Up Time Magazine- February/March 2008

upbeat extra Is Your Predictive Maintenance Program A Winner? by Terrence O’Hanlon, CMRP You can find out by entering Uptime Magazine’s Predictive Maintenance (PdM) Program of the Year Award competition. Uptime Magazine has created the Uptime PdM Awards to provide positive exposure and acknowledgement for predictive maintenance professionals from around the world. People and companies who have entered in the past also report that there was great learning in compiling the information required for entry. Learning how to present the value of your predictive maintenance program is important, not only to apply for awards, but to ensure that your own company management gets an accurate picture of your accomplishments. Traditional Uptime Award categories include: • Best Vibration Analysis Program Award • Best Airborne Ultrasound Inspection Program Award • Best Infrared Thermal Imaging Program Award • Best Motor Testing Program Award • Best Lubrication/Oil Analysis Program Award (Stationary and Mobile) • Best Precision Maintenance (alignment/Balancing) Program Award • Best Overall PdM Program Award PdM Program of passes to PdM-2008 the Predictive Maintenance Technology Conference, acknowledgement in front of peers the at the award presentation and an exclusive invitation to a special winner’s award dinner. Winners are also invited back to PdM-2009 with a free conference pass and a presentation opportunity. Year Uptime Magazine uses a number of assessment methods but we rely heavily on Jack Nicholas and R. Keith Young’s Audit methodology from the PdM Management Handbook (www.masteringmaintenance.com). There is a series of audit checklists at the end of that book. Past winners have also provided third party assessments or benchmarking reports along with their application. We cannot stress how valuable this is. Many past winners have also submitted detailed continuous improvement program reports. We are interested in seeing the specific plan for improving in the short term, near term and long term. A 5 year time frame is good and a 10 year time frame is even better. This is your roadmap and it needs to address your program shortcomings. Having program shortcomings will not jeopardize your chances of winning - in fact they may enhance your chances if you have an effective plan in place to address them. Last but not least – to reward environmental stewardship, we will award bonus points for companies that can demonstrate “green” or environmental improvements as a result of their PdM programs. It is possible that a new award category will be created for outstanding results in this area. We recommend that you apply for the overall PdM Program Award as we can find pockets of excellence if one technology area stands out over the rest (i.e. Motor testing). Almost all of our past technology area winners submitted for Best Overall program but were selected for specific areas of excellence. You can apply corporately or regionally or as a single site. The entry deadline is June 2, 2008. Download your PdM Program of the Year entry form and find more details online at www.uptimemagazine.com No worries if your program does not fit neatly into one of those categories as each year we get several outstanding applications that are award quality – so we create special categories as needed. We have promised to provide improved guidance in 2008 to assist entrants in preparing a higher quality application. In the past, we have received applications from programs we knew to be excellent however the quality of information we received as part of the application process did not reflect the quality of the PdM Program that had been nominated. We recommend that you fully embrace the application process and provide as much detail as you are comfortable with that will express the value of your program. Any company with an active Predictive Maintenance program can enter. We expect that you have been performing some sort of Condition Monitoring for at least one year. If you are just getting started – you should consider entering at this time next year! There is no cost to enter the Uptime Magazine Predictive Maintenance Program of the Year Awards. Unlike other maintenance awards that charge thousands of dollars, this is not a commercial activity – it helps us fulfill our mission to promote excellence in predictive maintenance. Each winning company will get a handsome award trophy, two Denim PdM Award Winner shirts, a handsome Poster Board featuring your program to display at work, two free 20 february/march 2008 http://www.masteringmaintenance.com http://www.uptimemagazine.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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