Guest Editorial: Ultrasound World V Annual Conference
The Ultrasound World V annual conference convened January 19-21st week with over 75 registrants and 7 sponsor companies exhibiting. The conference was an intimate gathering of professionals from as far away as Venezuela, Holland, New Zealand and Russia converging on Clearwater Beach, Florida for 3 days of workshops and interactive tutorials on the use of Ultrasound (structure-borne and airborne) and this year a number of interesting case studies along with a few cost/benefit analysis of energy savings were on the conference proceedings.
The keynote “Show Me The Money” was conducted by Ricky Smith of Allied Reliability and started with Ricky requesting that a volunteer from the audience smash Doug Waetjin’s watch with a hammer. The volunteer did so but with some trepidation as Doug’s face showed that he was pretty concerned about the outcome of this little exercise! Doug surrendered the watch and as expected the watch was no match for the hammer and 3 good strikes and it was flying in pieces around the room! Doug appeared shocked but then laughed as Ricky confessed that the watch was indeed a $2 watch from the drugstore and not the actual watch belonging to Doug. Funnily enough, Ricky asked “isn’t it odd that we get nervous about hitting a $2 watch with a hammer but have no issue at all with striking a very expensive critical piece of equipment with a hammer?” Everyone laughed and the presentation continued with a clip from the ‘80’s blockbuster film “Jerry McGuire” where Jerry (Tom Hanks) and his client (Cuba Gooding, Jr) have a phone call that culminates in Jerry screaming “Show ME the Money!” In the end the overall presentation covered things you can do TODAY to get the returns in your reliability program that will carry your company through the economic crisis at hand and steps that could even allow you to capture market share through reduced per unit costs through greater asset and process reliability. It was a great kickoff to a very good conference!
Papers presented included: Energy Efficiency; Performing Compressed Air Surveys and Managing Data; Diagnosing Electric Motor Bearings Using Ultrasound Technology; Fighting the Maintenance Crisis; SMRP’s CMRP Certification and How it Gives You a Competitive Edge; UT is Complimentary; Generating Savings from an Ultrasound Inspection Program; Building the Ultimate Reliable Plant; Implementation of a PdM Program in the Port Sector and It’s Huge Profits; Standards for Electrical Safety and the need for Safer Work Environments; “Something for Nothing” Hits Pay Dirt!; Locating Tracing in a High Voltage Substation Using Ultrasound; Inspecting Aircraft Pneumatic Leakage; Examining Route Based Leak Inspections of Air Operated RKL Valves and a post-conference 1-day Software Training Class was conducted.
The Expo area was also where the breaks and lunches were served and this provided ample time to have conversations crop up amongst attendees with their various experiences as well as to allow for time with sponsor companies in attendance like: Ludeca; Allied Reliability; Commtest; PdMA; SMRP and Flir. The Annual Beach-side BBQ was made possible due to pleasant weather, good food and the free flowing bar. The laughter and engaging conversations overheard amongst the attendees was proof that everyone enjoyed themselves a great deal and at the conclusion of the evening, prizes were drawn and distributed by Doug Waetjin to a dozen lucky ticket holders. One guest even won a complimentary registration to next year’s conference so he couldn’t have been happier! Having attended now my 3rd UE World Conference, I think it is fair to say that this event was valuable to the participants and the sponsor companies though the registrant number was small it was a quality group of individuals who really came to get information about how to make their UT program better and find new applications they may not have been employing at their site.
The keynote “Show Me The Money” was conducted by Ricky Smith of Allied Reliability and started with Ricky requesting that a volunteer from the audience smash Doug Waetjin’s watch with a hammer. The volunteer did so but with some trepidation as Doug’s face showed that he was pretty concerned about the outcome of this little exercise! Doug surrendered the watch and as expected the watch was no match for the hammer and 3 good strikes and it was flying in pieces around the room! Doug appeared shocked but then laughed as Ricky confessed that the watch was indeed a $2 watch from the drugstore and not the actual watch belonging to Doug. Funnily enough, Ricky asked “isn’t it odd that we get nervous about hitting a $2 watch with a hammer but have no issue at all with striking a very expensive critical piece of equipment with a hammer?” Everyone laughed and the presentation continued with a clip from the ‘80’s blockbuster film “Jerry McGuire” where Jerry (Tom Hanks) and his client (Cuba Gooding, Jr) have a phone call that culminates in Jerry screaming “Show ME the Money!” In the end the overall presentation covered things you can do TODAY to get the returns in your reliability program that will carry your company through the economic crisis at hand and steps that could even allow you to capture market share through reduced per unit costs through greater asset and process reliability. It was a great kickoff to a very good conference!
Papers presented included: Energy Efficiency; Performing Compressed Air Surveys and Managing Data; Diagnosing Electric Motor Bearings Using Ultrasound Technology; Fighting the Maintenance Crisis; SMRP’s CMRP Certification and How it Gives You a Competitive Edge; UT is Complimentary; Generating Savings from an Ultrasound Inspection Program; Building the Ultimate Reliable Plant; Implementation of a PdM Program in the Port Sector and It’s Huge Profits; Standards for Electrical Safety and the need for Safer Work Environments; “Something for Nothing” Hits Pay Dirt!; Locating Tracing in a High Voltage Substation Using Ultrasound; Inspecting Aircraft Pneumatic Leakage; Examining Route Based Leak Inspections of Air Operated RKL Valves and a post-conference 1-day Software Training Class was conducted.
The Expo area was also where the breaks and lunches were served and this provided ample time to have conversations crop up amongst attendees with their various experiences as well as to allow for time with sponsor companies in attendance like: Ludeca; Allied Reliability; Commtest; PdMA; SMRP and Flir. The Annual Beach-side BBQ was made possible due to pleasant weather, good food and the free flowing bar. The laughter and engaging conversations overheard amongst the attendees was proof that everyone enjoyed themselves a great deal and at the conclusion of the evening, prizes were drawn and distributed by Doug Waetjin to a dozen lucky ticket holders. One guest even won a complimentary registration to next year’s conference so he couldn’t have been happier! Having attended now my 3rd UE World Conference, I think it is fair to say that this event was valuable to the participants and the sponsor companies though the registrant number was small it was a quality group of individuals who really came to get information about how to make their UT program better and find new applications they may not have been employing at their site.
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