Machinery Lubrication magazine published by Noria Corporation
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Creating Mixed Model Value Streams 7 Common Traits of Winning Maintenance Reliability Programs Today's factories are often complex with shared resources, product variations, uncertain demand from day to day and lots of tailoring for customers, making it challenging to run a mix of products through the same value stream. This session takes the concepts of value stream mapping to the next level, describing a method for creating flow in factories that have a high complexity of products, demand and shared resources. By learning how to apply lean principles in a high-variety environment and understanding product family selection, attendees will know which techniques to use when faced with difficult situations, including high product mix, scheduling problems, shared resources and unstable customer demand. There are common traits to every high-performance maintenance reliability program, and what separates the most successful ones from the others is usually only a slight advantage in one of a few key areas. In this session, find out all the important details about award-winning reliability programs so you can implement similar processes and procedures in your program and match their success. Kevin Duggan, Institute for Operational Excellence Tools for Successful Reliability Partnerships Ward Bond, Covance Inc. Selecting the right reliability services vendor can make or break a successful reliability program. When considering the options available to those with reliability needs, a tool for evaluating the application and fulfillment of potential vendor qualities can improve the fit of the vendor to the service desired. This presentation will provide unbiased information that will aid attendees in selecting the best vendor for their individual needs, including examples of real-world applications of vendor selection and evaluation matrixes, as well as how the use of these tools can lead to successful reliability vendor partnerships. Terrence O'Hanlon, Reliabilityweb.com Changing Maintenance Professionals from Parts Replacers to Diagnosticians Dale Constantine, Step Energy Services With the increasing competition in the marketplace, maintenance must look at repairs and services differently. Preventative and predictive maintenance systems should be examined, and repairs viewed as opportunities to find the root cause and return equipment back to a timeline based on PMs, not just removing and replacing parts. We have created an environment of maintenance professionals who have been taught how to replace parts and not on root cause and post-failure strategies. We must undo years of training and develop maintenance professionals who are more at home with calculators, micrometers, thermo-imagers, vibration tools and oil sample reports. All the greatest equipment and ideas are meaningless if the final caretaker is not trained, supported and coached at being a diagnostician rather than a parts replacer. RELIABILITY MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT 3 Keys to Driving Sustainable Change and Project Success Bruce Wesner, Life Cycle Engineering Have you ever been the leader of a significant business change and not been able to make it stick? Most organizations feel that the key element in any project is sound project management, but what about the people it is affecting? This presentation will focus on the essential elements required in effectively managing a business change initiative to ensure it is sustainable. LAST CALL FOR SPEAKERS There's Still Time to Step Up! We continue to enlist speakers with interesting case studies, personal expertise and innovative ideas to contribute to our conference agenda. There is still time to share your insight and best practices with industry colleagues and key decision-makers. Submit you abstract to editor@noria.com or online at conference.reliableplant.com. 13