Up Time Magazine- February/March 2008

upbeat extra Mission Reliability – All Systems Go A Special Publisher Feature by Terrence O’Hanlon, CMRP (Theme from the original Star Trek playing in the background): Reliability, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the IMC-2007 NASA Kennedy Space Center Tour. Our mission: to explore strange new worlds of maintenance processes as they relate to galactic transportation. To seek out new reliability strategies and technologies. To boldly go where the teams from NASA, Boeing and Jacobs go every day to make the United States’ space program successful. days after the tour, one of the attendees stated that he was confident he could make big changes at his company with just 10% of the leadership, passion and vision that we all experienced at Kennedy Space Center. With such an important mission at stake, the KSC maintenance team obviously takes personal pride and responsibility for ensuring reliability in everything they touch. Every area was clean and clearly marked for the purpose it served. Management is fully engaged in supporting the maintenance and reliability program at the facility and the results show. Jacobs operates using Lean principles – in terms of maintenance that means avoiding waste, keeping areas clean, being organized and kitting parts for each work order in advance. Maintenance planning and scheduling is practiced at a very high level to minimize “emergency” work. To avoid recurring failures, technicians are not only well trained and certified in predictive maintenance inspection methods, but are also trained in using Timken’s bearing failure analysis techniques. LC 39B Launch site taken on the launch pad itself (photo by David Bowman) A very lucky group of 50 maintenance and reliability professionals who attended IMC-2007 – the 22nd International Maintenance Conference (www.maintenanceconference.com) participated in a special pre-launch site tour at Kennedy Space Center is located on Cape Canaveral in NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Jacobs Engineering Florida and is surrounded by a nature preserve. As such, it reliability and infrared specialist Tim King arranged a is subject to intense Federal environmental requirements. behind the scenes look at the Predictive Maintenance and In our short time on the base we saw dolphins, bald Reliability Centered Maintenance programs at KSC with a eagles, Florida bobcats, brown snakes and lots of alligaspecial presentation by Michael Sites, CPMM, Operations tors. The Jacobs team also conducts Reliability Centered and Maintenance Manager. Jacobs is one of the subconMaintenance analysis on potentially hazardous systems to tractors responsible for maintenance at the NASA facility. ensure that negative environKSC gets tens of thousands mental consequences do not of visitors touring the occur in order to meet the facility each year, Mr. Sites Zero Tolerance environmenexplained that he had never tal policy. had the good fortune to host a maintenance focused tour They also practice a Zero and he greeted us enthusiIncidence safety policy and astically. We hope that we proactive maintenance has helped inspire his passion for made major contributions in providing the best maintethis important area as well. nance possible because his Based on suggestions from passion was clearly evident maintenance team members, to everyone on the tour. Jacobs invested in the new In fact, that passion for excelstyle of form fitting mechanChris Rose, Operations Manager of the Space Station lent maintenance at KSC was ics gloves and more stylish so obvious that at the closing Processing Facility, leads the tour through the high bay, “Harley-Davidson” safety where International Space Station cargo is assembled. session at IMC-2007 a few 18 february/march 2008 http://www.maintenanceconference.com http://www.maintenanceconference.com

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Up Time Magazine- February/March 2008 Contents Upfront Upclose: Lessons Learned from the Walter Reed Story Information Technology: Parenting and Asset Performance Infrared: It's Alive! Lubrication: A Sense of Change Maintenance Management: PdM, Standardized Motor Testing: Being Well Connected Precision Maintenance: How to be Marketable Reliability: The Voyage of Wells Dairy Ultrasound: Two is Better Than One Vibration: Diagnosing a Cracked Shaft Upgrade: A Different Kind of Journey

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