Sensor Fusion: The Path to Proactive Plant Maintenance and Operational Excellence

A powerful approach for improving plant maintenance programs is the integration of multiple sensing technologies to improve coverage of machines and different failure modes. This can be further complemented by effective analysis of the data from all the different sources. When using multiple sensors like this, it is called Sensor Fusion...

• Alan McCall
• Sensoteq

Contractor Management – CONNECT Conversations

Contractors are an essential part of any plant’s operating strategy. In this session we’ll review a “best practice” model for the effective use of contractors, including a set of contractor selection criteria.

• Ron Moore
• RELIABILITY CONNECT

Maintenance Costs as a % of ARV – Is It Useful? – CONNECT Conversations

Maintenance Cost as a Percent of Asset Replacement Value is often used as a measure to determine the effectiveness of the maintenance function. But, is it? In this podcast we’ll discuss the various means of calculating its value, and by implication, some of its downsides, along with a range of its value for various operations and potential reasons for that variation.

• Tuesday, January 16, 2024 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST

• Ron Moore
• RELIABILITY CONNECT

Repair or Replace? – CONNECT Conversations

Answering this question requires considerable information and analysis, and judgment. For example: What’s the current state of the asset? We’ll explore these and other questions, and provide guidance in helping you answer this fairly frequent, fundamental, and ofte3n complex question...

• Tuesday, January 30, 2024 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST

• Ron Moore
• RELIABILITY CONNECT

Unlocking the Value of Maintenance: The True Cost of Ignoring Your Lubrication and Vibration Data

You will learn how to calculate the economic impact of ignoring oil analysis data in a simple-to-understand format. We also explore several case studies to show what a true problem-to-failure curve looks like when the data is ignored.

• Roy Giorgio
• AssetWatch

Are You Winning The Reliability Race? Find Out How To Win Using Trusted Actionable Insights!

Only 30% of manufacturing companies know the exact condition of their machines. So what about the other 70%? How do they prevent expensive unplanned downtime and unforeseen outages?

• Christian Benk
• BK Vibro

Achieving a Proactive Maintenance Culture and Increasing Plant Reliability

In 2017, Worthington Industries embarked on a maintenance challenge. Their goal was to improve overall plant reliability and transform their maintenance and reliability division from a reactive culture to a proactive one. It was a visionary look toward the future for the global metals manufacturing company.

• Jaidev Krishnan
• AssetWatch

Best Practices for Electrical Resistance Heat Trace Systems in Process Plants

These days, you will find heat trace systems in almost all process plants where consistent temperature is critical to the manufactured product. Mark Thomas explains what exactly heat trace is and its best practices...

• Mark Thomas
• Allied Reliability