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

My apologies for not issuing M-News in August - I hope this issue makes up for
it!

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IN THIS EDITION...

Feature Article - Asset Management - Latest Thinking
Feature Article - Outsourcing Equipment Maintenance in a Down Economy
Feature Article - Assessing your maintenance training needs
Feature Article - Quality Assured Maintenance Management For Coal Handling Plant
Survey Results - TPM Implementation
Current Survey - Design for Maintainability/Reliability
Recommended Books
On the Lighter Side - Engineering Humor

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Feature Article - Asset Management - Latest Thinking

An Asset Manager has to be all things to all people. He or she is the point of
contact between business objectives and the
considerable complexities of technical and human issues. With business
performance accountability and technical responsibility,
the Asset Manager is a professional translator – converting options such as new
technology opportunities, maintenance
strategies, design changes or asset replacement decisions into business or
economic language, often with little or no hard data
to work with. The newly emerging management science of Asset Management is
trying to deal with these requirements; equipping
engineers to become businessmen, and introducing some structured methods for
handling reliability, performance, maintenance,
safety, environmental, staff motivation and other headaches. Although this
article, from John Woodhouse, dates from 1999, it is
a useful outline of the key concepts behind the science of Asset Management and
can be read at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/amthinking.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 - Outsourcing Equipment Maintenance in a Down Economy

The decision to outsource equipment maintenance, during the recent economic
boom, was generally made for the purpose of
improving maintenance performance in order to maximize the output of the plant.
With orders at very high levels, the only thing
that would hurt plant financial performance would be the inability to make
enough products to meet the demand of the market.
Although the decision to outsource a key, yet noncore, function like maintenance
was not an easy decision, Plant Managers felt
comfortable that the risk involved with outsourcing was not as great as the risk
of not producing. With the economic issues
facing manufacturers today, the decision to outsource equipment maintenance is
probably more viable than it has been in robust
economic times.

This article, written by Steven Welch of ATS is available at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/OutsourcingEquipmentMaintenance.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 - Assessing your maintenance training needs

How do you know where to start with maintenance skills training? For many of us,
that’s the million-dollar question. That
training is needed is usually self-evident. But what kind of training, in which
areas, and how much training are questions not
easily answered. That’s what needs assessments, and this article, are about.

You can read the article, contributed by Ricky Smith of Life Cycle Engineering,
Inc. at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/Assessing_Maintenance_Training_Needs.p\
df. 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 - Quality Assured Maintenance Management For Coal Handling Plant

This article is yet another offered by Makarand Joshi. Maintenance of coal
handling plants (CHP) of thermal power stations have
traditionally had processes related to the performance of routine, unscheduled
and emergency maintenance. They do not usually
include operational factors such as scheduling, procedures, and work/systems
control. The failure of equipment has led to high
maintenance and operation costs. Developing Quality Assured Maintenance
Management (QAMM) for CHP is very important for
improving quality and reducing operating costs. This type of maintenance policy
and strategy will improve performance of CHP
through availability of equipment, reduction in railway costs through demurrage
and further supplying constant flow of fuel to
boiler to avoid failure of energy supply to consumers.

The concept of Quality Assured Maintenance Management (QAMM), discussed in this
paper for Coal Handling Plant is to offer
significant benefits. Guidelines for implementation of QAMM in CHP are also
discussed in this paper. You can read the full
article at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/Maintenance_Management_QA.pdf. Yet
again, you will require the free Adobe
Acrobat reader installed to be able to view this file.

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Survey Results - TPM Implementation

Our TPM Survey closed recently. Thank you to the 17 people who completed the
survey. With this few respondents, detailed
analysis is not possible, but the results of the survey can be viewed by those
who are interested at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/cgi-bin/survey_tpm.cgi?action=VIEW&filebase=tpm\
_survey.

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Current Survey - Design for Maintainability/Reliability

It's been three years since we last ran a survey on this subject (you can see
the results of the previous survey at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/dfm_survey_results.shtml). What
standards and processes does your organization have
that lead to reliability and maintainability issues being considered in the
design/configuration/procurement of new or modified
equipment? Let us know by completing the the survey 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.
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On the Lighter Side - Engineering Humor

During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, NASA decided it needed a ball
point pen to write in the zero gravity confines
of its space capsules.

After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at
a cost of $1 million. The pen worked and also
enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth.

The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.

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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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