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Those of you reliability folks that enjoy the outdoors, a great event, and a great golf course, make plans to join your fellow SMRP duffers the award winning Grand Geneva Golf Resort on Sunday, October 17th for our 7th Annual SMRP Golf Outing.

This outing will give you the opportunity to meet your fellow SMRP colleagues, practitioners, and industry partners. Grand Geneva Golf Resort is regarded as one of the top award winning golf resorts in the country, home to championship golf on The Brute course. The magnificent Brute, at over 7,000 yards, is one of the most challenging layouts in the Midwest. Enhanced with 68 bunkers, this par-72 course has huge rolling greens averaging over 8,000 square feet. Perfectly manicured and immaculately maintained.

Past attendees have come from a wide variety of backgrounds and geographical locations. Each of these events has provided some great memories for those that participated. Come have a good time, play some good golf (or some not so good golf, we don’t care!), enjoy good food and most importantly, good company.

A bonus, we do award prizes for the top finishing teams, not to mention you’ll have bragging rights for the remainder of the conference!

See you on the links!

Mike Mills, CMRP
Chairman, Golf Outing Committee
The Mundy Companies

Organization and Leadership-Track 4

What part do people play in your efforts to build and maintain a competitive, effective, and rewarding approach to maintenance and reliability? The answer, of course, is EVERYTHING and that’s why this track has attracted such a large number of timely, relevant, and well-attended presentations over the years. This year’s collection of topics will focus once again on ways to counteract the challenges of an aging workforce, including recommendations and case histories that address how to organize for effectiveness, how to teach leadership, how to attract and train the new workforce, and how to measure the effectiveness of your efforts.

I have the pleasure of being the Track Leader this year and working with Nick Roberts, CMRP, of Dupont and John Johannemann, CMRP, of Ascend Performance Materials, to facilitate the Track 4 presentations. Please join with us to learn and to share your own experiences.

Bill Dockrey, CMRP, PE
Luminant Power

Equipment Reliability—Track 3

Equipment Reliability is one of the pinnacles of the SMRP Body of Knowledge. Optimum Reliability, Reliability as it applies to Safety, KPIs, Enhanced Inspection Performance and much more! Papers within this track will address multiple aspects of all of these key efforts. In fact it’s entirely possible you might even come to appreciate a few acronyms you were not familiar with previously. These papers address both the practical methodologies and some of the how to off applying the principals contained throughout the presentations.

Check out the full list of papers that will be presented during Track 3 by clicking here: http://www.smrp.org/Conference/2010/agenda.asp

I am very excited to serve as a Track Leader and look forward to working with my fellow track co-lead, Scott Brack, CMRP, of Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold. Stop by Track 3 and say "hi!"

Carl Schultz, CMRP
Management Resources Group, Inc.

ISO Asset Management Project gets the green light!

There is very good news from the International Standards Organization that the ISO Technical Management Board has decided to develop an International Standard on Asset Management. This is a chance to incorporate knowledge, techniques and good practice from all around the world within a single set of requirements.

The starting point will be the British Standards Institute's PAS55. With the assistance of global asset management professionals, we expect an already good document to quickly become the global standard for Asset Management framework in leading organizations.

If this topic is of interest, you may wish to consider attending "What’s PAS 55 and ISO? — Asset Management Process by Ramesh Gulati, CMRP, and Christopher Mears,CMRP, ATA/AEDC; and Terrence O’Hanlon, CMRP, Reliabilityweb.com Inc." in the Manufacturing and Process Reliability Track at this years SMRP Annual Conference (11:15 am Tuesday October 19)

The MRO-Zone.com Bookstore will also have limited copies of the PAS55 Asset Management Specification at the SMRP Annual Conference.

Terrence O'Hanlon, CMRP
Reliabilityweb.com Inc.

Track 1-Business and Management

This year’s Business and Management track has some powerful presentations. Shon Isenhour will be discussing the phenomenon of “initiative overload” and “flavor of the month” syndrome. Terry O’Hanlon and Terry Wireman will be discussing the results of a SAP-PM/EAM survey. Sure to shed some light on the ease of use debate. Nick Roberts will be presenting the “DuPont Production System” and I personally can’t wait to see the details of this. Bradley Peterson will compare Safety culture to Maintenance culture and how behaviors are the root-cause of performance. Adamantios Mettas will be discussing when and how to use RCM, FMEA, and Weibul. Mark Callahan and Greg Lapps from Pfizer will discuss what they did to reduce maintenance cost and increase reliability! Liebherr Mining will be presenting on KPIs and OEE using RCM and how this relates to culture change. CH2MHILL will be explaining how to create a measurable and repeatable process to evaluate the consequence of failure and condition of each work process. RasGas Company will share its initiative to optimize spare parts. Something we all need to do, but can’t seem to find the time. This year is shaping up to be very informative and great learning opportunity for improvement.

Check out the full list of papers that will be presented during Track 1 by clicking here: https://www.smrp.org/Conference/2010/downloads/TRACK%201.doc

I am very excited to serve again as Co-track Leader and look forward to working with my fellow track leader, John Barker, CMRP, Fluor Company and Co-lead Dave Rousseau, CMRP, of PCA Consulting. Stop by Track 1 and say Hello.

Jeff Stegemiller CMRP
Gallatin Steel Company