Workshop 1

Physical Asset Performance Management by John Mitchell, Meridium, Inc.
(Time: 8am-4pm)

Virtually every manufacturing, production and operating company is focused on a single objective—safely achieving greater output at less cost from physical plant and infrastructure assets. Stated more simply—increasing return on assets.

This workshop defines Asset Performance Management as a flexible, results oriented master process that provides the direction, prioritization and focus that are essential to assure Reliability and Maintenance best practices are selected and optimally applied to deliver rapid, demonstrable business objectives.

Identifying and prioritizing opportunities for improvement within your operating environment, building on your organizational strengths and applying the best of current processes such as TPM, RCM, CBM and RCFA to gain optimum performance, effectiveness and lifetime value from your physical assets are all covered in depth.

Presented more than 40 times throughout the world since 1997, 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 your organizational strengths
• Correct weaknesses
• Use benchmarks and performance metrics, including numerical best practice values
• Prioritize implementation to gain real results in the shortest period of time
• Select and optimally 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

After participating in this workshop you will understand the necessity and benefits of an Asset Performance Management program and have a solid idea of how the program and process will deliver real benefits for you. You will be able to construct an optimum program to increase the lifetime performance, effectiveness, value, and overall return gained from your plant's physical manufacturing and production assets.

A workshop handbook supplies you with all the material discussed during the workshop. A comprehensive text is available providing greater detail including objectives, concepts, requirements and specific improvement processes that you can put to use immediately for greatest benefits as well as case studies of actual implementations.

Workshop 2

Basic & Intermediate Reliability by David Walker, ABS Consulting
(Time 8am-4pm)

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)

Workshop 3

Weibull Analysis by Dr. Bob Abernethy, World Renowned Consultant

The one-day 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:

1. An overview of life data analysis
2. The statistics of Weibull analysis
3. How to make Weibull plots, step-by-step by hand and on the computer
4. Interpretation of Weibull plot patterns and Weibull parameters
5. Three parameter Weibulls for origin shifts
6. The Log Normal Distribution
7. Goodness of fit
8. Forecasting failures and warranty claims in future months and years
9. Weibayes, the one parameter Weibull, for improved accuracy
10. Test substantiation of new products with minimum time and cost
11. Confidence intervals to measure the statistical uncertainties
12. Crow-AMSAA modeling
13. Case studies illustrating all of the above

WinSMITH Weibull Student’s software (WSWS) is included to reduce the drudgery of hand calculations and produce probability plots for the most useful distributions. It is similarly extracted from the SuperSMITH WinSMITH Weibull software. A PowerPoint tutorial is included to introduce the software features with case studies:

1. Median Rank Regression and Maximum Likelihood Solutions
2. Probability Plots for Weibull 1, 2 and 3 parameter solutions
3. Probability Plots for Normal, Log Normal and Gumbel Extreme Value Solutions
4. CDF and PDF plots
5. Up to 60 failures and/or suspensions
6. Monte Carlo Sampling from the distributions listed above
7. Confidence Intervals based on the Beta-Binomial method
8. Weibayes analysis (1 parameter Weibull)
9. Failure forecasting for months and years into the future
10. The Analysis Report option listing exact values from the plot line and confidence bounds as well as goodness of fit metrics and confidence bounds for parameters