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Tuesday,
May 6 – Pre-conference Workshops
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| 7:00-8:00 |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:00-4:00* |
Workshop 1 – “Physical Asset Performance Management” led by: John Mitchell, Meridium, Inc.
This workshop details a program you must consider to gain optimum reliability, utilization, effectiveness and lifetime value from your physical assets. The workshop describes the real-world application of asset life-optimizing processes developed and used by industry leaders. It shows how to:
- Conclusively demonstrate the necessity for and full value delivered by a reliability-driven asset lifetime optimization program in the business terms that are essential for continuation
- Define, justify and establish an Asset Performance Management program
- Identify, value and prioritize your greatest opportunities for improvement
- Determine optimum reliability
- Recognize and build on organizational strengths and correct weaknesses
- Use benchmarks, performance metrics, and numerical best practice values
- Prioritize implementation to gain real results in the shortest period of time
- Select and apply best practices that create greatest value for your conditions
- Gain the utmost from asset optimization best practice and technology
- Optimize the work management process; initiate and manage change
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Workshop 2 – “Basic & Intermediate Reliability” led by: David Walker, 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. Several key areas are covered, including:
- Reliability terminology and concepts
- Reliability focused design considerations
- Key reliability management principles
- Cost considerations of unreliability
- Introduction to a variety of proactive reliability analysis techniques
- Overview of key management systems needed for reliability improvement
- Application of root cause analysis (RCA) to chronic and acute equipment failures
- Basic principles and concepts of reliability-centered maintenance (RCM)
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Workshop 3 – “Weibull Analysis” led by: Dr. Bob Abernethy, World Renowned Expert
The Weibull workshop is based on “The New Weibull Handbook Student Version” which will be provided to attendees including the SuperSMITH Student Version Software. The text is largely extracted from “The New Weibull Handbook” covering the basic material for reliability and statistical analysis of life data. The objective it to provide an understanding of basic Weibull analysis including hands-on work with computer case studies. Topics covered include:
- An overview of life data analysis
- The statistics of Weibull analysis
- How to make Weibull plots, step-by-step by hand and on the computer
- Interpretation of Weibull plot patterns and Weibull parameters
- Three parameter Weibulls for origin shifts
- The Log Normal Distribution
- Goodness of fit
- Forecasting failures and warranty claims in future months and years
- Weibayes, the one parameter Weibull, for improved accuracy
- Test substantiation of new products with minimum time and cost
- Confidence intervals to measure the statistical uncertainties
- Crow-AMSAA modeling
- Case studies illustrating all of the above
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| 4:00-6:00 |
Welcome Reception in Exhibit Area |
| * NOTE: Lunch and breaks will be provided for all workshop attendees. |
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Wednesday, May 7 |
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7:15-8:00 |
Breakfast |
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8:00-8:30 |
Welcoming Remarks and Plenary Session |
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8:30-9:30 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS – "Value and Risk Based Asset Management"
John Mitchell, Meridium, Inc. |
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9:30-10:00 |
Break |
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Track 1
Asset
Management Strategies |
Track 2
Best
Practices/Case Studies |
Track 3
New
Technologies |
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10:00 -10:45 |
Paper 1
The Role of the Reliability Engineer in a World of Conflicting Priorities – Robert DiFrancesco, ARMS Reliability Engineers, LLC |
Paper 2
ArcelorMittal Tubular Products’ Journey to Operational Excellence: How Two Plants with Different Business Challenges Adopt Optimized Asset Performance as a Common Strategy – Dave Armstrong, ArcelorMittal Tubular Products / Al Weber, Ivara Corporation |
Paper 3
Improved Reliability at DCP Midstream – Kent Christopherson, DCP Midstream |
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10:45 -11:30 |
Paper 4
Maintenance and Reliability Indicators in Parenteral Manufacturing Plant – Carlos Velez, Wyeth Pharmaceutical, Carolina P.R. |
Paper 5
The Link Between Machine Reliability and Personnel Reliability – Ken Reed, System Improvements, Inc. |
Paper 6
Meeting Maintenance Cost Reductions Through Technology – Michael Liegel, Fluor |
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11:30-12:45 |
Lunch |
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12:45-1:30 |
Paper 7
The Statistical Outliers are in Control of Asset Management – Tom Carroll, NetJets, Inc. |
Paper 8
BPXC Sales Gas Plant (SGP) Maintenance Plan Optimization and Implementation of a Performance Based Maintenance Contract – Wolman Cardenas, WG Colombia |
Paper 9
Improving Equipment Monitoring: Application of Wireless Vibration Sensors – Brandon Rasmussen, Kurz Technical Services, Inc. |
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1:30-2:15 |
Paper 10
Turning Corporate Asset Management into Real Earnings Per Share Growth – Robert DiStefano, MRG |
Paper 11
Implementation of a Coal Pulverizer Maintenance Improvement Plan for Fossil Plant Assets – Michael Cook, Talecris Biotherapeutics |
Paper 12
Using Filter Debris Analysis to Detect Abnormal Wear in Industrial Equipment – Michael Barrett, Insight Services / Dr. Karen Cassidy, GasTOPS, Inc. |
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2:15-2:45 |
Break |
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2:45-3:30 |
Paper 13
Is Your Control Room Data What You Think It Is? – Ray Beebe, Monash University |
Paper 14
Advanced Vibration Analysis Applied to Wind Turbine Gear Boxes – Dr. Stewart Bowers, Emerson Process Management |
Paper 15
The Wireless Revolution – Mark Vowell, Commtest |
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3:30-4:15 |
Paper 16
PANEL DISCUSSION: How Do You Determine How Well Your Company is Doing in Maintenance and Reliability? – Led by: Tim Holmes, DuPont |
Paper 17
Does it Rotate? Do You Want to Cut Costs?: Reducing Energy and Maintenance Costs with Helical Gearing and Premium Efficient Motor Solutions – Mike Stoneburner, Baldor Dodge Reliance |
Paper 18
Application of Data-Based Performance Monitoring Methods to Process Units of Fossil Power Plants – Dr. Belle Upadhyaya & Fan Li, University of Tennessee College of Engineering |
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4:15-5:00 |
COMBINED SESSION - “Tales of the Blackbird” with Dr. Bob Abernethy |
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5:00-6:00 |
Break |
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6:00-9:00 |
Dinner and Entertainment at the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame |
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Thursday, May 8 |
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7:30-8:15 |
Breakfast |
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8:15-8:30 |
Plenary Session |
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8:30-9:30 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS – "Reliability of the Mars Exploration Rovers"
Harry "Hap" McSween, Jr., University of Tennessee |
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9:30-10:00 |
Break
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Track 1
Asset
Management Strategies |
Track 2
Best
Practices/Case Studies |
Track 3
New
Technologies |
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10:00-10:45 |
Paper 19
Maximizing Maintenance Engineering Return on Investment – Bob Walker, Arnold AFB |
Paper 20
Turning a Dreaded CMMS Upgrade into a Maintenance Process Improvement – Edward Williams & Shelley Whitener, Sandia National Laboratories |
Paper 21
Merging Data Sources for Predicting Remaining Useful Life – Jamie Garvey, University of Tennessee College of Engineering |
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10:45-11:30 |
Paper 22
AFSO21: Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) in the U.S. Air Force – Kenneth Kirby, University of Tennessee |
Paper 23
DuPont’s Implementation of Netfacilities CMMS for Smaller Plants – Tim Holmes, DuPont / Greg Christensen, Netfacilities |
Paper 24
Software for Fault Diagnosis by Logical Analysis of Data – Soumaya Yacout, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal |
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11:30-12:45 |
Lunch
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12:45-1:30 |
Paper 25
An Overlooked Ingredient to Successfully Implementing a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) – Jennifer Ohl, Midwest Software Specialists, Inc |
Paper 26
Handhelds as the Primary Condition Monitoring Tool in Eastman’s RBOM Effort – Mark Mitchell & Steve Powers, Eastman Chemical Company |
Paper 27
Maintaining Peak Process Control Performance and Reliability by Understanding and Deploying Auto-Tuning Techniques for PID Controllers – Steve Edwards, Eastman Chemical Company |
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1:30-2:15 |
Paper 28
Effective Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics – David Nelson, Wyle Laboratories / Walley Lastinger, Naval Air Systems Command |
Paper 29
Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) Implementation Finding Success at Y-12 – Tim Hutson, BWXT Y-12 / Paul Durko, The Force, Inc. |
Paper 30
New Standards for On-Site Testing of In-Service Lubricants – Ray Garvey, Emerson Process Management |
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2:15-2:45 |
Break |
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2:45-4:00 |
OPEN FORUM SESSION - Led by Terry O'Hanlon, Reliabilityweb.com |
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4:00-4:30 |
Closing / Prizes / Giveaways |
