Up Time Magazine- February/March 2008

Bonus Workshops Buy a 3 Day Pass and get an extra Bonus Workshop FREE! Choose from 3 popular workshops. Monday, March 17th Bonus Workshop #1 Introduction to RCM Blitz The decision process in Traditional RCM often leads to “No Scheduled maintenance” or “Run to Failure” for failure modes that can’t be predicted, prevented or eliminated. Coming from a manufacturing and maintenance background, we knew this strategy was not only real, but also frightening. Unscheduled downtime costs add up quickly. The best way to reduce this cost is to reduce the downtime cycle by having a consequence reduction strategy in place. Make sure you have the right procedures, spare parts and resources in place to repair the failure in the shortest time possible. RCM Blitz offers a Reliability Centered Maintenance approach that reduced the time and resources required for analysis. Attend this workshop to: • Learn how develop a complete Maintenance Strategy for your equipment • Learn where to apply predictive and preventive maintenance tasks • Learn how to determine what spare parts are critical to your business and what parts can be eliminated from your inventory • Improved Manufacturing and Equipment Reliability • Reduced Maintenance Costs • Reduced Unit Cost of Finished Product • A Reduction in Health, Safety and Environmental Incidents Bonus Workshop #3 The Reliability Game® The Reliability Game is designed to teach participants how to make the transition from a reactive to a proactive maintenance environment. They will learn to “follow the money” and further their understanding of the business potential of reliability. Participants will learn: • The financial opportunity associated with proactive maintenance • Where the money goes • How to stop wasting money • How is it used? The Reliability Game is played by teams of four people who will assume one of the following roles: Finance Manager, Purchasing Coordinator, Maintenance Resource Planner, Operations Coordinator. The concept is simple: each team determines the best way to manage their equipment, money, time, labor and material resources. Throughout the simulation, each team’s financial performance is tracked and discussed, creating a competitive atmosphere. By the game’s end there is typically a greater appreciation for the value of reliability and the entire reliability philosophy. Bonus Workshop #2 The Manufacturing Game® The Manufacturing Game® is a strategic simulation of a manufacturing plant. It is a powerful tool for teaching the principles of Systems Thinking, High Commitment & High Performing Teams, planning, and defect elimination in a Total Quality environment. The Manufacturing Game® is particularly useful for revealing: • • • • • • • Organizational breakdowns caused by “local” or functional perspectives The challenges of reversing “momentum” of past practices within an organization How the structure of a system drives its behavior The tendency of feedback loops to amplify or diminish management actions and responses Breakdowns caused by operational and informational delays in the “system” Our tendency in decision making to focus on what is measurable rather than what is important Actual steps for transforming a mediocre facility into one where production, quality, and teamwork are sustainably increased even as the resources required for operation are ultimately reduced The Manufacturing Game® is a hands-on learning experience where participants work together in teams of three to six players. Team members make assessments about the operation and performance of their departments and the organization, make requests and promises to one another, and make increasingly proactive decisions about production, strategy, planning, inventories, manufacturing, effectiveness, maintenance, and the allocation of scarce resources. Managers, staff, operators, mechanics, storeroom, and support personnel who play The Manufacturing Game® will benefit by becoming more effective at: • • • • Achieving global goals while handling functional tasks Collaborating with other functions to optimize organizational performance Maintaining a long term perspective while servicing short term needs and goals Viewing an organization’s structure as a network of interactions with many feedback loops, delays, and constituencies • Identifying “high leverage intervention points” within an organization to improve performance • Thinking, planning and acting proactively in the midst of uncertainty and pressure Is your organization hesitant to adopt a reliability-based approach to maintenance? Trying to change organizational culture is often challenging, but it is also very rewarding.

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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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