by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Aug 8, 2020 | The Sustainable Plant
Sustainable manufacturing is a relatively new, but important driver in industry. That means many plant professionals involved in manufacturing operations may be seeking good sources of information to help launch their sites’ journeys. Such resources are out...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Jul 25, 2020 | The Sustainable Plant
The concept of sustainable manufacturing is new to many companies across the industrial landscape. Organizations in the manufacturing, process, mining, and other heavy industries typically are quite hierarchical in nature. For the most part, that’s a sensible...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Jul 19, 2020 | Newsletter Column, The Sustainable Plant
As with any effort to improve performance on aspects of manufacturing, metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) provide a measuring stick with which to gauge progress. The E60.13 technical committee of the American Society for Testing & Materials, now known...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Jul 10, 2020 | The Sustainable Plant
In 2015, the United Nations (U.N.) defined 17 Sustainable Development Goals that challenged the world to become more sustainable by the year 2030 (see below). The manufacturing, mining, process, and affiliated industries consume a large percentage of the...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Jul 4, 2020 | Asset Management, The Sustainable Plant
Within the plant and equipment asset-reliability-management community, we spend substantial time and energy focusing on asset operation and maintenance. However, the design of the equipment represents the DNA—the genetic code—of reliability. Consequently, there is...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Jun 27, 2020 | Asset Management, RAM Tools & Methods
Technology has changed behavior patterns in industrial operations tremendously. Some changes have been good and others not so good. As an example of the latter, I’ve observed that managers and engineers spend the majority of their time on computers and in meetings,...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Jun 20, 2020 | RAM Tools & Methods, The Sustainable Plant
V-belts serve as the coupling method for a large percentage of equipment in the plant. As I noted in Part I of this two-part series, in my experience, the maintenance of V-belts often has been trivialized. In that first article (see link below), the importance of...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Jun 13, 2020 | RAM Tools & Methods, The Sustainable Plant
V-belts serve as the coupling method for a large percentage of equipment in the plant. Unfortunately, in my experience, V-belt maintenance is often trivialized. This two-part series focuses on a few precision-maintenance practices that can significantly improve the...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Jun 5, 2020 | Asset Management, RAM Tools & Methods
Digital Manufacturing, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Smart Manufacturing, Industry and/or Manufacturing 4.0 are a few of the buzzwords that have become pervasive in the industrial- equipment asset-management space. We are all excited. Even CEOs have been known...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | May 30, 2020 | Asset Management, RAM Tools & Methods
When approaching the challenge of cost-justifying investments to enhance reliability of plant equipment, reliability professionals sometimes struggle to quantify the benefits. Although costs are typically rather easy to define, the benefits often hang us up and...
