Heat exchangers are critical components in chemical manufacturing, facilitating efficient heat transfer between process fluids. To ensure operational reliability, prevent fluid leakage, and minimize unplanned downtime, properly selected and installed gaskets are essential.
Faced with a leadership retirement and a new hire, the Salem and Beverly Water Supply Board had to act quickly to create a succession plan. This session shares their "aha moment" and the rigorous efforts they undertook to create a new hiring and onboarding process, ensuring smooth transitions and maintaining operational excellence.
Managing infrastructure from 1959 to today requires a robust strategy. This session reveals Stanford Health Care's governance framework for aging infrastructure and capital reinvestment. Learn how their asset lifecycle management workflow, integrating APM and FMEA reporting, uses data to drive informed decisions and a culture of reliability.
As Sound Transit grows its assets from $15B to $75B, it’s pioneering a new Operational Readiness and Transition (OR&T) process. This initiative integrates maintenance, IT, staffing, and reliability into system design to ensure readiness before operations begin—a key part of their journey to ISO 55001 certification.
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Culture change can seem overwhelming. This session presents an effective approach: tackling it with asset management fundamentals. Discover how to use foundational principles as a catalyst for a broader cultural shift, transforming your organization's mindset and driving operational excellence from the ground up.
As a commercial real estate organization, our goal is to enable our clients. This presentation details how we deliver a Reliability & Asset Management solution by aligning our processes with each client’s unique organizational objectives. Discover how an adaptable, data-driven approach creates a successful partnership and provides value through data.
Asset performance management (APM) is rapidly transforming from a technical operations function to a strategic imperative for sustainable industrial growth. As companies face intensifying pressure from climate regulations, environmental, social and governance (ESG) expectations, and market demands for transparency, APM has emerged as a practical and powerful enabler of emissions reduction, energy efficiency, and lifecycle optimization.
Project completion is not enough. This session explores operational readiness (O&M Ready), a critical phase that bridges project delivery and sustained excellence. Learn from Palm Beach County Water Utilities Department how data, from the perspective of technicians to senior leaders, is used to ensure assets and systems are prepared to perform from day one.
Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) implemented its REx Maturity Program to enhance reliability across its manufacturing network. Learn how a harmonized approach, supported by standardized development plans, structured mentoring, and collaborative networking, enabled BMS to enhance efficiency, mitigate business risks, and foster a culture of best practices.
What's the difference between digitization and true digital transformation? This presentation helps reliability teams understand how to make the shift. Learn how to set up strong systems for smooth tech changes, foster teamwork, and identify areas where technology can improve your work and help your business adapt faster.
Are you chasing Maximo's shiny new tools without a plan? Jennifer Gatza from Maven reveals the "cart before the horse" problem of tech-first projects. Learn how to become a trusted advisor and build a disciplined, process-first roadmap that ensures your Maximo journey delivers real value, not just a wishlist of features.
Learn the secrets behind Campana Refinery's award-winning program. This session details how a disciplined management framework and a multi-year Digital Transformation Roadmap—including digital twins and machine learning—aligned objectives and drove a record low in unplanned capacity loss. Discover how their strategy led to top-quartile performance and earned them the Best Refinery in LATAM award.
Learn how Kerry's 1KPS initiative, rolled out across 30 sites in 17 countries, drove incredible results. Discover how this ALM program led to a 24% reduction in unplanned downtime, a 34% increase in MTBF, and over €3 million in savings from optimized spare parts management, all while advancing sustainability goals.
Blueprint Intelligence offers insights into the transformative potential of Business Analytics in Asset Management. We guide you through each stage of the journey—from initial implementation to adapting your system to meet your evolving needs and maturity level—helping you achieve greater operational success.
The Lorain Utilities Department (LUD) is a model for resilient water infrastructure. This session details their Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP), which uses Cityworks software to balance service levels and costs. Learn how data governance and KPIs led to increased reliability, reduced costs, and improved customer service.
An effective asset management policy is paramount for operational success. This session details Baffinland’s journey to formulate and implement an asset management policy that is ISO 55000 compliant. Learn about the challenges they faced, the solutions they developed, and their path from initiation to a fully-implemented policy.
What if reliability professionals were involved in every stage of your organization—from new builds to capital planning? This presentation discusses a methodology for expanding a reliability professional's influence beyond maintenance and into traditionally siloed activities. Learn how implementing the 10 rights of asset management at conception can transform your entire organization and lead to real-life results.
With stretched resources, the need for sustainable action is more vital than ever. This session argues that a paradigm shift in mindset is required to integrate sustainability into asset management and reliability. Discover how making sustainable habits a core part of your culture is key to leading the way in delivering uptime and achieving coherent, consistent business objectives.
As a commercial real estate firm, we don't build widgets—we enable our clients to succeed. This presentation details how we deliver a Reliability & Asset Management solution by aligning our processes with each client’s unique objectives. Discover how our adaptable, data-driven approach creates successful partnerships that provide safe, productive, and future-ready workplaces.
In a large plant, you will encounter many assets of varying complexities, as well as different strategies for performing condition monitoring based on asset criticality. For some assets, you may not need any strategy or the strategy might be simply to run to failure.