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| Canadian Tire uses maintenance best practices to ensure operation of the 1.25 million square-foot A.J. Billes DC in Brampton, ON. |
Canadian Tire and the City of Mississauga were named winners of the PEM 2006 Maintenance Awards. Now it's your turn to stand in the industry spotlight!
Being named a winner of the awards offers many benefits. For example, the winning maintenance teams receive one free pass to the MainTrain 2007 conference in Toronto. They also receive cool prizes for the team, a plaque and a follow-up story in PEM. It's a win-win scenario all round.
There's another advantage: you help to foster maintenance team goodwill and achievement. You can't put a price tag on that. Here's a good example. At the MainTrain 2006 conference in November, all 100+ members of the Canadian Tire maintenance team proudly rushed forward to accept their plaque with their manager (Ken Desloges).
If you still need convincing, I'm sure the folks at Canadian Tire and the City of Mississauga will tell you that their involvement in the awards program was a positive and rewarding experience!
PEM 2007 Maintenance Award Guidelines
• How big is your maintenance department? Tell us about your operating structure.
• Why is your maintenance team better than the rest (i.e. quality, innovation and performance)?
• Tell us about a maintenance team success story.
• What kind of maintenance best practices and tools are you using and why?
• How have you reduced asset management costs and improved equipment uptime?
• What kind of return on investment (ROI), equipment reliability and production capacity improvements have been achieved?
Submission Deadline:
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2007
MainTrain Platinum Sponsors:
MainTrain Gold Sponsor:
MainTrain Training Sponsors:
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Joel Leonard
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John Lambert
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David Berger
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Bronko Jazva
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Dr. Jay Lee
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Andrew Thorne
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Neil Cooper
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EXCITING MAINTRAIN NEWS!
Don’t miss Joel Leonard at MainTrain 2007:
Maintenance Breach of Duty
Joel Leonard has been dubbed by industry as the “maintenance evangelist” for his passionate promotion of the maintenance field around the world. He penned the famous “Maintenance Crisis” song, which has had more than 25,000 downloads and counting. Joel leads a workshop that will help attendees better understand legal and liability issues that impact maintenance. He also will be the keynote speaker at the PEMAC-PEM magazine awards dinner banquet.
Other speakers include:
CONDITION MONITORING
• John Lambert, Benchmark Maintenance Services Inc.
Attendees have chosen John as the number one presenter at past MainTrain conferences. This year, he will moderate the technical training sessions on condition-monitoring technologies.
CMMS/EAM SYSTEMS
• David Berger, P.Eng. (Alta.) and CMMS expert
David is North America’s number one expert on computerized maintenance management software. Learn how to get the most out of your CMMS/EAM system.
FUTURE MAINTENANCE
• Dr. Jay Lee, Ohio Eminent Scholar in Advanced Manufacturing and L.W. Scott Alter Chair Professor at the University if Cincinnati.
Keep pace with maintenance technology and future industry change. This will help maintenance professionals to improve equipment uptime and reduce costs.
MISSION-CRITICAL MAINTENANCE
• Andrew Thorne, manager, maintenance and engineering, Cameco Corp.
Andrew is one of the maintenance industry’s young stars. He will talk about implementing mission-critical maintenance at Cameco’s Fuel Services Division.
ASSET PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
• Neil Cooper, vice-president, Asset Performance Management Solutions, Invensys Process Systems
Neil will provide an overview of an effective approach to asset performance management (APM), including the challenge, methodology, processes and tools required to deliver the full potential of APM.
MAINTENANCE MASTERS
• Bronko Jazva, general manager of manufacturing services (including maintenance), Dofasco Inc.
Bronko along with Ken Desloges (Canadian Tire) and Larry Korson (City of Toronto) are past PEM Maintenance Award winners. Find out their dynamic strategies to shop floor success.
AND MORE!!
NEW AT MAINTRAIN 2007!
A FULL DAY OF TECHNICAL TRAINING
This special technical training day (Monday, November 26) will provide attendees with valuable information they can’t find anywhere else. Defining condition-monitoring maintenance using John Moubray’s RCM II as a guide, moderator John Lambert will identify what should be measured/monitored for a successful program.
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Don’t miss these sessions:
• Thermography
• Oil analysis and lubrication
• Machine installation and fastening technologies
• Ultrasonic testing and tools
• Vibration analysis
• Sensors and controls
REGISTER TODAY!
Visit: WWW.MAINTRAIN.CA
PEMAC - Tel: (905) 823-7255
Industry News
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| Members of the Brampton East ''Chiefs '92'' (a local team that SKF Canada is sponsoring at the Gothia Cup next month in Gothenburg, Sweden) with Jan Lindhe, president, SKF Canada (centre). |
SKF supports the 2007 Gothia Cup
Toronto—SKF Canada Ltd. held its annual “Media Day” last week here. Highlights of the event included the announcement of new deep-groove ball bearings and tapered-roller bearings, as well as the SKF Multilog DMX condition-monitoring system.
In other news, SKF Canada is set to celebrate 90 years in Canada on July 20. Back in 1917, the first Canadian SKF office opened at 47 King St. W. in downtown Toronto. SKF Canada also will sponsor the Brampton East “Chiefs ‘92” at the Gothia Cup next month in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Sponsored by SKF, the Gothia Cup is the world’s largest soccer tournament for boys and girls between the ages of 11 and 19. The aim and direction of the one-week tournament is to create a meeting place for young people around the world—irrespective of religion, skin colour or cultural differences.
“This year, almost 1,500 teams from 60 to 70 countries will participate in the Gothia Cup,” said SKF Canada president Jan Lindhe. “SKF Canada is committed to helping the Brampton East Chiefs realize the opportunity of travelling to Sweden and representing Canada in the 2007 Gothia Cup.”
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This
was the seventh year for the Canadian Fluid Power Challenge, which was
previously known as the Hilltop Tech Challenge in Toronto.
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2007 Canadian Fluid Power Challenge
TORONTO-Judges at the seventh annual Canadian Fluid Power Challenge, held last month here, were pleasantly surprised by the wide variety of designs students used to solve this year's problem. The team of grade-eight students from Fern Avenue Public School won the 2007 competition, which was attended by gender-balanced teams from 15 west-Toronto middle schools.
Students were asked to design and build fluid-power mechanisms to pick up a squash ball, place it into a hopper and remove it from the chute. They were evaluated on a number of criteria, including how many times they could repeat the cycle within a two-minute demonstration period, as well as how little material they used to build their devices.
�When we set the problem, we think we know what most of the designs will look like,� says the event's facilitator Steve Rogers of Kidder-Technology Teaching Systems. �But it never ceases to amaze me how many other designs these bright young minds come up with. And this year's students were a particularly creative group.�
The Challenge is a partnership of the Canadian Fluid Power Association (CFPA), Kidder-Technology Teaching Systems and the Toronto District School Board. The CFPA's western chapter also holds a Challenge in Edmonton that involves both high school and middle school students.
People & Companies
Renold goes to China
• Brantford, ON-based Renold Canada announced the acquisition of a 90 percent interest in the industrial chain manufacturing business of HangZhou ShanShui, which operates from a large production plant based in Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. The business will be called Renold Hangzhou.
Ivara names vice-president
• Burlington, ON-based Ivara Corp. named Florian Lenders as vice-president of solution services. Lenders will be responsible for managing Ivara's reliability consultants, as they help customers implement and sustain a proactive approach to maintenance with the Ivara's reliability software.
Goodyear introduces new belts
• Toronto-based Goodyear Engineered Products introduced a comprehensive line of polyurethane timing belts for a wide range of applications, including linear motion, product conveyance and power transmission. The straight-tooth synchronous belts complement the company's industrial timing belt product lineup.
"We now offer straight-tooth polyurethane, offset-tooth, or helical, polyurethane and rubber belts, to help our distributors grow their businesses as one-source suppliers," says Michael Lyons, marketing manager for Goodyear's industrial power transmission products.
According to Lyons, the straight-tooth polyurethane belts can provide advantages over rubber and offset-tooth polyurethane synchronous belts in specific applications. "The new polyurethane belts are more resistant to cuts, tears, abrasions and flex fatigue; have a higher load-bearing capacity; are resistant to mould and ozone degradation; and can be colour coordinated to spec," he says.
The steel-cord reinforced belts are supplied in three configurations: open-end rolls are available in 325-foot lengths; welded or jointed belts are made from roll material that's cut to length and spliced; and "endless" belts are manufactured using one long continuous cord with no splice or welding, providing additional cross-section strength. To combat corrosion, Kevlar cord belts also are available for high-humidity applications.
Lyons says the polyurethane belts, available in a broad range of the most popular tooth pitches, accommodate a variety of industries and applications, including package handling, electronic component manufacturing, automatic sliding doors, vertical storage retrieval and power transmission. The belt-part numbering system provides easy cross-reference, as well as drop-in replacement, for existing competitors' specifications.
"We're belting out a one, two, three punch with straight- and offset-tooth, as well as rubber power transmission belts," says Lyons.
November 26-29, 2007
MainTrain 2007
Get on board, the MainTrain is roaring back to Toronto! MainTrain is Canada's premier annual learning event and conference for maintenance and reliability professionals from across Canada. MainTrain 2006 was the best yet. Don't miss out this year! MainTrain 2007 will be held at the Toronto Novotel Centre. For more information, contact the Plant Engineering and Maintenance Association of Canada (PEMAC) at tel: (905) 823-7255; email: mail@pemac.org; Web site: www.maintrain.ca.
December 4-7, 2007
IMC 2007 Conference
The Reliabilityweb.com network team will hold IMC 2007-the 22nd International Maintenance Conference at the Ocean Walk Hotel in Daytona Beach, Florida. You don't want to miss this conference. For more information, contact Reliabilityweb.com at tel: (888) 575-1245; Web site: www.maintenanceconference.com.
Product Focus
Fastening tools
Stanley
Assembly Technologies introduced the new EA series tools to its QPM
line up of DC-electric threaded fastening tools. High-performance,
lightweight, flexible and powerful—EA tools tools are built with
higher-power motors and compact housings that yield best-in-class
performance for tightening torque ranges from two to 120 Nm, says the
company. Features of the EA tools include: brushless DC servomotors;
angle-style EA tools, which use Zerol spiral-bevel gear geometry; and
lightweight, ergonomic handle with multiple light sets for 360-degree
operator viewing.www.stanleyassembly.com
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