In-depth full and half-day learning experiences to kick up your knowledge and results. All workshops take place at the Greater Columbus Convention Center.
Monday, May 15
Full-Day Workshops
Effective Plant Reliability Management 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Drew Troyer, Noria Corporation
Plant reliability plays a major role in the profitability of equipment asset dependent firms and, when managed properly, can positively influence share price and competitive position. This workshop will not only inform, but challenge every aspect about how you currently operate your plants. Discussion will focus on four key principles: 1) Gaining the benefits of plant reliability management requires a significant change – change that begins with your mindset; 2) You can’t be profitable if you can’t achieve reliability at a reasonable price; 3) Today’s manufacturing companies exist in a “commodity sandwich”; 4) Connecting the dots between strategies, applications, and results, emphasizing how reliability programs enable you to run your business better.
Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. R.D. (Doc) Palmer
Maintenance planning and scheduling should dramatically improve the productivity of maintenance. For example, a group of 30 maintenance technicians should be performing the work of 47 persons when aided by a single planner. Yet most maintenance organizations do not have a planning function and most that do are frustrated. This workshop reviews the fundamentals and includes class exercises to illustrate the principles and techniques to achieve success. The program not only covers the theory and vision, but the nuts and bolts of how planning and scheduling work. Following the class, participants should be able to implement a new planning organization or dramatically improve an existing planning organization.
Implementing a Cost-Effective Operator-driven Reliability System
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Tor Idhammar, IDCON In this workshop you'll get a detailed roadmap for planning and implementing a successful operator-driven reliability program at your facility. You'll learn about training and documentation needs, software system requirements, selecting tasks, detailed cleaning, how to organize inspections, and useful inspection tools. You'll learn how to optimize an existing maintenance program when including operators in maintenance activities and about the operators role in root cause problem elimination.
Half-Day Workshops
How to Reduce Electric Motor Failures with Best Practice Lubrication
8:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Noria Corporation
It's time to replace your outdated motor lubrication practices with best-practice procedures. In this workshop you'll get advice for selecting lubricants, applying lubricants, and implementing motor bearing contamination control. You'll gain a clear understanding of proper electric motor bearing lubrication and start reducing motor failures, downtime, rebuilds and replacement costs.
How to Equip Machinery for Reliability and Maintainability
8:00 – 11:30 a.m. Jason Kopschinsky, Noria Corporation
Learn how to modify critical and essential components correctly to achieve your desired level of maintainability. In this workshop you'll learn how to design, implement and cost justifying the correct reliability and performance driven modifications for critical equipment. This workshop covers: motivations to modify components, oil sampling techniques, how to select the appropriate hardware, modifications for machinery lubrication, modifications for oil sampling, modifications for contamination control, modification roadblocks, cost justifying equipment modifications, common modification mistakes, and more.
Wear Particle Analysis/Ferrography: A Condition Monitoring Technique 1:00 – 4:30 p.m. Ray Dalley, Predict
Reliability professionals are increasingly using wear particle analysis to diagnosis machine faults and provide evidence to back up their claims via photographs of the wear particles. The technique help pinpoint problems without taking the equipment out of service. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to identify different wear particles and establish the origination of the wear particles via different wear mechanisms according to machine lubricant film thickness.
How to Interpret Oil Analysis Reports – A Case Study Approach
1:00 – 4:30 p.m. Ashley Mayer and Matt Spurlock, Noria Corporation
If you find yourself frustrated because you don’t understand your oil analysis reports, don’t miss this workshop. This innovative case study approach to is fun and accelerates your learning. Participants will view actual case studies and oil analysis reports during the learning process. You'll get first-hand experience, hearing expert oil analysis diagnosticians walk you through the process of interpretation for each report.
Friday, May 19
Half-Day Workshop
How to Strategically Set Oil Analysis Alarms and Limits
8:00 – 11:30 a.m. Ashley Mayer, Noria Corporation
Precisely set alarms and limits are the critical first step to interpreting oil analysis results. With strategically set alarms and limits, costly problems quickly reveal themselves, allowing more time to make adjustment and react. Likewise, when the wrong limit types and limits are set, problems are easily overlooked and false-positives are accepted as problems.
In this workshop you will learn how to systematically select the correct type of limits and how to apply those limits to maximize problem detection. By the end of the workshop you’ll know precisely how to set hair-trigger alarms for viscosity, wear metals, acid number, base number, water, particles and more.
This workshop will be of interest to anyone involved in the interpretation of oil analysis data, from commercial oil-analysis laboratory diagnosticians, through on-site oil-analysis laboratory practitioners and oil-analysis software designers, to maintenance planners who need to schedule jobs according to their criticality.
