Reliable Plant Issue 11 of 2005

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Better planning is Coors' silver bullet
Quietly and covertly, the maintenance and reliability organization at Coors Brewing Company in Golden, Colo., is utilizing planning and scheduling as an improvement tool. Editor Paul Arnold explains in this RP case study.

Departments
	Lubrication Lessons
	New equipment that's built for lube excellence
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: Jim Fitch, Noria Corporation • Departments\|Lubrication Lessons
	Has it ever occurred to you that it’s often necessary to specifically ask your original equipment manufacturer to add modern lubrication to the bill-of-material when you purchase equipment from that company? Have you ever thought about selecting and specifying equipment based on life expectancy and life-cycle cost as opposed to just the initial cost?


	Reliability Forum
	How to maximize motor life
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: • Departments\|Reliability Forum
	In the Reliability Forum department, suppliers provide their insights to a question posed by editor Paul V. Arnold. This time, he asked makers of industrial electric motors: “What are the keys to maximizing the service life of industrial electric motors?”


	Reliability in Action
	Multiple tools diagnose a problem
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: Dan Warren, A Dow Corning Condition-Based Monitoring Specialist, Supplied this Issue's Case Study • Departments\|Reliability in Action
	Sealless, self-contained pumps are a staple in the chemical industry. Although these assets typically aren’t large, they are expensive. The three-horsepower pump in this case study costs approximately $7,200 for the rotor and stator assembly. Our plant has many of these pumps, so monitoring them has become an important part of our predictive maintenance (PdM) strategy.

Editorial
	Advisors
	Leaders in maintenance: A good idea, perhaps?
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: Tor Idhammar • Editorial\|Advisors
	Mahatma Gandhi was once asked what he thought of Western civilization. He replied that he thought it would be a good idea. The same thought comes to mind when considering management skills in maintenance departments.



	Follow these planning, scheduling principles
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: Doc Palmer • Editorial\|Advisors
	This column enumerates all of the principles of a successful planning and scheduling program. The six planning principles and six scheduling principles listed here form the essence of the “Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook”.



	Choosing the right players for your team
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: John Ha • Editorial\|Advisors
	How do you know if someone is “the right person” or “the wrong person”? Is there a limited amount of right people in the world? Can you train or transform a wrong person into a right person? It sounds so easy, but talent management is really the hardest part of running a team or business.


	Editors Column
	Generating a skills solution
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: Paul V. Arnold • Editorial\|Editors Column
	The manufacturing industry has problems. But solutions are out there, too. You just have to search for them. Here's one solution to the skills shortage issue.


	The Exponent
	Crisis, not aspiration, drives us to action
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: Drew Troyer, Noria • Editorial\|The Exponent
	Two things motivate an organization to achieve excellence in asset reliability management. Either you aspire to be the best or you're forced to act in response to a crisis.

Features
	Applied Reliability
	Helping motors keep their cool
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: Chris Medinger • Features\|Applied Reliability
	The rule of thumb is that a 10-degree rise in an electric motor's temperature reduces its insulation's useful life by 50 percent.



	Sensors and systems for CBM
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: Carl Hamilton • Features\|Applied Reliability
	Sensors are the first link in a successfully implemented condition-based maintenance system.


	News and Analysis
	Little rise in 2005 maintenance pay
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: Paul V. Arnold • Features\|News and Analysis
	A survey of 2,272 U.S. manufacturers shows pay to plant maintenance employees increased a mere 2.32 percent this year. Read this story, and find out how to get a free survey summary.

General
	None
	Lean maintenance conference a big success
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: • General\|None
	Nearly 150 industry leaders from 22 states and three countries attended the “Lean Manufacturing 2005: Lean Tools for Maintenance & Reliability” conference presented by Reliable Plant magazine. The event was held October 3-5 at the Renaissance Hotel in Cleveland.

Web Exclusives

	Making Things Easier at Steam Flo Industries
	• Issue: 11/2005 • Author: • Web Exclusives\|None
	At Stream Flo Industries, machine shop supervisors knew there had to be an easier way to keep track of tool inventory and replenishment. The task cost the oilfield production equipment manufacturer too much time that could have been spent on more productive things.