Asset management has introduced a few key concepts which require a shift from focusing on initial investment to optimizing total cost of ownership (TCO). This is rooted in a risk-based and science-based approach to understanding the requirements of the assets throughout their useful life.
In 2013, Central San began developing a comprehensive Asset Management Program to better handle the treatment plant's aging infrastructure. This was a much-needed undertaking with much of the plant built before 1980, plant operations faced challenges of equipment obsolescence, low efficiency and poor reliability on a day-to-day basis.
The goal of this is to show that anyone can be a leader for reliability and for asset management and it doesn't have to be 100% dictated from the top. It can be a ground up effort and it is a marathon that's never quite finished.
In this session, SJW will present on its progress, successes, and challenges of various aspects of its asset management journey. Topics discussed will include the development and implementation of its asset management policy and overall strategy, levels of service metrics, risk framework, and sophisticated pipeline and valve criticality analyses.
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This presentation will create a horizontal line of sight. By doing this, we will establish a sequence of events that will help your organization develop an asset management system. Using 3 decades of field experiences, the facilitator will also tie in advanced processes as related to the elements chart. Specific topics to be discussed:
What foundational elements should be addressed first?
What chronological order makes the best sense regarding the five main verticals?
How do I inform leadership as to the significance of optimized asset management?
What is CRL accreditation and why is this of value?
And lastly, what would a master schedule look like for pursuing a roadmap to excellence?
IMC-2017 Learning Session - 47:14 by Joel Crawford, Performance Consulting Associates
It does feel overwhelming, and is a reality, when real production dollars are lost every day because of unstaffed skilled positions. This is getting the attention now of C level executives across all industries, and strategy sessions are occurring throughout North America board rooms. Facts: 45% of skilled workers are over 45 years old, and about 19% are over 55 (US Bureau of Labor). Millions of skilled engineering and craft skills roles are remaining unstaffed and will continue to grow each year, costing an average of $7,000 in company profits DAILY for each role that goes unmanned (Manpower Group report). There are basic best practice business items that can be done NOW, which will fill open positions more efficiently and retain your talent. This presentation will outline the 5 fundamental steps, which will help your company focus on retaining human capital maintenance and reliability talent.
Uptime® Elements – A Reliability Framework and Asset Management System™ uses mental models and systems thinking to ensure a consistent language of reliability is embedded in the culture.
IMC-2016 RAP Talk - 33:24
by Terrence O'Hanlon, CEO and Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com
In this RAP Talk from IMC-2016, Terrence O’Hanlon talks about shifting the context of your work and doing the best you can do with the circumstances you got handed. What he provides are the building blocks to instead create the outcomes you want regardless of the circumstances. To be a reliability leader is about creating a new future that wasn’t going to happen anyway. Join O’Hanlon as he “jolts you awake” about reliability leadership.
Large manufacturing facilities depend on heavy equipment. But without a proper maintenance strategy, these assets can lead to countless issues, often expending or exceeding budgeted resources. Any manufacturing organization looking to successfully bridge this resource gap must implement an organization-wide reliability program to save money, time and frustration. This program must develop into or from a cultural basis to evolve into a sustainable business strategy.
The International Society of Automation (ISA) has responded to a widely circulated report from the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy that calls for a unified US national strategy to address the serious workforce development needs presented by the multi-dimensional threats of cyber attacks.
If your organization is like most using automation for productivity, then overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) is most likely being used as a key metric in determining where improvement efforts should be focused.
The formation of an air or vapor pocket (or bubble) due to lowering of pressure in a liquid. Often the result of a solid body, such as a propeller or piston, moving through the liquid. Cavitation
Emerson Network Power, a business of Emerson and a global leader in maximizing availability, capacity and efficiency of critical infrastructure, announces today a new data center financing option for customers purchasing power, thermal management and monitoring equipment, including Smart Solutions infrastructure offerings. Available through First American Vendor Finance, specialists in simplifying complex equipment acquisitions, the program offers 24-72-month fixed rate data center infrastructure leasing options with one of the most lessee-friendly master lease agreements in the industry.
Life Cycle Engineering, Inc. (LCE) today announced that it will offer a Lean Maintenance workshop through its education entity, the Life Cycle Institute. The Life Cycle Institute and industry expert Joel Levitt created the Lean Maintenance workshop in response to a rising demand for lean principles to be incorporated into maintenance practices of manufacturing entities.
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