Vidarbefodrad från CBM-Sweden. Göran Wikingson
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Welcome to the twenty-seventh edition of M-News.

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IN THIS EDITION...

Feature Article - Profit Optimization and How to Validate Results With Your
Maintenance Excellence Index
Feature Article - Moving from a Repair-focused to a Reliability-focused Culture
Feature Article - Where Is My Data For Making Reliability Improvements?
Feature Article - Performance Monitoring System for Electromagnetic Vibrating
Feeders of Coal Handling Plant
Current Survey - TPM Implementation
Recommended Books
On the Lighter Side - Engineering Humor

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Feature Article - Profit Optimization and How to Validate Results With Your
Maintenance Excellence Index

This 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-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. 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.


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Feature Article - Moving from a Repair-focused to a Reliability-focused Culture

This 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. Details of the conference can be found at
http://www.maintenancejournal.com/Events/2002InternationalMaintenanceManagementC\
onference.asp

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.

Ensuring a Long-Term Strategic Focus
Aligning Reward Systems with Strategic Goals
Better Integration between Production and Maintenance
Creating Opportunities for Teamwork and Organisational Learning
Strong, Committed Leadership

Based on my experience, most culture change initiatives will fail without all of
these elements being present.
This article is available at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/Repair_to_Reliability_Culture.pdf.
Once again, you will require the free Adobe Acrobat
reader installed to be able to view this file.

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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/Where's_My_Data.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 - Performance Monitoring System for Electromagnetic Vibrating
Feeders of Coal Handling Plant

This 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.

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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)? Owing to some technical issues with the
survey software, this survey will now remain open
for a further month until August 25, 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

Engineering Terminologies

A number of different approaches are being tried. (We don't know where we're
going, but we're moving.)

Close project coordination. (We should have asked someone else.)

An extensive report is being prepared on a fresh approach to the problem. (We
just hired 3 guys. We'll let them kick it around
for a while.)

Major technological breakthrough. (Back to the drawing board.)

Customer satisfaction believed assured. (We're so far behind schedule that the
customer is happy to get anything at all from
us.)

Preliminary operational test were inconclusive. (The darn thing blew up when we
threw the switch!)

The test results were extremely gratifying. (It works and boy are we surprised.)

The entire concept will have to be abandoned. (The only guy who understood the
thing quit.)

It is in the process. (It is so wrapped up in red tape that the situation is
almost hopeless.)

We will look into it. (By the time the wheel makes a full turn, we will assume
you have forgotten about it.)

Please note and initial. (Let's spread the responsibility for this job.)

Give us the benefit of your thinking. (We'll listen to what you have to say as
long as it doesn't interfere with what we have
already done.)

Give us your interpretation. (Your warped opinion will be pitted against our
good sense.)

See me, or Let's discuss. (Come down to my office, I'm lonesome.)

All new. (Parts not interchangeable with previous design.)

Rugged. (Too heavy to lift.)

Lightweight. (Lighter than rugged.)

Years of development. (Finally got one that worked.)

Energy saving. (Achieved when the power switch is off.)

No maintenance. (Impossible to fix!)
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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
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