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2006/October
Author: Ali Finer Padilla, Speer Beardsley Inc.
Predictive Maintenance Strategy from Rockwell Automation Helps Energy Supplier Maximize Output and Meet Growing Demand
Genesis Energy's predictive maintenance strategy targets most critical equipment to ensure optimal availability
With...
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2006/October
Author: George Meek, Evergreen Engineering, Inc.
Are you actually measuring your downtime? Even if you are, you might be missing opportunities that help beyond the correction of individual downtime events.
It’s 2 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon. You’re the shift production ...
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2006/October
Author: Jerry Dover, P. Eng., Etobicoke Bakery
Better planning could help you get out of the “doing whatever it takes to make it work” mode. Wouldn’t that be nice?
It’s an all-too-familiar scenario.A month ago, your head engineer purchased and installed a new widget press for...
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2006/October
Author: Kenneth Reed, System Improvements, Inc.
When an equipment malfunction occurs, you need to do much more than simply "sweep up the glass" and get back to work. Expert systems can vastly improve your troubleshooting efforts.
Law enforcement organizations have this down to a science. Arrive...
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2006/October
Author: Maurice Wilkins, VP Consulting, ARC Advisory Group
I still find it truly amazing that aircraft high above the ground or racecars hurtling around a racetrack can have their engines monitored, diagnosed, tuned and possibly repaired from a remote location-often many thousands of miles away. ...
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2006/September
Author: Paul D. Tomlingson, Principal Consultant, Paul D. Tomlingson Associates, Inc.
Paul D. Tomlingson, Principal Consultant, Paul D. Tomlingson Associates, Inc.
World-class maintenance is the pinnacle of achievement for most maintenance organizations whether they maintain plant equipment, tend to mobile equipment or...
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2006/April
Author: Timothy H. Trout, C.P.M.M., MRO Software, Inc.
Whether it’s performed on you in a doctor’s office, or on the assets in your plant or facility, the appropriate type of preventive maintenance can offer tremendous payback, not to mention real peace of mind.
Preventive maintenance is the...
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2006/November
Author:Al Emeneker, Life Cycle Engineering (LCE)
This author compares asset management to the care and feeding of, and sometimes keeping endangered species alive. Compelling analogy, isn't it?
When was the last time you visited a zoo and enjoyed a leisurely stroll through the exhibits,...
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2006/May
Author:Alan T. Johnston, President, MIMOSA
Alan T. Johnston, President, MIMOSA
The desire to integrate the plant with the rest of the enterprise might, to some, still seem to be a far off dream.Yet, with the combination of evolving software technologies such as...
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2006/January
Author:Anthony Tiso, Schneider Electric
Doing more with less seems to be the order of the day (and the future) for most companies. Technology that helps you kill several birds with one stone is a good way to be getting it done.
The cost of doing business is not getting any cheaper,...
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2006/January
Author:Bill Keeter, CMRP, BK Reliability Engineers, Inc.
There's been a shift in the maintenance and reliability marketplace towards more analytical software that takes predictive maintenance and equipment history data and then provides optimum solutions for a company's assets.
The Weibull distribution...
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2006/August
Author:Bill Kiesel, Vice President/Publisher
Bill Kiesel, Vice President/Publisher
As you go through this issue of MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY, you may be thinking that its purpose is strictly proprietary – just another product of a for-profit magazine publisher. It’s...
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2006/April
Author:Bob Greenberg, Fluke Corporation
Regular preventive maintenance at this jewel in the crown of America's scientific research community demands super-sensitive, reliable and accurate instruments.
Even the most complex equipment is still the sum of its parts, and those parts...
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2006/June
Author:Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
The U.S. is not the only nation worrying about outsourcing and manufacturing job losses. Japan, Brazil, China and India are, too. In the cases of China and India outsourcing from other...
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2006/July
Author:Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
World-Class Simplicity, a term that we coined in 1996 to describe what a top NASCAR Race Team was doing to achieve the highest levels of performance and reliability, is based on the...
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2006/August
Author:Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
What are the perceptions, and the reality, of "maintenance" in today’s world? While there are many recognized national and international standards (definitions, metrics, measures,...
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2006/September
Author:Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Partnering with your company to aggressively pursue reliability excellence will pay off all the way around. This maintenance expert shows you how it can be done.
High-performing, low-cost,...
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2006/October
Author:Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
For decades, our "industry" has been bringing in innovations to improve maintenance and reliability (M&R) processes. The list goes on and on: preventive maintenance (PM), computerized...
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2006/November
Author:Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Confer (v): Present, talk, give, discuss, consult, put heads together, have a conversation…
Conference (n): Symposium, forum, meeting, convention, consultation, summit, alliance…
Do...
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2006/December
Author:Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Bob Williamson, Contributing Editor
Data, metric, measures, assessments, evaluations, scorecards, progress reports… Many of us have been faced with a whole host of measurement opportunities. Seems like some of the...
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