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Improving the Asset Management Program at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex

Improving the Asset Management Program at the Arnold Engineering Development Complex

The Arnold Engineering Development Complex (AEDC) is an Air Force Test Center (AFTC) organization and an important national resource. The AEDC operates more than 55 aerodynamic and propulsion wind tunnels, rocket and turbine engine test cells, environmental chambers, ballistic ranges, sled tracks, centrifuges, and other specialized units at multiple operating locations. Due to the age, uniqueness of the test systems, and the non-production mode of operation; sustaining these national assets is a challenge.

 Cultural Misalignment and Poor Vendor Advice Among Top Reasons for Digital Transformation Derailment

Cultural Misalignment and Poor Vendor Advice Among Top Reasons for Digital Transformation Derailment

IFS Study - As digital transformation spend is increasing around the world, businesses look for technology vendors whose ethics (29 percent) and culture (23 percent) align with their own. Interestingly, these considerations trump innovation in the ranking of desirable traits, demonstrating that having a similar cultural view of the world is playing a larger role in the selection process.

 Siemens Makes Industrial Data Accessible and Actionable

Siemens Makes Industrial Data Accessible and Actionable

New services enabled by the Mendix low-code platform enable data-driven decision making in factories and across enterprise data sources.

PLANO, Texas, -- Mendix World 2.0 -- Siemens Digital Industries Software is leveraging theMendix™ low-code application development platform to help customers across industries build contextual and personalized solutions and help enable data-driven decision-making processes. 

Strategic Building of Key Performance Indicators: How We Made It? A Winning Case Study

Strategic Building of Key Performance Indicators: How We Made It? A Winning Case Study

Having representative key performance indicators (KPIs) is important in gaining needed control to assure fulfillment of achievement for organizations and stakeholders’ goals and needed values. But they are only useful if we succeed to identify the right ones for our business and processes. They will only deliver critical information and targeted outcomes if we built them by strategic, meaningful, simple top-down approach.

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Leveraging Asset Management to Move from Silos to a Streamlined Organization

Leveraging Asset Management to Move from Silos to a Streamlined Organization

This multi-disciplinary team will share their expertise in implementing asset management through the alignment of management processes with cross-functional teams…a strategy that has been successful in removing silos, changing organizational culture, and improving decisions.

Integration of Design for Reliability: Discover Defects and Remove Failure Modes & Shutdowns

Integration of Design for Reliability: Discover Defects and Remove Failure Modes & Shutdowns

Asset management has introduced a few key concepts which require a shift from focusing on initial investment to optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO). Shifting from a mindset of initial cost, scope and schedule to a focus on TCO requires a catalyst for change. Design for reliability (DfR) answers this call.

Risky Business: How Tacoma Power Is Addressing the Risk of Risk Management

Risky Business: How Tacoma Power Is Addressing the Risk of Risk Management

One of the most important decisions we can make is how we make decisions. Understanding risk is at the foundation of every decision we make in asset management.

Executive Sponsorship in Making Asset Management Programs Successful: The City of Atlanta

Executive Sponsorship in Making Asset Management Programs Successful: The City of Atlanta

The City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management (DWM) is currently preparing to launch a comprehensive 5-year asset management implementation plan (AMIP) using a steering committee comprised of cross-departmental DWM leadership and managers – a critical success factor in realizing the expected benefits of significant multi-year investment.

 GE Digital’s APM 4.4 Update Rapidly Reduces Cost & Risk from Industrial R&M Work Processes

GE Digital’s APM 4.4 Update Rapidly Reduces Cost & Risk from Industrial R&M Work Processes

GE Digital’s APM 4.4 uses Digital Twins, advanced visualizations and improved connectivity to help asset and process intensive companies in power generation, oil & gas and chemical processing industries to rapidly reduce costs while adapting to changing market conditions.

SAN RAMON, Calif. –  GE Digital today unveiled the latest version of its industry-leading Asset Performance Management (APM) mission-critical software suite. 

Integrated Management Systems: Collaboration at Its Best

Integrated Management Systems: Collaboration at Its Best

At Sound Transit, we have embarked on a journey to develop our Safety and Asset Management Systems using quality management principles, leveraging the path laid by the agency's certified Environmental Sustainability Management System.

 Bentley Systems Opens Up Full Access to ProjectWise 365 - Waives Subscription Fees through Sept. 30

Bentley Systems Opens Up Full Access to ProjectWise 365 - Waives Subscription Fees through Sept. 30

Connects Virtual Project Workgroups for Collaboration and Design Review with Purpose-built “Instant-on” Cloud Service

EXTON, PA, USA – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced it has opened up its ProjectWise 365 cloud service, including waiving subscription fees through September 30, 2020, to virtually connect infrastructure project participants forced to work from home.

Incorporating an ISO55000 Risk Matrix to Classical RCM Methodology

Incorporating an ISO55000 Risk Matrix to Classical RCM Methodology

This presentation details how Central Arizona Project's and Arizona water utility incorporated a risk matrix to their Classical RCM methodology to account for more granular levels of failure likelihood and severity to derive a risk priority number (RPN) for each failure mode and selected task. 

From Strategy to Implementation: Improving Reliability at Rijeka Refinery (Croatia)

From Strategy to Implementation: Improving Reliability at Rijeka Refinery (Croatia)

The aim of the project is to set-up and run preventive maintenance in SAP PM module with all necessary activities and preparation, implementation for HCC Complex with auto generation of work orders and all related processes. 

 Bentley Systems’ SVP Alan Kiraly Elected to the Board of MIMOSA

Bentley Systems’ SVP Alan Kiraly Elected to the Board of MIMOSA

Bentley’s Ongoing Commitment to Interoperability and Open Standards Includes New Enterprise Interoperability Services

EXTON, Pa. – March 17, 2020 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced that Alan Kiraly, Bentley’s SVP for asset and network performance, has been elected to the board of MIMOSA.

 Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine Invite Nominations for the Solution Awards

Reliabilityweb.com and Uptime Magazine Invite Nominations for the Solution Awards

[Fort Myers, FL, February 25, 2020] – Reliabilityweb.com® and Uptime® magazine have issued a call for nominations for the Solution Awards recognizing innovative products, software, training and services for reliability and asset management.

Integrated Management Systems: Collaboration at Its Best

Integrated Management Systems: Collaboration at Its Best

Implementing an integrated management system brings significant value to organizations, beyond what would have otherwise been achieved by implementing each system (asset management, safety management, quality management, etc.) independently.

Operations-Led Reliability Effort: 10 Years Later

Operations-Led Reliability Effort: 10 Years Later

In 2009, Cameco Corporation's Port Hope Uranium Conversion Facility in Port Hope, Canada, launched a new approach to continuous improvement. It was documented and presented in the Aug/Sept 2012 issue of Uptime magazine titled, “Operations-Led Reliability.” Ten years later, here is an update on how it has evolved through multiple improvements.

The Disease in Manufacturing No One Is Talking About

The Disease in Manufacturing No One Is Talking About

In one recent reliability trade magazine, there were 34 advertisements for new and improved tools or training for improving your reliability program. 

Managing the Risk of the Schedule Using Monte Carlo Simulations

Managing the Risk of the Schedule Using Monte Carlo Simulations

Consider this scenario: You are finalizing the planning of your company’s next major maintenance outage or capital project and are concerned the timeline is too tight and your team is small. You communicate this to management and... 

Q & A with Suzane Greeman

Q & A with Suzane Greeman

Suzane Greeman, CMQ/OE, CAMA, CAMP, CMRP is the President and Principal Asset Management Advisor of Greeman Asset Management Solutions Inc (GAMSINC). An accomplished asset management leader with over 22 years of experience, Suzane has worked across several asset management disciplines to implement asset management strategies for cement manufacturing, power generation, wastewater treatment and airport assets. She is also a member of the Empowering Women in Industry 2020 Steering Committee and Women in Reliability and Asset Management (WIRAM). Uptime® magazine was fortunate enough to speak with Suzane about her company, asset management and the role of diversity in the industry.