Terrence O'Hanlon, CMRP, Publisher, Reliabilityweb.com, Uptime Magazine

KEYNOTE ADRESS: A System for Reliability Transformation

Tuesday, April 21, 10:00 am ET

Understanding the complex interrelationships of maintenance and reliability within a system and their interactive effects enables management to develop methods to optimize the system to accomplish its aims.

Our system of profound knowledge is a theory for reliability transformation.  Transformation begins with the acquisition of knowledge. Knowledge enables management to understand why transformation is necessary and how to achieve it. This knowledge enables management to conceptualize enterprise reliability as a system with a purpose and future; to understand why certain management practices are ineffective and must be discontinued. This knowledge:

- enables a system that allows people to cooperate and work together.
- demonstrates how to build and support high self esteem.
- allows you to build a culture for learning throughout the enterprise.

Join Terrence O’Hanlon, Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional, for an informative discussion on how maintenance and reliability managed at your organization can improve the results produced. Transformation is possible if you operate in the context of the system of knowledge. Without it – transformation and change are uphill battles that fail much more often than succeed.

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Jay Shellogg, P.E., Superintendent of Reliability, Domtar Ashdown

Gary Clackett, Director of General Services (Retired), Domtar Espanola

Topic: From Strategy to Execution -Reliability Implementation Success at Domtar Paper

Tuesday, April 21, 11:00 am ET

Learn how Domtar utilized reliability as a key corporate strategy to optimize asset performance and address competitive market conditions.

Hear Jay Shellogg, Reliability Superintendent at Domtar Ashdown,  discuss how Domtar quickly put in place technically-based maintenance programs and the critical success factors that led to a 15% increase in proactive maintenance and significant annual savings realized in production and maintenance costs, natural gas usage, and savings from avoided costly equipment failures and production interruptions.  

Gary Clackett, Director of General Services, retired, from the Domtar Espanola mill teams up with Jay Shellog of the Domtar Ashdown mill. Gary discusses the details of how his team implemented Ivara EXP Enterprise to increase mill efficiency by 5% & reduce maintenance costs.

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Kathy Steel, Application Consultant, Ivara Corporation

Gary Willis, Product Development Manager, Ivara Corporation

Charles Gill, Product Development Manager, Ivara Corporation

What's New in Ivara EXP Enterprise Release 5.1

Tuesday, April 21, 12:00 noon ET

Ivara Enterprise 5.1.3 is scheduled for release at the end of April. Attend this session to discover the value of some of the key new features in Ivara EXP 5.1 including:

• Condition Indicator Mass Update - if you thought implementing RCM was easy in EXP, wait until you see this powerful new feature. As your use of indicators matures, you will want to add more detail, perhaps add or modify states, or change from manually collecting to automating using PDM technology. This powerful feature allows you to easily and quickly apply changes to selected indicators en masse.With just a few clicks, you can copy the states, collection frequency, and PdM Technology from a particular indicator and apply them to a group of other indicators.
• Failure Mode Copy with Smart Asset Matching - reliability strategy development and implementation has never been easier now that Ivara has enhanced the Failure Mode/Maintenance Action Plan copy functions to support smart asset mapping. When you have several instances of an asset structure (eg several of the same type of haul truck), you can quickly create a reliability analysis base which may be reviewed and modified for the asset’s current operating context.  Mapping is stored for easy re-use in future copies. Spend time developing and implementing additional action plans rather than entering and copying data.. 
• Ivara Mobile.NET - Also featured in this session is the latest in Ivara's mobile solutions. Enabling a mobile asset care workforce is an important part of the Ivara solution. Attend to see how Ivara Mobile.NET provides a new user interface that enhances data accuracy, efficiency in collection of the data and integrity of the data entered by the mobile user.

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Scott Piech, Reliability Program Leader, ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor

Russ Parrish, Reliability Practitioner, Ivara Corporation

The Role of the Reliability Program Leader

Tuesday, April 21, 1:00 pm ET

Leadership —What does it takes to keep the reliability implementation moving in the journey to operational excellence. Scott Piech has lived it and will share his experience. Together with Ivara Reliability Practitioner, Russ Parrish, learn from the trials and tribulations in developing, maintaining, and enforcing discipline to process and new reliability standards for an asset reliability program. When designing and implementing a new process, the role of Reliability Program Leader is critical to the success of the initiative. Learn what Scott did and how you can achieve and sustain success in reliability excellence.  

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John Woodhouse, Chairman, Dev. & Standards Committee, Institute of Asset Management, UK

Bill Fulton, Reliability Practitioner, Solution Architect, Ivara Corporation

PAS 55: What is it, and how fast will this standard for asset management spread across North America?

Wednesday, April 22, 10:00 am ET

Attend this session to learn about PAS 55 - the published standard for physical asset management developed by a multi-sector initiative across 10 countries, backed by the British Standards Institute. PAS 55 defines Asset Management as much more than just good maintenance and reliability – it challenges organisations to optimize value-for-money over the whole life cycle, and is proving to be a valuable bridge between the technical/engineering view of the business and the commercial, regulatory or customer-service perspectives.

PAS is already being adopted by industry regulators as a requirement checklist of demonstrating good governance. All electricity and gas distributors in the UK must already demonstrate PAS 55 compliance; railway, water and other sectors are following.   Several organisations in North America are already using PAS 55 as an assessment tool to help develop robust, sustainable plans into the future, and the conversion to a full ISO standard is already in the planning stages.

Learn how to address the challenges and uncertainties about holistic asset management, quantifying risks and life cycle values, achieving sustainable, continuous improvement, and implementing and integrating the necessary ‘enabler’ tools. Learn how Ivara EXP, for example, can be used to contribute to compliance with PAS 55.

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Mike Bresko, Managing Director & Principal Consultant, General Physics

Lean Sigma for Reliability

Wednesday, April 22, 11:00 am ET

Champion Lean Sigma for Reliability in your organization. Learn the principles of Lean, Six Sigma, and Reliability Excellence and how they improve quality, cost, delivery, and the ability to innovate as well as strengthening accountability. Operational Excellence improves business performance and an organization’s culture and daily management institutionalizes best practices into everyone’s daily routine. You can create a culture of continuous improvement and sustaining reliability excellence. Learn how to make decisions on which method, or combination of methods, are the best fit for your organization, and plan for deployment. Identify Lean Sigma roles and responsibilities, metrics, results tracking, and management of project results to sustain the gains.  

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Jeff Stegemiller, Maintenance and Reliability Team Leader, Gallatin Steel

Don Nice, Principal Consultant, The Timken Company

Reliability: The Journey to Operational Excellence at Gallatin Steel

Wednesday, April 22, 12:00 noon

Learn from the reliability and maintenance experience at Gallatin Steel. Together with The Timken Company, hear how Gallatin won the 2007 award for Best Overall PdM Program (Non-Nuclear) by Uptime Magazine. In addition, hear about the execution of one of the most comprehensive implementations of the Ivara solution to-date. Gallatin Steel started its maintenance and reliability implementation in 2000. They continually strive to improve quality, cost and customer satisfaction through the integration of people, technology and processes.

Gallatin Steel Company is one of the most advanced, environmentally-safe mini-mills in the world. They have achieved the ISO 9001, ISO 17025, and the ISO/TS 16949 (the highest international quality benchmark for manufacturers) certifications. Gallatin has over 400 employees and is proud to have won an award as one of the “Best Places to Work” in Kentucky in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

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Henry Ellmann, Renowned Reliability Guru, President, Ellmann, Sueiro y Asociados, Management Consulting and Industrial Engineering Services Group

Topic: Success or Failure with Reliability? Why some implementations fail and how to avoid failure.

Wednesday, April 22, 1:00 pm ET

Many years of implementing reliability programs at hundreds of sites shows that success follows a Gauss Curve Pattern —some programs are highly successful, most are “satisfactory” and some fail... if the same tools show such variable outcomes, it becomes evident that the reason this happens does not reside in the tool itself, but rather in how it is applied.

Implementing reliability successfully implies following rigorously all steps of a proven process.

Like liquid through a pipe, as long as there is flow of liquid out of the pipe, it is deemed as somehow successful, even if the pipe is partially clogged and only a part of the expected liquid is retrieved.  In a process, any single link that fails, renders the process useless.Hear Henry Ellmann, in his usual spectacular way, show why and how ALL reliability programs can be successful and satisfy the highest expectations, as they should. Join in a lively discussion following the presentation.