The Canadian Institute's
Plant Maintenance and Asset Reliability
Proactive Strategies and New Technologies to Maximize Plant Efficiency
Tuesday, June 19 to Wednesday, June 20, 2012
The Sutton Place Hotel, Edmonton, Alberta
Day 1: Tuesday, Jun 19, 2012
8:00 Registration Opens and Coffee Served
9:00 Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair - Lloyd "Tex" Leugner
President (Retired)
Maintenance Technology International
9:15 SHow to Develop and Sustain a Reliability Based Plant Culture: Learn How Alberta Envirofuels isworking to Achieve "The Perfect Run" - Gordon Rayner
Maintenance & Reliability Manager
Alberta Envirofuels Inc.
- Defining, creating and sustaining the reliability culture; the crucial topics
- Creating process plant reliability improvement, the evolution of our reliability program
- Outlining the asset management work process being used to to achieve best practice
- Understanding the tools and plant utilization needed to achieve reliability
10:00 Networking Coffee Break
10:20 Managing a Reliability Centred Culture from Design to Commissioning - Vince Hrabec
Manager Interface/Startup
TransCanada Keystone Pipeline
- Development of a commissioning execution plan that promotes a reliability based process
- How to understand and create a project turnover process
- Assessing asset/component performance and using findings to inform change-lessons learned
- Root cause analysis and the impact to design and implementation
11:00 How to Implement a Successful Process for Co-ordinating Applications to Optimize Maintenance and Reliability - Curtis Winter
Continuous Improvement Manager, CNRL Horizon Oil Sands Site
FT Services
- Ensuring better asset performance and analytics utilizing consistent applications
- Creating interface between programs for inputting and tracking maintenance data
- Establishing reliability metrics for real world situations
- Planning for a future work place with real time access to all pertinent data
1:45 A Maintenance Reliability Success Story Develops: How a Market Leader Made the Move from Reactive to Proactive Maintenance in Oilfield Production - Jeff Dunn
Director‚ Business Development
Tartan Canada Corporati on - Andries Van Tonder
Maintenance and Technical Engineer
Husky Energy
- Defining and communicating the maintenance/reliability challenges
- How to Work with the service provider to design a specific and practical solution
- Collaborating for ongoing implementation and daily execution
- Assessing the metrics and how to achieve ongoing results
2:45 Networking Coffee Break
3:00 The Cenovus Experience with SAC Vessel Maintenance Strategies to Optimize Produced Water Softener Throughput and Maximize Availability - Shane Van Buskirk
Group Lead‚ Reliability Engineering ‚Integrated Oil Division
Cenovus Energy Inc.
- Developing solutions for, and troubleshooting internal distributor failures
- Improving techniques for increasing throughput before regenerations and other operational maintenance
- Defining new repair techniques
- Creating maintenance strategies for SAC vessels going forward (Condition Monitoring)
4:00 Bridging the Gap Between Work Definition and Work Completion: How to Ensure Maintenance, Scheduling and Technology Co-ordination on the Front-Line - David Sears
Maintenance Supervisor
Mosaic Potash Belle Plaine - Jeremy Hilderman
Maintenance Planner Lead
Mosaic Potash Belle Plaine
- Determining a process for informed management decisions
- Innovative ways for creating and managing engaged maintenance staff
- Conducting effective and non conflicting workflow processes
4:45 Chair's Recap and Conference Adjourns
Day 2: Wednesday, Jun 20, 2012
9:00 Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair
9:15 Developing and Sustaining a Proactive Plant Culture - Paul Kristensen
Vice President‚ Operati ons
AltaSteel Ltd.
- How to create a consistency of process across maintenance and reliability
- Defining critical asset management process to achieve best practice
- Forming maintenance work standards to come up with consistency
- Initiating and retaining cultural change: creating and sustaining the reliability culture
10:00 Networking Coffee Break
10:20 Co-ordinating Cross-Functional Teams to Achieve Plant Reliability, Cost Efficiency and Operational Success
- Prioritizing to reduce bottle necks and backlog scheduling
- Exploring the benefits of designing maintenance
programs that exceed regulatory approvals
- How to balance electrical and mechanical maintenance
issues as equal priorities
- Employing effective maintenance contract negotiation to
ensure work co-ordination and cooperation
11:00 Implementing Change in Testing Requirements to Mitigate Safety Problems as They Affect Machine Reliability
- How industry can update and readdress requirements and testing
- Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORMs) as an example for reviewing and discussing the revision of safety standards to anticipate future requirements
- Revising inspection specifications on corrosion and erosion allowances
- How to effectively link plant safety and asset reliability issues
1:15 How to Define and Develop Site Specific Maintenance Training Programs - Carl Dyke
Maintenance Training Consultant
CD Industrial Group Inc.
- Accessing progressive training systems specific to a site
- Creating materials and tool kits that remain current with needs
- Identifying benchmark company training programs to guide your specific training needs
- Using interactive computer based systems to aid in training
2:00 Networking Coffee Break
2:15 Creating Reliability Excellence in Vessel Coatings: A Focus on Vessels Used in Water Treatment of Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Processing of Oil Sands - Tapan Dalwadi
Senior Reliability Engineer‚ Integrated Oil Division
Cenovus Energy Inc.
- How produced water SAC & WAC vessels are used in water treatment of SAGD operation
- Establishing and reviewing the purpose and performance testing of internal coating
- Transferable learning from coating material performance
- Reviewing new techniques for selecting coating material
- Monitoring the application and performance of coatings to sustain integrity
3:00 Assessing Equipment Criticality in Real Life Applications - Jay Kowaski
Account Manager
Aggreko NA
- How to balance competing priorities and root cause analysis
- Building asset reliability through stakeholder experience
- Structuring plant resource effectiveness through ongoing refining of the equipment criticality process
3:45 Chair's Recap and Conference Concludes
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