Machinery Lubrication magazine published by Noria Corporation
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Also during the opening general session, ICML presented the John R. Battle Award for lubrication ex- cellence to Simmons Feed Ingredients along with the Augustus H. Gill Award for excellence in oil analysis to Newcrest Mining. Simmons was represented by several team members from the company's facility in Southwest City, Missouri, including maintenance man- ager Tim Newman. Later in the week, Newman joined with Noria's Seth Schroeder for a presentation on how the plant was able to reduce equipment breakdowns by more than 50 percent and achieve an annual cost savings of nearly $1 million once a greater emphasis was placed on lubrication. Newcrest Mining's Greg Romer was on hand to accept the Gill award and gave an interesting pre- sentation detailing his organization's award-winning approach for lubrication program management, includ- ing key targets and goals, the benefits of lubrication training, and using oil analysis metrics. For more on the ICML awards, see the related article on page 50. NEW FOR 2017 Four new certificate programs were added to Reliable Plant 2017, allowing attendees to increase their knowledge in condition monitoring, reliability engineering, hydraulics, and maintenance planning and scheduling. Noria's Jerry Putt launched the reliability engineering program with his pre-conference workshop on design- ing and procuring equipment to increase reliability. This informative workshop provided suggestions for designers and procurement professionals to achieve higher potential reliability and give their maintenance team a better opportunity to consistently realize opti- mum equipment capability. The hydraulics certificate program began with a workshop from Chris Dellinger of GPM Hydraulic Consulting, who outlined five things you need to know to become an effective hydraulic troubleshooter. Dellinger described how to read and use a hydraulic schematic, proper pressure setting procedures, how to adjust a machine and troubleshoot individual compo- nents without removing them from the machine, as well as the correct reliability checks to make on the heart of the machine — the hydraulic power unit (HPU). Doc Palmer of Richard Palmer & Associates Inc. opened the maintenance planning and scheduling certificate program with his workshop on how to achieve maintenance planning excellence. The author of McGraw-Hill's Maintenance Planning and Schedul- ing Handbook, Palmer not only covered theories and principles but the nuts and bolts of how planning and scheduling work to help those in attendance imple- ment a new planning organization or dramatically improve an existing one. The condition monitoring certificate program drew the most interest and was led by Allied Reliability's Walter Barringer, who described in his pre-confer- ence workshop how to integrate multiple condition monitoring technologies for maximum reliability. This presentation explained how each of the four primary technologies works, when and where to apply each technology, which technologies to start with first in a new condition monitoring program, and how to choose equipment for inclusion in the program. After the pre-conference workshops, certificate program participants were required to attend four key sessions over the next two days and then were honored at an exclusive champagne reception, where they received a commemorative plaque, a certificate of completion and a collection of books from the Noria bookstore. Also new in 2017 were the six hands-on mini-work- shops. These presentations gave attendees the chance to see firsthand some of the most important tools, procedures and equipment used in the field of lu- brication and lubricant analysis. Noria's Wes Cash and Loren Green demonstrated the steps for performing an effective patch test, taking a representative oil sample, It's a great opportunity to learn easy things you can do to get that low-hanging fruit and improve your programs." – Christopher Brokopp, Weyerhaeuser