How to Manage your Lubrication Programs

Know where you are now, where you should be and how to get there.

Juan Lee, Center for Reliability Excellence
8:00 am – 4:30 pm, March 10, 2011

In today's ever tightening budget and continuous right sizing, plant maintenance teams are tasked to run a leaner and more efficient team. It does not help that a recent study found that as much as 50% of PM tasks do not to add any value. Most plants realize significant losses from these inefficiencies; however, only a few smart companies are taking action.

The reward is significant, but where or how to start? So much things to do but so limited time and resource.

After this workshop, you'll have the knowledge and guidelines on carrying out an objective and comprehensive audit. You'll find where you are exactly (point A) and where you should be (point B). Resources can then be properly allocated to maximize the return and timing of the investment.

You will learn:

• How to assess your lubrication program
• What to do and not to do in selecting lubricants
• How to properly store and handle lubricants
• A-Z of an oil analysis program
• Various strategies in contamination control
• Options to optimize your PM tasks
• How to carry out and build a lube survey

Results Oriented Reliability and Maintenance Management

Tor Idhammar, President IDCON, Inc.
8:30 am – March 10, 2011

The purpose of seminar is to educate operations, maintenance and engineering in what good reliability and maintenance practices are and ?what good looks like?. The theme of the seminar is built up around how Operations, Maintenance and Engineering can work closer in a reliability partnership

The seminar serves as an overview for all IDCON training programs and as a catalytic tool to help your organization discover and agree on improvement opportunities and what actions must be taken to close the gap between best practices and the way you work today. The Seminar content also includes examples on how you can achieve improvements.

Implementation of the discoveries from the seminar will result in increased quality production throughput and lower costs. This will be achieved through a better partnership between Operations, Maintenance, Engineering and other support functions such as stores.

• The development of reliability and maintenance in industry
• Automation?s impact on maintenance
• Capacity of industry vs. number of workers
• Case studies of improvements in reliability and maintenance
• Improving equipment reliability is about changing people and worksystems
• The right people in the right spot
• Operations role in reliability
• Maintenance role in Reliability
• Engineering role in reliability
• Maintenance philosophies available and what they are
• Mobility of management requires stronger work systems
• What manufacturing reliability is and how to measure it.
• Overall Production Effectiveness (OPE)
• Mean time to break-down
• Life Cycle Cost, maintainability and reliability design.
• Better reliability and impact on safety, revenues and cost.
• Example: How much Is 1% improved reliability worth for the company
• What best performers do better than others.
• Partnership work system between operations, maintenance, engineering and stores.
• Roles and responsibilities, common goal, and work practices in a partnership organization.
• Best reliability and maintenance practices methodology to identify improvement opportunities; develop improvement plans, guide implementation and measure progress of implementation and results.
• Maintenance prevention
• Condition Monitoring
• Planning of work
• Scheduling of work
• Interface with stores
• Technical database requirements
• Optimization of preventive maintenance between operations and maintenance.
• Root cause problem elimination.

Measure the processes with Key Performance Indicators (KPI's)