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SKF Solution Factory Opens in Cleveland, OH

CLEVELAND, OH, —SKF has announced the grand opening of the SKF Solution Factory in the Cleveland, OH area, a venue designed to equip customers with value-added solutions and industry knowledge. This new facility is the second to open in the United States, joining a growing network of 17 others worldwide.

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Mining Haul Road Maintenance

David Hengen

Open-pit mining poses many challenges that need to be overcome to effectively maintain critical equipment fleets.

Asset Management

Converting Reliability Initiatives into Measurable Returns

Darrin J. Wikoff

Today's economic climate brings with it the challenge of accessing credit for capital investment. In The Ernst & Young Business Risk Report 2010, as shown in Figure 1, access to credit hit number two on the top 10 list of business risks across 14 sectors evaluated in the study. Internationally, asset management professionals are working collaboratively to define new standards that shift the focus away from capital replacement and instead bring visibility to asset performance.

 

Asset Management

The Society of Mfg Engineers Works with U.S. Army to Help Solve the Manufacturing Skills Gap

Over the next five years, there will be up to a million military personnel returning to civilian life and getting into the U.S. civilian workforce. Juxtapose this with the 600,000 jobs currently open in advanced manufacturing and the anticipated need for 10 million skilled workers by 2020, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) sees a “win-win” opportunity for all.

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No Silver Bullet for Reliability Series: Part 2 of 4
Asset Management

No Silver Bullet for Reliability Series: Part 2 of 4

An hour long presentation by Leslie McHattie, Senior Reliability Practitioner, Ivara Corporation

Why do some reliability implementations succeed and others fail? Leslie McHattie has seen it all --some programs are highly successful, most are "satisfactory" and some fail. Trying something new without a plan to manage and sustain the improvement is what we call a silver bullet approach and tends to be very short lived, eventually becoming the flavor of the month.

If the same tools result in variable outcomes, it is evident that the reason this happens does not reside in the tool itself, but rather in how it is managed and applied.

Asset Management

SAS Predictive Asset Maintenance Reduces Downtime, Revenue Losses

CARY, NC - For capital-intensive industries like high-tech manufacturing, oil and gas production, and fleet management, even a short downtime caused by asset failure means huge revenue losses. Predictive analytics from SAS helps companies that depend on assets like production equipment pinpoint the best times to conduct routine maintenance and avoid costly disruptions. Companies such as Saudi Aramco, POSCO and Ryder already recognize the business benefits of asset optimization with SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services.

Asset Management

Honeywell Expands Partnershi​p with SKF as Part of PKS Advantage Program

BRACKNELL, United Kingdom, - Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced that SKF, a global leader in vibration-based machinery protection and monitoring systems, has expanded its partnership with Honeywell as part of the Honeywell PKS Advantage Program. Additional SKF solutions now available as part of the relationship include SKF @ptitude Analyst condition monitoring suite and SKF Multilog On-line System DMx to support the Honeywell Asset Management solution.

Asset Management

Honeywell Refreshes Key Asset Mgt Offerings, Announces Collaboration to Boost Plants’ PdM Prog

Houston - Improving maintenance and reliability of plant operations is an important goal for plant operators. Honeywell (NYSE:HON) today released improved versions of its two key asset management offerings and announced an initiative to help plant operators to more effectively implement reliability-centered and predictive maintenance programs.

Asset Management

Appointment of Two New Board Directors

The Asset Management Council is pleased to announce the appointment of two new members to its Board of Directors, effective Thursday 7 June 2012 following the member ballot.

Asset Management

Stratum Consulting Partners Certifies Des Moines Metropolitan Wastewater on PAS 55 Asset Management

SUPERIOR, Colo., /PRNewswire/—Des Moines Metropolitan Wastewater Reclamation Authority (WRA) has recently achieved BSI Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS 55). Securing this certification provides assurances to WRA’s customers, employees, regulators, and other stakeholders of their commitment to optimal and sustainable asset management operations. PAS 55 certification also places WRA at the forefront of their field and clearly demonstrates a systematic and cross-disciplinary approach to asset management.

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Operational Readiness: Bridging the Gap Between Construction and Operations for New Capital Assets

Bob DiStefano with Co-Authors Will Goetz and Bruno Storino

Introduction
Despite the global economic slowdown, several factors are conspiring to spark a spate of new capital construction. These factors include: demand for various commodities (e.g., oil, gas and other natural resources); new discoveries along with new extraction and processing technologies for these commodities (e.g., oil deposits in deep water ocean and shale gas deposits in the U.S.); high commodity prices enabling more costly production technologies (e.g., oil sands); and the current cheap cost of capital.Deloitte, in a recent whitepaper about the mining industry in Africa, suggests that countries and companies in Africa and worldwide "continue a push toward significant industrialization and infrastructure renewal."1 As industrial organizations today tackle the challenges of deciding when to build new capacity, they tend to be driven by carefully formulated business cases. Compelling business cases often lead to sizeable capital expansion projects justified by the anticipated growth in revenue and profits that eventually will be garnered. Do these anticipated benefits materialize? Unfortunately, the reality is they typically fall short of expectations for many reasons and risks span the gamut of variables, including political, economic, market, financial, organizational and operational. Arguably, operational risks are, at the same time, one of the largest and one of the most controllable risks and, ironically, one of the most mismanaged.

Asset Management

Line Performance Optimization – A Problem-Solving Process

Charleston, SC - Life Cycle Engineering has introduced Line Performance Optimization (LPO), a problem-solving process that integrates best practices in asset management, lean and change management to solve chronic and persistent reliability issues. Learn more

No Silver Bullet for Reliability Series: Part 1 of 4
Asset Management

No Silver Bullet for Reliability Series: Part 1 of 4

An hour long presentation by Leslie McHattie, Senior Reliability Practitioner, Ivara Corporation

Taking a silver bullet approach to reliability improvement tends to become very short lived and eventually becomes the flavor of the month. Experience has shown that a strategic and comprehensive approach to physical asset management is the best way to improve equipment reliability. In this 4 part series, we will learn from Leslie McHattie, Senior Reliability Practitioner at Ivara, what it takes to launch, manage and sustain a successful reliability initiative and the top 10 lessons learned.

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Unisource Worldwide Announces Major Expansion With New Facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

NORCROSS, GA - Unisource Worldwide, Inc., one of the largest privately held companies in North America and a global provider of customer solutions - including engineered design capabilities, eBusiness technologies, logistics expertise, paper brokerage services, and environmentally-responsible options - announces the opening of a new 118,000 sq. ft. full-service facility in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The company also markets a full line of commercial printing and business imaging papers, wide-format equipment and media, packaging materials and systems, and facility supplies and equipment.

Asset Management

Smartphones & QR Codes Are Changing Physical Asset Management

Forrest Pardue and Chris Tyler

Smart devices and QR code technology offer an opportunity to simplify asset management by putting usable information into the hands of more plant employees needing the information. 

Optimize Reliability Through the Implementation of an Automated and Integrated Asset Optimizer Platform
Asset Management

Optimize Reliability Through the Implementation of an Automated and Integrated Asset Optimizer Platform

An hour long presentation by Ben Venter, Regional Service Director, Canada & Local Business Manager Full Service Canada Ravi Mahajan, Automation & Technical Support Specialist - Western Canada, ABB Inc.

This presentation discusses how a single integrated system can increase equipment performance, improve plant uptime, optimize reliability and lower life cycle costs. An Electronic Asset Optimization platform is a new system integration architecture and power strategy that addresses the needs of the process and power generation industries to continuously monitor equipment and instrumentation performance related to their operating conditions.

The architecture is based on Industrial Ethernet standards such as IEC 61850, Profinet as well as Fieldbus technologies and covers mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and control system equipment. The platform provides complete visibility into the equipment condition through multiple interfaces that could include web based access. Think of the platform as an automatic and continuous monitoring tool of all the data you have available on equipment and devices within your facility. The platform will provide continuous warnings on equipment condition based on asset monitors developed for the equipment, therefore enabling the user to address concerns before they create operational impact.

Asset Management

Shell International Exploration and Production B.V. Selects Ivara EXP

BURLINGTON, ON - Ivara Corporation, an industry leader and innovator in asset performance management solutions, today announced that Shell International Exploration and Production B.V. has selected Ivara EXP Enterprise, with integrated Risk Based Inspections (RBI) and Integrity Inspection Management functionality, as the software platform for Shell’s new Corrosion Inspection Management System.

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(IACET) Has Awarded Reaccreditation Status to Management Resources Group, Inc.

SANDY HOOK, CT. - The International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) has awarded reaccreditation status to Management Resources Group, Inc. (MRG). IACET Authorized Providers are the only organizations approved to offer IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The accreditation period extends for five years, and includes all programs offered or created during that time.

Asset Management

Ivara Corporation and Management Resources Group, Inc.  Announce Release of MRG’s MTA Template

Burlington, Ontario (PRWEB) - Ivara Corporation and Management Resources Group, Inc. (MRG), industry leaders and innovators in asset performance management solutions and implementations, respectively, today announced the availability of MTA Templates in EXP Cloud for Ivara EXP Enterprise 6.1. MRG’s MTA Templates are the first engineering content offering available in Ivara’s cloud computing based library and online collaboration community and are a key way for MRG to share reliability program content with EXP customers, resulting in shortened implementations and accelerated benefits.

Asset Management

Ivara Corporation Announces Partnership with Asset Performance Technologies (APT)

Ivara Cloud Content Community Grows with addition of APT Asset Strategy Library.

BURLINGTON, ON - Ivara Corporation, the industry leader and innovator in asset performance management solutions, today announced a partnership with Asset Performance Technologies, Inc. (APT) to allow Ivara to offer its customers the APT Asset Strategy Library (ASL) through Ivara’s cloud content community, EXP Cloud. Ivara customers can now purchase APT’s library and immediately have it available for use in Ivara EXP Enterprise via EXP Cloud. Because APT is directly connected to EXP Cloud, they can update their library content and provide instant updates to their licensed customers using EXP Enterprise.

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