1. Improving Maintenance Effectiveness

            This is a half-day Executive Overview designed as an introduction to the principles, strategies and techniques of upgrading Maintenance Effectiveness, and the key role that Executives should play.  The gap between Executives’ understanding of maintenance issues and priorities, and Maintenance’s understanding of Executives’ requirements has never been wider.  This program seeks to close that gap and and show how to directly impact on the ROI using examples drawn from many years of experience.  Attendees will gain a solid understanding of how to better direct the Maintenance function in its achievement of corporate goals.

 

2. Operations and Maintenance Master Class

            This is an intensive five day practical training program designed to give Maintenance and Operations Managers, Supervisors and Senior Practitioners an overview of the most important techniques that are being used by the leading maintenance departments.  With a heavy workshop and discussion group focus, topics will include Best Practice Tools In Maintenance,

Maintenance Strategy And Performance Improvement, Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) And Enterprise Asset Management (EAM), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), Expert Systems and Managing Change.

3. Maintenance Best Practices
             Much attention has been devoted in the literature to best practices in Maintenance.  This two day course for Maintenance and Operations Managers, Supervisors and Senior Practitioners looks at how these best practices are defined, why they in practice will vary with the location,  whether companies should be pursuing them, and if so, what value they can expect to derive from them.  From the many best practices available, the attendees will learn a simple but effective way of prioritising the most relevant ones for their company and how they can be implemented.

4. Successful CMMS Implementation 

            CMMSs and EAMs have been prominent in the maintenance world for upwards of 20 years, yet we still hear the many horror stories that claim only a 25% success rate.  This workshop for Maintenance and Operations Managers, Supervisors and Senior Practitioners is based on the principle that a successful implementation will be achieved with good planning and careful execution.  Throughout the five days, attendees will receive many action checklists that will guide them through a new implementation or an upgrade, and ensure they are part of that elusive 25%.

5. Enhancing CMMS Value 
              The fundamental reason for acquiring a CMMS should be achieve better equipment reliability at lower cost.  For those companies who already have a CMMS or EAM in place but are not happy that it is delivering these results, this two day program provides a series of very practical steps towards achieving those improved results.  Starting with a clear description of what improvements should be expected, Maintenance Managers and Supervisors will practice  these methodologies and develop action plans which can then be adopted in their own workplace.

6. Improving Maintenance through RCM
             RCM is a common buzz-word in the Maintenance Lexicon.  However Reliability Centred Maintenance has been practiced for almost 30 years and all-to-rarely has achieved the desired results.  Yet the ROI from a well-run program will stem from a dramatic improvement in equipment reliability.  This half-day Executive overview defines the benefits and results that should accrue from RCM, and concentrates on the role Executives can play to turn it from an frustrating and incomplete exercise, into a dynamic force for improving the quality of maintenance.

 

7. RCM for Practitioners
               This is a three day program which provides a solid grounding in RCM techniques for Maintenance and Reliability Engineers, Supervisors and Managers.  Using practical examples drawn from everyday work, it steps the participants through the key processes that are the basis of Reliability Centred Maintenance and are taken from SAE JA1011.  At the same time, the program avoids the pitfalls of traditional RCM programs, and makes the essential linkages with continuous improvement and the CMMS.

 

8.  Maintenance Audits and Benchmarking
                Increasingly, progressive companies are using Maintenance Audits and Benchmarking as the means by which they are measuring their performance against the market place.  However the process of acquiring meaningful results requires precise and well-defined steps.  This three days course for Maintenance Managers, Supervisors and Senior Practitioners will clearly establish these steps, provide the means for evaluating whether the attendees’ companies are likely to derive true benefit and if so, how they should go about it.

 

9. Maintenance Performance Management

                 With the increasing pressure on companies to improve their effectiveness comes the requirement for better maintenance operations.  Yet performance management is more than simple KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators);  if it is to be truly effective then it must prompt continuous improvement and lasting change.  This two day workshop for Maintenance Managers, Supervisors and Senior Practitioners  will cover the development and implementation of KPI’s, how to turn them into continuous improvement program and how they can be a force for effective and on-going benefits.

 

10. Bar coding, Remote Computing, Radio Frequency Identification  - Application and Use for Maintenance and Spares.

                   The benefit of these techniques has typically been derived from the better tracking of stores and the collection of remote information.  Yet this is merely the start of a wide range of additional improvements that companies can achieve, which will be directly converted into higher ROI.  This two day course for Maintenance and Stores Managers, Supervisors and Senior Practitioners will look at where the various techniques can advantageously be used, how they should be implemented, and how the ROI can be achieved and measured.

 

11. Six Steps to Equipment Reliability – Overview

                    Increased Equipment reliability is the driving force behind the most significant ROI improvements in the manufacturing sector.  Yet the key factors which underpin the benefits of increased reliability of equipment, and how they are inter-linked, are rarely well understood.  This half-day Executive overview focuses on how reliability can be increased, how these increases will affect ROI, and what role the company Executives should play in achieving the results.

 

Contact Ben Stevens for course details.