Up Time Magazine - December 2008/January 2009 - (Page R7) • • • • • The Argument for Use of Detailed Procedures and Checklists for Doing the “Right Kind” of Maintenance – aka - Beating the Odds in Reliability & Maintenance Maintenance Process Analysis – Basis for Reliability in Maintenance, Maximum Asset Availability, Minimum Downtime and the Basis for Teaching Everyone in an Organization Exactly What Their Jobs Are The Fastest, Cheapest and Most Permanent Way to Find and Fix the Majority of Root Causes of Failures in Physical Assets Lessons Learned from Award Winning Reliability Achievements How to Bring Your Company from the Brink of Closing to Being the Target of an International Bidding War for Acquisition During the workshop no less than 25 real-world case studies will be presented. These are from named North American companies that have survived and thrived (and some that failed because they started too late) to meet and overcome global competition even as pundits concluded they couldn’t continue to do business on this continent. BWS7 PM Optimization, a hand’s-on exercise by Steve Turner, OMCS This hand’s on workshop will emphasize the PM Optimization (PMO) methodology, an RCM based approach to maintenance analysis. Whereas RCM was developed for new plant and the design process, PMO was developed specifically to improve the performance of established maintenance operations quickly and effectively utilizing RCM principles. Rather than starting from scratch and evaluating many failure possibilities, PMO directly focuses on plant and personnel productivity by: • Eliminating all redundant PM work and task duplication; • Ensuring that all PM is done at the correct interval by the most effective means; • Achieving substantial improvements in uptime by moving to a more rational maintenance program based on specific business and production needs; Quickly identifying preventable failures and addressing them through PM tasks. • • Forming a close knit relationship amongst those involved in managing the plant at the “grass roots” level, that is, the operators, trades people and other handson specialists. A significant strength in the program is its ability to harness the latent knowledge of these people and empower them to “make a difference”. • Focusing on implementation rather than analysis Participants will experience a facilitated PMO exercise to learn how to select the best maintenance tasks on a system to ensure reliability. March 23 BWS3 The Reliability Game by MRG Is your organization hesitant to adopt a reliability-based approach to maintenance? Trying to change organizational culture is often challenging, but it is also very rewarding. The Reliability Game is designed to teach participants how to make the transition from a reactive to a proactive maintenance environment. They will learn to “follow the money” and further their understanding of the business potential of reliability. Participants will learn: • The financial opportunity associated with proactive maintenance • Where the money goes • How to stop wasting money • How is it used? The Reliability Game is played by teams of four people who will assume one of the following roles: Finance Manager, Purchasing Coordinator, Maintenance Resource Planner, Operations Coordinator. The concept is simple: each team determines the best way to manage their equipment, money, time, labor and material resources. Throughout the simulation, each team’s financial performance is tracked and discussed, creating a competitive atmosphere. By the game’s end there is typically a greater appreciation for the value of reliability and the entire reliability philosophy. BWS4 OUTAGE! The Planning And Scheduling Experience by GP Worldwide Your organization is asking your maintenance departments to keep machinery running longer with fewer people, solve problems and reduce failures, improve reliability, implement new programs, execute professional shutdowns and outages, and do so at reduced cost. This can only be accomplished if the maintenance organization is efficient, effective and good at coordinating with production. OUTAGE! is fun, but it is also powerfully meaningful in the way it reinforces planning and scheduling concepts and best practices. This game is an exciting, interactive 8-hour simulation that replicates a real maintenance outage with the typical problems of parts, manpower constraints, QC problems, contractor issues, scheduling dilemmas, work orders, safety issues, work identified late, risk assessment, etc. It is played by teams of six to eight players. The element of competition works wonders. Each team is given an identical set-up, including parts, work orders, personnel requirements, schedule conflicts, etc. Please call 1-888-575-1245 or visit us online www.maintenanceconference.com to register. http://www.maintenanceconference.com
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