Up Time Magazine- April/May 2008 - (Page 10) While the occasional hurricane and the fire of 2005 were not the direct motivation for initiation of the RCM program, such events may have played a part in creating a focus on the competitiveness of the firm in an environment that bears no competition – at this time. Of course, one of the hallmarks of RCM is the preference for the use of Condition MonitorBermuda is not an indusing Technologies over trial country, but more an intrusive work whenever insurance and financial it is cost effective and service driven economy feasible. BELCO has been with tourism playing an employing such technolincreasingly secondary Figure 1 - One of the 12 diesel engines at Bermuda Electric Light Company’s ogy for more than 10 years power generating facility. The facility’s maximum capacity is 159.7 megawatts. role. Local, technically and RCM was also seen skilled workers are becomIndividual engine capacity ranges between 2.5 and 14.5 megawatts. as a natural extension of ing harder to recruit and what to date has been a retain. We are certainly Quest for Improvement piecemeal approach to its application. These not alone in the world in facing this challenge. and other factors form the basis for our quest There is said to be a worldwide shortage of BELCO’s complete reliance on diesel fuel in for improvement. skilled labor and it behooves us to make the these times of record diesel prices, creates an most of what we do have in the face of this atmosphere where ways to improve must be explored to improve shareholder value and customer satisfaction. Further, we operate in a high cost environment, where cheap labor is unheard of. Although there are no less than 10,000 foreign workers on Bermuda soil, restrictions on use of non-local labor make it cumbersome to cherry pick from a lower cost labor pool overseas. 10 april/may 2008 http://www.mobiusinstitute.com http://www.mobiusinstitute.com/simulators.html http://www.mobiusinstitute.com
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