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Achieving Electrical Distribution Availability and Functionality by Utilizing the Uptime Elements

IMC-2017 Learning Session 46:10
by Craig Edlund, Metropolitan Council Environmental Services.

A well designed and executed preventive maintenance (PM) program is key to ensuring availability and functionality of the plants electrical distribution system. Without it, plant operation is at risk from unpredictable, hidden failures. The best PM program not only delivers plant availability, it must be business oriented to include efficient staffing, coordinated scheduling and justified budgets.

Tailoring a traditional time-based PM program using the Uptime Elements ensures plant electrical stability and dramatically reduces unplanned outages while delivering business benefits. Improvements focus resources on the most important plant systems using risk identification. Transition to condition-based strategies further improves efficiency, and measurably reduces the number of electrical outages and increases equipment uptime. Condition-based approaches applied through reliability strategy development best practices have helped us increase PM frequencies based on number of recurring deficiencies and environmental conditions. This has reduced PM program costs and has increased plant availability, benefiting production further easing scheduling considerations.

The presentation details the integration of time-based and condition-based preventive maintenance approaches using the Uptime elements RSD, WEM and ACM to ultimately develop business results focused schedule and budget forecasts, including using external electrical contractors to level resource needs and maximize equipment utilization.

Asset Condition Management

Do You Trust Your In-Plant or Outsourced Rebuild Facility?

Let’s face it, people make mistakes – and some mistakes can be quite expensive. Mistakes made in a gearbox rebuild, for example, can cost a plant hundreds of thousands of dollars due to unplanned downtime and even workplace injuries resulting from a bad rebuild. Have you ever taken the time to audit your in-plant or outsourced rebuild facility? Do you require acceptance testing of the components that have been rebuilt to verify they are service ready?

Asset Condition Management

On-Site Fluid Intelligence: A Revolution to Advance Machinery Reliability

Using in-service oil analysis to improve machinery reliability has a long history. The first oil analysis was performed over half a century ago on a locomotive engine. Just as a human blood test provides important information about your health, the information provided by in-service oil analysis about machinery health, especially for a piece of complex machinery with many moving parts, such as a diesel engine, is unmatched by any other technologies on the market.

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Using 3A Learning to Drive Competency and Business Results from eLearning

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 40:04
by Tara Holwegner, Life Cycle Engineering.

10% of competency development happens in formal education, 90% happens on-the-job through coaching, stretch goals and informal knowledge-sharing. To further challenge traditional learning strategy, we’ve experienced massive technology advancements in learning delivery and management. How can reliability leaders ensure their learning investments build competency and realize the benefits of a proficient workforce?

During this active session on Competency-Based Learning, participants will step-through the 3A Learning® process used by organizations to build competence and power proactive transformations like TPM, RCM and Reliability Excellence®.

To relate session contents to a current initiative, session participants will use a learning impact map to analyze a reliability effort, identify needed competencies and align them to an organization-level goal. The speaker will give examples of on-the-job application and outline a case of how eLearning was applied using 3A Learning to advance competency goals. To curtail reservations about using eLearning to support a hands-on profession like reliability and maintenance, the speaker will include guidelines for selecting quality eLearning.

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Utilizing Alliances of SMEs to Grow a Global Reliability Program

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 50:45
by Thomas Povanda, Merck/MSD

Global and multi-site organizations often struggle with focusing and leveraging their internal subject matter experts (SMEs) to collectively build an effective reliability program as well as where or how to start one.

Merck is currently implementing a multifaceted global asset & reliability management program across 20 of their large pharmaceutical manufacturing sites. Many of these sites have SMEs in specific technical areas (e.g. vibration analysis, elastomers, etc.) with extensive personal experience and understanding of best practices and to date, have provided information and knowledge on topics through their networks on an ad hoc basis.

As part of Merck’s strategic implementation to advance asset reliability and performance, they have successfully captured SME experience to build global asset & reliability management best practices by creating and utilizing Alliances and other knowledge sharing platforms. The engineering business process for Alliances includes organizing a small group of SMEs for a short-duration focused work effort. Alliances are short-duration teams that take a specific technical topic or identified need and work as a small project team to develop a working best practice solution over several weeks, and each alliance adds to a global repository for knowledge management purposes.

This presentation session will outline the approach and value of Alliances in developing and implementing reliability and maintenance best practices within a global multi-site organization citing specific examples.

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IIoT Creates a New Context of Reliability for Transit Asset Management

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 47:57
by John Murphy, Reliabilityweb.com.

This presentation delivers a foundational understanding of how the Industrial Internet of Things creates a new context for reliability and asset performance for transit operations.

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How and Why to Change an Award-Winning Asset Management and Reliability Program

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 34:11
by Ray Congdon & Russ Parrish, CBRE.

In 2016 CBRE won the Best Work Execution Management Program award at the 2016 International Maintenance Conference (IMC) for our Maintenance Excellence (ME) Program. In 2017 CBRE modified and rebranded ME to Asset Performance and Energy Excellence (APEX). Why in less than a year would CBRE take the ME program and significantly modify it? What made it necessary to change and rebrand a program that was as successful as ME? How did CBRE go about doing it and what have the results been? This presentation will go down this decision making process and journey.

Other aspects that will be covered include:

Detailed explanation of the APEX program
How APEX and the Uptime Elements/Reliability Leadership Institute are intertwined
Varying environments APEX is implemented in – medical, pharma, manufacturing, traditional facilities management, data centers, retail, etc.
Global rollout challenges conquered
How APEX partners with CBREs plan to be “world Class”.
Vision for 2018 and beyond
How APEX fits into CBREs overall reliability and innovation plan

Asset Condition Management

International Asset Management Benchmarking The Central Arizona Project (CAP) Case Study

IMC-2017 Learning Session - 42:22
by Brian Buzard, Central Arizona Project (CAP) and John Fortin, CH2M Hill.

The Asset Management practice is quickly gaining significant momentum in North America. The Australian / New Zealand influence has played a significant role in helping advance the practice across the globe. The Water Services Association of Australia (WSAA) has been conduction process benchmarking for over 12 years and has collected significant information which is being used to help drive asset management best practices discussions and actions at the C-Suite levels of many organizations.

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Persistence Pays: The Journey to Lubrication Excellence

IMC Learning Session - 44:18
by Roger Story, Owens Corning and Helmut Von Schweinitz, Lubrication Engineers.

Lured by the promises of riches, new arrivals to this country set out on a journey some 168 years ago, in an area of California called Sutter’s Mill. Lying in the bed of the American River, the glint of gold caught the eye of James Wilson Marshall, a carpenter from New Jersey News of opportunity soon spread, bringing thousands from around the world in hopes of starting their journey to riches. The California Gold Rush had begun.

By the year 1850, the surface-laden gold had largely dissipated. Easy gains for the average independent miner had dissipated. Further gains were only achievable by the persistence of industrialization in mining. During the California Gold Rush, more than 750,000 pounds of gold was extracted from the region. Few gained riches. Most struck out and were left worse off than when they started.

The journey to Lubrication Excellence has its share of false starts, leaving a foul taste in the mouths of management and maintenance alike. Many such journeys end before they start. Others end with the completion of easy gains. With the right plan, the right people and the right timing, a persistent maintenance team can reach Lubrication Excellence!

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Measure true power consumption with the new VPInstruments 3 Phase Power Meter!

VPInstruments, manufacturer of leading flow metering equipment for easy insight into energy flows, introduces the highly accurate 3 Phase Power Meter. This newest addition to the portfolio measures true power, as it measures the voltage and current of all three phases. It provides power, voltage, current, cos(phi) and many more electrical parameters. All of these are communicated via the RS485 (Modbus RTU) interface. VPInstruments 3 Phase Power Meter is the recommended power meter for permanent measurements.

Asset Condition Management

7 Ways to Ensure Better Maintenance of Electric Motors

Electric motors may look like any other electrical component, but they have a massive impact on the company’s profitability and productivity. As such, it is critical to perform regular preventive maintenance checks on electric motors¹ to ensure they always perform at their peak.

For starters, prepare a checklist that focuses on examining and monitoring the motor and electrical wiring. This allows you to detect and identify potential problems that the motor may face and lets you address these problems ahead of time. This will drastically bring down unexpected repair expenses.

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Varnish Mitigation: Effective Fluid Analysis and Varnish Removal Options

One of the most difficult aspects of dealing with lubrication systems is that you can’t see what is happening inside of them. Taking an oil sample allows you to gather information about the trace amounts of wear metals, oxidation deposits, additive chemicals and other contaminants that tell you about the system. Just like blood tests don’t always tell a doctor the whole story, traditional oil analysis testing doesn’t give the entire story when it comes to varnish.

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Motion Amplification: A New Way to Visualize Vibrations

IMC-2017 Focused Forum - 41:09
by Jeff Hay, RDI Technologies

Motion Amplification (MA) is a video-processing technique that detects subtle motion and amplifies that motion to a level visible with the naked eye, resolving motions as small as 2.54 microns. Compared to standard video, this is an improvement of nearly 100x. The process uses high dynamic range video cameras where every pixel becomes a sensor, creating millions of data points in an instant. This solves a fundamental issue in today’s contact based data collections, that is for large assets outfitting them with contact sensors is costly and difficult because of the sheer number of sensors required to cover the asset. The software allows the user to draw a box and measure the time waveform and spectrum in absolute units of displacement.

Asset Condition Management

Motors@Work teams up with Fluke Connect

Motors@Work now offers an out-of-the-box integration with Fluke ConnectTM Condition Monitoring tools making it easier than ever to generate insights that drive maintenance actions on your motors and motor-driven systems.

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The Use of Drone Technology for Remote Oil Sampling

IMC-2017 Focused Forum - 43:09
by Michael Holloway, ALS Global

Oil analysis sampling can be difficult if not impossible in certain environments due to location. The use of unmanned aerial vehicles have increased exponentially due to advances in materials, aeronautics, and systems for commercial applications. Drones can accomplish tasks that would be difficult if not impossible for people. The combination of oil sampling and unmanned aerial vehicles is a perfect match in certain situations. Only recently has the concept become viable due to a combination of vacuum sample bottles and ducted fan drone technology. This presentation explores the applications where a patent pending ducted fan drone coupled with a vacuum oil sample bottles can provide access to various assets where normally it would be expensive if not prohibitive for typical sampling protocols to occur.

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Will IIoT Technologies Replace Factory Maintenance Workers?

The idea that smart factory technology will displace humans has generated considerable discussion. In a July 2016 report, McKinsey & Company estimates that “59 percent of all manufacturing activities could be automated.”¹ In an article that can be applied to the field of industrial analytics, the MIT Technology Review² suggests that unlike past experience, technologies are providing solutions that are more humanlike and could, therefore, eliminate jobs that so far have withstood automation.

asset condition management

Achieving Electrical Distribution Availability and Functionality by Utilizing the Uptime Elements

Do You Trust Your In-Plant or Outsourced Rebuild Facility?

On-Site Fluid Intelligence: A Revolution to Advance Machinery Reliability

SDT Announces the SDT340 and UAS4.0

Using 3A Learning to Drive Competency and Business Results from eLearning

Utilizing Alliances of SMEs to Grow a Global Reliability Program

IoT Solutions World Congress will Display 10 Practical Uses on Industrial Internet Solutions

IIoT Creates a New Context of Reliability for Transit Asset Management

How and Why to Change an Award-Winning Asset Management and Reliability Program

International Asset Management Benchmarking The Central Arizona Project (CAP) Case Study

Persistence Pays: The Journey to Lubrication Excellence

IoT Sensor Technology for Steam Traps

Measure true power consumption with the new VPInstruments 3 Phase Power Meter!

August - September 2018

7 Ways to Ensure Better Maintenance of Electric Motors

Varnish Mitigation: Effective Fluid Analysis and Varnish Removal Options

Motion Amplification: A New Way to Visualize Vibrations

Motors@Work teams up with Fluke Connect

The Use of Drone Technology for Remote Oil Sampling

Will IIoT Technologies Replace Factory Maintenance Workers?