Plant Maintenance & Asset Reliability

Registration Opens and Coffee Served

Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair

The P-F Curve and its Relevance to Equipment

CASE STUDYDeveloping and Sustaining a Reliability-Centred Plant at TransAlta

• Key principles and practices of reliability-centred maintenance
  • Ways in which reliability enhances company vision and strategy
  • Selecting, understanding and implementing the tools needed to achieve reliability
  • RCM methodologies: examples of winning strategies
• Conducting effective reliability analysis
• Improving the reliability of machinery
• Developing an optimal work management process
• Step-by-step evolution to optimal reliability
• Overcoming hurdles at each stage of the process

Networking Coffee Break

Avoiding Pitfalls in CMMS/EAM Selection and Implementation – Real-World Systems and Strategies

• Defining the scope, timelines and objectives of CMMS/EAM implementation
• How to effectively report equipment failures and track repairs
• Dealing with data overload: selecting and interpreting data to generate tangible performance improvement benchmarks
  • Ensuring frontline workers input quality data
• Getting employee buy-in: selling the benefi ts of your CMMS/EAM and encouraging use
• Key steps in successful CMMS/EAM implementation: identifying challenges and ensuring ROI

CASE STUDYOptimizing Asset Reliability: Lessons Learned in Daily Operations of Premier Water and Wastewater Facilities

• Analyzing reliability in terms of quantity, qualityand long-term sustainability
• Examining how to extend the life cycle of a facility through enhanced system optimization programs
• Building and leveraging redundancy into a water system to manage the impact of preventative maintenance programs and shutdowns
• Establishing a long-term framework to ensure success
• Evaluating the EPCOR and Suncor solution as a model for future development

CASE STUDYEquipment Reliability Programs: Making RCM Work for Your Organization

• An overview of RCM and variants of the RCM methodology: choosing the right combination of tools and techniques for your plant and equipment
• Using RCM to identify the maintenance tasks that must be performed to maintain an asset’s operational, safety and environmental performance
• Deciding whether RCM is the most cost-effective analytical tool for your assets and assessing alternatives, including:
• Implementing a maintenance program optimization
• The application of component-level templates
• Understanding the challenges associated with RCM programs and ways to successfully start and sustain an RCM-based maintenance improvement process

Networking Luncheon for Delegates and Speakers

Reliability Implementation: “Un-Reliability is an Addiction. A 12 Steps to Recovery”

• Agrium’s Reliability Implementation Program – Successes and Misses
• The benefits and pitfalls of aggressive use of technology in Maintenance and Reliability processes
• 12 Strategies to assist in your Organization’s path to conquering the habits of Un-reliability

Ensuring the Highest Standards of Asset Management: Planning for Implementation of ISO 55000

• Outlining the benefi ts of implementing ISO 55000
• Realizing what will be required from a regulatory standpoint once the standards are implemented
• Ensuring your plant is ready to meet – and exceed – these standards

Networking Coffee Break

Optimizing Asset Management: Ensuring Your Maintenance Plans Align with Asset Life Cycles

• Sustaining reliability and productivity throughout an asset’s life cycle
• Assessing whether you should plan for major repair, refurbishment or total replacement
• Best practices for monitoring and recording KPIs
• Improving planning, scheduling, acquisition, diagnostic methods and replacement policies based on life cycle considerations

CASE STUDYProactive Maintenance and its Impact on the Bottom Line – Driving Down Costs While Boosting Productivity

• Weighing the pros and cons of PM strategies
• Working with a service provider to design a specifi c and practical solution
• Interdepartmental collaboration for ongoing implementation and daily execution
• Using KPIs to determine value-add and drive continuous improvement
• Controlling the cost of proactive maintenance

Chair’s Recap and Conference Adjourns

Coffee is Served

Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair

Processes & Technology, NOT Processes or Technology

Revolutionizing Your Plant through Industrial Robotics

• Examining recent technological developments in overseas and why North America needs to catch up
• Latest applications of industrial robots: assembly, inspection, welding, processing, handling operations
• Critical benefits of investing in robotics, including:
  • Maximizing productivity and speed
  • Lower operating costs
  • Increasing the quality of products
  • Decreasing the likelihood of accidents
• Enhancing design and use of robotics to maximize quality, safety and precision

Networking Coffee Break

Securing Competitive Advantage Through Effective Training and Development

• Determining in-house training needs and how to prioritize them
• Driving down unnecessary costs through training, including: downtime, consumption of replacement parts and equipment misuse or malfunction
• Cross-training existing resources: how to hire more low-to mid level technicians to grow into the industry
• Addressing knowledge transfer issues:
  • Examining effective ways to retain valuable information from senior employees
  • Exploring the benefi ts of launching a mentorship program
• Training frontline maintenance tradespeople in reliability: going beyond reactive and integrating proactive maintenance management into trades training
• How to secure support from suppliers and vendors
• Ensuring employees are engaged and well-trained: tips for transforming employees into brand ambassadors

Principles and Applications of Non-Destructive Testing: Understanding the Latest NDT Inspection Techniques

• Understanding reliability principles applicable to non-destructive testing and inspection
• Exploring the theory and application of NDT inspections techniques, including:
• Magnetic particle
• Liquid penetrant
• Ultrasound
• Acoustic emission radiography
• Eddy current
• Looking at common failure modes identified by NDT inspection techniques
• Examples of how NDT is used to identify quality defects or monitor equipment during in-service inspection
• Examining the use of NDT technologies to identify the onset of failure and monitor the progression of failure modes

Networking Luncheon for Delegates and Speakers

Plant Safety: Liability Issues and Risks Associated with Non-Compliance

• Examining the latest regulatory requirements:
  • Changes to the Safety Codes Act
  • Changes to the Occupational Health & Safety regulations by province
  • Case law and examples
• Identifying safety issues impacting high-risk equipment
• Building an ironclad safety culture: training employees and monitoring compliance
• Balancing productivity and safety: are the two at odds?

CASE STUDYA Lean Maintenance Journey: Driving Results at University of Alberta Hospitals

• Applying lean principles to the maintenance process
• Removing wastes out of each work stream
• How to analyze performance data
• Improving the volume of work that moves towards resources
• Reducing overall costs while improving productivity
• Preparing leadership and teams for lean maintenance implementation

Networking Coffee Break

Root Cause Failure Analysis: Anticipating and Preventing Equipment Malfunctions

• Principles and practices of root cause failure analysis: getting to the bottom of chronic and periodic breakdowns or malfunctions
• Working towards the potential for zero failures
• Understanding failure classifi cations and their initiating causes
• Documenting fi ndings: the importance of using an integrated, team-based approach

Tying it all Together: Evaluating the Success of Your Maintenance Strategy Using Key Performance Indicators

• Examining the most effective ways to select and prioritize KPIs
• Challenges when implementing measures:
  • Getting the information out of your CMMS
  • Benchmarking success at each stage of the implementation process
• Compiling and assessing data to drive best practices
• Translating KPIs into tangible results: implementing changes based on fi ndings

Change What! Using a Structured Approach for Managing Change to Improve Your Maintenance Initiatives from Project through to Sustainment

• Change management concepts and winning approaches for dealing with the people side of change
• Understanding why the people side of change is a key factor and contributor to the success of any project or maintenance initiative
• Realizing the business benefits of change initiatives and onboarding impacting stakeholders to ensure they are part of the solution
• Practical solutions and approaches: technology deployments from project through to handover to operation

Chair’s Recap and Conference Concludes