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Conduct operator awareness training for all shifts on provide this information will expose the plant to safety and
a regular basis. reliability issues.
This training should cover the following: Experience in presenting site-specific machinery workshops since
Increased machinery component condition monitoring outside of 1986 has shown that operators and process engineers lack machinery
the control room functional awareness knowledge and welcome it when it is offered. I
Provide advance warning of component condition changes have constantly been asked by experienced operators, ‘Why wasn't
Initiate mutual cooperation between operations and maintenance to this information given to me at the beginning of my career? I could have
extend maintenance cycles if possible to the turnarounds saved a lot of problems and shutdowns’.
Minimize ‘finger pointing’ between maintenance and operations
Operators are trained troubleshooters. Benchmarks
Around 80% of machinery failure root causes are the result of The best practice of increasing the machinery component awareness
process changes. and interest in component condition monitoring of operators since the
Increasing operator awareness of the functions of machinery late 1980s has resulted in increased machinery safety and reliability in
components will increase machinery safety and reliability. all plants where site-specific operator training sessions have been
presented worldwide.
Lessons Learned
Operations and process engineering groups welcome and
need increased machinery functional awareness. Failure to

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Maintain a ‘best in class’ reliability group by sending Discussion with plant personnel always results in questions
members (maintenance, operations and engineering) to concerning available seminars, and requests that we, as machinery
yearly key machinery seminars. consultants, recommend seminar attendance to plant management in
Some recommended seminars are: the hope that plant personnel will be sent to important industry semi-
nars on a continuous (yearly) basis.
Annual Texas A & M Turbomachinery
Annual Texas A & M Pump
Annual Gas Turbine Users Association Benchmarks
Seminars sponsored by the ASME (American Society of Mechanical This best practice has been recommended to clients since 1990. When
Engineers) this best practice has been implemented, site machinery MTBFs have
Global Reliability Conferences increased as a result of corrective action taken to resolve long-term
plant reliability issues. The action plans have come from information
Continuous acknowledgement of the needs and interests of per-
obtained during attendance at important industry seminars.
sonnel who are associated with machinery safety and reliability will
improve the plant safety and reliability effort.
Attendance at key machinery seminars and training workshops
exposes the personnel to practices of other plants and will expand the
alternatives for machinery reliability improvement.
Lessons Learned
Plants who do not send personnel to machinery seminars
on a regular basis suffer lower machinery MTBFs and do
not continuously improve their reliability practices.

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