2008 - A Staffing Oddity - Dealing Proactively with the Worker Shortage in Manufacturing and the Heavy Industries
Drew D. Troyer - CRE, CMRP - Chief Technical Editor, Reliable Plant Magazine (USA)

Drew is a champion of effective reliability management and passionate about helping companies find hidden profits inside their plants. Author of an award-winning column in Reliable Plant magazine and teacher, Drew understands both management expectations and plant floor realities. Drawing on his personal plant experiences and MBA, he has a unique ability to challenge and inform professionals at all levels.

Drew is a Certified Reliability Engineer (CRE), a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP), and chairs the standards committee of the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP).

How to Engage Your Resources to Achieve Business Objectives
Wayne Vaughn - PE, CMRP - Director of Maintenance, Harley-Davidson (USA)

Wayne is the Director of Maintenance for Harley-Davidson’s two Powertrain plants in Milwaukee. Wayne’s career has covered a wide range of duties from design engineering, supply chain management, new business development, production management and maintenance. Wayne also is a leader of the maintenance best practice effort across all of the Harley plants. During his time as Director he implemented many initiatives including training programs, an apprentice program, computerised maintenance management systems, predictive and preventive maintenance and a Total Productive Maintenance program. This was accomplished while increasing the maintenance staff, increasing production by 150%, rearranging and installing thousands of machine tools, installing two assembly lines and expanding the facilities.

In 1993, Wayne was awarded the Fredrick P. Smarro Award for Significant contribution in the area of plant engineering and maintenance. Wayne has a Bachelors and Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He also has a Masters of Business Administration from Marquette University and is a registered Professional Engineer and a CMRP certificate holder.

Now Bank It!
Paul Cristofani - Sustainable Development and HSSE Manager, Shell Refining (Australia) Pty Limited (AUS)

Paul Cristofani joins us from the Shell Geelong Refinery where he is the manager of Sustainable Development, Health, Safety, Security and Environment at Shell’s flagship manufacturing site in Australia. Paul studied Sustainable Development at ANU in the late 80s. Since then he has developed and run environmental and SD projects, programs and key policy areas in local, state and federal government - though not necessarily in that order!

In industry Paul has held national positions driving Sustainable Development in the agricultural and mining industries. This followed on from one of Paul’s other passions, using the media to raise environmental awareness. Before children Paul and his partner grew their successful environment program ‘Seeds of Change’ from 2NURFM in Newcastle over four years, winning a national award for broadcasting excellence. It also lead Paul to regular grillings as a talkback guest on the ABC’s Triple J Morning Show at the end of the 90s.

Paul will share what he and his teams have been doing to drive cultural and behavioural ‘mindfulness’ by combining HSSE drivers and advanced engagement and influencing skills at Shell. Paul will share how this approach can extend into direct business benefits in employee engagement in all aspects of the business, from reputation to reliability and from personal efficiencies to operational discipline.

Special Guest Presenter: Tawera Nikau - Refusing To Quit