Chris Hykin
Advantage Team leader, International Paper

Title
Operator Driven Reliability - Who owns your mill's equipment?

Abstract
Faced with increased foreign competition and decreasing profit margins, most major forest products companies have focused on preventive/predictive maintenance programs in an effort to reduce manufacturing costs. While these efforts have brought reliability improvements, they overlook a key component in a complete reliability program -operator participation. Operators are in our mills around the clock and are the best first line of defense for early identification of potential catastrophic failures. Do your operators own the mills equipment and take responsibility for how well it runs?

This presentation will outline a comprehensive program to get an operator-driven reliability program off the ground. It will include how-to's on:

• Gaining management support and operator buy-in
• Identifying critical program tools
• Route building, training and implementation
• Keeping the program evergreen and future improvement.

Biography
Chris has 9 years experience in the pulp and paper industry. He has held positions in capital project engineering, maintenance, and mill reliability. He began his career with the former Champion International at the Canton Mill and currently directs the reliability program at International Paper's Augusta, Ga., Mill. Chris earned his Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Florida State University.

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