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Residential Electrician to
Industrial Electrician Career Guide
Automated industry and retiring baby-boomers increase demand.
A Career Guide for Residential Maintenance
and Residential Electricians. The residential maintenance persons
should keep the much higher paying Industrial Maintenance career
option as an industrial careers pathway.
Total Productive Maintenance definition as married to TPM
Total Productive Maintenance: what is it?
Much like a successful marriage
After the honey moon, he has his stereotypical
jobs and she hers. When we consider that a similar, but much more serious
phenomenon is happening from decades in industry, we can easily trace
a common denominator.
Recession survival tips for Manufacturing
Industry
Recession
survival tips on how and why not to cut training.
...
About
the methods for US Manufacturing Industry to adjust for the knowledge
vacuum caused by retiring baby boomers with training, while dealing
with tight training budgets during a recession.
Converting AB PLC DH485 to USB
Converting
AB PLC DH485 to RS232 and then to USB can be tricky.
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This article is a guide to connecting a PLC to
a laptop with only USB ports. This article covers how to find the port
number for USB converter and the dos and don'ts of using Allen Bradley
cables with USB converter as well as some money saving tips when purchasing
cables.
How to Reduce Data Errors
on Infrared Surveys
Common problems in gathering accurate infrared data ...
This article is about how to reduce infrared data
errors when conducting infrared scanning surveys for electrical equipment
testing and building scanning. This infrared data article is a great
edition to our many resources for troubleshooting electrical problems.
CMMS Systems Integration
CMMS integration with current systems, solutions - implementation..
This
article offers insight to integrating your CMMS or Maintenance Management
Systems with other systems like your inventory, accounting, purchasing
systems and other enterprise management systems. Some examples of CMMS/Accounting
system integration are provided while touching on the topic of shop
floor data systems and SCADA.
Supply Chain Management with
RFID Systems
All about RFID systems for pharmaceutical distributors
and the FDA regulations.
Article
and whitepaper all about RFID systems for pharmaceutical distributors
and the FDA regulations on drugs. The pharmaceutical supply chain makes
an excellent example of supply chain management utilizing RFID for a
track and trace system.
Slip and fall safety around
chip machine.
Advice from Chip Systems International
Slip
and fall advice by Chip Systems International for safety floor management
around chip machine, briquetting equipment, mist collectors and other
heavy machines.
Equipment Failure and the
Cost of that Failure.
Excerpts from Mike Sondalini's book 'Defect and Failure
True Costing' - 2006
The
business of defect cost and equipment failure cost are covered in detail
in this business article. Excepts from the author's book about DAFT
Cost Management explorer production cost and the cost of failure. A
must read for business operations management.
PID Controller Design, Model
based control tuning.
Model-Based Tuning Methods for PID Controllers.
Discussed
are the qualities required for "good" dynamic process data and tuning
methods for dynamic modeling the process data for controller design.
As it is common for process data studies to be performed with the PID
controller in automatic (closed loop), this article is a must read.
Safety Relay Circuits
Force Guided vs. General Purpose Relays.
This
article helps you understand how relays work, in particular, the force
guided relays. Safety Circuits, Force Guided vs. General Purpose Relays.
Keys for Effective Electrical
Troubleshooting
Analyzing a faulty electrical circuit .
Troubleshooting
Electrical Circuits and Equipment can be a complex and hazardous process.
This article describes the skills required to become an expert troubleshooter.
Hazardous Area Installations
92 % of sites safer without increasing the costs of compliance.
A recent
study by the Health and Safety Executive, UK, 11 out of 12 facilities
had potentially dangerous hazardous area electrical & instrument installations.
This White Paper is an attempt to help engineers and managers, not only
in the UK
, but also elsewhere, to have a clear understanding of this subject
and address the key issues involved.
How to Troubleshoot like an
Expert Electrician
The 5 Step Electrical Troubleshooting Approach.
To
expertly troubleshoot electrical equipment, problems must be solved
by replacing only defective equipment or components in the least amount
of time.
Maintenance Management of your
company's PLC
PLCs are the brains of your operation.
When
the PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) is not functioning properly,
lines shut down, plants shutdown, even city bridges and water stations
could cease to operate. Thousands to millions could be lost by one little
PLC in an electrical panel that you never even knew existed.
The Japanese Path to Maintenance
Excellence
Japanese way to decide equipment criticality
Equipment
criticality determines what level of preventative maintenance to use,
what type and amount of condition monitoring to use and what type and
amount of observation is required from the operators. We can learn
from Mike's visit to a major Japanese manufacturer.
M2M Device Networking
Enabling New Possibilities for Preventive Maintenance
An
article about how the ability to extract raw data from a device, machine
or appliance and convert that data into useful information transforms
the decision-making from an art to a science.
How a photoelectric sensor saved
my job
A more advanced photo sensor on a canning equipment
An
article by author Larry Bush about how a more advanced photo sensor
on a canning equipment seamer in the food processing industry had saved
his job.
Electrical Industrial Troubleshooting
Electrical industrial troubleshooting - Motors, controllers
and PLC
An
article on electrical industrial troubleshooting with sections on industrial
motor control and programmable logic controller. Covers problem solving
with motor test and short circuit training.
Hydrocarbon Traces In Purging
Nitrogen (by Chromatography)
Chromatograph removes hydrocarbons in catalyst hydroprocessing
- regeneration.
When
the reactors of Hydroprocessing Units and Reformers and other plant
equipment are given for maintenance or for regeneration of the catalyst,
it becomes necessary to remove all residual hydrocarbons from the system.
OEE - Automated Data Collection
OEE Reports - Automated Capturing & Recording of Availability
Data
Moving
Beyond Manual Data Collection & Manual Data Compilation. Automated capturing
and recording of "Availability Information" is covered in this article.
Future articles will address the automated data collection of Performance
Rate and Quality Rate.
Lean maintenance using six sigma
DMAIC
You can not have truly lean manufacturing without also
having Lean Maintenance ™.
This
article is a detailed overview of how to successfully implement Lean
Maintenance ™. From identifying the barriers, defining the problem,
to arriving at a solution. This article is a great start to controlling
the project.
Overall Equipment
Effectiveness (OEE)
Many maintenance departments today still do not effectively
utilize the OEE tool.
Overall
Equipment Effectiveness is a benchmarking tool as well as an analysis
tool. This article covers what OEE is, why you should use OEE, and how
to use it.
The
Change Management Plan
Focus On Results and Change the Culture Along the Way.
Equipment
becomes more reliable, costs go down, and behaviors change along the
way. The key is focusing on results—the kind of results that will get
people’s attention on the plant floor as well as in the key decision
makers’ offices.
The Knowledge Network
Networking people and information together.
The
most powerful aspect about the knowledge network is often the most overlooked
advantage. That advantage is a solution that results when two or more
individuals communicating back and forth with a common goal.
Dry Ice Blasting
Dry Ice Blasting for Electric Motor Repair.
A case
study for using dry ice blasting (CO2) for an electric motor rebuilder,
compared to conventional methods such as sand blasting. Also how it
eliminates hazardous waste disposal cost.
Automated Packaging
Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Costs With Packaging
Automation
Automation
is certainly the watchword as today's manufacturers face razor-thin
profit margins, Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing and ISO-9002/QS-1000
quality standards.
CMMS Error Codes
CMM/CMMS - Facility Maintenance Management Software
Facility
and fleet computerized maintenance management software help. While recording
downtime, this article will make you more effective.
Maximum Hydraulic Component
Life
Defining Fluid Temperature and Viscosity Limits
Many
factors can reduce the service life of hydraulic components. Incorrect
fluid viscosity is one of these factors.
CMMS ROI Calculator
How to cost justify your CMMS program.
A Return
on Investment (ROI) calculation results in a value that represents the
benefits received from a project against the total costs of the project.
CMMS to Reliability
Computerized Maintenance Management System
A very
important aspect of CMMS software. Criteria for CMMS to satisfy facility
reliability validity needs.
Asset Management
The Japanese Path to Maintenance Excellence.
Asset
management series by world renowned maintenance author, Mike Sondalini
who visits Japan to report on the Japanese way of doing maintenance.
The
Funy Story about
the Maintenance Job
A humorous look at the old maintenance mentality.
With
the advent of technological advances and the movement from reactive
maintenance to proactive maintenance, Bubba & Skeeter are officially
deceased.
What is the True Downtime
Cost (TDC)?
Predetermine the "True" cost of downtime
for each profit center category.
TDC
is a methodology of analyzing all cost factors associated with downtime,
and using this information for cost justification and day to day management
decisions.
Connecting together all PLCs
of different vendors in your facility.
Some basic advice to help you on
your research... There is more than one way to skin a cat. :>)
From
PLC vendor proprietary networks to OPC server, and even to a Palm Pilot
if you would like!
The Cost of Ignorance By
Joel Leonard
How much is ignorance costing your organization?
Joel
provides proactive solutions for manufacturing production and maintenance
in his first of many financial analysis articles to come.
Planning for Emergency Power
By John Swanson
Permanent backup, Mobile power, and Sourcing equipment.
Electricity is never more
precious or more scarce than after a disaster. Lights are out, telephones
disabled, businesses shut down.
A Spot vs. Group Re-lamping:
Do you feel like your always changing bulbs in
your facility? Then you
probably are. :>) View some of the highlights of Sylvania's presentation
online, and download the full 28 slides. You can use this to educate
your management on the cost savings of group re-lamping.
A 5 cent shorted fuse can
really cost you:
If you don't stock a certain fuse, documented
cases show a cost of $27,000.We
want to help when you don't have an exact fuse match in stock.
The Future of Manufacturing:
Editorial reports about current events shaping
the Manufacturing Industry. These article
are about the current industrial revolution, but most of the innovations
will soon be standards in the industry.
Lubrication's
Dirty Secrets: Did
you know that compressor oil cost is from $ 900.00 to $ 2000,00 per
drum? Auto-rx.com lets
you in on the secrets to extend your compressor life.
Corrugator
Warp: Get the warp
out of your paper drive.
There is one time Warp Drive is not so cool,
that’s when the warp is driven your scrap rate up and reducing production.
Customer
Complaints: (Prevent
or Perish).
Those who embrace and actively lead their organizations
within a prevention strategy will lead the exceptional companies of
the 21st century. Those who don't will perish. Which will you choose?
The
2nd YIELD: Your current
product line is the first yield. Through
MANAGEMENTS OF SCIENCE and MAINTENANCE you can obtain a second yield
of services. This article is
actually several excerpts and exhibits from the book.
A peak
at PLCs (Members questions
answered). We thought there
might be more out there who could benefit from the answers to these
questions
The Millennium Maintenance
Man (AKA: OEM Eliminator).
Entering into the millennium, we will see
manufacturing plants becoming more and more automated. This will have
maintenance supervisors looking for a different type of maintenance
man.
The
Millennium Bug Don't
let it bring your company to a stand still.
Crash in the year 2000 ? The effects on equipment
out in the plant may have been over looked.
Why
should I upgrade to a Program Logic
Controller, (PLC)? That was the question
posed to us, by one of our readers, so we hope this helps.
Online At Work?
Why not?
If your company is not utilizing the vast resources
of WWW, they are probably losing profits to their competitors.
AOL 4.0 HOAX
Disgruntled x-employees of AOL post to news groups
"AOL 4.0 is an Intrusion of Privacy - IMPORTANT!". BIN95 investigates
these allegations.
The "Newbie" Internet Guideline
For all of you out there just starting to design
WEB pages, here is some resources to help you. |
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