Purpose of Seminar:

The current economic downturn is causing problems worldwide. Corporate executives have to take immediate cost reduction measures. Since maintenance is perceived as an expense, it is high on the hit list. It is easier for senior management to take a slash and dash approach and mandate a corporate wide percentage based budget cut. However, this approach imposes a major problem on the maintenance department. The work load for maintenance usually doesn't reduce, except now they have fewer resources to accomplish the same.

This seminar will teach you how to sustain downsizing and do more, with less resources, all without sacrificing the quality of service provided by your department. You can accomplish this by improving the work process flow and introducing appropriate technologies where applicable such as computerized maintenance management, mobile, barcode and RFID.

As global competition intensifies, corporate executives are adopting new concepts and technologies to increase productivity and quality. Yet, many overlook the most important operational support system - the maintenance organization. While maintenance is traditionally under utilized, proactive organizations are increasingly recognizing the impact of maintenance on increased equipment availability and utilization, on increased quality, and thus on resultant competitiveness and profitability. Maintenance is becoming a focus for competitive advantage.

Operational organizations must start viewing maintenance as a resource center, rather than a cost center. In a world class organization, maintenance is a force for profit that:

• Contributes to Total Quality Management
• Increases Utilization of Critical Assets
• Improves Plant/facility and Maintenance Productivity
• Increases Service to Other Departments

Businesses must thrive to achieve world-class operational status, which can only be built on a solid foundation of Maintenance Excellence.

Who should take this course?

This course is designed for anyone who is concerned understanding how to create a sustainable maintenance programs with dwindling resources. This seminar is a must for anyone who is involved in maintenance, planning, scheduling or operations at facilities or plants, including:

• Plant Engineers
• Operations Managers
• Maintenance Managers & Supervisors
• Engineering Technicians
• Industrial & Manufacturing Engineers
• Maintenance Planners
• Maintenance Schedulers
• Purchasing Managers
• Inventory Related Managers
• Anyone interested in Maintenance Management

Training Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, students will receive a training certificate and .8 Continuing Education Units for each day attended (1.6 credits for 2 days), indicating that the student has learned how to:

• Sustain downsizing without sacrificing quality of service
• Turn maintenance into a profit center
• Prolong the life of your assets
• Improve Maintenance Productivity
• Improve Asset Quality
• Reduce overtime and outside contract work
• Minimize Downtime
• Identify equipment and parts status
• Maximize efficiency
• Manage high-tech buildings
• Meet compliance requirements
• Gain control of your labor and material
• Reduce Maintenance Backlog
• Attain Paperless work order system
• Minimize data entry errors
  

Course Outline / Agenda

How to Optimize your Preventive Maintenance (PM) Program

• Audit to make sure PM tasks being performed are effective
• Eliminate PM waste
• Optimize PM frequencies
  

Work Process Flow
It is important to map out the most efficient work flow that maintenance should follow. The flow must be created through a team effort so that all buy in the process. While determining the optimum flow, you will discover:

• Unproductive work
• Unnecessary delays
• Underutilization of people
• Ineffective data management
  

How to Minimize Unplanned Repairs

How to Optimize Parts & Tools in Inventory

• Minimize Obsolete inventory
• Reduce Excess inventory
• Optimize ROP, EOQ, Min-Max
• Implement ABC Analysis
• Shorten Lead time
• Work with suppliers to minimize stock
  

Effective Planning and scheduling
To maximize the efficiency of maintenance personnel, it is important to have effective planning and scheduling in place. Planning includes:

• Detailed job steps
• Safety requirements (permits etc.)
• Parts, Labor skills, Tools requirements
• Information (Drawings, sketches. Documents etc.)
  

Scheduling functionality is to make sure labor and Equipment/Facility are available when needed and set appropriate job priorities.

Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) Efficiencies

• How to use your CMMS effectively for your application
• How to handle compliance issues effectively
• How to save money by interfacing your computerized maintenance system with the Building Control System
• Link with O/M manuals and CAD drawings

Mobile Computing (with bar code/RFID if applicable)
Mobile computing technologies can provide enormous advantages to field technicians, who need portable access to facilities and maintenance information with ease.

By significantly reducing paper based and voice based communication between the field and the office, mobile computing results in rapid response time in the field, enabling direct access to critical data and elimination of time consuming paper work and data entry.
Mobile technology can offer the following functionalities:

• Equipment
  • Rounds and Readings
  • Inspection/Checks
• Preventive Maintenance
• Labor and Material Control
• Work Order System
• Parts Inventory Management

Performance Metrics
The goals of maintenance activities should coincide with the overall organization's goals. Proper metrics should be defined and monitored. Some examples of maintenance metrics:

• % Planned maintenance
• % PM compliance
• Backlog
• Overtime %
  

Root Cause Analysis
Equipment/Asset failure must be analyzed. Finding the root cause is first step to being able to prevent it in the future

What You Will Take Home

• Personalized " Maintenance Optimization on a Budget" Training Certificate with 0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for each day attended or 1.6 CEUs for attending both days. American Trainco CEUs are approved by the MTAA.

• All the information you need from asking your instructors specific questions about your particular needs in improving your maintenance program

On Site and In House Training

You can bring the "Maintenance Optimization on a Tight Budget" class or any American Trainco seminar as on site training to your plant or facility. We offer dozens of courses covering a broad range of maintenance and maintenance management topics. Our expert instructors are among the most experienced in the industry and can customize training to meet your specific needs - whether you need a short refresher course or an in depth program that focuses on your equipment and processes. In house training allows for the most cost efficient training as it reduces the cost per employee and limits the time required away from work.

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U.S. and Canada

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CEUs, Testing & College Credit

CEUs
After completion of the Maintenance Optimization on a Tight Budget class students will receive a Certificate of Completion and 0.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units) for each day of training approved by the Maintenance Training Association of the Americas.

Day 1	0.8 CEUs
Day 2	0.8 CEUs
Both Days	1.6 CEUs