Up Time Magazine- February/March 2008

Reliability Focused SAP Plant Maintenance According to our research, “best in class” companies use advanced, proactive strategies such as Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) to create effective maintenance programs. They use Enterprise Strategy Asset Management (EAM) systems to manage the maintenance work process and share information with stakeholders across the enterprise. They view money spent on training and improvements as a Sessions & solid investment with great business returns. The laggards have the opposite view of investment in maintenance and reliability improvements and practice time based “reactive maintenance” which drives Learning Zone cost up and performance down. Designed with Your Needs in Mind To learn how to move from a reactive maintenance program to a proactive reliability program, please join us for 3 focused events that leverage advanced techniques, strategies and technologies to prepare your company for the competitive “flat world” as efficient and effective global organizations play to win in 21st century business. • • • • • If you are a Maintenance and Reliability professional utilizing SAP PM for Plant Maintenance, you will learn how to make it work better at EAM-2008. This is the only independent Learn how to create a Reliability Centered Maintenance program reliability focused event with a dedicated SAP PM Strategy Sessions Learn advanced RCM Techniques & Learning Zone. This new feature includes a full day reliability focused Hear RCM Case Studies SAP Plant Maintenance workshop, 7 SAP PM User case studies and a live SAP PM Learn how to (re)Implement an effective EAM system Learning Lab led by the experts from Ivara who have helped hundreds of clients develop Learn how to make SAP-PM more effective for managing technically-based maintenance plans in SAPmaintenance Plant Maintenance. This is your opportunity to network with colleagues from asset-intensive organizations that are leading the way with successful Asset Performance and Reliability projects supported by Ivara EXP Enterprise - the industry’s leading asset performance software. These projects have generated millions of dollars in profit for their companies and provided a better way of life for the people working together in asset care - operations, maintenance and reliability engineering. Attend this track to take advantage and gain hands-on experience with Ivara EXP Enterprise (in the SAP Learning Lab) that is fully integrated (and Certified Netweaver Compliant) with SAP PM. • Learn how to create an effective maintenance training program • Learn to manage change • Learn about human reliability • Learn to eliminate the effects of failures • Move from a repair focused culture to a reliability focused culture Attend RCM-2008/EAM-2008/ MTrain-2008 Risk Free – with our 100% Money-Back Guarantee! We are sure that RCM-2008, EAM-2008 and MTrain2008 will be worth the time you invest in attending. If for any reason you are dissatisfied with your experience at this conference, we will refund 100% of your paid registration fee. March 18th-20th All Day Learning Lab – Get it Done! Achieve Successful Plant Maintenance with SAP PM and Ivara EXP. Test drive the only complete end-to-end asset performance management solution that is fully integrated with SAP PM and provides tools your organization needs to achieve operational excellence. Experience hands-on a new way of caring for assets, in particular, utilizing an asset health dashboard to monitor the condition of equipment and keep them reliable. See how the Powered by Netweaver Certified Integration between SAP PM / Ivara EXP can make a difference in your company to manage the performance and reliability of your equipment. This conference is independent from and has no connection to SAP AG. SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries all over the world. 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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