| Workshop 1 - (2 Days) | Monday & Tuesday, Feb. 25th - 26th |
| Weibull Analysis - Led by Wes Fulton, Founder/CEO of Fulton Findings, and Creator of the SuperSMITH Software Options | |
| RMS (Reliability-Maintainability-Safety-Supportability) engineering is perhaps the most important new discipline in product development due to new credible, accurate, quantitative methods. Weibull Analysis is foremost among these new tools. New advanced Weibull and Crow-AMSAA techniques provide accurate failure and warranty claims forecasts including cost analysis. They yield useful results even with extremely small samples and with data that has deficiencies. Special methods developed for these data problems, such as Weibayes, are presented with actual case studies. Inspection data will be treated with both interval and probit analysis. Test substantiation of new designs with minimum cost is presented. WinSMITH Weibull produces risk forecasts with renewal and optimal component replacement. Many case studies will be illustrated. Students are fully qualified to conduct Weibull Analysis at workshop completion. Benefits of Attending: By attending this workshop, you will be able to use Weibull's unique capabilities to:
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| Who Should Attend: Engineers responsible for reliability, safety, supportability, maintainability, materials, warranties, life cycle cost, design, structures, instrumentation and logistics will find these Weibull techniques extremely useful. An engineering undergraduate degree in any discipline would be beneficial. Text & Software Included: Each attendee will receive the entire SuperSMITHTM package, a $960 value. The SuperSMITH package contains: the new Fifth Edition of The New Weibull Handbook written by Dr. Bob Abernethy with many experts helping. The new edition has been completely rewritten with new sections and new methods for warranty analysis, goodness of fit, S/N curves, Crow-AMSAA modeling, Life Cycle Costs and Weibull Libraries. The SuperSMITH package also includes the latest version, 5.0-32, of WinSMITHTMWeibull, WinSMITHTMVisual and YBATH software which is used in the workshop; and the Play-Time Tutorial Software Workbook. This state-of-the art, WindowsTM software includes Normal & Log Normal Analysis and allows the student much more time for actual hands-on PC experience, interpreting data of all types. There are many new features. This software is very "user friendly" and provides: automatic iteration of t0, testing up to ten data sets to see if they are significantly different, MLE and rank regression solutions, labels, test substantiation designs with minimum cost, goodness of fit, inspection data analysis, confidence bounds with censored data, reliability prediction with confidence level, optimal component replacement intervals, future failure predictions with & without renewals, distribution analysis, accelerated testing, S/N curve production, etc. The software includes all the new methods in the Fifth Edition of The New Weibull Handbook. The students will exercise all the software systems to gain experience with all types of problems using a computer tutorial. Workshop Content: The Weibull, Log Normal, Exponential, and Binomial, the distributions that form the basis for RMS Engineering, are covered. Class work is used to reinforce key concepts. Lectures are based on actual case studies. The students use their laptops on the second to analyze Weibull and Log Normal problems. The students will be fully capable of performing basic and advanced RMS Engineering analysis with their own software on completion of the workshop. Note: All participants should bring their laptop to this workshop. **Click Here for a detailed course description. | |
| Workshop 2 - (1 Day) | Monday, Feb. 25th |
| The Relationship Between Human Performance and Equipment Failure - Led by Ken Reed, System Improvements | |
| When an equipment failure occurs, there are several tools that can be brought to bear to understand the "cause" of the failure. For example, high vibration levels in rotating equipment could be caused by mis-alignment, improper bedplate attachment, ineffective micro-balancing, etc. When you discover one of these causes, you might think we have solved the problem. However, very few pieces of equipment align themselves, mount themselves, and balance themselves. Somehow, we miss the obvious fact that people are involved in these activities. We miss the opportunity to really look deeply at why these physical problems exist. This course will look at the fundamental reasons that these types of mistakes are made. We will look at the human performance relationships that exist between man and machine, and with this understanding, look at more effective corrective actions to prevent future failure occurrence. |
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| Workshop 3 - (1 Day) | Monday, Feb. 25th |
| Asset Data Management...To Achieve Operational Excellence - Led by Ramesh Gulati, ATA/AEDC | |
| Are you making the right decisions to improve your assets – plant equipment? Do you get the right – appropriate information to make “informed” decisions? Who needs what information? Why do they need it? When do they need it? In what format should the information be provided? Are we collecting the right data? These are the central issues of Asset Data Management. This workshop will discuss asset data management related issues and help you to develop a plan to manage asset data. The key topics covered in this workshop are:
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| Workshop 4 - (1 Day) | Monday, Feb. 25th |
| Basic Reliability - Led by Randy Montgomery, ABS Consulting | |
This workshop covers the concepts of modern reliability science and methodologies, emphasizing that systems should be developed, designed, and modified with reliability as a key goal. This workshop defines reliability and presents the three fundamental principles for achieving reliability excellence.
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| Workshop 5 - (1 Day) | Monday, Feb. 25th |
| Value Stream Mapping for Maintenance - Led by Ed Stanek, Jr., LAI Reliability Systems, Inc. | |
**Note: This course has been cancelled at the presenter's request. We apologize for any inconvenience. Those who have registered for this course will be notified so that they may switch to a different workshop. |
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| Workshop 6 - (1 Day) | Monday, Feb. 25th |
| The Maintenance Business Experience--an Interactive Maintenance Management Simulation - Led by Remco Jonker & John Holmes, Mainnovation | |
| The Maintenance Business Experience is an interactive business game for maintenance and reliability professionals. Various maintenance teams compete with each other to develop the most value adding maintenance strategy for a fictional company. In the annual strategy assessment, the teams are faced with questions like: how many technicians do we need, how many critical spare parts should we have on stock, what is the optimum preventative maintenance for this plant and which improvements should we implement in our organization? Each year a benchmark report is provided to the teams to see how their strategy has influenced their performance and what needs to be done to further improve it. The team that has created the highest economic value after four budget years wins the Most Valuable Maintenance Award. What do you learn? In this unique event, participants learn how to steer maintenance using Key Performance Indicators, benchmarking data and maintenance best practices like RCM, TPM and RBI. The Maintenance Business Experience is based on Value Driven Maintenance (VDM), a leading management methodology that helps companies to maximize the economic added value of maintenance. During the game various show cases are presented of companies who improved the economic value of maintenance significantly. **Click Here for a course flyer. |
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| Workshop 7 - (1 Day) | Tuesday, Feb. 26th |
| Demonstrating Excellence in Asset Management - Led by Shon Isenhour, GPAllied | |
| Understand reliability and asset stewardship in the context of reducing risk within your manufacturing process and your business. This interactive workshop is an overview of the important concepts required to manage your asset base and will include the tenets of the PASS-55 standard, as well as future standards (ISO 5500). You will also learn tools that will improve:
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| Workshop 8 - (1 Day) | Tuesday, Feb. 26th |
| KPI's & Metrics for Reliability & Maintainability - Led by Al Weber, Ivara | |
| This workshop will start out by looking at the fundamental building blocks that make up the reliability and maintainability improvement process. We then will discuss the two types of KPI’s that need to be considered when giving due consideration to key measures that will allow you to monitor how your improvement efforts are progressing. We will discuss leading indicators and lagging indicators; then go into the value that each type provides an organization and give a variety of examples showing how these can impact your results. We will focus on how to create the “vital few KPI’s”, and what to be sensitive to as you move through this process. The takeaways from this workshop will not only help you better understand the many considerations to think about when developing KPI’s but will also give you an opportunity to create a set of these personalized measures for your respective needs. The key will be to avoid making KPI’s a bad four letter word, but rather a friendly, value added set of measures that will benefit ALL levels in your organization. |
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| Workshop 9 - (1 Day) | Tuesday, Feb. 26th |
| Results Oriented Reliability & Maintenance 2013 - Led by Christer Idhammar, IDCON, Inc. | |
| In the arena of maintenance management, there are many common improvement opportunities and obstacles to overcome. In this workshop, we will discuss common maintenance definitions and concepts, define reliability and how to measure and value reliability, and uncover how time is used in poor, good, and great maintenance organizations. There are many reasons why the multiple reliability improvement initiatives do not deliver the projected results, but there are enablers to overcome this. Best practices for the maintenance system, processes, and elements will be discussed along with how to create a reliability culture. This reliability culture must include a partnership and work system between Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, and Stores. Finally, there are many Key Performance Indicators out there for organizations to use, but not all of them are useful and some of them are quite useless. Indicators must drive and truly show results. They must define the gap between how good you are and how good you can become. In other words, with optimization of maintenance, how do you do that, and is there an optimum? By developing a reliability and maintenance strategy, a measurable vision and mission, and an action plan, your organization can reach where you want and need to be. To gain the best value from this workshop, it is highly recommended that you participate with a team including your operations & maintenance managers, front line supervisors & leaders, planners, and crafts people. **Click Here for a detailed course description. |
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| Workshop 10 - (1 Day) | Tuesday, Feb. 26th |
| The Impact of Precision Lubrication on Equipment Reliability - Led by Jarrod Potteiger, Des-Case | |
| In a recent survey of over 300 maintenance and reliability professionals, over 99% of respondents recognized the critical role that lubrication plays in equipment reliability. Yet despite this overwhelming statistic, only 1 in 3 of all plants has even scratched the surface on how to execute on precision lubrication. In this workshop, well examine what it takes to deploy best-in-class lubrication and discuss how to overcome the common roadblocks and obstacles that many face. |  Jarrod Potteiger's Bio |
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| Workshop 11 - (1 Day) | Tuesday, Feb. 26th |
| What Tool? When? - Led by Ron Moore, The RM Group, Inc. | |
| So many tools, so little time. At the latest count there were at least a hundred tools on the market for improving manufacturing performance. At times the selection process can be overwhelming. At other times, a tool is selected, and gains are achieved, only to disappear within a year or two. How do we know what improvement tool is best suited for our organization? How do we know when to apply it? What are some of the fundamental issues we must address, regardless of the tools selected? This seminar is designed to help you answer these questions, select the right tools, at the right time, for the right problem, and then sustain the improvement achieved. Ron Moore, an international authority on manufacturing excellence and author of "What Tool? When? A Management Guide for Selecting the Right Improvement Tools", and of "Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Operational Excellence", will offer his insight into the more popular tools– when they work, when they don’t, and how to select the right tool(s) for improving your organization. Ron will review the basics of manufacturing excellence, how to select the right tools and projects, the more popular improvement tools and strategies - Lean Manufacturing, Kaizen, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Six Sigma, Supply Chain Management, Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Predictive Maintenance, Planning and Scheduling, and Root Cause Analysis. **Click Here for a detailed course description. **Note: Paul Casto's course has been cancelled at his request due to an unforeseen conflict. We apologize for any inconvenience. Those who have registered for Paul's course will automatically be registered for Ron Moore's course, but may request to switch to a different workshop. |
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Contact Info:
Reliability & Maintainability Center
University of Tennessee
(865)974-9625
www.RMC.utk.edu
