Flint Hills Resources Shares Important Safety Management Lessons

OSHA's National Emphasis Program (NEP) has encouraged facilities to start taking a closer look at their Process Hazards Analysis (PHA) process and plant hazards.  Flint Hills Resources shares safety lessons learned from a spent caustic tank explosion and demonstrates the importance of embracing a methodical, open-minded approach in the investigation of unexpected equipment performance for the prevention of safety incidents.

Balancing Risk Assessments to Improve Safety Decisions

Having unbalanced risk assessments can lead to wrong assumptions resulting in exposed risk, higher maintenance costs and productions losses.  A new approach is to assign a singular definition for risk for easy comparison between multiple types of assessments, resulting in significant improvements in...

Six Key Factors to Building and Sustaining a Reliability and Maintenance Program
By Paul Casto, Vice-President of Value Implementation, Meridium, Inc.

The past few years have witnessed the implementation of multiple improvement programs within the manufacturing community in efforts to enhance performance and profitability.  While the results of these programs have been noteworthy, the struggle to "sustain the gain" over the long run remains a major challenge.  Six key factors in building and sustaining an R&M program include...

Meridium to Present at World Class Asset Management 2009

Meridium, the leader in asset performance management (APM) software and consulting solutions, will  present the workshop Integration of RCM and Asset Strategy Management with SAP EAM (SAP PM) supporting the conference goal of ensuring attendees receive solutions and strategies needed to achieve world-class Asset Management with SAP.  The workshop will include . . .