, motors and turbines. Maintaining these critical assets is crucial to uptime and performance, yet it is estimated that less than 20% are consistently monitored to detect problems and determine their mechanical health. Other semi-critical assets, otherwise known as balance-of-plant assets, may have sensors installed, but are infrequently sampled via scheduled, manual, route-based, handheld data collectors.

Leadership for Reliability

Moving Down a Reliability Continuum in Pursuit of Excellence

Southern Gardens has embarked on a journey in pursuit of achieving excellence in reliability. The key is perseverance because the road is often bumpy. Continuous improvement moves you down the continuum, so when you think you are at the end, you realize there is always room for improvement.

Q&A - Leo Pike

Uptime Magazine recently caught up with Leo Pike, Administrator for Predictive Maintenance, Norampac-Mississauga. Leo has spent the last two years transforming maintenance at Norampac-Mississauga. Norampac is located near the Toronto International Airport in the city of Mississauga. This mill produces 160,000 metric tons of linerboard from 100% recycled fibers. Leo was charged with implementing ultrasound condition-based monitoring as a legacy project that could be transparently rolled out to other mills. To date, Pike has successfully implemented ultrasound-based trending and infrared thermography inspections on more than 90% of the plant's critical assets.

Asset Management

A New Opportunity for the Maintenance Reliability Community

By John S Mitchell

A new term has risen above our horizon. It is being embraced by companies committed to being the best and has great interest and cachet at the highest executive levels. Further, it states a clear objective that must be achieved to remain successful in today's fiercely competitive industry. The question is whether we, the, maintenance reliability community, will embrace the term, recognize its ability to mandate broader activities that are absolutely essential to achieve and sustain real success, and utilize the principles to gain value and results that really matter.

Reliabilityweb.com welcomes 1100+ attendees to MaximoWorld-2019, the Foremost Asset Knowledge Leader

[Fort Myers, FL, 8/7/2019 ] – Reliabilityweb.com® is pleased to announce the start of MaximoWorld 2019, A Reliabilityweb Event. With more than 1,100 attendees from 25 countries, MaximoWorld is the foremost asset knowledge leadership conference in North America. The conference will take place August 6-8, at the Walt Disney World Dolphin Resort, Orlando, Florida. The conference is produced wholly by Reliabilityweb.com, a trusted name in asset management.

Work Execution Management

Users of Enterprise Asset Management Systems Who and How Important Are They?

by Rajesh Gopalan

There are many factors contributing to a successful enterprise asset management (EAM) implementation, not the least of which is the strategic relation between IT and the business during an implementation or product development lifecycle. While synergy between IT and business strategies is essential, another core element is the EAM user’s participation in the implementation and product development process. In fact, it’s one of the most critical elements to a successful EAM system.

Leadership for Reliability

Uptime Alchemy: Developing Compounds to Implement Sustainable Change

by George Williams

For many of us, the road to reliability has had many ups and downs. At times, we feel overwhelmed with the enormity of effort required to make a positive impact on our organizations. This is compounded early in our journey when we quickly realize how many tools, approaches and methodologies exist, and how many opportunities for improvement we have at our facilities. Trying to have the biggest impact we, at times, jump right to advanced methods. Many an effort has failed due to an advanced methodology being utilized without laying the basic groundwork required to ensure a sustainable success. We, as reliability professionals, need to understand the relationship and interactions of these approaches and provide a level of understanding throughout our organization. To that end, it is time to major in…cringe…shriek…wait for it…“Chemistry.”

The Maintenance Function

Maintenance to many organizations is a word which provides little value to an organization when in fact it provides great value to any company when development, management, and discipline are applied. I think what is most misunderstood about maintenance is the true objective of the function. The objective of maintenance is to maintain the assets of a company so that they meet the reliability needs at an optimal cost.