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Leadership, Legacy and Longevity: Maintenance Reliability Journey

Leadership, Legacy and Longevity: Maintenance Reliability Journey

Maintenance, many times, is done "right now" as opposed to planning it out for a more advantageous result. This presentation will cover three key points for your reliability journey: Leadership, Legacy and Longevity.

Why Reliability Transformations Fail

Why Reliability Transformations Fail

Reliability transformations call for significant investments in capability, process, and supporting tools and enablers. Despite significant investment, many reliability transformations fail when no clear roadmap exists. Should a roadmap exist, organizations often waver on their commitment to value management and longer-term vision for transformation sustainment. A proactive approach to your reliability journey should begin with sustainability.

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Condition Based Maintenance Implementation at Clark County Water Reclamation District

Condition Based Maintenance Implementation at Clark County Water Reclamation District

This presentation covers the journey of moving from an outsourced condition monitoring service to an in-house condition based maintenance (CBM) team at the Clark County Water Reclamation District (CCWRD). The Uptime Elements provided the framework, language and conditions for a bold, grassroots transition.

Organizational Changes as a Reliability Process

Organizational Changes as a Reliability Process

DC Water through its groundbreaking Research and Innovation Programs, as well as cutting edge process technologies implemented at full scale, has achieved global recognition as a leader in treatment technologies. In the last 12 months, DC Water also underwent a change in leadership with the new CEO having a clear mandate from the Board to address this customer facing issue.

Asset Management and Reliability Leadership from the Bottom Up!

Asset Management and Reliability Leadership from the Bottom Up!

I started my journey by maintaining and managing assets which I still do to this day. It really got rolling when my manager gave me the opportunity to learn about asset management in a program through Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) called “Am Kan Work!” which was for teaching asset management for small size utilities in Kansas.

If Reliability Is a Journey, Where Do We Start?

If Reliability Is a Journey, Where Do We Start?

It is often said that the pursuit of Reliability is a journey with no end, an ongoing effort of continuous improvement and newfound opportunity.

2019 Uptime Award Winner • Special Recognition Award • Chugach Government Solutions, LLC

2019 Uptime Award Winner • Special Recognition Award • Chugach Government Solutions, LLC

“Winning the 2019 Uptime® Award serves as validation for Chugach’s continuous pursuit of excellence,” said Daniel Fenza, VP, Business Intelligence & Innovation, Chugach Government Solutions, LLC.

Moving Down a Reliability Continuum in Pursuit of Excellence

Moving Down a Reliability Continuum in Pursuit of Excellence

Southern Gardens has embarked on a journey in pursuit of achieving excellence in reliability. The key is perseverance because the road is often bumpy. Continuous improvement moves you down the continuum, so when you think you are at the end, you realize there is always room for improvement.

Partnering for a Successful Reliability Journey

Partnering for a Successful Reliability Journey

Expect to learn about adapting and/or adjusting best practices, interfacing technologies, and finally, a non-standardized approach to standardization.

The Journey From Reactive to…

The Journey From Reactive to…

This presentation will focus on the journey of a plant that is in the process of going from a highly reactive culture to becoming a highly reliable organization. This will focus on the development and implementation of the reliability work process, leadership endorsement of the new reliability focus, and culture change for the entire organization. 

An Experiential Journey to Discover Winning Elements Required to Transform Manufacturing Enterprises

An Experiential Journey to Discover Winning Elements Required to Transform Manufacturing Enterprises

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. 

Central San’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Reliability Journey

Central San’s Wastewater Treatment Plant Reliability Journey

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. 

Asset Management and Reliability Leadership from the Bottom Up

Asset Management and Reliability Leadership from the Bottom Up

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.

Launching Comprehensive Asset Management at San Jose Water

Launching Comprehensive Asset Management at San Jose Water

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. 

Reliability Excellence Needs a Roadmap: Convert What-Why to an Action Plan

Reliability Excellence Needs a Roadmap: Convert What-Why to an Action Plan

TRC-2018 Learning Zone 41:10
by John Reeve, EDI

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:

  1. What foundational elements should be addressed first?
  2. What chronological order makes the best sense regarding the five main verticals?
  3. How do I inform leadership as to the significance of optimized asset management?
  4. What is CRL accreditation and why is this of value?
  5. And lastly, what would a master schedule look like for pursuing a roadmap to excellence?
Journey to Overachieving Recruiting Practices

Journey to Overachieving Recruiting Practices

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.

What’s in Your DNA?

What’s in Your DNA?

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.

37 Years of Reliability-Centered Maintenance Experience (A Fantastic Journey)

37 Years of Reliability-Centered Maintenance Experience (A Fantastic Journey)

Through his talk, Mac Smith outlines why it’s been fantastic and what it has meant to the community.

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