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Proactive Maintenance – Journey to Reliability

The path to Proactive Maintenance is a difficult one, and you may not recognize it, but you are already traveling this road! In truth, the well run maintenance organization will continue to employ some elements of reactive, preventive, and predictive strategies. None of these however, including predictive maintenance (PdM), improves machine reliability. Each one, to a greater or lesser extent, is simply reacting to a machine symptom, ie., vibration, temperature, noise, etc. Proactive maintenance looks beyond the symptom to the cause and through precision maintenance, and a focus on reliability can actually improve machine operation.

Work Execution Management

Improved Product Quality through Proactive Maintenance

A forty minute long presentation by Kevin Lewton, Vice President, Met Demand Inc.

Fact: Manufacturing is applying technology and the processes are becoming more complicated. Customers are requiring higher quality and proof of sustainability by adopting global standards and requiring conformance to those standards. This has put a spot light on all Maintenance Activities: Operator PM, Maintenance PM, Cleaning and Inspection Standards, Operating and Set-up Standards, Precision Maintenance, Documentation (CMMS), Problem Solving Process. Maintenance Best Practices are a core foundation to deliver Reliable Capacity® that is achieved by having Reliable Processes, Equipment and People. Maintenance is an integral part of implementing and achieving "Zero Defects". Proper Maintenance will decrease variation in a process and product resulting in higher quality and lower cost production.

Work Execution Management

The Maintenance Strategy Master Class

An hour long presentation by Terry Wireman

Leading companies recognize the importance of maximizing their return on investment in hard assets used to provide their products and services. A key component of any asset's life cycle is the operation and maintenance phase. Proper management of this life cycle phase can lead to top and bottom line improvements. This presentation will show how the Level 1 Maintenance Strategy Master Class can help any company develop a strategy that will enable them to achieve these operational and maintenance improvements.

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

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.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

The Seven Causes of RCF (Root Cause FAILURE)

An hour long presentation by Shon Isenhour, CMRP, Director of Education, GPAllied

Root Cause Analysis (RCA) can be a very powerful tool for eliminating defects and increasing efficiency and profits. After witnessing hundreds of RCA efforts in every different type of organization and industry vertical, Shon has experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly. Of those, all of the failed efforts have common traits that are preventing the practitioners from getting maximum value from their RCA efforts. During this presentation, Shon will share with you his first-hand case studies of RCA implementations and tips on how to avoid the seven causes of ‘root cause failure'.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

Failure Reporting and Corrective Action - much more than RCA

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By Steve Turner - Director and Mark Liddell - Vice President /Americas, OMCS International

Most organizations conduct problem solving as part of their daily activities. Problems that require solving range in category from personal, technical, logistical, software and the list goes on. They range in complexity too and the solutions may be easy or difficult. They may be costly or cheap.

Asset Management

The Journey to Equipment Health Monitoring Value Realization

An hour long presentation by David Anderson, Domain Expert - Oil & Gas, Optimized Systems and Solutions

Operators of critical high value rotating equipment are well versed in collecting data. What they do with their data determines the value that they are able to derive from it. Through the use of an effective Equipment Health Monitoring solution, raw data from various sources is transformed into actionable decision support.

Asset Management

For the Executive with Plant Productivity Problems. Why Outsourcing Maintenance Changes the Game

An hour long presentation by Magnus Pousette, Group Vice President, Business Unit Full Service, ABB Inc.

By outsourcing maintenance to ABB, over a hundred customers have changed the game in their plant. They have enjoyed and continue to enjoy a rapid change in plant culture, significantly improved plant output and a reduction of both energy and total maintenance costs. During this webinar we will demonstrate how ABB contractually commits to delivering $$$'s on your bottom-line - showing you how confident we are in our ability to drive change through an emphasis on asset reliability.

Reliability Engineering for Maintenance

The Connection Between RCM2 and the PAS-55 framework

An hour long presentation by Mike Schultz, CMRP, MMP, The Asset Performance Group (APG)

While the PAS-55 specification provides a framework for effective asset management, it does not dictate the methods for achieving PAS-55 compliance.

Asset Management

PAS-55: Change Management

An hour long recorded webinar by James Nesbitt, Principal - Service Delivery, The Asset Performance Group Inc.

The British Standards Institute's Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS-55) provides organizations with a framework for establishing good practices in asset management. In the eighth installment of our popular PAS-55 themed webinar series, APG will help attendees identify key stakeholders in the implementation of PAS-55 and provide an overview of some practical techniques, tips and pitfalls related to managing the organizational change associated with a PAS-55 implementation.

Asset Management

PAS-55: Understanding Asset Management Enablers

An hour long recorded webinar by James Nesbitt, Principal - Service Delivery, The Asset Performance Group Inc.

The British Standards Institute's Publicly Available Specification 55 (PAS-55) provides organizations with a framework for establishing good practices in asset management. In the seventh installment of our popular PAS-55 themed webinar series, APG will guide attendees towards a high-level understanding of what PAS-55 enablers are and frame them in the context of common industry practices. Examples of such practices include Asset Risk Prioritization, RCM, TPM, 6 Sigma, and others. APG will then explore how PAS-55 allows alignment of these often "competing" initiatives.

strategy and plans

Proactive Maintenance – Journey to Reliability

Reliability 101

Improved Product Quality through Proactive Maintenance

The Maintenance Strategy Master Class

No Silver Bullet for Reliability Series: Part 2 of 4

No Silver Bullet for Reliability Series: Part 1 of 4

The Seven Causes of RCF (Root Cause FAILURE)

Failure Reporting and Corrective Action - much more than RCA

The Journey to Equipment Health Monitoring Value Realization

For the Executive with Plant Productivity Problems. Why Outsourcing Maintenance Changes the Game

The Connection Between RCM2 and the PAS-55 framework

Reliability Block Diagrams, Monte Carlo and Availability Simulation - Part 2

PAS-55: Change Management

PAS-55: Understanding Asset Management Enablers