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  • Implementation Strategy
  • Leadership

Best Lubrication Practices with Wes Cash – CONNECT Conversations

Proper lubrication is the lifeblood of any organization’s equipment. Contamination, impaired fluid properties, and wrong lubricants lead to machinery failure. In this session, we’ll be reviewing lubricant analysis for determining whether or not new oil/grease is in proper condition, and appropriate analysis to be done on an ongoing basis to assure that the lubricants in use are in proper condition.

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  • Continuous Improvement

Reliability: A New Definition with Special Guest Gary Tyne – CONNECT Conversations

SMRP, SAE, and perhaps other organizations have a definition for reliability. Generally speaking, it is applied to equipment and focuses on the ability of that equipment to provide its intended function for a specific period of time under stated conditions without failure...

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  • Implementation Strategy
  • Leadership

Best Oil Analysis with Bennett Fitch- CONNECT CONVERSATIONS

In this session, we’ll be reviewing oil analysis for determining whether or not new oil/grease is in proper condition, and appropriate analysis to be done on an ongoing basis to assure that the lubricants in use are in proper condition.

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  • Leadership

Training and Development with Special Guest Tara Holwegner – CONNECT Conversations

In this session, along with special guest Tara Holwegner, we’ll review:
• The 12 steps for developing a strategic training plan, one designed to assure an effective, value-adding, training and development program.
• Training vs. learning, the learning process and the approach most effective, adult learning and Bloom’s taxonomy.
• Data regarding how people learn, and remember, and how practices become a habit.

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  • Implementation Strategy

Strategy for Implementation of the Reliability Process with Special Guest Andrew Fraiser – CONNECT Conversations

In this session, along with special guest Andrew Frasier, we’ll discuss the various roles of each functional element in the reliability process and provide a specific strategy for their implementation.

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  • Leadership

Managing an Aging and Retiring Workforce- CONNECT Conversations

It’s been estimated that over one in five workers will be eligible to retire in the coming 10 years, with some 19 million people older than 55 and eligible. Replacing all that experience, particularly skilled craft people such as mechanics, electricians, electronic technicians, etc., will be difficult.

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  • Implementation Strategy
  • Leadership

Predictive Maintenance Practices- Model for a Good Program– CONNECT Conversations

In this session we’ll be discussing this, along with various condition monitoring techniques, e.g., vibration, oil, IR, ultrasound, and perhaps others, and how and where to best apply them, and as importantly the systems and practices that need to be in place to optimize their performance, e.g., a direct link to the maintenance planning and scheduling process, and a proactive approach to eliminate the defects being detected.

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  • Leadership

Aligning Marketing and Manufacturing Strategies for Reliability- Connect Conversations

In this session we’ll review a model for aligning the two functions, and three case studies on how companies have addressed this issue.

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  • Leadership

Selecting and Implementing a CMMS with John Reeve – Connect Conversations

This discussion will center on the effective selection and implementation of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) for effective work management, planning and scheduling.

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