Goodlettsville, Tenn.—Des-Case Corporation, a leading manufacturer of contamination control products for industrial lubricants, announced its 2012 full line-up 3-Day Practical Machinery Lubrication training courses, as well as, its complimentary 1-Day Lubrication Transformation Workshop. Courses will be offered in cities across the country. Des-Case’s entire 2012 training schedule is available online at Lubrication Transformation℠.

By John Lambert To properly install machinery, you must look at the whole process.  Each component is necessary.  Each technology has its place.  Detecting faults plays a critical role in maintenance, but first you must install…and you must install properly.

By Nicholas E. Maki, Jack T. Croswell and Dean A. Weiberg Just as there is always a change in seasons, the journey to reliability excellence will continuously be changing and adapting. Maintaining a facility the size of Hibbing Taconite, a mining and natural resource company, is and always will be challenging. It is an endless cycle of preparing and repairing; continuously moving from one project to the next. It can be rewarding one minute and frustrating the next. As anyone involved with the process can attest, it is harder than it may appear to maintain equipment at its original designed capacity and efficiency. From the moment a piece of equipment is put into service, the clock starts and wear begins. It never seems to end and there appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel. You move from one project to the next, over and over again, seldom taking time to reflect and appreciate the work you have accomplished because the next project is waiting. This is how it is in the maintenance process. We execute repair after repair, continuously planning for the next shift, day, week, month and year, seldom taking time to look back and appreciate the work that has been accomplished.

The mission statement should be a clear and succinct representation of the purpose for existence. It should incorporate socially meaningful and measurable criteria addressing concepts, such as the moral/ethical position of the organization and expectations of growth and profitability. The intent of the mission statement should be the first consideration for any employee who is evaluating a strategic decision. The statement can range from a very simple to a very complex set of ideas. Tip…

Denver, Colorado - Dingo Software Pty Ltd is pleased to announce the formation of a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Dingo Mining. In support of this new business focus, Dingo Mining is pleased to also announce several changes to its leadership team, which were effective January 1, 2012.

Novi, Michigan, USA - Kistler North America (www.kistler.com), a worldwide supplier of precision sensors, systems and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque and acceleration, has introduced a new family of single axis and triaxial lightweight, miniature PiezoBeam® IEPE accelerometers with optional TEDS, designed for the multi-channel modal and structural analysis of small or thin-walled structures, components and subsystems, as well as full vehicle testing within automotive, aerospace, commercial aviation and general laboratory testing environments.

Novi, Michigan, USA - Kistler North America (www.kistler.com), a worldwide supplier of precision sensors, systems and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque and acceleration, has introduced a new family of single axis and triaxial lightweight, miniature PiezoBeam® IEPE accelerometers with optional TEDS, designed for the multi-channel modal and structural analysis of small or thin-walled structures, components and subsystems, as well as full vehicle testing within automotive, aerospace, commercial aviation and general laboratory testing environments.

Novi, Michigan, USA - Kistler North America (www.kistler.com), a worldwide supplier of precision sensors, systems and instrumentation for the dynamic measurement of pressure, force, torque and acceleration, has introduced a new family of single axis and triaxial lightweight, miniature PiezoBeam® IEPE accelerometers with optional TEDS, designed for the multi-channel modal and structural analysis of small or thin-walled structures, components and subsystems, as well as full vehicle testing within automotive, aerospace, commercial aviation and general laboratory testing environments.

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CHARLESTON, SC, - The Life Cycle Institute, Life Cycle Engineering’s education group, is offering 2-for-1 registrations on all first quarter public classes in 2012. This applies to any of the Institute’s public first quarter classes in 2012 when both individuals register by January 31, 2012.

New SuiteApp Can Help NetSuite Customers Efficiently Manage Equipment, Maintenance, and Purchasing. AssetPoint, a provider of Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS) solutions, today announced the TabWare SuiteApp on the NetSuite SuiteCloud Computing Platform.

Rockwall, Texas, Business Wire) - The Whitmore Manufacturing Company, a leading producer of component protection technology, has announced the hiring of David Blankenship as their new Plant Manager effective January 4, 2012. For the past eleven years, Blankenship served as plant manager for Valspar Corporation in Garland, Texas. Prior to that, he held the position of quality assurance manager for ten years, which included five years in the food and beverage industry.

Germantown, MD—Meggitt, a leading supplier of quality vibration sensors and hardware, introduces a new high output accelerometer for machinery health monitoring. The 786-500-D2 accelerometer carries CSA approvals for Class I Div 2/Zone 2 areas and has a high 500 mV/g output sensitivity and a broadband frequency response for multi-use applications.

The world’s largest developer and publisher of International Standards. The organization is a network of the National Standards Institutes of 159 countries, with a Central Secretariat in Geneva, Switzerland that coordinates the system. Tip excerpted from: The Professional’s Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology by Ramesh Gulati, Jerry Kahn and Robert Baldwin

Carrying a filter cart up 20 feet of scaffolding is not an ideal way to filter equipment. Compact, lightweight, and handheld systems are ideal in portability for carrying, lifting, and toting around to various locations. Maintenance professionals have discovered that portable filtration units have many valuable applications including dispensing new oil, performing oil changes, cleaning parts, and flushing new components. Tip provided by: Stephanie Schaffer,…

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As one of the most critical factors in reducing manufacturing costs, motor reliability has to be taken very seriously if a company wants to increase its return on investment in motor assets. Keeping around several spare motors is not a profitable solution to reliability issues. Rather, the answer is a cradle-to-grave approach to motor management and maintenance. It begins with a thorough asset specification and quality control, then continues throughout the motor’s life by tracking…

Any activity that consumes resources and produces no added value to the product or service a customer receives. There are seven types of manufacturing waste: 1. Production over immediate demand2. Excess work in progress and finished goods inventories3. Scrap, repairs and rejects4. Unnecessary motion5. Excessive processing6. Wait time7. Unnecessary transportation Tip excerpted from: The Professional’s Guide to Maintenance and Reliability Terminology by Ramesh Gulati, Jerry Kahn and…

This is an easy implementation of condition monitoring that can save you tons of money and labor. Install an air consumption meter with an analog output in a work cell or on a particular machine and connect the output to a programmable logic controller (PLC). Monitor for normal air consumption. Set an alarm level just above normal consumption and send the output to a human machine interface (HMI) when the normal consumption is exceeded. The…

From the RCM2 world, how many protective devices do you have? Of those, how many are you maintaining? Examples of protective devices are a High High Level Switch in an acid tank or an Emergency Stop on a Conveyor. The failure of protective devices is typically not evident to the Operator under normal operating conditions. Therefore, the failure of the protective device is a hidden failure. Consider the acid tank as an example. When the…