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 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 | May 24, 2020 | Newsletter Column, The Sustainable Plant
Manufacturing plants, process plants, and other industrial facilities are natural economic drivers for the communities in which they operate. These businesses offer good jobs that, in turn, fuel economic activity. People move into the area, and homes, apartments,...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Mar 1, 2020 | RAM Tools & Methods, Safety Matters, The Sustainable Plant
Fugitive emissions, are a concern across the industrial landscape. Although this article focuses on leveraging predictive maintenance (PdM) to combat the problem in the natural-gas arena, the suggested strategies and tactics can be adapted in any operation where...
by Ken Bannister, MEch (UK), CMRP, MLE, Editor | Feb 27, 2020 | Asset Management, The Sustainable Plant
This fourth and final “Fingerprint to Footprint” series installment focuses on the collaboration between the maintenance and operations groups to understand and map out how each equipment piece, manufacturing-process line, and vehicle is operated on a day-to-day basis...
by Drew Troyer, CRE, CMRP, T.A. Cook/Accenture, Editor | Feb 8, 2020 | Plant Operations, The Sustainable Plant
The manufacturing, mining and metals, and process industries have always had a tenuous relationship with the subject of environmental sustainability. These industries, by definition, use enormous amounts of natural resources, energy, and water and tend to directly and...
by Ken Bannister, MEch (UK), CMRP, MLE, Editor | Feb 2, 2020 | Asset Management, The Sustainable Plant
In the first two parts of this series on sustainable-asset-management practices (see links below), we examined how maintenance departments can implement energy-control strategies while using environmentally acceptable/friendly lubrication products. Here in Part III,...
