Up Time Magazine - February/March 2009 - (Page 60) upgrade Spotlighting Editor’s picks of hot products & services in the industry. Who among us doesn’t want to perform at our optimum abilities? Here is a system that may be able to take your maintenance function to a higher level. 3D PMOptimization In today’s tough economic environment, it only makes sense to take what you have and make it better. Now is the time to streamline your processes for maximum efficiency. We are highlighting a product that will help you do just that. Through the optimization process, you can eliminate the PM’s that don’t add value (which frees those labor hours to perform value added tasks), reduce parts cost for PM’s, and reduce scheduled downtime for PM’s, all while increasing effective PM coverage. Increasing the overall effectiveness of your PM’s can have a profound effect on your maintenance and reliability programs - and in your organization’s productivity. We were able to connect with the co-developers of 3-Dimensional PMOptimization and co-owners of LAI Reliability Systems, Inc., Edward Stanek, Jr. and Tibor Jung, who together have over 50 years of experience in maintenance and reliability. They are quite confident in their system’s ability to increase the overall effectiveness of maintenance and increase equipment reliability. Here is the Q&A with them Let’s start with you giving us a brief overview of 3-Dimensional PMOptimization, and its suite of applications. As outlined in the Dec/Jan issue of Uptime, a wide variety of conditions have elevated visibility of the term “PMOptimization” on everyone’s reliability radar. Whether it’s the demand for greater asset reliability, survival of impending maintenance reductions, or searching for the perfect complementary effort to partner with an RCM program, PMOptimization may be the missing link in your reliability efforts. The question isn’t so much “Is PMOptimization the right path?”, but what to do once you’ve begun. 3-Dimensional PMOptimizationSM is a truly unique approach to optimizing PM tasks based on the principles of LAI’s incredibly successful PM Development process. By applying Lean and Constraint Management philosophy, the process begins by first seeking to remove waste within the PM program, resulting in opening Maintenance craft capacity through more efficient and better PM tasks. This way the Optimization effort is “creating” its own labor availability to fuel itself going forward. The impact on maintenance labor and production scheduled downtime is truly amazing and better yet, it accomplishes this while elevating PM effectiveness resulting in an increase in equipment & process reliability. • The 1st dimension, Initial Optimization cleans your current PMs through a series of 14 individual efficiency optimization opportunity SM filters while uncovering effectiveness gaps for greater reliability. • The 2nd dimension, PM Task Pass/Fail Analysis, ensures PM tasks remain optimized through continuous, automated feedback of PM results as found during PM execution, tracked at a failure mode level. • The 3rd dimension, Equipment Reliability Analysis, uses continuous feedback on equipment reliability from other equipment performance tracking systems beyond the PM System (e.g. CMMS, OEE, downtime tracking, etc.) to uncover potential risk, further enhancing the effectiveness of the PM tasks. And can you tell us a little more about the Reliability Fusion software and some of its features that differentiate it from other CMMS products? Simply stated; Reliability FusionSM fills the major gaps of all CMMS products. No CMMS helps you build or optimize your PMs. It only provides a space to put your PM data once established. In fact, the inflexibility and limitations of many CMMS systems are one of the leading reasons 3-Dimensional PMOptimizationSM is required in the first place! And because Fusion links to tables and fields of the CMMS, it by default, has become a world-class caliber CMMS itself. Reliability FusionSM is the first software and process to develop, optimize & manage your PMs, establish equipment criticality, automate TPM, and provide a means to leverage your work across the organization in mulfebruary/march 2009 60
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