Up Time Magazine- February/March 2008

% PLANNED ON TIME 100.00% 90.00% 80.00% 70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% also provided us some of the basic tools needed to aid us in our reliability journey. on the technology. We have factions of some very good basic care happening in the company and need to continue to do more of this to be totally successful. Building a Foundation If we only knew then what we know now we now understand that we needed to build a solid foundation. All the technology and techniques are excellent tools, but alone they can only take you so far. If we didn’t know where we were going, how would we know when we arrived? We needed simple direction and purpose. What we needed was a vision and a mission statement – so we created both. Many efforts to drive increased use of technology for condition monitoring began in 2001, so being the RED company that we are, Figure 3 - Percentage of Planned Maintenance Performed On Time we purchased all the needed Manufacturing. This effort was to target deequipment to be able to predict any failure. creasing our downtime, and also affect some We brought vibration data collection into our culture change in our company, but most work group and we started to do some basic of all, to increase the figures on the bottom thermography, and also we started performline. Most of what we did in this effort on ing more oil analysis. We knew these prothe proactive maintenance pillar was very grams were needed to get to the reliability effective. However, the pace at which we we needed on our critical utility type assets. were tasked to perform it was very demandSo we did have that going for us. The focus ing. On the positive side, we did learn quite needs to be put on the basic asset care and a bit about ourselves as an organization and the people implementing it, and not so much as a maintenance and engineering group. It Ja n 0 Fe 6 b 0 M6 ar 0 Ap 6 r0 M6 ay 0 Ju 6 n 06 Ju l0 Au 6 g 0 Se 6 p 06 Oc t0 No 6 v0 De 6 c0 6 Ja n 07 Fe b 0 M7 ar 0 Ap 7 r0 M7 ay 0 Ju 7 n 07 Ju l0 Au 7 g 07 Our Vision A skilled workforce passionate about equipment reliability and operational excellence. Our Mission Establish an equipment reliability plan that; Maximizes equipment availability, Provides reliability centered direction, Enables the workforce, & Effectively manages asset lifecycle. uptime 72 delivers. With content that is focused 100% on Maintenance & Reliability, each month uptime delivers practical knowledge to tens of thousands of maintenance & reliability professionals around the globe. Are you in? www.uptimemagazine.com sales@uptimemagazine.com december 2007 http://www.ivctechnologies.com http://www.uptimemagazine.com http://www.ivctechnologies.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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