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Managing Lubrication Best Practices: A Strategic Forum for Reliability Professionals  

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Day 1

The Business of Plant Reliability Management

  • The secrets to build wealth, satisfy your customers and beat your competitors with reliability

  • What the board of directors and C-level executives need to know about plant reliability management, and why it’s important

  • The four variables of plant reliability that measure management effectiveness

  • Lean manufacturing: Your process won’t flow if your machines won’t go

  • How the 5-S system will improve your company

  • The four root causes of reliability program breakdowns

  • The strategic and functional domains of reliability

  • Why you can’t just buy reliability, and how to re-engineer your business processes

  • Principles of Total Productive Maintenance

Building the Foundation for Lubrication Excellence

  • World-class strategies for accessorizing equipment

  • Seven critical accessories for inspection and sampling

  • Seven critical accessories for contamination control prevention

  • Eight essential lubrication accessories

Managing Lubricant Selection, Storage and Handling

  • How to set up a world-class lube room

  • How to optimize lubricant selection/procurement

  • How to implement a lubricant consolidation program

  • Best practices for inspecting/testing new lubricants

  • Used lubricant storage, handling and disposal best practices

Managing Equipment Design for Lubrication Maintainability

  • How Reliability-Centered Maintenance can save you money

  • Rationalized preventive maintenance

  • How to use precision and proactive maintenance to eliminate failures and ensure success

  • The 10 most common precision maintenance pitfalls

  • Shutdown metrics: The top six KPIs to monitor

  • How to properly manage parts and spares at your facility

  • Why poor design results in poor operability and maintainability

Managing Lubrication and Relubrication Practices

  • The journey to world-class maintenance

  • The importance of spending time and money on your machines

  • Creating a cultural change for machinery lubrication

  • How to benchmark your lubrication program

  • Five types of friction and the role friction plays in the health of your machine

  • Three ways lubrication affects energy consumption

  • How to find the lubrication “sweet spot” for energy conservation

Day 2

Managing Contamination Control Practices

  • Building reliability through contamination control

  • The seven most destructive contaminants and how to control them

  • Three steps to proactive maintenance

  • Understanding the ISO Solid Contaminant Code

  • 10 ways to maximize filter cart usage

Managing Oil Analysis for Lube and Machine Condition Monitoring

  • How to optimize the deployment of condition monitoring and condition-based maintenance (CBM)

  • The 80:20 rule for maintenance

  • Three successful elements of a CBM program

  • Interpreting the language your oil is speaking

  • Common applications for sampling and analysis

  • 11 elements of a successful oil analysis program

Executing and Managing Lubrication Excellence

  • How to design for maintainability

  • 31 simple ways to improve your overall lubrication program

  • The value of new equipment documentation, and the 10 top conditions to document

Achieving Cultural Change

  • How to guard against “corporate amnesia” with procedure-based manufacturing

  • How plant operating and maintenance procedures drive consistency, continuity and skills management

  • The key to the reliability map: people + systems = success

  • How employee motivation and job satisfaction are key to your reliability initiative

  • How to connect skills management to procedures and outsourcing decisions

  • How an educated workforce affects plant reliability

  • How to calculate the risk-based cost of a failure

Developing an Effective Training Plan

  • How to transform your maintenance culture to achieve excellence

  • Examples of a lubrication department organization chart

Building Sustainability through Metrics

  • Lubrication performance charting

  • Using the Overall Lubrication Effectiveness metric

  • Tracking return on net assets (RONA) for your program

  • How to use software and the Internet for program metrics