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Pioneering Asset Management Through Benchmarking

Initially, the multi-phased program was focused on standardization of maintenance practices, adoption of best practices and optimization of labor and material resources. To facilitate the

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October - November 2017
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

October - November 2017

Click to read all articles from this issue. You can also download the full PDF.

Leadership for Reliability

A Very Interesting Quick Exercise for Your Staff

  1. Explain to each staff person that we are conducting a study of the Maintenance department. What you tell the people:
    List all your activities. After you create the list please describe each activity in enough detail that an outsider could understand what you are talking about and include: In a typical week what % of your time is spent doing what activity, what are your most important activities, what activities do you like best, what activities do you like least. Add any comments about your job that you think could help this study. Important: Please add any activities that happen annually or quarterly.
  2. At the same time the Maintenance Manager writes about the duties

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Emerson Partners With Ranken Technical College to Help Prepare the Manufacturing Workforce
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Emerson Partners With Ranken Technical College to Help Prepare the Manufacturing Workforce

Company Will Launch Expanded Production Line at Ranken’s Manufacturing Incubator Facility in North St. Louis, Providing Students with Hands-On Opportunities to Develop High-Tech Skills

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Q&A with Industry Leader S. Kay Bourque
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Q&A with Industry Leader S. Kay Bourque

Uptime® magazine had the opportunity to speak with Kay Bourque, Director of Maintenance Strategy and Services – Phosphates at Mosaic Fertilizer, LLC. Kay began her career in the phosphate industry in 1980 as a maintenance engineer in Louisiana at Mosaic’s Uncle Sam Plant. During the last 37 years, she held various positions in phosphates production, maintenance and procurement. In her present role, Kay is responsible for the strategic direction of Phosphates Business Unit’s asset integrity. She leads the maintenance services team as it partners with facility management in their improvement efforts to deliver safe, cost-effective and reliable equipment performance to drive operational excellence.

Improving Safety: 10 Tips, Tricks, Rules and Suggestions
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Improving Safety: 10 Tips, Tricks, Rules and Suggestions

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers sustained a collective 2.9 million workplace injuries and illnesses in 2015, and nearly 5,000 workers were killed on the job—an average of 13 employees every day.

As employers try to curtail those shocking numbers and improve safety throughout their facility, it’s important to examine the relationship between a safer workplace and ensuring uptime, reliability and quality asset performance.

These 10 health and safety tips for safety managers easily translate to the reliability and uptime maintenance sectors, and show you how they can help your company. Asset managers, in particular, can use these tips to acquire, operate and maintain assets in a safe, efficient manner.

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Engineers Need a Nap

The overwhelming majority of industrial accidents result from human error. Engineers who sleep less than eight hours per night are less productive and almost 10 percent more likely to cause an accident, and many don’t get enough sleep. The solution: take a short nap.

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Operating at Capacity: When PdM Is Not Optional

Imagine a large, global industry that competes on hair thin margins for the opportunity to deliver products continuously, requiring just-in-time (JIT) to process and other nonstop production operations. Combine the urgency of delivery with the fact that many production sites are unmanned and downtime disrupts the customer’s production operations and triggers heavy contractual penalties. Put it all together and you have all the ingredients for the perfect unplanned downtime storm.

This is the competitive environment in which major industrial gases companies operate. Many of their production operations are colocated with the manufacturing sites of customers because they’re supplying ingredients that are critical to customers’ production processes. Uninterrupted on-site delivery is a key industry success factor.

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Executive Sponsorship with Bill Wilder

Watch this video tip about Executive Sponsorship

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What’s the Role of the Reliability Engineer?

The primary role of the Reliability Engineer is to identify and manage asset reliability risks that could adversely affect plant or business operations. This broad primary role can be divided into three smaller, more manageable roles: Loss Elimination, Risk Management and Life Cycle Asset Management.

Loss Elimination

One fundamental role of the Reliability Engineer is to track the production losses and abnormally high maintenance cost assets, then find ways to reduce those losses or

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The Challenge: Developing a Reliability Culture
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The Challenge: Developing a Reliability Culture

In some organizations, reliability is not just a word, but a culture that has been built over a period of time. Developing a reliability culture is not solely a top-down approach or dependent on the company’s vision. Sometimes, it is taken as a normal, routine job, while other times, it may get a fast-track status.

Cintas Journey to World Class Reliability
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Cintas Journey to World Class Reliability

IMC-2016 Learning Session - 44:21

by Eric Ayanegui and James Wagoner, Cintas

Cintas Improves Return on Net Assets by 100% Through Reliability Program – This is our StoryFollow Cintas through the reliability journey from having no maintenance or reliability program to a successful reliability program that has achieved results recognized by executives and industry. Journey starts in 2008 with minimal understanding of reliability to corporate wide understanding and support of reliability. This presentation covers elements to develop an effective reliability program for a large corporation. We will discuss how buy-in was achieved throughout 165 different production facilities across the US and Canada and a technician population of 500+. The Reliability program includes the following elements:

•Reliability marketing, logo, and banner

•Training and awareness presentations across all levels of management

•Annual Reliability Scorecard Audit

•Standard preventative maintenance tasks

•Maintenance trainee/apprentice development program

•Maintenance employee development and training

•Maintenance safety certification

•Effective CMMS implementation

August - September 2017
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

August - September 2017

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Saudi International Petrochemical Company Ups Maintenance Reliability Performance
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Saudi International Petrochemical Company Ups Maintenance Reliability Performance

In consultation with DuPont, the Saudi International Petrochemical Company (Sipchem) establishes a transformation program to deliver significant and sustainable improvements in business performance.

Back to Basics for True Operational Excellence
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Back to Basics for True Operational Excellence

Many companies are beginning to search for and implement sophisticated maintenance and reliability (M&R) tools and technologies in hopes of finding the next best thing to help achieve operational excellence (OE). Terms, such as asset performance management (APM), predictive analytics, machine learning, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), the Cloud, connected plant, etc., are making their way into everything M&R. As game changing as these concepts can be, adopting advanced technologies without first addressing the basic fundamentals of M&R is like building the world’s finest home on a crumbling foundation.

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Lipstick in School

According to a news report, a certain private school in Washington recently was faced with a unique problem...

A number of 12-year-old girls were beginning to use lipstick and would put it on ...

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A Quick Staff Exercise

A very interesting quick exercise for your staff:

  1. Explain to each staff person that we are conducting a study of the Maintenance department. What you tell the people:
    List all your activities. After you create the list please describe each activity in enough detail that an outsider could understand what you are talking about and include: In a typical week what % of your time is spent doing what activity, what are your most important activities, what activities do you like best, what activities do you like least. Add any comments about your job that you think could help this study. Important: Please add any activities that happen annually or quarterly.
  2. At the same time, ...
DuPont Unveils Newest Smart Clothing Technology at Outdoor Retailer Show
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DuPont Unveils Newest Smart Clothing Technology at Outdoor Retailer Show

Launch of Intexar™ Inks and Films Enable Seamless, Comfortable, High-Performing Smart Garments

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Why Use the Uptime Elements Framework for Reliability Culture Awareness?

The Uptime® Elements™ provides a visual framework.

Easy to follow & set up to prioritize your plan for a successful implementation. The value of a whole site, all in sync with the goals and objectives of the company, and associated

The ...

BorgWarner Increases Overall Equipment Effectiveness with Leading2Lean Cloud-based Lean Mfg
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BorgWarner Increases Overall Equipment Effectiveness with Leading2Lean Cloud-based Lean Mfg

Within a short time period after implementing Leading2Lean, the plant began to resolve inefficiencies and frustrations with a system that allowed them to better identify production weaknesses.

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