Electrical Transformers are essential in the transmission of electricity. With the growing demand of electrifying transportation and increased demand on heating and cooling businesses and residences, power generation and transmission are expected to grow exponentially. Transformer oil serves an important function as a coolant and insulator. Asset Managers must determine when units might fail and establish a plan to reduce power grid downtime. The prevention and prediction of the fluid failure is key. Proper transformer oil analysis and diagnostics has proven to be essential in electrical power transmission reliability. This short seminar looks at the typical analysis that is carried out, the diagnostic rationale, and how the data can be used for increased transformer reliability.

In this thought-provoking talk, we dive into the new era of wireless autonomous bearing monitoring and lubrication. Discover how UE Systems cutting-edge technologies are revolutionizing maintenance practices, leading to enhanced equipment performance and operational efficiency.

Join us as we explore the latest advancements in wireless ultrasound, vibration and temperature sensor, specifically focusing on bearing monitoring and lubrication. Uncover the power of advanced sensors and data analytics that enable real-time monitoring and condition-based lubrication.

Delve into the benefits of autonomous bearing monitoring, including early fault detection and optimized lubrication intervals. Understand how these innovations contribute to increased machine reliability, minimized downtime, and improved overall productivity.

A well-planned and executed lubrication program is the critical foundation for world-class maintenance and reliability. The best companies know this and plan a path to reach their goals.
In this presentation, you’ll learn how to strategically plan, create, and run a lubrication program that will drastically reduce downtime. Whether you are in the beginning stages or working to improve your lubrication processes, you’ll take home practical ideas you can use immediately.
Reliability-centered lubrication (RCL) is an approach to lubrication that ensures the right lubricant is applied in the right quantity and at the right time to increase equipment reliability, availability, and maintainability.
In this presentation, Mike will explore the key elements of RCL, including developing a lubrication strategy, identifying critical equipment, selecting the right lubricant, establishing lubrication procedures, and implementing a lubrication program.
Mike will also explore the challenges of building and deploying an RCL program and will provide real-world examples of successful RCL implementations, highlighting best practices and lessons learned.
Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how to build and deploy an effective RCL program and the benefits it can provide to their organization.

Antioxidants are used to protect lubricating oils from the deleterious effect of oxidation. These include increase of acid number, the formation of deposits, and possibly viscosity increase. Considering that the varnish potential of an oil is measured by the MPC protocol it is relevant to establish correlations if any between RULER trends and MPC trends for a variety of commercially available formulations under laboratory conditions.

Greg and Sanya recently released their book, "Preventing Turbomachinery 'Cholesterol' - The story of varnish published by Industrial Press Inc. In their presentation, they will be talking about some of the myths surrounding varnish. 

Oil can be considered the lifeblood of our machines and practices that we employ with our machines are similar to what we do in regular life. Our machines need to be healthy (just like our bodies), so we take oil samples (similar to blood tests) and determine if we have the correct quantities of good stuff and not too much of the bad stuff. 

In this session, they will discuss some key concepts which are covered in the book such as preventing deposits and a couple of the technologies which can be used to prevent varnish. 

While we have always attempted to tie reliability and maintenance programs to such things as safety, c-suite interests, and other initiatives to obtain needed attention to equipment the direct impact to energy and emissions has usually been overlooked. The primary reason is that it is difficult to connect the energy and related emissions to R&M efforts. 

In this presentation we will discuss how the use of reliability and maintenance technologies, such as ESA, provide a direct ability to measure the impact of energy and emissions and tie them to maintenance practices. These practices not only include fault detection, but also the differences between poor, standard and precision practices such as belt tensioning and alignment well before variations degrade components. The attendee will have tools and knowledge to take the steps necessary to tie their R&M efforts directly to ESG initiatives.

Lubricación Basada Confiabilidad LBC : Una metodología
usada para definir las necesidades de mantenimiento de los activos, tomando en consideración su entorno de operación considerando los Modos de Fallas que se presentan con respecto a la lubricación.
La implementación de un Sistema de Gestión de Lubricación, se puede realizar en varias etapas.
1. Evaluación del Lubricante
2. Auditoría de lubricación
3. Programa de Entrenamiento

The Bermuda Electric Light Company (BELCO) is the vertically integrated utility in Bermuda, an island in the Atlantic Ocean with an approximate peak load of 100 MW. 

A significant majority of the island’s electricity is generated via reciprocating engines and gas turbine units. 

BELCO’s System Reliability team provides a critical condition monitoring service to both the Bulk Generation (BG) and Transmission, Distribution & Retail (TD&R) sides of the business. 

This presentation will summarize the condition monitoring program carried out by the team, as well as provide further information via brief case studies on recent findings.

This presentation will answer some of the simplest but most often forgotten questions around maintenance and reliability performance management.
Why do we Measure? What do we Measure? What do we do with the measures?
This may be the simplest topic to discuss but how many organizations take the time to do it right – how many organizations realize they are doing it wrong? Do they understand the difference and more importantly the consequences?
Learn about the most important function of Measuring – accountability- and understand exactly what this means. Who is involved with your maintenance and reliability department measures – do you decide what it is you want to measure, are you told what you need to measure or are you somewhere in between? We’ll challenge the idea that ‘one size fits all’ in KPIs and we will discuss how best to choose the measures that have the correct impact on your organization and what happens if they are not.
We look at commonly used measures or KPIs and what they do and what they don’t tell you.
It will challenge the way you use them now as we look at MTBF, MTTR, PMs, training etc through examples of how they can be misleading.
We’ll look at suggestions of how existing measures can be used and how new ones will give you what you’re really looking for. It finally describes the one truth about KPIs and measures – it will drive behaviours – the ones you want and the ones you don’t! This presentation provides a lot of ‘different’ views and is packed full of interesting anecdotes.

In the modern organizational landscape, reliability has emerged as a pivotal factor for success across industries. As businesses strive to maintain a competitive edge, it's imperative for leaders to understand how reliability extends beyond traditional technical contexts and permeates into our daily lives. This presentation, "Getting Support from Leadership: Relating Reliability to Everyday Life," delves into the strategic significance of reliability and offers insights on effectively communicating its value to organizational leadership. Through real-world examples, participants will gain the tools to bridge the gap between abstract concepts and tangible outcomes, fostering a culture of reliability.

Varnish plagues equipment with hotspots, clogs filters, and decreases lubricant and equipment life. The first step to prevention is using available tools for monitoring for formation and severity. Planning when to schedule maintenance rather than reacting to a (possibly catastrophic) event can be invaluable at reducing costs and keeping equipment and lubricants running optimally.

This informative session will explore findings from new research into soluble varnish monitoring and what robust correlations between oil degradation and varnish formation can be made when coupled with other monitoring techniques—identifying the varnish severity and type can be a vital tool in combatting overall varnish formation keeping equipment and operations in the clear.

Presentar de manera lúdica las bases de la lubricacion y la tribologia para que de manera fácil los técnicos y no técnicos aprendan está cienda y se disminuyan los errores en la lubricacion.