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Editorial
	Editors Column
	Erase the notions of what's possible
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Paul V. Arnold • Editorial|Editors Column
	Paul V. Arnold asks, "What will you do today to erase perceptions, boundaries and limitations?"

	The Exponent
	Think of OEE as overall business effectiveness
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Drew D. Troyer, CRE, CMRP • Editorial|The Exponent
	Drew Troyer wants you to think about overall equipment effectiveness in a different light.

Features
	Advisors
	Scheduling needs a planned backlog
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Doc Palmer • Features|Advisors
	Prepare and use a schedule as a control standard to improve maintenance productivity. Doc Palmer explains it all.

	Optimizing your lube inventories
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Mark Barnes • Features|Advisors
	Mark Barnes sees a lack of understanding when it comes to lubricant selection and inventory.

	Five types of CBM programs, Part III
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: John Schultz • Features|Advisors
	John Schultz looks at the relationship between CBM and reliability engineering support.

	Are your Boomers counting down?
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: John Ha • Features|Advisors
	According to John Ha, winning companies will be those that retain their retirement-eligible workers a little longer.

	Details, details, details
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Tim Goshert • Features|Advisors
	Tim Goshert says that to effectively lead an M&R improvement effort, you must go look and see and dive into the details.

	Applied Reliability
	Replacing your DC motors? Think AC
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Ted Stearns • Features|Applied Reliability
	The development of modern AC motors and drives is blurring the distinctions that once governed the choice between AC and DC.

	Treatments to control corrosion
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Andy Coverdell • Features|Applied Reliability
	To secure the reliability of critical company assets, parts and equipment must be protected from corrosion.

	News and Analysis
	Taking steps to diversify SMRP
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Stacey McCauley, chairperson, SMRP diversity committee • Features|News and Analysis
	Stacey McCauley outlines the initial plans for the SMRP diversity committee.

	Reliability In Action
	A diagnostic exercise to fix problems
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Curtiss Quirin, The Stanley Works • Features|Reliability In Action
	Senior leaders must support a problem-solving environment, with many problem-solvers working on the right problems.

	Safety Report
	Answers to OSHA violations photo quiz
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Mark McLaughlin, MANCOMM • Features|Safety Report
	Here are the answers to the safety quiz found on Page 52 of our July/August 2007 issue.

	Special Report
	Integrated Inventory Management
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Doug Wallace • Features|Special Report
	Address your MRO inventory challenges by starting to understand the problem and developing an attack plan.

	Spelling lean O-E-E: The next day
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Mike Verdin • Features|Special Report
	Mike Verdin continues a discussion on the marriage of lean and overall equipment effectiveness.

General
	Advisors
	Cost and estimated replacement value
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Tor Idhammar • General|Advisors
	Corporate says your maintenance cost as a percent of your estimated replacement value is way too high. So, what are you going to do about it?

Web Exclusives
	None
	Continuous improvement: Cleanup in Aisle 5
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Mike Wroblewski • Web Exclusives|None
	Columnist Mike Wroblewski discovered a damaged box and a mess on the floor during a recent gemba walk. What was the cause? What was the solution? And, was it a lasting solution?

	From lean tools to lean management
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Jim Womack • Web Exclusives|None
	Lean tools are great. We all need to master and deploy them, and our efforts of the past to do so are not wasted. But just as a carpenter needs a vision of what to build in order to get the full benefit of a hammer, we need a clear vision of our organizational objectives and better management methods before we pick up our lean tools. Lean guru Jim Womack provides some insights on this subject.

	Kaizen event success and sustainability
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Toni L. Doolen, Eileen Van Aken, Jennifer Farris and June Worley • Web Exclusives|None
	A study of kaizen events, now supported by the National Science Foundation, has been initiated by researchers at Oregon State University and Virginia Tech. The team of industrial engineering researchers has partnered with nine different organizations to identify kaizen event factors most critical to short-term and long-term performance improvement.

	Lean manufacturing: The practical approach to productivity
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author:  • Web Exclusives|None
	A lean manufacturing initiative focuses on cost reduction and increases in turnover by systematically and continuously eliminating non-value-added activities. In today's competitive market, lean is turning out to be "the solution" to manufacturing industries across the spectrum for survival and success.

	Finding life balance: The new Holy Grail
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Linda Nacif • Web Exclusives|None
	We all try, and fail often, balancing our work and social responsibilities. It is because we haven't taken the time to truly know what our purpose in life is. Attaining that balanced scale of all aspects of our life is an art that must be consciously cultivated over time.

	RCM Blitz Analysis estimating tool
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Douglas Plucknette • Web Exclusives|None
	A Reliability-Centered Maintenance analysis should be viewed as a serious exercise for your business. An RCM analysis is an investment that takes time, resources and money to complete. As a result, we should always ensure that we are performing our analyses on assets that will show a return on the resources, time and money we invested in performing the analysis, implementing the tasks and performing the tasks.

	PPE training offers cost/performance advantages
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author:  • Web Exclusives|None
	Studies confirm that most workplace injuries are preventable. The level of prevention achieved, however, will depend upon your company's commitment to safety and employees' willingness to become involved in injury prevention. Comprehensive employee education through ongoing training programs about the use, wear and care of personal protective equipment is a critical first step in creating a safer working environment and reducing injury-related costs.

	Tips to hire employees who’ll stay longer, complain less, produce more
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Monica Wofford • Web Exclusives|None
	Hiring is tricky, and getting the right person in the right job can be a downright complicated gamble. We make matters worse by using the same old formula that even the candidates know and by looking at experience that may or may not matter. Monica Wofford offers some interviewing and selection alternatives.

	Toyota putting the brakes on U.S. plants
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: David R. Butcher • Web Exclusives|None
	Over the past decade, Toyota has gobbled up market share by anticipating the appetites of U.S. car buyers better than its Detroit competitors did. But Toyota has now realized, just as Detroit's Big Three figured out long ago, that rising materials and labor costs in the U.S. are cutting into profitability. Today, Toyota's far-flung U.S. plants have created logistical tangles that have raised the cost of doing business.

	How to effectively lead different generations in the workplace
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Anne Houlihan • Web Exclusives|None
	Managing and motivating a diverse workforce can certainly be challenging. As more and more people from the youngest generation enter the workforce and work alongside the most senior employees, many managers are learning that a one-size-fits-all management style simply does not exist.

	Integrating vibration and thermography in one handheld?
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Ray Garvey, Emerson Process Management, Machinery Health Management • Web Exclusives|None
	Vibration analysis and thermography are both commonly used walk-around data collection systems used for proactive and predictive maintenance in industrial plants. Historically, these two technologies have been separate and distinct. Vibration analysis has been performed using vibration analyzers, while thermography has been accomplished using infrared imaging camera systems. What if the two technologies could come together in a single platform?

	'Plug and play' speed sensors insensitive to electromagnetic fields
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author:  • Web Exclusives|None
	While there are space savings and material cost reductions in adopting more compact and powerful AC drive motors, the greater compactness of motor design means that all the related components are closer together, and have to exist and perform in an even more demanding environment. For certain components such as the sensor electronics, the increasingly harsh electromagnetic and physical environments can be a real issue.

	Simmer down now! How workers can beat the heat
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: David R. Butcher, ThomasNet.com • Web Exclusives|None
	Extreme heat in the workplace is more than an issue of discomfort. Hot surfaces and steam, sweaty palms and slippery hands, dehydration, the ever-present threat of heat stress – all of this spells danger in the workplace. Here's how you can stay safe and healthy.

	Ergonomics and hand protection FAQs
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Michael S. Zedalis and Keitha Kessler • Web Exclusives|None
	Soaring medical costs and production losses resulting from repetitive motion injuries and related musculoskeletal disorders are inciting plants to rapidly advance their consideration of ergonomically designed products that can reduce these types of injuries. This article offers answers to common questions relative to ergonomics and hand protection products, their safety, performance, quality improvements and cost advantages.

	The new rules for a diverse workplace
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Clifton Lambreth • Web Exclusives|None
	Diversity makes good sense. Unfortunately, many companies don't manage their diversity initiatives effectively, resulting in the one thing they were aiming to avoid: discrimination. When businesses use diversity to understand different types of customers, develop products or services that are competitive, and gain insight on future industry trends, they're using diversity initiatives correctly.

	Proposed motor efficiency standards can save energy, money
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: The U.S. Department of Energy • Web Exclusives|None
	The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the National Electrical Manufacturers Association have jointly developed and recommended new electric motor standards for Congress to consider in upcoming energy legislation. The proposed standards will help foster more widespread use of both energy-efficient and NEMA Premium efficiency motors, which have even higher efficiencies than either standard motors or those specified as energy efficient in the 1992 Energy Policy Act.

	Ford engine plant in the U.K. is green, worthy of envy
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author:  • Web Exclusives|None
	Diesel engine production at Ford’s wind-powered Dagenham plant in the United Kingdom is saving thousands of tonnes of CO2 and diverting almost twice as much waste from landfill. Outstanding “green” projects at the plant have targeted power tools, lubricants and metalworking fluids.

	Safety focus: The benefits of a Personal Apparel Assessment
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Mike Kimberley • Web Exclusives|None
	Manufacturers can positively impact their bottom line costs by conducting a Personal Apparel Assessment (PAA), which focuses on seven key disciplines and 35 best practices. The underlying objective is to create a more consistent, compliant and cost-effective personal protective equipment (PPE) program.

	Negotiating: Getting past the little things to get what you want
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Marc Freeman • Web Exclusives|None
	During negotiations, people seem to get bogged down in small details or get derailed by sensitive issues, and this stalls the process. Each and every detail will have to be addressed, but you will be surprised at how far you can get by keeping your goal in mind and not getting bogged down by those details. In this article, Marc Freeman provides six tips that will help speed up the process of any negotiation.

	If at first you don’t succeed: There's a fortune in failure
	• Issue: 7/2007 • Author: Gary Bradt • Web Exclusives|None
	How many of us give up if we don't nail something perfectly the first time out? How many of us won't step up and try something new unless we can be assured of success first? The problem is how we think about ourselves in relation to failure and its consequences. In this article, author and lecturer Gary Bradt challenges you to change the way you think about failure, and, in the process, change the way you think about yourself.