Up Time Magazine- February/March 2008

Asset Performance Management in an SAP World – an Integrated and Cohesive Strategy by Eric Wegscheider & James Nesbitt, Ivara Corporation This session will outline an integrated and cohesive approach to asset performance management for companies using SAP PM. Optimizing RCM with SAP PM alone is not enough to implement and sustain equipment performance and reliability. By bringing together RCM\FMEA, Condition Monitoring, statistical analysis and process discipline seamlessly to SAP PM, organizations can quickly and effectively implement a proactive asset reliability strategy to achieve a holistic view of asset health. Leading RCM tools have coupled RCM with SAP PM. These solutions have proven to be an effective way to identify all the tasks required to ensure the performance of your equipment (on condition, failure finding, scheduled restorations, corrective, redesigns and run to failure). Learn about the latest technology to implement RCM and sustain reliability and performance levels – with no surprises. SAP PM in Your Future? – How to Plan for Success & Ensure Your Asset Performance & Reliability is Maximized by Mike Schultz, Reliability Specialist, Dofasco ArcelorMittal Dofasco is a world-class, leading steel manufacturer and a benchmark for asset reliability best practices. Now part of ArcelorMittal with over 50 plants worldwide, Dofasco is leading the way in equipment reliability, demonstrating how equipment reliability is a key enabler of the company’s Manufacturing Process Reliability strategy - which ensures its manufacturing process consistently delivers the production required by its business plan. Results on just one business unit delivered a 14% improvement in asset utilization and an increase of 5600 tons of output per month. With SAP PM being considered company-wide, Dofasco Reliability Specialists asked themselves the question “Does it matter to our reliability strategy that we are moving to SAP PM?” What needs to change? How will we sustain the asset performance and reliability levels if and when we implement SAP PM? Find out the answers from the people that set the benchmark for reliability and maintenance best practices. Integrating 35 Different Equipment Reliability and Condition Data Sources with SAP PM by Darryl Barney, Manager, Reliability Engineering, San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) and James Nesbitt, Ivara If your challenge is managing the islands of data that exist in your plant to monitor the condition and reliability of your equipment, fear not. In this session, learn how SONGS was able to seamlessly integrate over 35 difference data sources, eliminate mindless manual calculations, save time and money. Understand how SONGS manages maintenance and reliability work ‘on exception’ with the right tools in place. SAP Managing Calibrations by Craig Read, Sappi, South Africa This presentation discusses using SAP4.6 to incorporate our ISO14000 and ISO9000 instrument calibration requirements. These were previously not included in our CMMS due to the complexity of the calibration certificates required by our ISO standards. As SAP was chosen as a company standard for managing all maintenance work, we embarked on a project to include all Calibration work orders and certificates within the PM/QM modules of SAP, even though there are many software packages which handle instrument calibrations far easier. Rapid ROI Approach to a Multi-Site Reliability Improvement Strategy by John Keller, Manager of Maintenance Engineering, Peabody Energy People – Managing Through the Hardest Part of Implementing a Reliability Program Utilizing SAP PM by Ryan Sletmoen, Catalyst Paper With billions invested in its four mills, improving performance is critical to Catalyst Paper’s long-term profitability. Catalyst, a leading pulp Learn how Peabody Energy’s Powder River Coal Mining Division is impleand paper company, embarked on improving the reliability and permenting a reliability improvement methodology simultaneously across formance of their mills, and produce more sustainable financial results. 3 coal mines in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming (including the largest This session will detail how Catalyst complimented SAP PM with the coal mine in North America). Peabody is using a ‘templating’ approach leading asset performance management software, Ivara EXP Enterprise, by leveraging an accelerated FMEA approach called Maintenance Task to increase paper machine efficiency. Hear about the Catalyst core team Analysis at the component and major asset level to achieve a rapid and how they were instrumental in securing internal support for the ROI. Attend and gain valuable insight on how this coal industry leader initiative; fostered collaboration among maintenance and operations is making the most out of their SAP PM investment by and carefully managed the change inadopting reliability as a business volved in transitioning to a Open Panel strategy. reliability-based Discussion: SAP PM and Reliability, What’s culture. Next? by Marius Bassoon, New Dimension Solutions, Henry Ellmann, Ellmann, Sueiro & Associates, James Nesbitt, Ivara, Mike Schultz, Dofasco ArcelorMittal, John Keller, Peabody Energy, and Darryl Barney, SONGS Bring those burning questions that keep you up at night about reliability and asset performance. Leading experts will field your questions on your hot topics! Facilitated by Al Weber, founding chair of the SMRP, this session will see a gathering of renowned experts from many different industries for a lively discussion on hot topics, as directed by the audience. Whether it’s the aging workforce that’s keeping you awake at night, operational competitiveness, overcoming the challenges of transitioning to proactive, making the most out of your maintenance budget, or simply improving the relationship between maintenance and operations, attend this unique interactive session and learn from the best! please call 1-888-575-1245 or 305-735-3746 with any questions sponsored by SAP Plant Maintenance (EAM) Track

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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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