WORKSHOP

The workshop is optional and separately bookable (places are limited and preference will be given to conference attendees) and will run from 8.00am to 3.00pm. registration opens at 7:30am and morning tea and lunch are included.

Results Oriented Reliability and Maintenance 2010 - A Road Map to Excellence

“People can not be more effective than the systems within which they work”- is this not common sense to everyone? How long can we deliver the goods despite a floored system?

Improving maintenance performance is about people and to some extent about technology. The technology part includes computer systems, predictive technologies, repair methods etc. Maintenance people like tools and they like gadgets - making this the easy part to improve upon. The real challenge lies in getting often undisciplined people to work in a disciplined manner within a disciplined system.

Only the ‘fad dieting’ industry generates more new programs than does the maintenance industry, which seems to specialise in churning out three lettered acronyms to mask the rebadging and renaming of the same principals. This almost always leads to confusion and flies in the face of the long term commitment need to execute the basics for effective long term results.

This workshop will cover what the best organisations do better than others in ensuring success.

08:00 - 09:30

• Introduction and review of what is new and different over a 40 years perspective.
• Inherited poor practices and what you need to do about them.

09:45 - 11:00

• Creating a culture of reliability takes a whole organisation, not only the maintenance organisation.

11:00 - 11.15 Morning Tea

11:15 - 12:30

• What does good look like?
• What does bad look like?
• Understanding the gap between how good you are and how good you can become.

12:30 - 13:15 Lunch

13:15 - 14:00

• Current Best Practices for Reliability and Maintenance.
• What they are and how they are used to educate and evaluate an organisation, develop improvement plans and to measure continuous improvement.

14:10 - 15:00

• Case Study: How a New Zealand plant became the first plant in the world to achieve a certified World Class Maintenance status.

Led by Christer Idhammar - President, IDCON, Inc. (USA)