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Welcome to the twenty-sixth edition of M-News.

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IN THIS EDITION...

Feature Article - The Path Forward to a Profit-Centered Maintenance Operation
Feature Article - Administration and Training: Keys to CMMS Implementation
Success
Feature Article - Process Reliability and Six-Sigma
Feature Article - Tough Choices
Survey Results - Condition Monitoring and NDT Practices
Current Survey - TPM Implementation
Recommended Books
On the Lighter Side - Engineering Humor

For bandwidth reasons, this newsletter is in plain text, but an HTML version
is available at
www.plant-maintenance.com/m-news/edition26.shtml

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Feature Article - The Path Forward to a Profit-Centered Maintenance Operation

This article is the fourth 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-Introdu\
ction.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.

This article defines three key elements that help turn improvement opportunities
into visible profit-centered results. These
elements all contribute directly to profit optimization and include how to:

- Determine and quantify benefits and savings
- Improve craft productivity, the most valuable resource
- Define a path forward strategy to implement improvement opportunities

The full article can be read at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/PathForward.pdf. Note that you will
need to have the
free Adobe Acrobat reader installed to be able to view this file. We will be
featuring the final article in this series in the
next issue of this newsletter, but if, in the meantime, you would like to
receive the entire series, we would suggest that you
contact Pete Peeters via email at RalphPetePeters@...


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Feature Article - Administration and Training: Keys to CMMS Implementation
Success

This article by Christopher N. Winston of HSB Reliability Technologies, was
recently published in Maintenance Technology
magazine. Although there are many important factors leading to successful
implementation, this article discusses two that work
well in manufacturing and facility operations: administration and training.
These are two areas that often do not garner
commitment of necessary resources for the on-going upkeep of the maintenance
system. In other words, proper training and
administration are the preventive maintenance for the CMMS/EAM system.

This article is available at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/cmms-training-administration.shtml.


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Feature Article - Process Reliability and Six-Sigma

This article from Paul Barringer of Barringer & Associates was initially
presented at the National Manufacturing week conference
in 2000. Six-sigma techniques are concerned about time sequences of data.
Weibull analysis looks at the output in a random
manner where time sequence of data is not so important. The methods are
different—but complementary, and this article discusses
these points. You can read the article at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/Process_Reliability_and_Six-Sigma.pdf.
Once
again, you will need to have the free Adobe Acrobat reader installed to be able
to view this file.


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Feature Article - Tough Choices

This article is is offered by Christer Idhammar of IDCON, Inc.. The figures in
this article describe an actual case where a pulp
mill decided to do whatever it took to cut costs — mainly through maintenance
cutbacks - and the consequential impact on the
financial performance of the mill. You can read the full article at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/tough_choices.shtml.

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Survey Results - Condition Monitoring and NDT Practices

This survey was conducted between March 15 and May 25 this year, with valid
responses received from 70 participants. The full
results of the survey can be found at
www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/condition-monitoring-survey-02.shtml. The key
findings
from this survey are:

- Overall, most respondents use a wide variety of condition monitoring
technologies
- The most commonly used techniques were Human Senses (look, feel, smell, listen
etc.), Vibration Analysis and Oil Analysis
Human Senses, Vibration Monitoring and Motor Current analysis techniques are
most likely to be applied by In-house employees,
with oil analysis most likely to be performed by contractors.
- All techiques are considered to provide some benefits, but the greatest
benefits are considered to have been obtained from the
use of Human Senses, Vibration Analysis and Infra-red Thermographic techniques.

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Current Survey - TPM Implementation

Is your organization implementing (or has it implemented) Total Productive
Maintenance? Has it been successful? What factors
have led to your success (or failure)? Let us know in this survey which will
remain open until July 15, 2002. You can complete
the survey, or view the results to date at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/survey.shtml.


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Recommended Books

View our current Top 5 recommended books, and the current Top Ten Best Selling
Maintenance Books at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/maintenance_books.shtml. This list has recently
been updated.
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On the Lighter Side - Engineering Humor

Engineer Identification Test

You walk into a room and notice that a picture is hanging crooked. You.

Straighten it.
Ignore it.
Buy a CAD system and spend the next six months designing a
solar-powered, self-adjusting picture frame while often stating
aloud your belief that the inventor of the nail was a total moron.
The correct answer is "C" but partial credit can be given to anybody who writes
"It depends" in the margin of the test or simply
blames the whole stupid thing on "Marketing."
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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
Plant Maintenance Resource Center
webmaster@...
http://www.plant-maintenance.com