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Strong Predictive Maintenance Program Boosts UPTIME to Meet Growing Demand for Recycled Papers

Paul DeHaan and Matthew Schmandt

As the only paper mill in North America dedicated to producing coated mechanical printing papers made from nearly 100 percent recycled materials, FutureMark Paper Company is in the enviable position of having just what customers want - environmentally-friendly products that meet high print-quality standards for magazines, books, catalogs and advertising flyers.

How a Major Transit Authority is Achieving Item Master Data Integrity in Maximo
Work Execution Management

How a Major Transit Authority is Achieving Item Master Data Integrity in Maximo

A half-hour long presentation by Lamar Landry, Senior Account Executive and Aimee Hiskett, Manager of Contracts and Parts, Storerooms and Materials Logistics 

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) manages the regional transportation system in the national capital area. With 22 storerooms and more than 50,000 SKU's in Maximo 6.2 (upgrading to 7.5), data quality and accuracy in the Item Master is of utmost importance. In this session, WMATA will show how they are optimizing their MRO catalog by cleansing and standardizing item descriptions and keeping the data clean with a catalog management/governance tool connected to Maximo. In doing this, they are seeing increased asset utilization and equipment availability, while simultaneously reducing inventory investment.

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Q&A - Pat Akins

 

UPTIME MAGAZINE CEO/Publisher Terrence O'Hanlon recently caught up with Pat Akins, Reliability Leader of paper maker Kimberly-Clark, for a question and answer session about the development of the Lubrication Program at the Everett Mill over the past three years.

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Sunshine & Rainbows: The Journey Toward Cultural Change

By John Scott

We have all heard the old saying that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step," but never did this Confucius saying ring truer than when implementing manufacturing excellence.

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Q&A with the 2011 Uptime Award Winners

Uptime magazine Publisher and Editor Terrence O'Hanlon recently caught up with the following Uptime Award winning companies and asked them: "How did you get management's approval to move forward with this program and support you through the journey which eventually led to winning this award?"

Keep it Contained: Reducing Risk with Mechanical Integrity
Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Keep it Contained: Reducing Risk with Mechanical Integrity

A 45 minute long presentation by Michael Warren, Product Manager – Mechanical Integrity, Meridium

In a comprehensive Asset Performance Management program, people, processes, and technology are all equally important to maximize the value you should expect from your Mechanical Integrity solution in order to improve safety, reliability and environmental compliance in high-risk industrial environments.

Current Practice Review: How to Make Existing Maintenance Programs More Proactive (Inspection-Based)
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Current Practice Review: How to Make Existing Maintenance Programs More Proactive (Inspection-Based)

An hour long webinar workshop on demand presented by Florian Lenders, Vice President, Ivara Corporation

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The Reliability Secrets of North America’s most profitable steel manufacturer

All North American steel manufacturers face the same challenges: foreign competition, rising costs and falling prices. Dofasco responds to the challenges better than anyone; they are North America's most profitable steel company.

How does Dofasco do it? Can you become your industry's most profitable firm by applying Dofasco's reliability secrets?

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Moving from a Repair-focused to a Reliability-focused Culture

Summary
This paper will discuss the five key elements required to successfully transition from a traditional, repair-focused organisational culture, to a proactive, reliability-focused culture, and reap the rewards of increased performance of both equipment and people.

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Three Waves to Reliability Excellence

By Gary Johnson, Reliability Manager, Alcoa, Inc. and Tom Dabbs, Managing Principal, Life Cycle Engineering

This excellent paper and others were presented at IMC-2004 - the 19th International Maintenance Conference.

Driving Regulatory Compliance, Safety, Reliability and Profitability with your Mechanical Integrity
Work Execution Management

Driving Regulatory Compliance, Safety, Reliability and Profitability with your Mechanical Integrity

A 60-minute recorded webinar playback on demand by Scott Jones, Vice President, Meridium Asset Integrity Services, Meridium

With catastrophic industrial incidents on the rise, and the alarming safety, environmental and financial implications they carry, it's imperative that operating companies' develop comprehensive RBI and mechanical integrity initiatives to prevent these events from happening. According to an article in Accountancy Age, recent research suggests that the most important business risks currently are concentrated in the areas of regulation and compliance. In this webinar, attendees will learn more about industry proven Mechanical Integrity APM Work Process and Best Practices, as well as how to deliver a comprehensive, integrated approach for Risk Based Inspection, Thickness Monitoring, and Inspection Management.

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High Operational Autonomy + Low Financial Autonomy: A Formula for Failure

By Ron Moore

Background and Introduction
During a recent meeting, a mid-level manager with a large petroleum company was asking my opinion about which manufacturing and industrial companies were the best in the world. My reply was that most large organizations had manufacturing plants that covered the spectrum ranging from very poor to excellent, but none that I had direct experience with stood out to me as being consistently excellent in their manufacturing practices across the board, that is, in most all plants. As part of that discussion, he also asked "How much autonomy do site managers have (in the organizations you've seen)?" I had to think for a moment, at which point I said, "They have very little financial autonomy, and nearly complete operational autonomy, a recipe for highly variable performance, and ultimately, failure." I'll explain my view.

Managing Integrity & Reliability on Aging Assets
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Managing Integrity & Reliability on Aging Assets

A 60 minute recorded webinar on demand by Brian Hudson, Principal Lead Consultant, ABB Reliability Services.

The implications of managing and planning for the future when looking after aging assets. Failure to effectively manage aging assets can not only have a major impact on share holder confidence and license to operate but also is increasingly seen as a major non-conformance by regulators world wide. Consequently, maintaining integrity, reliability & safety is a challenge that all Operators must face, whilst balancing these needs against the ever present drivers to manage budgets and meet stakeholder expectations. Operators need to have in place a robust strategy for ongoing operation of aging assets which will satisfy the increasing expectations of both industry regulators and authorities.

Participate to learn:

1) Essential elements of a proactive strategy to manage ageing assets

2) The importance of competent people, effective systems and dependable assets in maintaining integrity

3) The role of reliability and integrity in safe operations

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Book Smarts or Getting Smart with Books

With the travel restrictions many organizations are facing attending seminars or training events are no longer an option. Are those who can no longer travel doomed to stop learning or being

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Training Plans Made Easy

Just in time for 2011, here are the ten steps to follow when laying out your annual training plan. Keep in mind the underlying precepts for any plan: to have the right resources, at the right

...• Has operations / production determined a gap in performance that technical training can address?

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Maintenance Reliability Mission Statements

An effective mission statement can go a long way toward generating buy in for your efforts if it is short, direct and to the point.

Try to write your mission statement in under 8 words (Management

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Running a company on visible figures alone

One cannot be successful on visible figures alone. Now of course visible figures are important. There is payroll to meet, vendors to pay, taxes to pay; amortization, pension funds and

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What is Work Sampling?

Work sampling is a measurement technique based on a random sampling of the workforce to determine what types of activities they are performing over the course of the day. Having

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Getting More Value from Your Conference Attendance

Finally, you get the approvals required to attend that conference that you have been looking forward to. You know that conferences provide both information gathering opportunities and access to

...An engaged and open-minded person can derive huge additional benefits when attending the same conference as someone who thinks they know all the answers. Open minded people leave themselves open to new perspectives and experiences and while they may hear many things that they do know, they usually glean something new to help them achieve their goals at work. Keep an open mind and you will get greater value from your time and attendance.

Reliability Excellence Is Not Our Mission- US Sugar Case Study
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Reliability Excellence Is Not Our Mission- US Sugar Case Study

Solutions 2.0 2010 Keynote Presentation- 1:07
by Robert H. Buker, Jr., President and CEO of US Sugar

In this keynote presentation from IMC-2010, Robert H. Buker, Jr. outlines the importance of reliability excellence. While reliability excellence might not be at the forefront of a CEO's mind, Buker, Jr. explains how you can make your case to them and make life easier for everyone. He tackles this issue from the role of a CEO, offering a unique viewpoint and insight.

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