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• Maintenance Management

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  Operational Reliability: What It Is and How You Can Achieve It
  George Williams – Director of Asset Management, B. Braun Medical; Joe Anderson – Associate Director of Asset Management, B. Braun Medical

  Maintenance departments are often the scapegoat for plant problems, but without the support of operations, maintenance cannot be successful holistically. This presentation will explain what operational reliability is and how it can be used to help knock down the silos on your journey to a more reliable plant. You will discover how to get your operations group engaged in maintenance, which tasks operations can perform to alleviate strain on maintenance resources and how to develop basic preventive maintenance procedures for operators.

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  Case Study: How Saudi Aramco Performed a Successful Plant Turnaround and Inspection
  Omar Alsahlawi – Maintenance Foreman, Saudi Aramco

  This case-study presentation will detail Saudi Aramco’s journey to plant turnaround and inspection (T&I) success. Even with proper planning and effective leadership, most plant turnarounds and inspections can be challenging. However, Saudi Aramco’s T&Is had become more difficult, as they were aligned with several capital projects, including vessel replacements where huge pressure traps were being changed out. Attendees will hear the processes, procedures, best practices, new technologies and innovations that helped Saudi Aramco achieve improved results with its safety, productivity, maintenance and reliability.

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  From Firefighting to First-class Maintenance: A Never-ending Battle
  George Miconi – Maintenance Planner, Worthington Industries (Steel Division); Don McDaniel – Maintenance Lead/Manager, Worthington Industries (Steel Division)

  This case-study presentation will provide a detailed roadmap to a sound maintenance program so you can improve machine uptime at your organization. Join Worthington Industries’ Don McDaniel and George Miconi as they share the path their company took to transition from being reactive to becoming more proactive and achieving greater uptime. You will hear why communication is key, how to determine the root cause of problems, why change is your friend and how anyone can develop a team of first-class maintenance technicians.

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  Case Study: Transforming Your Maintenance Storeroom from an Expense to an Asset
  Ryan Botelho – Maintenance Planner and Purchaser, Home Market Foods

  This case-study presentation will detail Home Market Foods’ journey to reliability with its maintenance storeroom management. Cost-saving activities had been focused on unit costs instead of value, while inefficient inventory practices were limiting the ability for maintenance technicians to find the right part when they needed it. Labor and material costs also continued to rise. See how supply chain management techniques were used to gain better control of the maintenance storeroom as well as how proper inventory management improved the organization’s ability to provide job plans and become more task-based. This planning has increased uptime and maintenance labor productivity.

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  How to Develop and Implement Better Maintenance Processes
  Dave Ashbourne – Senior Maintenance Manager, EPCOR

  This case-study presentation will explain how you can drive continuous improvement at your plant by developing and implementing better maintenance processes. Whether you are a maintenance leader or are aspiring to become one, you will want to join EPCOR’s Dave Ashbourne as he describes how his plant was able to achieve a dramatic increase in reliability and key performance indicators (KPIs), along with an engaged workforce. Attendees will learn specific ways to improve maintenance performance, become a better leader and manage change at their facility.

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  Driving a Maintenance Culture Change Through Strategic Supplier Partnerships
  Douglas Smith – Reliability Engineer, Conagra Foods; Conor Flaherty – Business Development Manager, Rilco Fluid Care – Predictive Services

  This case-study presentation will detail the journey the Conagra Foods’ plant in Fort Madison, Iowa, took to become more proactive with its maintenance practices. Douglas Smith and Conor Flaherty will share how the plant has built a strategic partnership with its vendors and how that partnership has been used to create a culture change within the maintenance group and beyond. Attendees will hear real-life examples and learn the keys to making a vendor partnership work, the difference between a vendor supplier and a vendor partner, and how to overcome past failures and turn them into successes.

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  Case Study: How to Develop and Manage Your Plant’s Maintenance Strategy
  Gilberto Rodriguez Ledezma – Maintenance Manager, M&G Resins

  This case-study presentation will describe the process of developing and managing a maintenance strategy for the world’s largest polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant. Join Gilberto Rodriguez Ledezma of M&G Resins as he explains the difference between the perception of what’s happening in the maintenance department versus the reality in order to help you define the right strategy for your plant. You will gain a better understanding of the best practices and lessons learned using different maintenance methodologies, key performance indicators (KPIs) for maintenance, and what the next generation of maintenance may hold.

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  How to Implement an Effective Machine Alignment Program
  Joe Anderson – Associate Director of Asset Management, B. Braun Medical; Frank Seidenthal – President, Ludeca

  Precision machine alignment is a critical ingredient in your reliability efforts. A good alignment program can identify and eliminate misalignment as a cause of equipment failures, resulting in more uptime, reduced repair and labor costs, and increased profits. However, implementing an effective alignment program poses many challenges. This presentation will discuss the importance of establishing proper alignment procedures and employing best practices. When employees receive thorough training and detailed job specifications, they will be prepared to safely complete tasks correctly. Attendees will hear lessons learned from failed and successful programs as well as find out how to gain buy-in to sustain a best-in-class program.

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  Maximizing the Potential of Underutilized Maintenance Team Members
  Michael Mazur – Level III Mechanic/Trainer/Supervisor, Schwan’s Global Supply Chain

  In plants that operate around the clock, the night-shift crew can be a source of exceptional accomplishments, but not if they are unrecognized, unsupported or even diminished in standing by other team members. This case-study presentation will explain why the probability of turnover will be high if personnel are not properly trained, directed and supported. Schwan’s Michael Mazur will reveal how small actions and inactions over time can lead to a state of unfulfilled potential. You will find out why communication is key and how management, supervisors, team leaders and other plant departments can support and position the third shift for success.

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  How to Use KPIs to Align Your Organizational Objectives
  Joe Lonjin – Lab Services Consultant, Cohesive Solutions; Zach Solis – Reliability Engineer, Lockheed Martin

  With so many metrics available today, it is important for maintenance organizations to ensure their key performance indicators (KPIs) are transparent so all personnel, ranging from front-line workers to the boardroom, can understand and implement the chosen metrics to make better decisions. This case-study presentation will detail how Lockheed Martin uses data from its enterprise asset management and computerized maintenance management systems to align its organizational objectives for fleet and plant engineering with KPIs. See how data not only was utilized but also improved through active cooperation and communication of performance expectations and transparent decision-making. Attendees will learn how data confidence and quality were derived and how these measures can support initiatives to better use existing processes or improve them to drive the organization forward.

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  How to Create an Effective Maintenance Planning and Storeroom Partnership
  Jeff Shiver – Founder, People and Processes

  Without effective planning, maintenance storerooms will see erratic parts usage, leading to increased safety stock levels, higher costs and frustrations. A poor computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) implementation can often play a role as well. In this session, learn how to bust down silos and create a partnership where maintenance planning intersects with the storeroom. Attendees will gain insight to help them better understand the handshaking and constraints between the maintenance planning and storeroom functions, along with some of the most common issues encountered and the proper steps to correct them.

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  Leading Your Team to Greater Reliability
  Terry Harris – President, Reliable Process Solutions

  To have an effective reliability process, you must have effective leadership. This session will look at all the areas that should be addressed to lead your team to greater reliability. Attendees will gain a better understanding of the value and payback of training programs, the importance of skills audits to develop employee training, how to get people engaged in the reliability process, and how to become a true leader and not just a manager.

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  The Power of the Right Maintenance Schedule
  Frank Pereira – Managing Partner, Coleman Consulting Group

  In many plants around the world, the traditional operations and maintenance schedules are Monday through Friday, with technicians returning on the weekends to work overtime. This not only costs the company money but also takes a toll on the maintenance crew’s morale and quality of work. This presentation will explain why it’s time to rethink scheduling and how a proper maintenance schedule can reduce operating costs and improve the quality of your service or product. Attendees will discover how to improve employee morale and retention through predictable work schedules, as well as how a customized schedule can save millions.

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  Secrets of Effective Leaders: It’s All About Connecting
  Jeff Parker – Speaker and Trainer, John Maxwell Team

  Effective communication and successful leadership are closely intertwined. Leaders must be skilled communicators in countless relationships at the organizational level, in communities and groups, and sometimes on a global scale. If it seems no one is listening to what you say, it’s likely because you aren’t connecting when you communicate. Connecting is everything when it comes to communication. This session will explain what connecting is all about and how you can truly connect with others. Find out how to make your words matter and influence any outcome with these practices and principles for connecting.

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  9 Steps to a High-Performance Maintenance Team
  Simon Murray – Managing Director, YourMaintenanceCoach

  The maintenance department is critical to any organization, but in many instances, it is seen as just a cost to the business. However, in successful organizations, the maintenance department leads the way with excellent teamwork and demonstrates how it adds value every day. This presentation will outline the key steps to creating a high-performance maintenance team, including identifying a common purpose, processing job requests, utilizing the team to scope the work and getting more done with less. At the conclusion of this session, attendees will walk away with a nine-step model that they can use to quickly lift the performance of their team to the next level.

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  Finding True North with Your Maintenance Scheduling
  Jeff Shiver – Founder, People and Processes

  Are you frustrated with the development and implementation of a weekly maintenance schedule? It is not uncommon to see a weekend work listing, but that’s a far cry from a matrix that combines the resources and every hour of available labor for the week. Maybe you have a weekly schedule but are missing opportunities for improvement. In this session, take a deeper dive into maintenance scheduling with advice for backlog management, prioritization and coordination. Attendees will hear an interesting debate with planners and schedulers on who has the harder job as well as see an example of a proper weekly scheduling meeting.

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  A Day in the Life of a Maintenance Planner
  Doc Palmer – Managing Partner, Richard Palmer & Associates

  Planning is a critical element of proactive maintenance. Unfortunately, industry often has difficulty implementing and directing proper planning. What does a maintenance planner actually do during the day? This session follows a planner over the course of a typical workday, showing the various activities while also describing the important concepts behind each task. Join Doc Palmer as he helps you better understand maintenance planning, including how planners interface with supervisors, how job estimates are created and how much detail to put into a job plan.

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  How to Manage Plant Shutdowns and Turnarounds
  Owe Forsberg – Senior Consultant, IDCON

  The annual shutdown/turnaround is a major event for any plant. In many organizations, the leadership team often fails to provide enough resources to manage the shutdown. This leads to last-minute planning and scheduling, which can result in safety concerns and startup delays. This session will explain a team approach to the shutdown/turnaround, including a well-defined countdown process that allows for the effective management of all phases of the shutdown. With these practical tips, you will be able to minimize unscheduled downtime and divide your shutdown/turnaround into manageable activities that the entire organization will be able to follow easily.

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  Maintenance Metrics and KPIs: Drive Behavior by Measuring What You Treasure
  Jeff Shiver – Founder, People and Processes

  Do you have valid and actionable metrics? Some companies don’t know where to start, while others are simply overwhelmed, leading to analysis paralysis. The focus must be on tying maintenance metrics, especially those from a planning and scheduling perspective, to business objectives in a holistic strategy. With the right metrics, you can measure the collective success of the organization and the individual contributions of the planner/scheduler function. This presentation will identify metrics that can do both. You will learn which metrics are leading and which are lagging indicators, as well as how to define meaningful measures that drive the right behaviors and yield actionable results.

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  Exploring the Future of Maintenance
  Jeremy Wright – Director of Product Management, Advanced Technology Services

  Many factors will help guide the future of maintenance, including automation, staffing shortages, big data, artificial intelligence, sensor technology, constrained budgets, cultural shifts, etc. In this special roundtable discussion, Jeremy Wright of Advanced Technology Services will explore the current status of several of these key issues and speculate what the future will usher into the maintenance industry. By joining this conversation about the future of maintenance, you will be better prepared for the upcoming changes and understand how to capitalize on them if and when they occur.

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  Practical Steps to Optimizing Your Preventive Maintenance Program
  Nathan Wright – Senior Consultant, IDCON

  Preventive maintenance and essential care condition monitoring (PM/ECCM) are cornerstones of equipment reliability, but many plants struggle with the execution of their PM/ECCM program. This presentation will detail a common-sense strategy for creating a high-quality program that attendees can implement when they return to their plants. You will learn the key concepts that drive a PM/ECCM program as well as how to document maintenance methods and tasks, how to ensure the right equipment PMs are completed at the right frequency, and how to manage and update PMs for better equipment reliability.

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  Actionable Approaches for Continuously Improving Your Planning and Scheduling Processes
  Jeff Shiver – Founder, People and Processes

  Are you struggling to sustain results with your maintenance planning and scheduling? Although you may have invested in training for your planner/scheduler, remember that it took some time to get everyone onboard. While the people in these roles may remain the same, change is happening everywhere. Sure, you have key performance indicators, but are those metrics driving the right behaviors? This session will help you verify your actual practices and develop an auditing plan to maintain and continuously improve planning and scheduling. You will walk away with actionable approaches for auditing your processes and performance with a focus on sustaining the planning and scheduling function over time.

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  Efficiency Improvements Through Streamlining Maintenance Processes
  Dr. Holger Streetz – Director of Business Development, Bathan AG

  Plant managers must have a set plan for maintenance tasks. Otherwise, performance will be affected and result in costly downtime. This session will describe how a well-structured maintenance plan can help you achieve planned downtime instead of unplanned and often disastrous downtime due to equipment failures. Daily, weekly and monthly routines used by European pellet mills to address all maintenance tasks will be outlined. Attendees will learn how these simple routines can be easily translated into other industries to improve the reliability of their machines.

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  Techniques and KPIs for Effective Backlog Management
  Owe Forsberg – Senior Consultant, IDCON

  The maintenance backlog is a source of information from which all work is drawn for prioritizing, planning and scheduling. In many organizations, the objective of reducing the backlog implies that a zero backlog is a good thing. This is a misconception, as a reasonable backlog is essential for effective maintenance work management. This presentation is designed to give attendees the knowledge to assess their current backlog management techniques with key performance indicators (KPIs). You will learn what work should be in your backlog, the best methods for calculating your backlog, and how to use the backlog to level resources and assess performance.

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  Combining Maintenance Strategies to Optimize Asset Management
  Daniel Parker – Sr. Product Marketing Manager, GE Digital

  In today’s environment, many organizations are struggling to take a step forward from their reactive or “firefighting” maintenance cultures. To climb out of this rut, companies must employ a strategic approach to asset management. This presentation will explain how leading adopters are letting risk guide their strategy and decision making when it comes to driving cost efficiency and reliability improvements. Through this lens of risk comes a significant opportunity for industry to converge both preventive and condition-based maintenance activities to spearhead cost optimization and reliability improvements. You will learn how to determine the right recipe of preventive maintenance and condition-based technologies to apply to an asset, as well as how to develop a strategy that directly aligns with your business goals.

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  Autonomous Robotics and Their Role in Industrial Inspections
  Jonathan Lenoff – CTO/Co-Founder, VTRUS

  Capturing reliable data is at the heart of any predictive maintenance strategy. However, collecting information at the desired scale, frequency, cost or location may not be feasible or safe for personnel. This session will explore how autonomous robotics can be integrated into industrial facilities to eliminate the need to put people in harm’s way for data-collection tasks. In addition to the safety benefits, attendees will discover how robotics can increase operational efficiency for inspection tasks and enable reliable data captures at frequencies, scales and locations previously unobtainable.

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  4 Key Elements for Maintenance Program Success
  Daniel Roessler – Senior Product Marketing Manager, Accruent; Andy Ruse – Vice President, Maintenance Connection

  Effective maintenance programs reduce downtime, extend machine life and minimize repair time when equipment outages occur. However, many organizations struggle to benchmark maintenance performance or implement programs that drive measurable improvement. This session will cover the four foundational elements of maintenance management success. You will discover how to streamline the work-order process, empower maintenance technicians with technology, convert historical and real-time data into asset and maintenance intelligence, and shift from a reactive to proactive maintenance model. By embracing the changing maintenance landscape and focusing on these core elements to establish a strong maintenance program, you can reduce downtime, improve productivity and lower your maintenance costs.

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  Leak Detection Techniques for Preventive Maintenance and Diagnosis
  John Duerr – Director of Product Development, Spectronics Corporation; Gabriel Dash – Mechanical Engineer, Spectronics Corporation

  Hydraulic fluid leaks and compressed air leaks can result in significant amounts of lost time and money. These system leaks can also be quite difficult to find and often go undiagnosed until a problem surfaces. This session will explore how ultraviolet (UV) fluorescent dyes and ultrasonic leak detection tools can be used to help reduce waste, maintain equipment and optimize efficiency. Case studies will be presented highlighting the financial losses industrial plants regularly incur from leaking and underperforming equipment. Attendees will learn how UV fluorescent leak detection and ultrasonic diagnostic technology works, and how it can be used in the context of a preventive maintenance plan.

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  Digital Plant Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices
  Christopher Pham – Senior Business Relationship Manager, Santa Clara County

  The modern plant is no longer a standalone entity but is connected to the rest of the world through information technology. It also follows a more complex operational process with more comprehensive management practices. This presentation will touch on the major aspects of digital plant reliability and maintenance best practices, including security protection, networking infrastructure, real-time monitoring, constraints and workarounds. Santa Clara County’s Christopher Pham will share how to harmonize asset management, maintenance and cross-functional leadership with proper planning and scheduling to help you keep up with the rolling wave of technology.

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  IoT Fundamentals for Non-IT Reliability Professionals
  Mary Jo Nye – Senior Solutions Consultant, On Now Digital

  Industrial organizations are increasingly integrating internet of things (IoT) technologies. Unfortunately, these implementations can often create ambiguity or confusion among operations and reliability departments. Plant professionals who are interested in using IoT technologies to monitor or control their devices must be familiar with the nuances and viability of different types of products. This panel discussion will act as a platform for learning practical and quantifiable selection criteria geared toward operations and reliability professionals. Bringing expertise and experience from different industries, the panelists will discuss IoT device selection, security considerations, resource requirements, interoperability and total cost of ownership, with a special focus toward industrial applications.

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  Using the IIoT to Advance Oil Analysis Effectiveness
  Matt Spurlock – Reliability-Centered Lubrication Platform Leader, Allied Reliability

  Periodic, scheduled oil analysis can leave significant gaps in determining machine and fluid condition. However, when real-time sensors are coupled with data from commercial oil laboratories and met with the power of machine learning algorithms, a successful approach to proactive maintenance can be achieved. This session will reveal how the industrial internet of things (IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can be employed with oil analysis to address critical faults and reduce equipment downtime. You will learn which test parameters are crucial to measure in real time, which assets are the best candidates for real-time oil monitoring and how to correlate real-time oil sample data with route-based oil analysis data.

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  The Role of Big Data in Plant Reliability
  Noah Bethel – Vice President of Product Development, PdMA Corporation

  What is “big data” and how does it affect your plant’s reliability? Big data is a term used to refer to data sets that are too large or complex for traditional data-processing application software. This presentation will discuss the history of big data and its progression in today’s industrial market. Join PdMA’s Noah Bethel as he explains best-in-class analytics and integration, reviews the dashboard integration efforts for data analytics, and details various implementations of big data for improved plant reliability.

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  Strategies for Digital Asset Management
  James Kovacevic – Principal Instructor, Eruditio

  There is an ever-growing connectivity of data within maintenance. Organizations are collecting more and more data, and further utilizing mobile technology. Only when this data is organized and easily accessible will it offer true value. This session will explain how to manage all the data that organizations are collecting. Come hear Eruditio’s James Kovacevic discuss the key components of a digital asset management strategy and how they fit together. Attendees will gain a better understanding of data governance and how to ensure data integrity, as well as how to link a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to other data sources while maintaining ease of use.

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  Understanding Digitalization and How It Can Optimize Maintenance and Reliability
  Paul Muir – President, Mobideo

  This presentation will explore the benefits of applying digital tools and techniques to maintenance and reliability activities. You will learn what digitalization is and how the internet of things (IoT), big data, cloud and analytics technologies can enable maintenance and reliability optimization. Although people will remain a vital part of maintenance and reliability work, digitalization allows for greater utilization of this critical resource. Hear how digitalization can support documented workflow and processes for faster reaction times, health and safety compliance, and capturing of tribal knowledge.

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  The Digital Factory: How to Transform Your Plant Floor for Industry 4.0
  Francesco Benvenuto – Account Manager, OverIT

  In the ever-increasingly competitive global market, manufacturers must adopt digital transformation to stay relevant and competitive. Digital manufacturing touches every aspect of the value chain. Factory maintenance management is no exception, and it must be considered by any organization aiming to reap the benefits of Industry 4.0. This presentation will explain why plants must digitalize their entire maintenance process to maximize the shop-floor asset life cycle, improve communication between systems and personnel, and optimize maintenance resources and activities. You will discover why digital transformation is not only key in manufacturing but also pivotal in a plant’s maintenance process.

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  Panel Discussion: Common Questions and Challenges in the Journey to Plant Digitalization
  Paul Muir – President, Mobideo

  Digitalization is a journey that can’t be completed overnight. While plants have digitalized many areas, projects and assets, what about the workforce? The industrial workforce is still managed mostly by documents, forms, mobile phones and walkie-talkies. This panel discussion will explore modern digital techniques and opportunities within asset maintenance processes to improve workforce productivity and compliance. Come hear owner-operators at different stages in their journey discuss how they evaluate and quantify the benefits of digital projects to identify the highest payback opportunities. Panelists will also address the most common questions and challenges around digitalization, along with the benefits they receive from real-time management insights.

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  The Industry 4.0 Evolution: Taking Advantage of Connected Reliability
  Gregory Perry – Capacity Assurance Consultant, Fluke Corporation

  The industrial internet of things (IIoT), also known as Industry 4.0, offers many benefits to maintenance and reliability (M&R) teams. However, in order to take full advantage of the IIoT, you must embrace connected reliability. This presentation will discuss how connected reliability can make IIoT adoption possible and how M&R teams can utilize this unique framework. Attendees will learn the benefits of using the IIoT in their facilities and how it can be employed to move away from reactive maintenance to more predictive strategies.

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  How to Identify Cybersecurity Issues in Your Facility
  James Houston II – Managing Director, Facilities and Building Management Software Commission

  Cyberattacks are increasing at an alarming rate, and the internet of things (IoT) is quickly becoming the main target. This new threat can cost companies billions in losses. Many facility managers have no idea the problem even exists. This session will reveal how to identify security issues in your plant and the best ways to protect your machines from being compromised. You will discover how to recognize communication flaws that enable hackers to infiltrate mission-critical systems, what to look for in a social engineering attack on your facility and how to implement a proactive approach to cybersecurity.

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  Reliability in the Cloud: How to Deploy Cloud-based Maintenance Solutions
  Eric Whitley – Senior Manager, Leading2Lean

  As manufacturing plants expand their digital workplaces, disparate systems are often adopted to support increasingly digital production processes. It can then become a daunting task for those on the plant floor to become experts with each system, resulting in inefficiency and making it difficult to improve production metrics. This presentation will explain why the cloud may offer the best way to link different manufacturing systems and how it can provide unique opportunities to maintenance and reliability teams. Attendees will get answers to many of their questions about using the cloud in their facilities, including a roadmap for how to deploy cloud-based maintenance solutions.

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  Strategies for Integrating the Connected Worker, the Connected Manager and the Connected Machine
  Paul Muir – President, Mobideo

  In the digital world, you can’t just do what you have always done. For people and machines to work together effectively, organizations must rethink their processes with the digital capabilities in mind. This session will examine this new thought process through the eyes of connected workers, including what data is available to them and what this data allows them to do. Attendees will also learn how to assess the situational awareness of a connected manager with real-time visibility so decisions can be made better and faster.

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  Reliability Engineering

  The Basics of Electric Power System Reliability
  Alan Ross – Vice President of Reliability, SDMyers

  The greatest risk to any manufacturing plant is the power supply. From the standpoint of electric power systems, there are four critical asset classes that are under stress: transformers, cables, breakers, relays and protective equipment. This session will examine the four asset classes and explain how to address issues from a system perspective to increase the reliability of the assets and, in turn, the system. Attendees will learn the attributes and failure modes associated with each critical asset class, the methods of detection for system assets, and the steps for building a system-wide reliability plan.

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  Root Cause Analysis

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  Root Cause Analysis and Implementation: A Case Study
  Ashley Troyer – Reliability Engineer, Lockheed Martin

  This case-study presentation will explain how root cause analysis was performed on a 10-year-old cooling tower to identify the real issues behind the recent failures and related costs. Lockheed Martin’s Ashley Troyer will describe the evidence found during root cause analysis and the actions taken to improve the reliability of the cooling tower along with its current performance. Attendees will learn the importance of using forensic evidence to steer maintenance actions in the right direction and prevent or minimize future equipment failures, which is key in changing your maintenance efforts from reactive to proactive.

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  Harnessing the Power of Root Cause Investigations
  Nathan Wright – Senior Consultant, IDCON

  Maintenance organizations seldom take the time to perform root cause investigations, but they always have time to fix repeat breakdowns. This presentation will teach you how to focus on the right things first — solving problems in a structured manner using critical and creative thinking. You will discover the power of root cause problem elimination, including the best methods for collecting and presenting your findings, as well as how to deal with the “bad actors,” implement cost-effective solutions and apply a critical-thinking approach to the problems at your plant.

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  Using Motion Amplification as a Root Cause Analysis Tool
  Jeff Hay – CEO, RDI Technologies

  Motion amplification is a new approach to vibration analysis that can be used as a root cause analysis tool. This presentation will explain how motion amplification is utilized in the field to solve common issues with motors and pumps that often are difficult to diagnose. Attendees will learn how this technology can be leveraged early on the P-F Curve for an effective reliability solution. Case studies also will be presented showing how motion amplification can be employed to better understand and solve machinery faults.

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  Condition Monitoring

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  Advantages of Predictive Energy Management
  Kevin Grider – Predictive Analyst, General Motors

  In this case-study presentation, General Motors’ Kevin Grider will discuss utilizing predictive technologies to identify and mitigate energy waste, especially as it relates to compressed air and steam heat. Attendees will see how the General Motors Marion Metal Center developed a process for reporting, verifying, quantifying and compiling results, as well as the communication with the utility company that has resulted in incentives. You will learn what waste is, what it costs, what you can do about it and which technologies to use to detect it.

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  How to Monitor and Analyze Gearboxes with Vibration and Ultrasonic Inspections
  Mario Guilherme Silva Rupf – Field Mechanical Engineer, FLSmidth

  This case-study presentation will reveal the results from monitoring gearboxes used for general mining applications in Brazil. You will gain a better understanding of the relationship between vibration, ultrasound and viscosity, as well as the impact of contamination on a gearbox. Attendees will learn how to utilize proper condition monitoring tools to identify failure modes and avoid damage to gears and bearings, along with why it is important to use the data collected in predictive maintenance for successful proactive maintenance.

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  Condition Monitoring Techniques for Reciprocating Compressors
  Amir Basyouni – Lead Machinery Diagnostics Engineer, BHGE; Stephen Plaisance – MDS Technical Leader Recips – North America, Baker Hughes

  Reciprocating compressors are among the most expensive assets in a plant. Despite their criticality and importance, they often are overlooked by condition monitoring teams because the primary predictive maintenance tool is not well-suited for these types of machines. This results in the overall machine health being ignored and not diagnosed until damage occurs. This presentation will explore why condition monitoring should not only be used to protect reciprocating compressors from catastrophic failure but also to predict and diagnose any equipment abnormality to sustain reliability. You will learn how this can be accomplished by monitoring all machine components simultaneously and recording their performance along with the operating parameters and overall machine health.

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  How to Use Vibration Analysis to Identify Equipment Problems
  Walter Barringer – Senior Reliability Professional, Allied Reliability

  The source of many underlying machinery problems can be traced to structural issues. This presentation will reveal how to use vibration analysis to identify these issues. Discover how the cross-channel phase in a typical two-channel vibration analyzer can be employed to track down those hidden structural issues that cause machine degeneration and failure. Attendees will gain insight into the principles on which phase analysis works, the proper settings to use with a vibration analyzer for optimal results and how to interpret your readings.

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  Lube Techs: Your Hidden Resource for Condition Monitoring
  Forrest Pardue – President/Owner, 24/7 Systems

  In some plants, lubrication technicians still perform lube routes based on tribal knowledge. Other plants rely on a work-order system to schedule lube routes, with the inspection details kept in a separate system, such as spreadsheet-based forms. In either case, valuable equipment condition information is isolated in personal memory or trapped on a paper form and not easily communicated to those making the maintenance decisions. This presentation will detail how reliability engineers at a plastics facility and a paper mill moved their lube routes, operator rounds and equipment inspections to a web-hosted database system for field collection. Hear how this change contributed to improved asset reliability and how you can use tablet-based inspection results as an asset health monitoring tool.

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  Understanding the Complexities of Ultrasound for Machine Condition Monitoring
  T.J. Garten – Subject Matter Expert, Allied Reliability

  Maintenance personnel often attempt to utilize ultrasound without understanding the appropriate application, methodology and device settings. This can result in misusing or misapplying the technology, sometimes without even knowing it. In this session, Andy Page will explain some of the common errors and traps people fall into when applying ultrasound or creating an ultrasound program as well as how to correct them. Attendees will walk away with the information they need to help turn around a failing ultrasound program and transform it into a powerful program that produces quality results.

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  How to Establish an Electric-Motor Testing Program
  Dave Sirmans – Instructor and Consultant, The Snell Group

  Implementing an electric-motor testing program can seem like a monumental task, but by breaking it down into manageable pieces, you can greatly increase your chances of success. This presentation will outline a four-pronged approach to using acceptance testing to increase the reliability of the motors in your facility. Information will be included on the percentage of both new and rebuilt motors that fail acceptance tests, along with the percentage of motors in storage that have faults. You will learn the 10 tests that should be performed and what each one tells you about the health of the motor, as well as how to properly store and maintain tested motors in inventory.

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  Hitting Production Goals Using Remote Condition Monitoring of Troubled Assets
  Abhishek Jadhav – Product Manager, Dynapar

  Just knowing an asset is troubled is not enough to stop production and install a replacement. Today’s maintenance professional must be able to answer “How bad is it?” and “When should we act?” to justify shutting down a production line in an environment of strict deadlines and aggressive goals. This session will describe how a maintenance service provider and a major food manufacturer were able to use remote condition monitoring to detect an issue with a rooftop blower that was critical to maintaining a consistent production temperature. Attendees will learn how to prioritize assets for remote monitoring based on the risk of failure, how vibration monitoring with fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis can diagnose problems remotely, and the challenges remote assets present to predictive maintenance.

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  Taking Oil Condition Monitoring to the Next Level
  Andy Lantos – Analytical Developments & Technology, Laboratorio Dr. Lantos – Wearcheck Argentina; Dave Wooton – Consultant, Wooton-Consulting

  The current methods of analyzing and characterizing turbine oils often fall short for determining lubricant health and deposit formation. Most test programs only study the particle count, acid number and water content, which can leave a lot to be desired for proper condition monitoring. This session will outline alternative methods to help you make better condition monitoring judgments through oil analysis. Find out how you can assess lubricant condition with greater confidence and certainty through expert oil analysis and meaningful bench tests readily applied with appropriate instruments.

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  Common Traps of Infrared Thermography and How to Avoid Them
  T.J. Garten – Subject Matter Expert, Allied Reliability

  There are a number of common misconceptions about infrared thermography and how it can be employed to inspect plant equipment. This presentation will discuss these misconceptions and the actual capabilities of the technology, including examples from real-world plant inspections. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how infrared thermography works from a foundational perspective, which in turn will help them understand what they can achieve through proper application of the technology.

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  How to Catch Failures Before They Occur with Thermal Imaging Technology
  Leonard Harrington – Channel Partner Manager, FLIR Systems

  When equipment fails, production often must be stopped, resulting in costly repairs as well as lost revenue from unplanned downtime. That’s why it is important to catch impending failures early – to schedule downtime and make repairs quickly. This can be challenging because problems aren’t always visible to the naked eye. This presentation will explain how to use thermal imaging technology to find problems before failures occur, saving money on equipment costs and repairs. Case studies will be shared along with examples of how thermal imaging has been incorporated into successful condition monitoring programs. Attendees will learn how to use this technology to understand which repair action to take and when, how to verify repairs, and how thermal imaging can improve worker safety.

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  Integrating Condition Monitoring with CMMS to Maximize Uptime and Reliability
  Frank Harmuth – Professional Services Training Specialist, DPSI

  Modern manufacturing plants are implementing an ever-growing assortment of asset condition monitoring technologies for their equipment. Some of these technologies incorporate diagnostic sensors built into or connected to equipment via a network. While these technologies can identify problems and notify maintenance staff, many facilities lack proper methods for addressing the information and creating actionable plans to correct problems. This session will reveal how you can automatically initiate repair work and resolve issues quickly by utilizing predefined inspection and repair procedures linked to error codes within a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). Specific examples will be included on how the integration of condition monitoring with a CMMS has resulted in dramatically improved equipment uptime and reliability.

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  Oil Analysis

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  How Oil Sampling and Filtering Can Save Money and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
  Scotty Briner – Maintenance PM Coordinator, Advanced Composites; Bernie Hall – General Manager, Checkfluid

  This case-study presentation will demonstrate how proper oil sampling and filtration can minimize contamination, leading to increased savings and reducing your company’s carbon footprint. Attendees will get a before and after look at Advanced Composites’ oil sampling program to see the impact of improved filtering and sampling practices. You will learn the best methods for keeping critical equipment up and running, from extracting an oil sample to issuing and scheduling work orders, as well as managing and coordinating the completed work.

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  Using Oil Analysis to Identify the Root Cause of Maintenance Problems
  Randy Clark – Technical Business Consultant, Polaris Laboratories

  Examining only one set of oil sample results or trend data from a single component limits the maintenance benefits an oil analysis program can provide. This session will show how program-wide test results and other data can be used to identify fleet-wide improvements. By detecting and addressing the root causes of maintenance problems, your team can get ahead of breakdowns and transition from reactive to proactive maintenance. Attendees will gain a better understanding for how to pinpoint the most common equipment problems, gather data to determine the root causes, and make purchasing decisions to mitigate equipment wear and reduce overall maintenance.

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  Utilizing Smart Systems to Establish Oil Analysis Alarms
  Michael Holloway – Strategic Accounts & External Training, ALS Tribology

  Oil analysis is often burdened with too much data, some of which can be misleading. Even seasoned experts can become overwhelmed by large amounts of oil analysis data. This session will explain how to employ an automatic diagnosis process to weed through data and determine the right information upon which to act. Real-world examples and case studies will be used to show how various industries have benefited from this approach. Attendees will see the development and utilization of an automatic diagnosis process and how it can quickly and accurately assess information for better decision-making.

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  Maximizing the Benefits of Lube and Hydraulic Oil Analysis
  Saeed Asiri – Lubrication Consultant, Sabic

  Laboratory testing of in-service oils from rotating equipment and hydraulic systems can be a valuable condition monitoring tool. However, many companies that have had oil analysis programs for years are not realizing the true benefits. This session will reveal how to design and implement an effective oil analysis program, including equipment selection criteria, routine and non-routine tests to perform, setting targets and limits, choosing a lab, proper sampling, data interpretation, and key performance indicators. Attendees will learn not only how to assess the effectiveness of their current oil analysis program but also how to take specific actions to improve and get the most out of oil analysis in their facilities.

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  Using Infrared Spectral Microscopy for Equipment Failure Analysis
  Dave Wooton – Consultant, Wooton-Consulting; Cory Schomburg – Principal Scientist, PerkinElmer

  Infrared spectral microscopy is a new analytical technique that enables the ability to study very small oil samples. A microscope is used to see grooves and etching in equipment parts and to analyze deposits before they can become a source of failure. This presentation will reveal how infrared spectral microscopy can be employed in oil analysis to help prevent many equipment failures. Attendees will hear several case studies in which this analytical tool has been applied to real-world issues with successful results.

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  Visual Oil Analysis Made Easy
  Chris Haught – Product Manager, Esco

  Your equipment will give you early warning signs of trouble if you know what to look for. Changes in oil color, clarity and operating temperatures are indicators of larger problems. Monitoring the condition of your equipment’s lubricant is the first step in preventing failures and unscheduled downtime. You don’t need an expensive oil analysis program to catch these problems. All you need is your senses. This session will review simple ways to catch changes to the chemical properties of your lubricants. Attendees will learn common oil analysis lab tests that can be replicated without a laboratory as well as inexpensive equipment upgrades that can assist operators in monitoring the condition of their equipment and lubricants.

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  Using SEM/EDS Technology for Better Wear Debris Analysis
  Mindy Villalba – Project Manager, SGS North America

  Scanning electron microscopy/energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) can be an effective method of wear debris monitoring to help prevent equipment failures. This presentation will explore three case studies to show how SEM/EDS technology successfully resolved tough analytical problems through the use of particle sizing and characterization, wear debris analysis, and filter debris analysis. Attendees will learn how modern SEM/EDS has evolved to enable automated analysis and processes, and how these techniques are key in circumventing the technical challenges involved in selecting the right tools to perform a proper analysis in a timely and economical manner.

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  Lubrication Program Management

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  The Benefits of Transforming Your Lubrication Program: A Case Study
  Roger Story – Reliability Engineer, Owens Corning

  Lubrication excellence can be the inflection point of change in a plant’s maintenance culture. The implementation costs can be relatively low in comparison to predictive technologies, and the results can be immediate and measurable. The crown jewel of any lubrication excellence program is often a world-class lube room. This case-study presentation will detail the lube room transformation at the Owens Corning composites plant in Aiken, South Carolina, including the processes, lessons learned and benefits of having world-class practices on display. Hear how an upgraded lube room led to measurable gains on the company’s bottom line.

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  Contamination Control

  How to Identify, Control and Remove Contaminants from Your Oil
  Peter Smyth – Industry Sales Manager, C.C. Jensen; Tom Janikis – Mining Segment Sales Manager, C.C. Jensen

  The cement manufacturing and lime mining industries suffer from a high influx of particle contaminants into lubricating and hydraulic oils. If not properly managed, this can result in shorter oil and filter life, equipment wear, downtime, and costly repairs. This session will detail the best practices for keeping out contaminants, handling oil in these tough conditions and remedies for removing contaminants once they have entered a system. You will find out how to determine whether you have particle contaminants in your lube or hydraulic oils and how to identify where they are coming from to minimize their entry.

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  Best Practices for Controlling Varnish in Hydraulic Systems
  Kristine Mikulan – Group Product Manager Filter Systems, Schroeder Industries/HYDAC; Matt Brown – Product Manager Filter Systems, Schroeder Industries

  Varnish is a common problem for machines in a wide range of industries. By eliminating and preventing this dangerous contaminant, manufacturers can save lots of money and wasted downtime. This session will explain how to determine if varnish is an issue in your systems as well as how to mitigate and prevent it. You will learn what causes varnish, the detrimental effects varnish has on fluid-powered systems, the best ways to check for varnish and why it often builds up in hydraulic systems.

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  Controlling Water in Oil Contamination
  Scott Howard – Training Director, Hy-Pro Filtration

  Water is one of the main contaminants in oil, leading to costly repairs and inefficient systems. As a result, it is critical to understand how water can enter your machines. This session will be a deep dive into water contamination and control. It will review the three forms of water contamination, explain demulsibility and how it is lost, and explore various water-removal options, including the advantages and disadvantages of each. Attendees will find out how to mitigate and control water contamination in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible, as well as determine when oil remediation is feasible.

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  Lubricant Selection

  Increasing Equipment Reliability with Higher Viscosity Lubricants
  Yvette Trzcinski – Senior Technical Services Advisor, Petro-Canada America

  The No. 1 consideration when selecting an industrial lubricant is the viscosity, which is often reported as an ISO viscosity grade or kinematic viscosity. However, this provides an incomplete picture of the lubricant’s ability to perform properly. The viscosity index (VI) offers a better way to determine a fluid’s quality and performance capability. This presentation will discuss how high-VI lubricants can help industrial equipment operate in a wider variety of environments, including temperature extremes. Attendees will learn why higher-VI products are important and how to obtain them, as well as hear real-life examples of how these types of fluids have benefitted plant lubrication programs.

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  Hydraulics

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  Case Study: Best Practices for Achieving Hydraulic Oil Cleanliness
  Jeffrey Evans – Lubrication Technician, Trinity River Lumber Co.

  Industrial processes and environments often make it difficult to achieve and maintain the desired cleanliness levels with your hydraulic equipment. This case-study presentation will identify the steps required to meet your cleanliness goals and what each step involves. Attendees will get a clear picture of the practices and processes that can lead to improved cleanliness, including the correct filter and breather application, proper fluid handling, and routine oil analysis. You will also discover how clean oil can prolong component life as well as how to clean bulk oil and avoid purchasing pre-cleaned hydraulic oil.

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  4 Key Elements for Maintenance Program Success

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Daniel Roessler – Senior Product Marketing Manager, Accruent; Andy Ruse – Vice President, Maintenance Connection
  Effective maintenance programs reduce downtime, extend machine life and minimize repair time when equipment outages occur. However, many organizations struggle to benchmark maintenance performance or implement programs that drive measurable improvement. This session will cover the four foundational elements of maintenance management success. You will discover how to streamline the work-order process, empower maintenance technicians with technology, convert historical and real-time data into asset and maintenance intelligence, and shift from a reactive to proactive maintenance model. By embracing the changing maintenance landscape and focusing on these core elements to establish a strong maintenance program, you can reduce downtime, improve productivity and lower your maintenance costs.

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  9 Steps to a High-Performance Maintenance Team

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Simon Murray – Managing Director, YourMaintenanceCoach
  The maintenance department is critical to any organization, but in many instances, it is seen as just a cost to the business. However, in successful organizations, the maintenance department leads the way with excellent teamwork and demonstrates how it adds value every day. This presentation will outline the key steps to creating a high-performance maintenance team, including identifying a common purpose, processing job requests, utilizing the team to scope the work and getting more done with less. At the conclusion of this session, attendees will walk away with a nine-step model that they can use to quickly lift the performance of their team to the next level.

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  A Day in the Life of a Maintenance Planner

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Doc Palmer – Managing Partner, Richard Palmer & Associates
  Planning is a critical element of proactive maintenance. Unfortunately, industry often has difficulty implementing and directing proper planning. What does a maintenance planner actually do during the day? This session follows a planner over the course of a typical workday, showing the various activities while also describing the important concepts behind each task. Join Doc Palmer as he helps you better understand maintenance planning, including how planners interface with supervisors, how job estimates are created and how much detail to put into a job plan.

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  Actionable Approaches for Continuously Improving Your Planning and Scheduling Processes

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Jeff Shiver – Founder, People and Processes
  Are you struggling to sustain results with your maintenance planning and scheduling? Although you may have invested in training for your planner/scheduler, remember that it took some time to get everyone onboard. While the people in these roles may remain the same, change is happening everywhere. Sure, you have key performance indicators, but are those metrics driving the right behaviors? This session will help you verify your actual practices and develop an auditing plan to maintain and continuously improve planning and scheduling. You will walk away with actionable approaches for auditing your processes and performance with a focus on sustaining the planning and scheduling function over time.

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  Advantages of Predictive Energy Management

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Kevin Grider – Predictive Analyst, General Motors
  In this case-study presentation, General Motors’ Kevin Grider will discuss utilizing predictive technologies to identify and mitigate energy waste, especially as it relates to compressed air and steam heat. Attendees will see how the General Motors Marion Metal Center developed a process for reporting, verifying, quantifying and compiling results, as well as the communication with the utility company that has resulted in incentives. You will learn what waste is, what it costs, what you can do about it and which technologies to use to detect it.

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  Autonomous Robotics and Their Role in Industrial Inspections

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Jonathan Lenoff – CTO/Co-Founder, VTRUS
  Capturing reliable data is at the heart of any predictive maintenance strategy. However, collecting information at the desired scale, frequency, cost or location may not be feasible or safe for personnel. This session will explore how autonomous robotics can be integrated into industrial facilities to eliminate the need to put people in harm’s way for data-collection tasks. In addition to the safety benefits, attendees will discover how robotics can increase operational efficiency for inspection tasks and enable reliable data captures at frequencies, scales and locations previously unobtainable.

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  Best Practices for Controlling Varnish in Hydraulic Systems

  Category: Contamination Control

  Kristine Mikulan – Group Product Manager Filter Systems, Schroeder Industries/HYDAC; Matt Brown – Product Manager Filter Systems, Schroeder Industries
  Varnish is a common problem for machines in a wide range of industries. By eliminating and preventing this dangerous contaminant, manufacturers can save lots of money and wasted downtime. This session will explain how to determine if varnish is an issue in your systems as well as how to mitigate and prevent it. You will learn what causes varnish, the detrimental effects varnish has on fluid-powered systems, the best ways to check for varnish and why it often builds up in hydraulic systems.

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  Case Study: Best Practices for Achieving Hydraulic Oil Cleanliness

  Category: Hydraulics

  Jeffrey Evans – Lubrication Technician, Trinity River Lumber Co.
  Industrial processes and environments often make it difficult to achieve and maintain the desired cleanliness levels with your hydraulic equipment. This case-study presentation will identify the steps required to meet your cleanliness goals and what each step involves. Attendees will get a clear picture of the practices and processes that can lead to improved cleanliness, including the correct filter and breather application, proper fluid handling, and routine oil analysis. You will also discover how clean oil can prolong component life as well as how to clean bulk oil and avoid purchasing pre-cleaned hydraulic oil.

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  Case Study: How Saudi Aramco Performed a Successful Plant Turnaround and Inspection

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Omar Alsahlawi – Maintenance Foreman, Saudi Aramco
  This case-study presentation will detail Saudi Aramco’s journey to plant turnaround and inspection (T&I) success. Even with proper planning and effective leadership, most plant turnarounds and inspections can be challenging. However, Saudi Aramco’s T&Is had become more difficult, as they were aligned with several capital projects, including vessel replacements where huge pressure traps were being changed out. Attendees will hear the processes, procedures, best practices, new technologies and innovations that helped Saudi Aramco achieve improved results with its safety, productivity, maintenance and reliability.

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  Case Study: How to Develop and Manage Your Plant’s Maintenance Strategy

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Gilberto Rodriguez Ledezma – Maintenance Manager, M&G Resins
  This case-study presentation will describe the process of developing and managing a maintenance strategy for the world’s largest polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant. Join Gilberto Rodriguez Ledezma of M&G Resins as he explains the difference between the perception of what’s happening in the maintenance department versus the reality in order to help you define the right strategy for your plant. You will gain a better understanding of the best practices and lessons learned using different maintenance methodologies, key performance indicators (KPIs) for maintenance, and what the next generation of maintenance may hold.

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  Case Study: Transforming Your Maintenance Storeroom from an Expense to an Asset

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Ryan Botelho – Maintenance Planner and Purchaser, Home Market Foods
  This case-study presentation will detail Home Market Foods’ journey to reliability with its maintenance storeroom management. Cost-saving activities had been focused on unit costs instead of value, while inefficient inventory practices were limiting the ability for maintenance technicians to find the right part when they needed it. Labor and material costs also continued to rise. See how supply chain management techniques were used to gain better control of the maintenance storeroom as well as how proper inventory management improved the organization’s ability to provide job plans and become more task-based. This planning has increased uptime and maintenance labor productivity.

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  Combining Maintenance Strategies to Optimize Asset Management

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Daniel Parker – Sr. Product Marketing Manager, GE Digital
  In today’s environment, many organizations are struggling to take a step forward from their reactive or “firefighting” maintenance cultures. To climb out of this rut, companies must employ a strategic approach to asset management. This presentation will explain how leading adopters are letting risk guide their strategy and decision making when it comes to driving cost efficiency and reliability improvements. Through this lens of risk comes a significant opportunity for industry to converge both preventive and condition-based maintenance activities to spearhead cost optimization and reliability improvements. You will learn how to determine the right recipe of preventive maintenance and condition-based technologies to apply to an asset, as well as how to develop a strategy that directly aligns with your business goals.

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  Common Traps of Infrared Thermography and How to Avoid Them

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  T.J. Garten – Subject Matter Expert, Allied Reliability
  There are a number of common misconceptions about infrared thermography and how it can be employed to inspect plant equipment. This presentation will discuss these misconceptions and the actual capabilities of the technology, including examples from real-world plant inspections. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how infrared thermography works from a foundational perspective, which in turn will help them understand what they can achieve through proper application of the technology.

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  Condition Monitoring Techniques for Reciprocating Compressors

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Amir Basyouni – Lead Machinery Diagnostics Engineer, BHGE; Stephen Plaisance – MDS Technical Leader Recips – North America, Baker Hughes
  Reciprocating compressors are among the most expensive assets in a plant. Despite their criticality and importance, they often are overlooked by condition monitoring teams because the primary predictive maintenance tool is not well-suited for these types of machines. This results in the overall machine health being ignored and not diagnosed until damage occurs. This presentation will explore why condition monitoring should not only be used to protect reciprocating compressors from catastrophic failure but also to predict and diagnose any equipment abnormality to sustain reliability. You will learn how this can be accomplished by monitoring all machine components simultaneously and recording their performance along with the operating parameters and overall machine health.

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  Controlling Water in Oil Contamination

  Category: Contamination Control

  Scott Howard – Training Director, Hy-Pro Filtration
  Water is one of the main contaminants in oil, leading to costly repairs and inefficient systems. As a result, it is critical to understand how water can enter your machines. This session will be a deep dive into water contamination and control. It will review the three forms of water contamination, explain demulsibility and how it is lost, and explore various water-removal options, including the advantages and disadvantages of each. Attendees will find out how to mitigate and control water contamination in the most efficient and cost-effective way possible, as well as determine when oil remediation is feasible.

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  Digital Plant Maintenance and Reliability Best Practices

  Category: IIoT

  Christopher Pham – Senior Business Relationship Manager, Santa Clara County
  The modern plant is no longer a standalone entity but is connected to the rest of the world through information technology. It also follows a more complex operational process with more comprehensive management practices. This presentation will touch on the major aspects of digital plant reliability and maintenance best practices, including security protection, networking infrastructure, real-time monitoring, constraints and workarounds. Santa Clara County’s Christopher Pham will share how to harmonize asset management, maintenance and cross-functional leadership with proper planning and scheduling to help you keep up with the rolling wave of technology.

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  Driving a Maintenance Culture Change Through Strategic Supplier Partnerships

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Douglas Smith – Reliability Engineer, Conagra Foods; Conor Flaherty – Business Development Manager, Rilco Fluid Care – Predictive Services
  This case-study presentation will detail the journey the Conagra Foods’ plant in Fort Madison, Iowa, took to become more proactive with its maintenance practices. Douglas Smith and Conor Flaherty will share how the plant has built a strategic partnership with its vendors and how that partnership has been used to create a culture change within the maintenance group and beyond. Attendees will hear real-life examples and learn the keys to making a vendor partnership work, the difference between a vendor supplier and a vendor partner, and how to overcome past failures and turn them into successes.

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  Efficiency Improvements Through Streamlining Maintenance Processes

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Dr. Holger Streetz – Director of Business Development, Bathan AG
  Plant managers must have a set plan for maintenance tasks. Otherwise, performance will be affected and result in costly downtime. This session will describe how a well-structured maintenance plan can help you achieve planned downtime instead of unplanned and often disastrous downtime due to equipment failures. Daily, weekly and monthly routines used by European pellet mills to address all maintenance tasks will be outlined. Attendees will learn how these simple routines can be easily translated into other industries to improve the reliability of their machines.

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  Exploring the Future of Maintenance

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Jeremy Wright – Director of Product Management, Advanced Technology Services
  Many factors will help guide the future of maintenance, including automation, staffing shortages, big data, artificial intelligence, sensor technology, constrained budgets, cultural shifts, etc. In this special roundtable discussion, Jeremy Wright of Advanced Technology Services will explore the current status of several of these key issues and speculate what the future will usher into the maintenance industry. By joining this conversation about the future of maintenance, you will be better prepared for the upcoming changes and understand how to capitalize on them if and when they occur.

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  Finding True North with Your Maintenance Scheduling

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Jeff Shiver – Founder, People and Processes
  Are you frustrated with the development and implementation of a weekly maintenance schedule? It is not uncommon to see a weekend work listing, but that’s a far cry from a matrix that combines the resources and every hour of available labor for the week. Maybe you have a weekly schedule but are missing opportunities for improvement. In this session, take a deeper dive into maintenance scheduling with advice for backlog management, prioritization and coordination. Attendees will hear an interesting debate with planners and schedulers on who has the harder job as well as see an example of a proper weekly scheduling meeting.

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  From Firefighting to First-class Maintenance: A Never-ending Battle

  Category: Maintenance Management

  George Miconi – Maintenance Planner, Worthington Industries (Steel Division); Don McDaniel – Maintenance Lead/Manager, Worthington Industries (Steel Division)
  This case-study presentation will provide a detailed roadmap to a sound maintenance program so you can improve machine uptime at your organization. Join Worthington Industries’ Don McDaniel and George Miconi as they share the path their company took to transition from being reactive to becoming more proactive and achieving greater uptime. You will hear why communication is key, how to determine the root cause of problems, why change is your friend and how anyone can develop a team of first-class maintenance technicians.

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  Harnessing the Power of Root Cause Investigations

  Category: Root Cause Analysis

  Nathan Wright – Senior Consultant, IDCON
  Maintenance organizations seldom take the time to perform root cause investigations, but they always have time to fix repeat breakdowns. This presentation will teach you how to focus on the right things first — solving problems in a structured manner using critical and creative thinking. You will discover the power of root cause problem elimination, including the best methods for collecting and presenting your findings, as well as how to deal with the “bad actors,” implement cost-effective solutions and apply a critical-thinking approach to the problems at your plant.

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  Hitting Production Goals Using Remote Condition Monitoring of Troubled Assets

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Abhishek Jadhav – Product Manager, Dynapar
  Just knowing an asset is troubled is not enough to stop production and install a replacement. Today’s maintenance professional must be able to answer “How bad is it?” and “When should we act?” to justify shutting down a production line in an environment of strict deadlines and aggressive goals. This session will describe how a maintenance service provider and a major food manufacturer were able to use remote condition monitoring to detect an issue with a rooftop blower that was critical to maintaining a consistent production temperature. Attendees will learn how to prioritize assets for remote monitoring based on the risk of failure, how vibration monitoring with fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis can diagnose problems remotely, and the challenges remote assets present to predictive maintenance.

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  How Oil Sampling and Filtering Can Save Money and Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

  Category: Oil Analysis

  Scotty Briner – Maintenance PM Coordinator, Advanced Composites; Bernie Hall – General Manager, Checkfluid
  This case-study presentation will demonstrate how proper oil sampling and filtration can minimize contamination, leading to increased savings and reducing your company’s carbon footprint. Attendees will get a before and after look at Advanced Composites’ oil sampling program to see the impact of improved filtering and sampling practices. You will learn the best methods for keeping critical equipment up and running, from extracting an oil sample to issuing and scheduling work orders, as well as managing and coordinating the completed work.

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  How to Catch Failures Before They Occur with Thermal Imaging Technology

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Leonard Harrington – Channel Partner Manager, FLIR Systems
  When equipment fails, production often must be stopped, resulting in costly repairs as well as lost revenue from unplanned downtime. That’s why it is important to catch impending failures early – to schedule downtime and make repairs quickly. This can be challenging because problems aren’t always visible to the naked eye. This presentation will explain how to use thermal imaging technology to find problems before failures occur, saving money on equipment costs and repairs. Case studies will be shared along with examples of how thermal imaging has been incorporated into successful condition monitoring programs. Attendees will learn how to use this technology to understand which repair action to take and when, how to verify repairs, and how thermal imaging can improve worker safety.

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  How to Create an Effective Maintenance Planning and Storeroom Partnership

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Jeff Shiver – Founder, People and Processes
  Without effective planning, maintenance storerooms will see erratic parts usage, leading to increased safety stock levels, higher costs and frustrations. A poor computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) implementation can often play a role as well. In this session, learn how to bust down silos and create a partnership where maintenance planning intersects with the storeroom. Attendees will gain insight to help them better understand the handshaking and constraints between the maintenance planning and storeroom functions, along with some of the most common issues encountered and the proper steps to correct them.

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  How to Develop and Implement Better Maintenance Processes

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Dave Ashbourne – Senior Maintenance Manager, EPCOR
  This case-study presentation will explain how you can drive continuous improvement at your plant by developing and implementing better maintenance processes. Whether you are a maintenance leader or are aspiring to become one, you will want to join EPCOR’s Dave Ashbourne as he describes how his plant was able to achieve a dramatic increase in reliability and key performance indicators (KPIs), along with an engaged workforce. Attendees will learn specific ways to improve maintenance performance, become a better leader and manage change at their facility.

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  How to Establish an Electric-Motor Testing Program

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Dave Sirmans – Instructor and Consultant, The Snell Group
  Implementing an electric-motor testing program can seem like a monumental task, but by breaking it down into manageable pieces, you can greatly increase your chances of success. This presentation will outline a four-pronged approach to using acceptance testing to increase the reliability of the motors in your facility. Information will be included on the percentage of both new and rebuilt motors that fail acceptance tests, along with the percentage of motors in storage that have faults. You will learn the 10 tests that should be performed and what each one tells you about the health of the motor, as well as how to properly store and maintain tested motors in inventory.

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  How to Identify Cybersecurity Issues in Your Facility

  Category: IIoT

  James Houston II – Managing Director, Facilities and Building Management Software Commission
  Cyberattacks are increasing at an alarming rate, and the internet of things (IoT) is quickly becoming the main target. This new threat can cost companies billions in losses. Many facility managers have no idea the problem even exists. This session will reveal how to identify security issues in your plant and the best ways to protect your machines from being compromised. You will discover how to recognize communication flaws that enable hackers to infiltrate mission-critical systems, what to look for in a social engineering attack on your facility and how to implement a proactive approach to cybersecurity.

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  How to Identify, Control and Remove Contaminants from Your Oil

  Category: Contamination Control

  Peter Smyth – Industry Sales Manager, C.C. Jensen; Tom Janikis – Mining Segment Sales Manager, C.C. Jensen
  The cement manufacturing and lime mining industries suffer from a high influx of particle contaminants into lubricating and hydraulic oils. If not properly managed, this can result in shorter oil and filter life, equipment wear, downtime, and costly repairs. This session will detail the best practices for keeping out contaminants, handling oil in these tough conditions and remedies for removing contaminants once they have entered a system. You will find out how to determine whether you have particle contaminants in your lube or hydraulic oils and how to identify where they are coming from to minimize their entry.

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  How to Implement an Effective Machine Alignment Program

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Joe Anderson – Associate Director of Asset Management, B. Braun Medical; Frank Seidenthal – President, Ludeca
  Precision machine alignment is a critical ingredient in your reliability efforts. A good alignment program can identify and eliminate misalignment as a cause of equipment failures, resulting in more uptime, reduced repair and labor costs, and increased profits. However, implementing an effective alignment program poses many challenges. This presentation will discuss the importance of establishing proper alignment procedures and employing best practices. When employees receive thorough training and detailed job specifications, they will be prepared to safely complete tasks correctly. Attendees will hear lessons learned from failed and successful programs as well as find out how to gain buy-in to sustain a best-in-class program.

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  How to Manage Plant Shutdowns and Turnarounds

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Owe Forsberg – Senior Consultant, IDCON
  The annual shutdown/turnaround is a major event for any plant. In many organizations, the leadership team often fails to provide enough resources to manage the shutdown. This leads to last-minute planning and scheduling, which can result in safety concerns and startup delays. This session will explain a team approach to the shutdown/turnaround, including a well-defined countdown process that allows for the effective management of all phases of the shutdown. With these practical tips, you will be able to minimize unscheduled downtime and divide your shutdown/turnaround into manageable activities that the entire organization will be able to follow easily.

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  How to Monitor and Analyze Gearboxes with Vibration and Ultrasonic Inspections

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Mario Guilherme Silva Rupf – Field Mechanical Engineer, FLSmidth
  This case-study presentation will reveal the results from monitoring gearboxes used for general mining applications in Brazil. You will gain a better understanding of the relationship between vibration, ultrasound and viscosity, as well as the impact of contamination on a gearbox. Attendees will learn how to utilize proper condition monitoring tools to identify failure modes and avoid damage to gears and bearings, along with why it is important to use the data collected in predictive maintenance for successful proactive maintenance.

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  How to Use KPIs to Align Your Organizational Objectives

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Joe Lonjin – Lab Services Consultant, Cohesive Solutions; Zach Solis – Reliability Engineer, Lockheed Martin
  With so many metrics available today, it is important for maintenance organizations to ensure their key performance indicators (KPIs) are transparent so all personnel, ranging from front-line workers to the boardroom, can understand and implement the chosen metrics to make better decisions. This case-study presentation will detail how Lockheed Martin uses data from its enterprise asset management and computerized maintenance management systems to align its organizational objectives for fleet and plant engineering with KPIs. See how data not only was utilized but also improved through active cooperation and communication of performance expectations and transparent decision-making. Attendees will learn how data confidence and quality were derived and how these measures can support initiatives to better use existing processes or improve them to drive the organization forward.

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  How to Use Vibration Analysis to Identify Equipment Problems

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Walter Barringer – Senior Reliability Professional, Allied Reliability
  The source of many underlying machinery problems can be traced to structural issues. This presentation will reveal how to use vibration analysis to identify these issues. Discover how the cross-channel phase in a typical two-channel vibration analyzer can be employed to track down those hidden structural issues that cause machine degeneration and failure. Attendees will gain insight into the principles on which phase analysis works, the proper settings to use with a vibration analyzer for optimal results and how to interpret your readings.

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  Increasing Equipment Reliability with Higher Viscosity Lubricants

  Category: Lubricant Selection

  Yvette Trzcinski – Senior Technical Services Advisor, Petro-Canada America
  The No. 1 consideration when selecting an industrial lubricant is the viscosity, which is often reported as an ISO viscosity grade or kinematic viscosity. However, this provides an incomplete picture of the lubricant’s ability to perform properly. The viscosity index (VI) offers a better way to determine a fluid’s quality and performance capability. This presentation will discuss how high-VI lubricants can help industrial equipment operate in a wider variety of environments, including temperature extremes. Attendees will learn why higher-VI products are important and how to obtain them, as well as hear real-life examples of how these types of fluids have benefitted plant lubrication programs.

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  Integrating Condition Monitoring with CMMS to Maximize Uptime and Reliability

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Frank Harmuth – Professional Services Training Specialist, DPSI
  Modern manufacturing plants are implementing an ever-growing assortment of asset condition monitoring technologies for their equipment. Some of these technologies incorporate diagnostic sensors built into or connected to equipment via a network. While these technologies can identify problems and notify maintenance staff, many facilities lack proper methods for addressing the information and creating actionable plans to correct problems. This session will reveal how you can automatically initiate repair work and resolve issues quickly by utilizing predefined inspection and repair procedures linked to error codes within a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS). Specific examples will be included on how the integration of condition monitoring with a CMMS has resulted in dramatically improved equipment uptime and reliability.

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  IoT Fundamentals for Non-IT Reliability Professionals

  Category: IIoT

  Mary Jo Nye – Senior Solutions Consultant, On Now Digital
  Industrial organizations are increasingly integrating internet of things (IoT) technologies. Unfortunately, these implementations can often create ambiguity or confusion among operations and reliability departments. Plant professionals who are interested in using IoT technologies to monitor or control their devices must be familiar with the nuances and viability of different types of products. This panel discussion will act as a platform for learning practical and quantifiable selection criteria geared toward operations and reliability professionals. Bringing expertise and experience from different industries, the panelists will discuss IoT device selection, security considerations, resource requirements, interoperability and total cost of ownership, with a special focus toward industrial applications.

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  Leading Your Team to Greater Reliability

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Terry Harris – President, Reliable Process Solutions
  To have an effective reliability process, you must have effective leadership. This session will look at all the areas that should be addressed to lead your team to greater reliability. Attendees will gain a better understanding of the value and payback of training programs, the importance of skills audits to develop employee training, how to get people engaged in the reliability process, and how to become a true leader and not just a manager.

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  Leak Detection Techniques for Preventive Maintenance and Diagnosis

  Category: Maintenance Management

  John Duerr – Director of Product Development, Spectronics Corporation; Gabriel Dash – Mechanical Engineer, Spectronics Corporation
  Hydraulic fluid leaks and compressed air leaks can result in significant amounts of lost time and money. These system leaks can also be quite difficult to find and often go undiagnosed until a problem surfaces. This session will explore how ultraviolet (UV) fluorescent dyes and ultrasonic leak detection tools can be used to help reduce waste, maintain equipment and optimize efficiency. Case studies will be presented highlighting the financial losses industrial plants regularly incur from leaking and underperforming equipment. Attendees will learn how UV fluorescent leak detection and ultrasonic diagnostic technology works, and how it can be used in the context of a preventive maintenance plan.

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  Lube Techs: Your Hidden Resource for Condition Monitoring

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Forrest Pardue – President/Owner, 24/7 Systems
  In some plants, lubrication technicians still perform lube routes based on tribal knowledge. Other plants rely on a work-order system to schedule lube routes, with the inspection details kept in a separate system, such as spreadsheet-based forms. In either case, valuable equipment condition information is isolated in personal memory or trapped on a paper form and not easily communicated to those making the maintenance decisions. This presentation will detail how reliability engineers at a plastics facility and a paper mill moved their lube routes, operator rounds and equipment inspections to a web-hosted database system for field collection. Hear how this change contributed to improved asset reliability and how you can use tablet-based inspection results as an asset health monitoring tool.

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  Maintenance Metrics and KPIs: Drive Behavior by Measuring What You Treasure

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Jeff Shiver – Founder, People and Processes
  Do you have valid and actionable metrics? Some companies don’t know where to start, while others are simply overwhelmed, leading to analysis paralysis. The focus must be on tying maintenance metrics, especially those from a planning and scheduling perspective, to business objectives in a holistic strategy. With the right metrics, you can measure the collective success of the organization and the individual contributions of the planner/scheduler function. This presentation will identify metrics that can do both. You will learn which metrics are leading and which are lagging indicators, as well as how to define meaningful measures that drive the right behaviors and yield actionable results.

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  Maximizing the Benefits of Lube and Hydraulic Oil Analysis

  Category: Oil Analysis

  Saeed Asiri – Lubrication Consultant, Sabic
  Laboratory testing of in-service oils from rotating equipment and hydraulic systems can be a valuable condition monitoring tool. However, many companies that have had oil analysis programs for years are not realizing the true benefits. This session will reveal how to design and implement an effective oil analysis program, including equipment selection criteria, routine and non-routine tests to perform, setting targets and limits, choosing a lab, proper sampling, data interpretation, and key performance indicators. Attendees will learn not only how to assess the effectiveness of their current oil analysis program but also how to take specific actions to improve and get the most out of oil analysis in their facilities.

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  Maximizing the Potential of Underutilized Maintenance Team Members

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Michael Mazur – Level III Mechanic/Trainer/Supervisor, Schwan’s Global Supply Chain
  In plants that operate around the clock, the night-shift crew can be a source of exceptional accomplishments, but not if they are unrecognized, unsupported or even diminished in standing by other team members. This case-study presentation will explain why the probability of turnover will be high if personnel are not properly trained, directed and supported. Schwan’s Michael Mazur will reveal how small actions and inactions over time can lead to a state of unfulfilled potential. You will find out why communication is key and how management, supervisors, team leaders and other plant departments can support and position the third shift for success.

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  Operational Reliability: What It Is and How You Can Achieve It

  Category: Maintenance Management

  George Williams – Director of Asset Management, B. Braun Medical; Joe Anderson – Associate Director of Asset Management, B. Braun Medical
  Maintenance departments are often the scapegoat for plant problems, but without the support of operations, maintenance cannot be successful holistically. This presentation will explain what operational reliability is and how it can be used to help knock down the silos on your journey to a more reliable plant. You will discover how to get your operations group engaged in maintenance, which tasks operations can perform to alleviate strain on maintenance resources and how to develop basic preventive maintenance procedures for operators.

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  Panel Discussion: Common Questions and Challenges in the Journey to Plant Digitalization

  Category: IIoT

  Paul Muir – President, Mobideo
  Digitalization is a journey that can’t be completed overnight. While plants have digitalized many areas, projects and assets, what about the workforce? The industrial workforce is still managed mostly by documents, forms, mobile phones and walkie-talkies. This panel discussion will explore modern digital techniques and opportunities within asset maintenance processes to improve workforce productivity and compliance. Come hear owner-operators at different stages in their journey discuss how they evaluate and quantify the benefits of digital projects to identify the highest payback opportunities. Panelists will also address the most common questions and challenges around digitalization, along with the benefits they receive from real-time management insights.

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  Practical Steps to Optimizing Your Preventive Maintenance Program

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Nathan Wright – Senior Consultant, IDCON
  Preventive maintenance and essential care condition monitoring (PM/ECCM) are cornerstones of equipment reliability, but many plants struggle with the execution of their PM/ECCM program. This presentation will detail a common-sense strategy for creating a high-quality program that attendees can implement when they return to their plants. You will learn the key concepts that drive a PM/ECCM program as well as how to document maintenance methods and tasks, how to ensure the right equipment PMs are completed at the right frequency, and how to manage and update PMs for better equipment reliability.

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  Reliability in the Cloud: How to Deploy Cloud-based Maintenance Solutions

  Category: IIoT

  Eric Whitley – Senior Manager, Leading2Lean
  As manufacturing plants expand their digital workplaces, disparate systems are often adopted to support increasingly digital production processes. It can then become a daunting task for those on the plant floor to become experts with each system, resulting in inefficiency and making it difficult to improve production metrics. This presentation will explain why the cloud may offer the best way to link different manufacturing systems and how it can provide unique opportunities to maintenance and reliability teams. Attendees will get answers to many of their questions about using the cloud in their facilities, including a roadmap for how to deploy cloud-based maintenance solutions.

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  Root Cause Analysis and Implementation: A Case Study

  Category: Root Cause Analysis

  Ashley Troyer – Reliability Engineer, Lockheed Martin
  This case-study presentation will explain how root cause analysis was performed on a 10-year-old cooling tower to identify the real issues behind the recent failures and related costs. Lockheed Martin’s Ashley Troyer will describe the evidence found during root cause analysis and the actions taken to improve the reliability of the cooling tower along with its current performance. Attendees will learn the importance of using forensic evidence to steer maintenance actions in the right direction and prevent or minimize future equipment failures, which is key in changing your maintenance efforts from reactive to proactive.

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  Secrets of Effective Leaders: It’s All About Connecting

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Jeff Parker – Speaker and Trainer, John Maxwell Team
  Effective communication and successful leadership are closely intertwined. Leaders must be skilled communicators in countless relationships at the organizational level, in communities and groups, and sometimes on a global scale. If it seems no one is listening to what you say, it’s likely because you aren’t connecting when you communicate. Connecting is everything when it comes to communication. This session will explain what connecting is all about and how you can truly connect with others. Find out how to make your words matter and influence any outcome with these practices and principles for connecting.

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  Strategies for Digital Asset Management

  Category: IIoT

  James Kovacevic – Principal Instructor, Eruditio
  There is an ever-growing connectivity of data within maintenance. Organizations are collecting more and more data, and further utilizing mobile technology. Only when this data is organized and easily accessible will it offer true value. This session will explain how to manage all the data that organizations are collecting. Come hear Eruditio’s James Kovacevic discuss the key components of a digital asset management strategy and how they fit together. Attendees will gain a better understanding of data governance and how to ensure data integrity, as well as how to link a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) to other data sources while maintaining ease of use.

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  Strategies for Integrating the Connected Worker, the Connected Manager and the Connected Machine

  Category: IIoT

  Paul Muir – President, Mobideo
  In the digital world, you can’t just do what you have always done. For people and machines to work together effectively, organizations must rethink their processes with the digital capabilities in mind. This session will examine this new thought process through the eyes of connected workers, including what data is available to them and what this data allows them to do. Attendees will also learn how to assess the situational awareness of a connected manager with real-time visibility so decisions can be made better and faster.

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  Taking Oil Condition Monitoring to the Next Level

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  Andy Lantos – Analytical Developments & Technology, Laboratorio Dr. Lantos – Wearcheck Argentina; Dave Wooton – Consultant, Wooton-Consulting
  The current methods of analyzing and characterizing turbine oils often fall short for determining lubricant health and deposit formation. Most test programs only study the particle count, acid number and water content, which can leave a lot to be desired for proper condition monitoring. This session will outline alternative methods to help you make better condition monitoring judgments through oil analysis. Find out how you can assess lubricant condition with greater confidence and certainty through expert oil analysis and meaningful bench tests readily applied with appropriate instruments.

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  Techniques and KPIs for Effective Backlog Management

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Owe Forsberg – Senior Consultant, IDCON
  The maintenance backlog is a source of information from which all work is drawn for prioritizing, planning and scheduling. In many organizations, the objective of reducing the backlog implies that a zero backlog is a good thing. This is a misconception, as a reasonable backlog is essential for effective maintenance work management. This presentation is designed to give attendees the knowledge to assess their current backlog management techniques with key performance indicators (KPIs). You will learn what work should be in your backlog, the best methods for calculating your backlog, and how to use the backlog to level resources and assess performance.

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  The Basics of Electric Power System Reliability

  Category: Reliability Engineering

  Alan Ross – Vice President of Reliability, SDMyers
  The greatest risk to any manufacturing plant is the power supply. From the standpoint of electric power systems, there are four critical asset classes that are under stress: transformers, cables, breakers, relays and protective equipment. This session will examine the four asset classes and explain how to address issues from a system perspective to increase the reliability of the assets and, in turn, the system. Attendees will learn the attributes and failure modes associated with each critical asset class, the methods of detection for system assets, and the steps for building a system-wide reliability plan.

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  The Benefits of Transforming Your Lubrication Program: A Case Study

  Category: Lubrication Program Management

  Roger Story – Reliability Engineer, Owens Corning
  Lubrication excellence can be the inflection point of change in a plant’s maintenance culture. The implementation costs can be relatively low in comparison to predictive technologies, and the results can be immediate and measurable. The crown jewel of any lubrication excellence program is often a world-class lube room. This case-study presentation will detail the lube room transformation at the Owens Corning composites plant in Aiken, South Carolina, including the processes, lessons learned and benefits of having world-class practices on display. Hear how an upgraded lube room led to measurable gains on the company’s bottom line.

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  The Digital Factory: How to Transform Your Plant Floor for Industry 4.0

  Category: IIoT

  Francesco Benvenuto – Account Manager, OverIT
  In the ever-increasingly competitive global market, manufacturers must adopt digital transformation to stay relevant and competitive. Digital manufacturing touches every aspect of the value chain. Factory maintenance management is no exception, and it must be considered by any organization aiming to reap the benefits of Industry 4.0. This presentation will explain why plants must digitalize their entire maintenance process to maximize the shop-floor asset life cycle, improve communication between systems and personnel, and optimize maintenance resources and activities. You will discover why digital transformation is not only key in manufacturing but also pivotal in a plant’s maintenance process.

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  The Industry 4.0 Evolution: Taking Advantage of Connected Reliability

  Category: IIoT

  Gregory Perry – Capacity Assurance Consultant, Fluke Corporation
  The industrial internet of things (IIoT), also known as Industry 4.0, offers many benefits to maintenance and reliability (M&R) teams. However, in order to take full advantage of the IIoT, you must embrace connected reliability. This presentation will discuss how connected reliability can make IIoT adoption possible and how M&R teams can utilize this unique framework. Attendees will learn the benefits of using the IIoT in their facilities and how it can be employed to move away from reactive maintenance to more predictive strategies.

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  The Power of the Right Maintenance Schedule

  Category: Maintenance Management

  Frank Pereira – Managing Partner, Coleman Consulting Group
  In many plants around the world, the traditional operations and maintenance schedules are Monday through Friday, with technicians returning on the weekends to work overtime. This not only costs the company money but also takes a toll on the maintenance crew’s morale and quality of work. This presentation will explain why it’s time to rethink scheduling and how a proper maintenance schedule can reduce operating costs and improve the quality of your service or product. Attendees will discover how to improve employee morale and retention through predictable work schedules, as well as how a customized schedule can save millions.

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  The Role of Big Data in Plant Reliability

  Category: IIoT

  Noah Bethel – Vice President of Product Development, PdMA Corporation
  What is “big data” and how does it affect your plant’s reliability? Big data is a term used to refer to data sets that are too large or complex for traditional data-processing application software. This presentation will discuss the history of big data and its progression in today’s industrial market. Join PdMA’s Noah Bethel as he explains best-in-class analytics and integration, reviews the dashboard integration efforts for data analytics, and details various implementations of big data for improved plant reliability.

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  Understanding Digitalization and How It Can Optimize Maintenance and Reliability

  Category: IIoT

  Paul Muir – President, Mobideo
  This presentation will explore the benefits of applying digital tools and techniques to maintenance and reliability activities. You will learn what digitalization is and how the internet of things (IoT), big data, cloud and analytics technologies can enable maintenance and reliability optimization. Although people will remain a vital part of maintenance and reliability work, digitalization allows for greater utilization of this critical resource. Hear how digitalization can support documented workflow and processes for faster reaction times, health and safety compliance, and capturing of tribal knowledge.

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  Understanding the Complexities of Ultrasound for Machine Condition Monitoring

  Category: Condition Monitoring

  T.J. Garten – Subject Matter Expert, Allied Reliability
  Maintenance personnel often attempt to utilize ultrasound without understanding the appropriate application, methodology and device settings. This can result in misusing or misapplying the technology, sometimes without even knowing it. In this session, Andy Page will explain some of the common errors and traps people fall into when applying ultrasound or creating an ultrasound program as well as how to correct them. Attendees will walk away with the information they need to help turn around a failing ultrasound program and transform it into a powerful program that produces quality results.

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  Using Infrared Spectral Microscopy for Equipment Failure Analysis

  Category: Oil Analysis

  Dave Wooton – Consultant, Wooton-Consulting; Cory Schomburg – Principal Scientist, PerkinElmer
  Infrared spectral microscopy is a new analytical technique that enables the ability to study very small oil samples. A microscope is used to see grooves and etching in equipment parts and to analyze deposits before they can become a source of failure. This presentation will reveal how infrared spectral microscopy can be employed in oil analysis to help prevent many equipment failures. Attendees will hear several case studies in which this analytical tool has been applied to real-world issues with successful results.

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  Using Motion Amplification as a Root Cause Analysis Tool

  Category: Root Cause Analysis

  Jeff Hay – CEO, RDI Technologies
  Motion amplification is a new approach to vibration analysis that can be used as a root cause analysis tool. This presentation will explain how motion amplification is utilized in the field to solve common issues with motors and pumps that often are difficult to diagnose. Attendees will learn how this technology can be leveraged early on the P-F Curve for an effective reliability solution. Case studies also will be presented showing how motion amplification can be employed to better understand and solve machinery faults.

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  Using Oil Analysis to Identify the Root Cause of Maintenance Problems

  Category: Oil Analysis

  Randy Clark – Technical Business Consultant, Polaris Laboratories
  Examining only one set of oil sample results or trend data from a single component limits the maintenance benefits an oil analysis program can provide. This session will show how program-wide test results and other data can be used to identify fleet-wide improvements. By detecting and addressing the root causes of maintenance problems, your team can get ahead of breakdowns and transition from reactive to proactive maintenance. Attendees will gain a better understanding for how to pinpoint the most common equipment problems, gather data to determine the root causes, and make purchasing decisions to mitigate equipment wear and reduce overall maintenance.

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  Using SEM/EDS Technology for Better Wear Debris Analysis

  Category: Oil Analysis

  Mindy Villalba – Project Manager, SGS North America
  Scanning electron microscopy/energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDS) can be an effective method of wear debris monitoring to help prevent equipment failures. This presentation will explore three case studies to show how SEM/EDS technology successfully resolved tough analytical problems through the use of particle sizing and characterization, wear debris analysis, and filter debris analysis. Attendees will learn how modern SEM/EDS has evolved to enable automated analysis and processes, and how these techniques are key in circumventing the technical challenges involved in selecting the right tools to perform a proper analysis in a timely and economical manner.

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  Using the IIoT to Advance Oil Analysis Effectiveness

  Category: IIoT

  Matt Spurlock – Reliability-Centered Lubrication Platform Leader, Allied Reliability
  Periodic, scheduled oil analysis can leave significant gaps in determining machine and fluid condition. However, when real-time sensors are coupled with data from commercial oil laboratories and met with the power of machine learning algorithms, a successful approach to proactive maintenance can be achieved. This session will reveal how the industrial internet of things (IIoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning can be employed with oil analysis to address critical faults and reduce equipment downtime. You will learn which test parameters are crucial to measure in real time, which assets are the best candidates for real-time oil monitoring and how to correlate real-time oil sample data with route-based oil analysis data.

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  Utilizing Smart Systems to Establish Oil Analysis Alarms

  Category: Oil Analysis

  Michael Holloway – Strategic Accounts & External Training, ALS Tribology
  Oil analysis is often burdened with too much data, some of which can be misleading. Even seasoned experts can become overwhelmed by large amounts of oil analysis data. This session will explain how to employ an automatic diagnosis process to weed through data and determine the right information upon which to act. Real-world examples and case studies will be used to show how various industries have benefited from this approach. Attendees will see the development and utilization of an automatic diagnosis process and how it can quickly and accurately assess information for better decision-making.

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  Visual Oil Analysis Made Easy

  Category: Oil Analysis

  Chris Haught – Product Manager, Esco
  Your equipment will give you early warning signs of trouble if you know what to look for. Changes in oil color, clarity and operating temperatures are indicators of larger problems. Monitoring the condition of your equipment’s lubricant is the first step in preventing failures and unscheduled downtime. You don’t need an expensive oil analysis program to catch these problems. All you need is your senses. This session will review simple ways to catch changes to the chemical properties of your lubricants. Attendees will learn common oil analysis lab tests that can be replicated without a laboratory as well as inexpensive equipment upgrades that can assist operators in monitoring the condition of their equipment and lubricants.

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