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Edition 27, July 2002 ContentsIn this edition...
If you wish to receive notification of future copies of this newsletter by email, please register at www.plant-maintenance.com/registration.shtml. If you have any feedback on the newsletter, or have something to contribute, please send me an e-mail. Feature Article - Profit Optimization and How to Validate Results With Your Maintenance Excellence IndexThis article is the final article in a series of five offered by Pete Peeters of the Maintenance Excellence Institute which presents a strategic approach to Maintenance and Reliability Improvement. An introduction to the entire series can be read at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/JourneytoMaintenanceExcellence-Introduction.pdf. The first article was featured in Edition 23 of this newsletter, the second article, titled "The Scoreboard for Maintenance Excellence" was featured in Edition 24. The third article entitled "Developing Your CMMS/EAM as a True Maintenance Business Management System" was featured in Edition 25. The fourth article entitled "Path Forward to a Profit-Centered Maintenance Operation" was featured in Edition 26. This article covers the process of defining and gaining consensus on very specific key performance indicators related to the total maintenance operation. It covers a recommended set of internal benchmarks or metrics for today's facilities leader, the purpose for each, where they traditionally can be found in the CMMS (or financial system), how to calculate each one and how to determine your current baseline. Each element for a developing and calculating your own MEI is covered. Most important this section recommends an attainable performance goal and how your own uniquely developed Maintenance Excellence Index will validate results and ROI for Maintenance operations. The full article can be read at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/MaintenanceExcellenceIndex.pdf. Note that you will need to have the free Adobe Acrobat reader installed to be able to view this file. Feature Article - Moving from a Repair-focused to a Reliability-focused CultureThis article is based on a paper that I will be presenting at the International Maintenance Management Conference on the Gold Coast, Australia, run by Engineering Information Transfer. This is one of the best maintenance conferences in the Southern hemisphere, with a strong line-up of Australian and International speakers, and I suggest that if you are able to attend, that you do so. The article discusses the five key elements required to successfully transition from a traditional, repair-focused organisational culture, to a proactive, reliability-focused culture, and reap the rewards of increased performance of both equipment and people.
This article is available at Feature Article - Where Is My Data For Making Reliability Improvements?Another article from Paul Barringer of Barringer & Associates this month - this time, one that he co-authored with David Weber of D. Weber Systems, Inc. This paper was initially presented at the Fourth International Conference on Process Plant Reliability in 1995, but the issues that it discusses are just as relevant today. All failure data for plant equipment and processes contains problems with definition of failure, data accuracy, data recording ambiguities, data accessibility, and lack of currency values. This paper argues that these are not reasons for ignoring data - that data analysis puts facts into an action oriented format to focus on making improvements to reduce the cost of unreliability. Finally, it argues that understanding data is helpful, but making cost effective improvements by use of the data is the business objective. You can read the article at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/Wheres_My_Data.pdf. Once again, you will need to have the free Adobe Acrobat reader installed to be able to view this file. Feature Article - Performance Monitoring System for Electromagnetic Vibrating Feeders of Coal Handling PlantThis article is is offered by Makarand Joshi, and describes a simple system, which can be used to easily monitor Vibrating Feeder feed rate to help the operator to his plant. You can read the full article at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/Feeder_Performance_Monitoring.pdf. Yet again, you will require the free Adobe Acrobat reader installed to be able to view this file. Current Survey - TPM ImplementationIs your organization implementing (or has it implemented) Total Productive Maintenance? Has it been successful? What factors have led to your success (or failure)? Owing to some technical issues with the survey software, the closing date for this survey has been extended until August 31, 2002. You can complete the survey, or view the results to date at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/survey.shtml. Recommended BooksView our current Top 5 recommended books, and the current Top Ten Best Selling Maintenance Books at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/maintenance_books.shtml.On the Lighter Side - Engineering HumorEngineering Terminologies
I hope you have enjoyed this newsletter. All feedback, comments and contributions to future editions are very welcome (as are enquiries about contributions to, and sponsorship of, this newsletter). Alexander (Sandy) Dunn
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