Plant Services Best Practices Awards

Plant Services wishes to recognize outstanding management techniques, work processes, products, and services that can be expressed as a short case study. This competition is open to anyone with a good story and the authority to tell it. Submittals will be posted on www.PlantServices.com/bestpractices, where they will be judged by a team of Plant Services editors, readers, and industry experts. Read previous Best Practices Awards winners and nominees for inspiration. We look forward to reading your entries.

Winning entries will be published on PlantServices.com and/or in Plant Services magazine.

Guidelines for entries:

The entry form includes the criteria and other information needed to enter the competition. Submittals are to be in the form of a short case study, and entries will be judged on the basis of:

Short-term and long-term return on investment
Innovation and breadth of applicability
Problem-solving technique
Analysis that led to the implementation
Level of technology employed
Implementation creativity

Submittals using other document formats might be disqualified at our discretion. Plant Services reserves the right to edit entries for style, length, and clarity.

Direct any questions to Mike Bacidore at mbacidore@putman.net with “Best Practices Awards” in the subject line.

1. Check the desired competition round:

2. Submitted by:

Date:

Name:

Job title:

Corporate affiliation:

Phone number:

E-mail address:

Background information:

Facility name:

Main products manufactured:

Location:

Number of employees:

Number of maintenance workers:

4. A one-sentence description of the underlying problem that prompted the project:

5. A one-sentence statement of the solution used:

6. Critical factors that led to the solution’s selection and success (about 200 words):

0/200 allowed words.

7. The most significant problems encountered during the implementation and an explanation of how they were addressed (about 200 words):

0/200 allowed words.

8. Quantitative results: ROI, payback, cost savings, reliability, MTBR, etc. (about 200 words):

0/200 allowed words.

9. Graphics (photos, tables, charts, graphs, etc.) are encouraged.

Include at least one high-resolution graphic (photos, tables, charts, graphs, etc.) as a JPEG, TIFF, GIF, or Excel file. The minimum size for graphics is 3 in. x 3 in. at 300 dpi resolution.

Direct any questions to Mike Bacidore at mbacidore@putman.net with “Best Practices Awards” in the subject line.

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