Edition 49, October 2004

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Contents

In this edition...
Feature Article - The Central Issue
Feature Article - Open Warehouse System
Feature Article - Centrifugal Pumps: Basic Concepts of Operation...(Part II, Understanding Cavitation)
Feature Article - A Survey On Condition Monitoring Systems In Industry
2004 CMMS Implementation Benchmarking Survey Results
Maintenance Survey Survey!
Book Review - An Introduction to Predictive Maintenance by R. Keith Mobley
Recommended Books
On the Lighter Side - Engineering Humor

Feature Article - The Central Issue

During the 90's, many plants have decentralized maintenance to a greater or lesser extent. While these plants have seen many gains from being closer to the consumer of their maintenance services, they also see issues emerging. What are the criteria to choose central vs. decentralized maintenance? Which functions and activities are candidates? This article, from Bradley Peterson of Strategic Asset Management Inc. discusses these issues. You will find it at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/Central_Issue.pdf. Note that you will require the free Adobe Acrobat reader to be able to view this file.

Feature Article - Open Warehouse System

The world's largest combined cycle power plant on a single barge, and, India's first and the only barge mounted power plant set up at Mangalore coast set up by GMR Group, a renowned name in Infrastructure Sector. The plant had all the traditional elements of Lean concept - A lean human organization structure, lean operation cycle, a single-segment raw material supplier and a single segment market for its Power. Added to this was the Open Warehouse System,

This article, discussing this open warehouse system, was contributed by H. Lakshminarayan and can be read at
http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/open_warehouse.shtml.

Feature Article - Centrifugal Pumps: Basic Concepts of Operation...(Part II, Understanding Cavitation)

This is the second part of this article, from Mukesh Sahdev, Associate Content Writer at The Chemical Engineers' Resource Page, www.cheresources.com. The title is fairly self explanatory. Due to the size of this paper, it has been split into two parts, and can be viewed at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/centrifugalpumpsb1.pdf.and http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/centrifugalpumpsb2.pdf..Yet again, you will require the free Adobe Acrobat reader to be able to view this file.

Feature Article - A Survey On Condition Monitoring Systems In Industry

This article written by Philip A. Higgs, Rob Parkin, Mike Jackson, Amin Al-Habaibeh, and Jo Coy was first presented at ESDA 2004, 7th Biennial ASME Conference Engineering Systems Design and Analysis, and is kindly reproduced here with the permission of ASME. For more information on ASME's publications, please visit ASME's Digital Store at http://store.asme.org/ for further information on its publications..

Advances in networking technologies are opening integration opportunities for Condition Based Monitoring (CBM) systems, presenting further possibilities for increasing CBM system functionality. This paper presents the results of a CBM Survey designed to determine present applications of CBM systems within industry. The article can be read at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/CBM-Survey-results.pdf. You will require the free Adobe Acrobat reader to be able to view this file.

2004 CMMS Implementation Benchmarking Survey

Our CMMS implementation survey closed recently, with responses from over 100 people. The key findings are:

• The five most common CMMS in use were SAP, Maximo, MP2, MIMS/Ellipse and PMC.
• In comparison with our 2000 survey on this topic, there are significantly more SAP users and significantly fewer MP2 users in this survey.
• Most systems have been in place only for a few years, but a significant proportion have been in place for 5 years or more
• Statistical analysis of responses showed no clear correlation between the conduct of other usual change management activities associated with CMMS implementation, and the perception of implementation success
• The most commonly stated reasons for selection of the current CMMS were General functionality and features and Integration with other commercial software
• In comparison with our 2000 survey on this topic, Integration with other commercial software was a more significant factor in the selection of the CMMS
• CMMS are seen as being moderate-to hard to use, on average, with Maximo rating highest in terms of ease of use
• CMMS are, on average, seen as being only moderately well endowed with functionality and features, although SAP and Maximo rate highly in this area
• CMMS implementations are generally seen as moderately successful, with little variation between ratings for the top 5 most popular CMMS packages
• Most of those respondents who rated their implementation as poor had implemented packages other than these most popular packages
• In comparison with our 2000 survey on this topic, relatively fewer implementations, overall, are rated as being Poor
• The most important factors in implementation success were obtaining Senior Management committment, and effective training. The relative importance of slecting the correct CMMS appears to have declined over the last 4 years.
• Overall, most respondents reported that their CMMS implementation has led to some or significant benefits

You can find more detailed analysis of the survey results at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/articles/CMMS_survey_2004.shtml

Maintenance Survey Survey!

This is our simplest survey yet. It consists of one question - what topic would you like covered in our next survey?

You can complete the survey, and view the results to date, at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/survey.shtml. The survey will remain open until November 15, 2004, and we will announce the topic for our next survey in our November newsletter.

Book Review - An Introduction to Predictive Maintenance by R. Keith Mobley

If you plan to buy one book on Predictive Maintenance, this, I believe, is currently the best book on the market. This is not to say that it does not have its shortcomings, but overall, this book comes closest to being a comprehensive introduction to the Predictive Maintenance technologies currently available, and their practical application. You can read our full review at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/books/0750675314.shtml

Recommended Books

Here are ten Maintenance-related books that we have reviewed recently, and strongly recommend:

• Managing Maintenance Error James Reason and Alan Hobbs - a superb book that has the potential to revolutionise the way that we think about Failure Elimination
• Reliability-Centered Maintenance by John Moubray - The definitive text on RCM.
• Uptime; Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management by John Campbell - An excellent summary of Maintenance Strategy and Improvement techniques for Maintenance and non-Maintenance managers alike.
• Apollo Root Cause Analysis - A New Way Of Thinking by Dean Gano - A simple, but effective way of unleashing the creative problem-solving potential of your workforce.
• Maintenance Planning, Scheduling and Coordination by Don Nyman and Joel Levitt - A very readable, practical "how to" guide on this vital subject.
• Making Common Sense Common Practice by Ron Moore - An illuminating, entertaining, stimulating, and inspiring book, laced with good, down-to-earth, practical common sense, and better than some books that are twice the price.
• Developing Performance Indicators for Managing Maintenance by Terry Wireman - the ever popular (and so far, to my knowledge, only) book on this topic.
• Overall Equipment Effectiveness by Robert C. Hansen. - covers more than the title would suggest - an excellent book on Maintenance Improvement strategy and implementation
• Root Cause Analysis - Improving Performance for Bottom-Line Results by Robert J. Latino, Kenneth C. Latino. - another excellent book on Root Cause Analysis, outlining the Proact approach to RCA.
• Maintenance Management Handbook edited by Lindley R. Higgins and R. Keith Mobley. - the definitive reference book for Maintenance Engineers.

Get more information on these and other books at http://www.plant-maintenance.com/maintenance_books.shtml.

On the Lighter Side - Engineering Humor

The Maintenance Engineer

He stood before the pearly gates
His face was scarred and old
He stood before the man of Fate
For admission to the fold
"What have you done", St Peter asked
"To gain admission here?"
"I've been a Maintenance Engineer
For many and many a year"
The Pearly Gates swung open wide
St Peter touched the bell
"Come in and choose your harp my friend:
You've had your share of Hell".

Anon

Alexander (Sandy) Dunn
Plant Maintenance Resource Center
webmaster@plant-maintenance.com
http://www.plant-maintenance.com

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