Uptime Magazine - October/November 2008 - (Page 18)

PdM Program of the Year Award Winners: Proﬁles in Excellence PdM Program ofthe Year by Jeff Shuler Uptime Magazine is proud to feature a special group of people and companies who have risen to the challenges presented by most maintenance improvement programs and have earned the prestigious Uptime PdM Program of the Year Award. This award is designed to acknowledge exceptional predictive maintenance programs and the teams that note only create them, but also operate and continuously improve them. The winners of the 2008 Uptime PdM Program of the Year Awards assembled for the award preThe 2008 Uptime Magazine PdM Program of the Year Award Winners sentations at PdM-2008 – The Predictive Maintenance TechnolIt is extremely rewarding for us at Uptime to conduct these ogy Conference and Expo, co-located with LubricationWorld, awards because it allows us to learn about so many top from September 15-18, 2008 in Omaha, NE. We are pleased to notch programs. We would like to acknowledge all of the tell you more about the award winners below and congratulate each program for their outstanding work in Predictive MaintePdM programs that entered this year. The overall quality of nance/Condition Based Maintenance. the entries continues to make our job of selecting the winners more difficult - but that is a challenge that we couldn’t be happier to have, because it is a clear indication that, as an industry, reliability and maintenance is improving. The one thing that is striking about this year’s winners is that not one of them thinks that they have reached the summit for their PdM programs. Some were surprised their programs won. Perhaps that is a trait that makes a good PdM program into a great program, and then into a winning program. Continuous improvement is a goal that they all share, and, I suspect, will be a goal that all future winners will share. Again, thank you to everyone who took the time to enter this year’s contest. We encourage everyone to enter their programs next year, and are already looking forward to learning more about your PdM programs. This year’s PdM Program of the Year Award Awards were presented at PdM-2008 in Omaha, NE A hearty congratulations to all of this year’s winners. And, without further ado, here are this year’s PdM Program of the Year winners: 18 october/november 2008

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Uptime Magazine - October/November 2008 Contents Upfront Upclose: An Asset Management Oasis in the Desert Information Technology: Streamlining Through Simplicity Lubrication: Phases for Framing a Solid Foundation Infrared: Do Your Homework Before You Buy Maintenance Management: Get It Together by Getting Together Motor Testing: Key Elements in Motor Decision Making Precision Maintenance: Shedding Some Light on Tolerances Reliability: RCM & the Mortgage Meltdown Ultrasound: A Multidimensional Tool Vibration: The Whirling Pump Mystery, Solved with ODS Upgrade: Are You Looking in the Right Place for Your Wear Debris?

Uptime Magazine - October/November 2008

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