Machinery Lubrication magazine published by Noria Corporation
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Getting to Effective Preventive Maintenance John Crossan, John Crossan Consulting, and Randy Quick, Kerry Ingredients and Flavors Many plants continue to perform maintenance in a mostly reactive mode where it seems impossible to find the time and staff to get the essential preventive maintenance (PM) work done that would enable them to move toward the world of proactive maintenance. This presentation will describe methods for making preventive maintenance effective in moving from reactive to proactive maintenance, along with the most common reasons for failure and ways to avoid them. Attendees will learn the importance of constant training and education mechanisms, having dedicated time for preventive maintenance, and developing ownership and participation by all. Implementing a Strategic Maintenance Program Jack Ecktman, Rockwell Automation Maintenance costs can run as high as 40 percent of a manufacturer's operating budget, even more if the unplanned downtime cost includes the loss of production. Many manufacturers still work off a 70- to 80-percent breakdown maintenance plan, which has higher costs and a reduced equipment lifecycle. Unfortunately, manufacturers accept these expenses as "the cost of doing business." This presentation will explain how to migrate maintenance practices from a purely reactive mode to a best-in-class planned or predictive mode. Real-world examples will be used to show how reliability-based techniques can reduce equipment downtime by more than 50 percent, resulting in significant cost reductions, increased profitability and extended equipment lifecycles. Process Performance Optimization: Combining Reliability, Lean and Change Management Bruce Wesner, Life Cycle Engineering Today, leaders of organizations are stretched to do more with less. They are asked to cover more areas with fewer resources, less time and smaller budgets. Given these constraints, how can you continue to drive improvement and achieve success? Focused improvement efforts can provide significant bottom-line impact. This presentation will show how reliability, lean and change-management best practices can be leveraged together in order to increase process performance. Using Surface Technology to Extend Equipment Lifecycles Ricardo Hein, Conexo The mechanical component lifecycle is affected by wear and damage processes in acting surfaces. Prematurely failing components not only have a far-reaching economic impact on operators but also a consumptive impact on the environment. This greater need for resources affects the sustainability of the operation. However, by utilizing nano-tribological metal treatment, you can extend component lifecycles through a reduction in surface roughness and friction. This provides an opportunity to change predictive maintenance as we know it and turn it proactive to avoid machine stops and make equipment repairs without downtime. RELIABILITY PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE Maintenance Key Performance Indicators: You Can't Manage What You Can't Measure Integrating Operations and PdM into a Comprehensive Reliability Strategy Darrin Clark, ArcelorMittal USA Jeff Evans, Maintenance Strategies Inc Reliability improvement initiatives often struggle to sustain progress. However, key performance indicators (KPIs) are quite effective at maintaining focus on the needed activities to drive improvement to a maintenance organization's performance. In this session, attendees will learn the importance of aligning KPIs to the business process, the difference and link between leading and lagging indicators, and how to deploy KPIs both vertically and horizontally in a large organization. Many organizations have numerous programs and processes for managing assets, including the use of various predictive maintenance (PdM) technologies, operational inspections, equipment testing, etc. With all of this data, companies often struggle with how to integrate this information into a comprehensive plan that is focused on improving reliability and optimizing asset performance. This session will outline strategies used to improve operations at a large utility, how mobile devices were introduced and how operational activities were integrated with other PdM activities to create an integrated asset health approach. Motivating the Troops: How to Increase Employee Engagement Diane Closser, Closser Lubrication Services Employees in workplaces where overall engagement is high are more satisfied with the kind of work they are doing, experience higher levels of teamwork, feel more valued and recognized, and are less likely to be searching for a higher paycheck. This session will discuss where to start and how to get the best return on investment in making your company one of the better places to work. Attendees will be able to take ideas from this presentation and develop their own employee engagement team to address these issues at their plants. iPads in the Workplace Tim Chaten, GTI Spindle Technology Inc. Apple's iPad is an incredible multi-touch computer with uses that most people overlook, including as a productive tool in the predictive maintenance workplace. This session will discuss various apps, accessories and workflows for using the iPad at work. Attendees will become empowered to use something they already have access to while learning ways to protect their iPad in the workplace, accessories and apps that allow vibration analysis to be done on an iPad, and methods of balancing spindles using apps alone. 14