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Event Overview

For maintenance to make its proper contribution to profits, productivity, and quality, it must be recognized as an integral part of the plant production strategy — an integral component of the overall plan by which the plant provides the product to the customer at the quality they want at the price they are willing to pay.

That means to accomplish the maintenance mission in a world class organization requires more than maintenance just "doing its job" or "getting its act together." It requires the cooperation of and the association with virtually all other departments within the plant — but especially production, procurement, engineering, accounting, and human resources. Not only must the roles and missions be well defined for maintenance itself, they must be directly related to or a derivative of the larger set of roles, missions, and strategic objectives of the overall organization. But getting "beyond the boundaries" is what proves so difficult. It is relatively easy to encourage improvement within maintenance; that has been the traditional approach. The challenge is to get other departments to adjust, to work out new arrangements that shift territories and responsibilities, to get departments or groups to recognize common goals or even accept each other's ideas.

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April 13-17, 2008, Dubai

Event Overview

Who Should Attend

Benefits of Attending

Seminar Outline

About the Seminar Leader

Venue and Pricing

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Who Should Attend

  • VP Operations
  • VP Production
  • VP Engineering
  • Maintenance Directors
  • Maintenance Superintendents
  • Manufacturing/Production Managers
  • Financial Managers
  • Plant Managers
  • Maintenance Supervisors
  • Maintenance Personnel
  • Plant/Industrial Engineers

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Benefits of Attending
  1. How moving to WORLD CLASS MAINTENANCE concepts can secure and enhance your job, department, and company for the future!
  2. Why maintenance productivity is so low — and some of the things you should be doing about it.
  3. Eleven Key Results Areas that you need to be paying attention to right now!
  4. The most important factors contributing to excellent maintenance performance — and how to make them work for your manufacturing organization.
  5. The key findings reported by A.T. Kearney in their “Best of the Best” Maintenance Study.
  6. Six major equipment losses that prevent you from achieving ideal operating conditions for your plant equipment.
  7. The most important performance ratio you need to be improving all the time!
  8. How to design and implement meaningful performance measurements by which to manage the improvement process.
  9. How to establish a matrix of key performance measures by which you can gauge your organization’s performance with a single figure of merit!
  10. Hundreds of potential measurement indices you could use to stimulate thinking about performance measurement.
  11. How to establish an organizational change process which achieves “early wins” and “constancy of purpose”, thus avoiding the “program of the month” syndrome. 
  12. How to formulate a master plan for WCM implementation.
  13. The critical importance of getting all parts of the organization working together, especially maintenance and production, and how failure to understand this will keep you from being World Class!
  14. Key Benchmark parameters you can use to see how you stack up against average industry standards and world class criteria!
  15. An explicit list of the things that keep you from moving to World Class status.
  16. A comprehensive framework of three major steps to World Class Maintenance.
  17. How WCM concepts actually lead to higher use of your human resources — and how such concepts tap the natural abilities of your workers, leading to high morale, pride of workmanship, and increased job satisfaction.
  18. How to establish a useful philosophy of maintenance in your organization.
  19. How to build consensus on the shared roles of maintenance and production.
  20. How to identify the major roadblocks and deterrents that keep us from establishing maintenance excellence in our organizations.
  21. Some useful change management concepts and some key pointers on how to manage the change process — reducing resistance from and gaining cooperation of both management and labor.
  22. Some of the key fundamental features of important new maintenance and manufacturing concepts — such as Total Productive Maintenance and Reliability-Centered Maintenance.
  23. How to establish small groups in your organization that will help you satisfy important company goals as well as meet individual employee needs.
  24. How to establish structured OJT training processes — training that your most qualified employees can deliver to anyone, production or maintenance, without outside consultants or expensive training programs.
  25. The primary penalties of unreliability that cost you plenty!

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Seminar Outline

 

DAY 1

I INTRODUCTION


Introductory Remarks

Fundamental Concepts

Thinking About Program/Workshop; Overview

Review Agenda and Program Objective for the Program

Exercise—Introductions, Expectations of the Participants

II WORLD CLASS CONCEPTS

The Concept of “World Class”

Is There a “World Class” Standard for Maintenance?

Attributes of a World Class Maintenance Organization

Exercise—Structured Brainstorming

“The Attributes of Maintenance Excellence”

“What Keeps Us From Doing Better?”

The AT Kearney “BEST of the BEST” Study

Reading—AT Kearney” Best of the Best” Conference Paper

Does Maintenance Make a Business Contribution? Is It Strategic?

How Does Your Organization Measure Up?

Self-Audits; Surveys; Benchmarking

Self-Audit/Evaluation

Exercise—Maturity Grid

Evaluating Maintenance Practices

Exercise—Maintenance Effectiveness Survey

Using and Presenting the Survey Data

Satisfaction/Performance Surveys

Exercise—Maintenance Service Satisfaction Survey

Benchmarking—The Search for Best Practices

Reading—“Basic Guide to Maintenance Benchmarking”, Plant Engineering, January 1999

Exercise—Qwik-Ratio Chart

Handout—Common Maintenance Benchmarks

The Deterrents to Good Maintenance

Exercise—Roadblocks and Deterrents to Good Maintenance

Handout—Sources of Benchmark Data and Benchmarking Services

Sources for Benchmarking Data and Services

AT Kearney/Plant Engineering NAME Award

Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP)

 

DAY 2

III THE MAINTENANCE CONTRIBUTION

 

Traditional Views of Maintenance

The Costs of Unreliability

Reading— “How Reliability was Marketed at Rohm and Haas” by Carol Vesier, PhD, RELIABILITY Magazine, February 2000

The Contribution of Maintenance

Optimizing the Maintenance Function

Three Steps to World Class Maintenance

1 - Maintenance Excellence—Getting Your Act Together

2 – Operational Excellence—Getting Beyond the Boundaries

3 - Strategic Excellence - Fixing the Process, Not Just the Problems

Arches and Columns Model of Operational Excellence

IV. MAINTENANCE EXCELLENCE—GETTING YOUR ACT TOGETHER

“Getting the systems in place to manage resources productively”

Managing Resources Productively

Definition of Productivity

Key Results Areas for Improving Maintenance Productivity

Reading—“Key Results Areas for Improving Maintenance Productivity”, MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT, Ed Hartman, ©1987

Policies and Administrative Practices to Support Company Goals

Equipment Data

Work Order Control / Work Management

Planning and Scheduling

Preventive and Predictive Maintenance

Inventory, Spares, Material Control

Information Management (CMMS)

Other Important Areas—Time Permitting

Training Organization

 

DAY 3

V. OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE—GETTING BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES


“Consensus building on a Plant-wide philosophy of maintenance and establishing the partnership with production.”

Exploring Plant-wide Philosophy of Maintenance and Reliability;

Shared responsibilities between maintenance and other parts of the organization;

Establishing Meaningful Measures of Performance;

Why measure?

Exercise—“Why Do We Measure?”

Traditional Measures of Maintenance

Key Maintenance Measures

Handout—Key Maintenance Ratios and Measures of Performance

7 Key Measures of Organizational Performance

Measures Principles and Guidelines

Goals, Means, and Consequences Concept

Exercise—Applying the Goals, Means, Consequences Concept to Maintenance

Connecting Measures to Strategic Initiatives

Introduction to the Balanced Scorecard Concept

Developing a “Matrix” of Measures

Exercise—Developing a Matrix of Measures

 

DAY 4

VI. STRATEGIC EXCELLENCE—FIXING THE PROCESS, NOT JUST THE PROBLEMS


"High Involvement, High Performance" approaches to maintenance; zero breakdown maintenance”

Systems Improvement

Organizations as Systems

Introduction to Relationship 'Mapping' and ‘Disconnect Analysis”

Exercise—Finding the “Disconnects’ in the System

Total Productive Maintenance

The 6 major losses

The concept of 'optimal conditions'

The concept of OEE (overall equipment effectiveness; strong equipment improvement focus)

Equipment Improvement Teams (EITs)

Reliability Centered Maintenance

The Growing Expectation of Maintenance

The Changing Views on Equipment Failure

RCM: The 7 Basic Questions

Applying the RCM Process

PM Optimization

The Current State of PM and PdM in Most Companies

Introduction to the Process of PM Optimization

The Benefits of PM Optimization

Exercise—Applying the PM Optimization Process

DAY 5

 

VII. IMPLEMENTATION

“Establishing World Class Maintenance as a Strategic Initiative”

Organizational Change

Exercise—“Readiness for Change”

Driving Force Theory of Change

An Eight-Phase Implementation Model —The What Major Steps

Organizing for Change—The How

Management Engagement

Developing a Business Case

Developing a Support Structure

Selecting Priority Initiatives

Demonstrating Quick Wins

Institutionalizing the Process; Showing Constancy of Purpose

Sustaining the Effort Through Auditing

Where Do We Go From Here? What Do We Focus on Next?

Improvement Planning—Next Steps

Long Term

Short Term

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About the Seminar Leader

Dale Blann is a Professional Engineer whose 35 year professional career has encompassed a broad range of technical endeavor. He has made significant contributions in the fields of: mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, energy and environmental engineering, and mechanical systems design.

Mr. Blann has been associated with the integration of computer software into the industrial work place both here and abroad. For three years he was the Marketing Director for a major software company promoting the use of computerized maintenance management and materials control on mainframes and minicomputers. He has actively worked as a consultant in major industrial organizations developing, designing, and implementing the latest state-of-the-art maintenance technologies.

In 1985, Mr. Blann became the President of Marshall Institute, USA, a Management Consulting and Training Company dedicated to the improvement of productivity in industry through better methods, practices and skills. Mr. Blann has assisted numerous clients in the design, development, and implementation of competency-based, pay-for-skill, maintenance training and skills certification programs. Mr. Blann has worked with numerous labor-management groups in the implementation of new and innovative work designs, compensation concepts, and skills development programs for the skilled trades. He regularly conducts seminars on these various subjects in both the U.S. and Canada.

Mr. Blann received his education at New Mexico State University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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Venue and Pricing

Venue: Al Bustan Rotana Hotel, Dubai, UAE

Fees: USD 2900/- per delegate

Early Bird Discounts:

Register for USD 2700/- on or before March 13, 2008 and get USD 200 OFF!

Register for USD 2500/- on or before February 13, 2008 and get USD 400 OFF!

Group Discounts:

Register 3 delegates from your organization and the Fourth goes FREE!

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