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10 Years After: A Snapshot of How Reliability and Maintenance Have Changed Over the Last Decade
Thomas Wilk, Chief Editor of Plant Services, discusses the evolution of reliability and maintenance technologies over the past decade, highlighting key advancements and enduring best practices in an interview.
30 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
“Walking the Talk” of Asset Management
In capital-intensive industries, effective Asset Management is critical to profitability, ensuring that essential production assets are maintained at the lowest cost while maximizing availability and reliability. Asset Management encompasses three key elements: Work Management, Asset Strategies, and Defect Elimination. These elements, supported by strong leadership and collaboration between Production and Maintenance, form an interdependent framework to enhance reliability and mitigate costly failures. A lapse in any one area can jeopardize the overall success of the Asset Management strategy, leading to safety, quality, and environmental challenges alongside financial losses.
This session will delve into assessing the current state of Asset Management, implementing and optimizing its core elements, and fostering a culture that prioritizes Reliability and Availability over superficial adherence to buzzwords. Participants will explore actionable strategies to reduce costs and improve operational outcomes for critical assets, setting a sustainable path forward for their organizations.
Speaker:
Blake Baca, BDB Solutions LLC owner and Asset Management Coach
Blake Baca, is the owner of BDB Solutions LLC and an Asset Management Coach with over 35 years of industry experience in mining, refining, smelting, oil & gas, power generation, foundry, manufacturing, and material processing. Blake started his career at Alcoa and spent 20 years contributing to the success of that organization. Blake is a ‘Red Raider’ having graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and also holds a CMRP and a CRL certification.
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23 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
TRAINING. Is It Worth the Investment?
How do you decide what training is worthwhile? How do you tell if it is effective training? How much internal vs external training is planned? What are some methods to weigh personal development vs business needs? Can training be tied to department performance? Learn how one maintenance veteran optimized training needs.
Speaker:
Lee McClish – Director, Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC Americas
Lee is currently the Director, Maintenance and Reliability for NTT GDC Americas, a global telecommunications and data center company. His previous positions were held with BASF, Graphic Packaging and Packaging Corporation of America as a Reliability Engineer, Maintenance Engineer, RCM Manager and Production Manager. He also served in the US Navy as a Submarine Officer. He holds a BSME, MBA, CMRP, CRL, CPMM. He is the author of a recent book “Maintenance Leadership 101” published through Reliability Web and available on Amazon.
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Inside a recent episode
10 Years After: A Snapshot of How Reliability and Maintenance Have Changed Over the Last Decade
Published 20 Feb 2025 · Transcript excerpt
[…] This is more of a specific data point about when people say what the cutoff point is to repair, and you see 43 % are going to use a cutoff point when it comes to repair costs. This is so much about the actual cutoff point. This is more about seeing the delta change over the past 10 years. In 2014, you had 65 % people say, yeah, well, buy a new one if it's 56 % of the repair costs. In 2023, you've only got 43 % saying that. Again, it's a change of people's attitudes towards their motor assets. Finally, you see a similar change over the past 10 years, what it comes to cutoff ratings. These cutoff ratings that hovered around 30 horsepower, 25 horsepower, when it comes to a policy of automatically replacing the fuel electric motor. […]
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