Starting Your Campaign: Selling Maintenance as a Profit Center by Joe Anderson, The J.M. Smucker CompanyProactive maintenance can be a tough sell. Why invest in expensive updates or costly down time to work on machines that are functioning well enough? While most maintenance managers understand the value of proactive maintenance, making it happen may require an effective sales pitch to upper management. This presentation will help propel the careers of those in maintenance by explaining how to present your maintenance department as a profit generator,not a necessary evil. Attendees will learn how to start this type of campaign as well as the business side of maintenance management, including why competitive advantage is important,the three value types, and the different methods of tracking cost savings and avoidances.
Uptime®, a magazine serving over 50,000 maintenance Reliability Leaders and Asset Management Professionals, announced the winners of the Best Solution Awards for 2016.
NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. -- March 31, 2016 -- L-com Global Connectivity, a preferred manufacturer of wired and wireless connectivity products, announced today that it has introduced a cross-polarized low-PIM DAS panel antenna.
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Newell, WV -- March 28, 2016 -- The BelGAS division of Marsh Bellofram Corporation, a member of the Bellofram Group of Companies, today introduced its Type P203 and P203H pressure reducing regulators for industrial commercial and utility service applications.
TORONTO -- March 23, 2016 -- HubHead Corp., the leading provider of maintenance and asset data quality software solutions, announces the general availability of a new version of its flagship software, NRX AssetHub™. NRX AssetHub 6.3.4 focuses on helping customers solve their business issues, and features enhancements for Data Quality Analysis and Repair, furthering the company’s commitment to helping its customers get their Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) data right.
Tetra Pak’s packaging material factory in Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, today received the world’s top award for manufacturing excellence. Presented by the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance, the World Class Total Production Maintenance Award recognises facilities that have achieved outstanding levels of production reliability and efficiency. In the past 40 years, only 20 companies, worldwide, have received this accolade.
HOUSTON; Mar. 9, 2016 – As upstream oil and gas companies scrutinize every dollar invested, they’re spending smarter today on digital technologies, seeking to drive value and reduce costs amid low oil and gas prices, a new survey by Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) reports. Respondents to the ”2016 Upstream Oil and Gas Digital Trends Survey” included international oil companies (IOCs), national oil companies (NOCs), independents and oilfield services firms.
Uptime Magazine congratulates the following outstanding programs for their commitment to and execution of high quality Predictive Maintenance and Condition Monitoring Programs.
To read more about each company, download the Uptime Award Winners’ stories at: uptimeawards.com.
FAIR LAWN, NJ -- March 16, 2016 -- Siklu Inc., the global market leader in millimeter-wave radios, announced it was selected by Netunwired LCC to backhaul a new wireless broadband network at the Aurora Sports Complex in Colorado. Siklu's wireless, Gigabit radios were selected for their out-of-the-box, easy to deploy characteristics, and inherent interference-free quality.
Robotics and automation has prospered in many manufacturing industries but there has been limited progress in food production because of a lack of enabling technologies leading to islands of automation. When focusing on ready meal manufacturing, the finished product can often be over-processed and costly due to the inefficiencies of traditional cooking and processing methods.
Nashville, TN -- March 3, 2016 -- The Site Selectors Guild (SSG), the world’s largest group of senior location advisors, predicts data centers will be a major global growth area in the next three years and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) projects in the US will also increase over that time.
Companies with women on their executive and supervisory boards are valued more highly by the stock markets. Investors rate the performance of the few women who climbed to the top of the career ladder in companies without a gender quota as being better than that of their male peers. Economists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the University of Hong Kong used an unusual method to reach this conclusion. They studied the share price development of companies following the exit of top managers due to death or illness in a sample of around 50 countries.
With the advancement of new technologies, the world is moving toward intelligent devices and assets. Although sensors have been around for a long time, they have always been local to a machine and do a specific job, without much communication to the outside world. But if these sensors can communicate with other sensors, machines and human beings over the Internet, then this setup can form an Internet of intelligent devices.
Senseye, provider of the PROGNOSYS infrastructure-free prognostics and condition monitoring solution to the manufacturing industry, has been selected as ‘One to Watch’ by the prestigious Business Leaders Network IoT Forum.
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Adhering to and sustaining an asset performance management process doesn’t come easy. That’s why we need a holistic system-based approach like the Uptime Elements with its evolving technical, cultural and leadership elements. This interactive session demonstrates the key to making the elements ‘stick’ – diligence to a proactive business process. Is your process proactive? Explore how to map your business process and tasks to the Uptime Elements, building on what you are already doing successfully and identifying areas for improvement. You will identify the need to improve in one Uptime Element or another; from reliability engineering for maintenance, asset condition management, work execution or perhaps your organization needs new leadership skills for reliability. But overall, the biggest bang for your buck is learning how to ensure people are focused on the process, understand their role and responsibilities and are supported with the proper training and software to drive and support the process.
February 26, 2016 – Regal divisions Hub City and Marathon Motors have collaborated with PARTsolutions to create product configuration software that allows design engineers to create and download perfectly matched gear/motor configurations. The configurator software is a free download with automatic part number generation, reverse part number lookup, 3D PDF data sheets, 2D drawings, and can be embedded into any existing website or online catalog. Designers can start with the gearbox and find a motor match or vice versa, and configured files are downloadable in 150 CAD formats.
Las Vegas, - 22 Feb 2016: Today, the Siemens Buildings Technologies Division and IBM (NYSE:IBM) announced cloud-based solutions that will leverage Siemens’ building expertise and IBM Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities to maximize the potential of connected buildings and the data they create, helping corporate real estate owners across multiple industries drive business results and meet energy efficiency goals.
Nexans Norway and IKM Subsea have come to an agreement to extend the current ROV services contracts on board the C/S Nexans Skagerrak. The contract value including options is 75 million NOK and duration term is firm for 3 years + 2 yearly options.
S-Bank is set on making everyday life easier by bringing a new mobile fueling feature to its award-winning S-Mobile iPhone app. The unique service now combines mobile fueling with mobile banking, a retail customer loyalty program, and targeted customer coupons. Mobile fueling features easy gas pump activation, invisible mobile payments, and navigation to the nearest gas station.