Hot Topics
In September more than 100 people from more than 60 companies will collaborate with the Conference Advisory Team in a series of round table discussions to create the Hot Topics for the Mainstream Conference Program. Please let us know if you’d like to participate in the round table discussions.
In the meantime, take a look at the Mainstream Hot Topics for 2012:
Negotiating the Skills Journey
Improving the Productivity of Your Workforce
Successfully Managing Aging Assets & Being Ready For Expansion
Implementing Overall Strategic Asset Management Strategies
Instill a Reliability Culture Throughout Your Business
Creating Benefit From Your ERP/CMMS Maintenance Programs
Getting Maintenance & Production Teams Working Together
Keep Your Intellectual Property Within a Changing Workforce
Communicating the Value of Maintenance to Management
You Are Only as Good as Your People
Build the Best Relationship with Your Contractors & Alliances
Adapting & Managing Economic & Environmental Change
Negotiating the Skills Journey
- Train them and they leave, or don’t train them and they stay?
- Building in initiatives to develop leaders at all levels of your team, boost performance and champion the ideas of your staff
- The strategies you can employ to identify the key motivations of your team, their learning styles and how to defi ne their individual competency requirements
- Understanding the meaning of true collaboration as a way to build trust and inspire high performance
- New ways of thinking, creating the equation “available effective man-hours = man-hours required to complete maintenance”
- How you motivate your team to feel part of the decision making and improvement processes
- The benefi ts of developing a reliability engineering training curriculum
- Adequately providing your workforce with the necessary skills and framework to meet your goals
Improving the Productivity of Your Workforce
- Achieving greater output from less resources
- Case studies from successful organisations on how to demonstrate ROI without compromising on quality
- Learn strategies and frameworks to achieve your KPIs and business goals, including Lean Maintenance and Six Sigma
- Building skilled teams and arming them with the right tools to meet your business requirements
- Connecting and communicating with your teams to understand the systems in place
- Boost productivity with advanced knowledge gathering techniques to avoid the information drain
- Mobilising your staff to achieve, simplifying processes and implementing effective change management techniques
- Improving your reliability and output from improved contamination control
Successfully Managing Aging Assets & Being Ready For Expansion
- Managing maintenance from the plant inception and planning for obsolescence through the whole asset life cycle
- Building effective assets with structural integrity
- Implementing tasks in the systems and plan for obsolescence
- Analysing material management for spare parts to minimise obsolescence
- Navigate away from the “it’s too late the equipment isn’t evensupplied anymore” scenario
Implementing Overall Strategic Asset Management Strategies
- Understanding the journey of introducing asset management systems to ensure you reach your potential
- Meeting your future business requirements with a focus on reliability processes, systems, training and metrics
- Utilising your ERP/CMMS tools to capture information and provide real-time data, enabling clearer and more accurate decision making on asset life-cycles
- Sleep calmly knowing your operational risks are under control - evaluating risks in terms of cost and future spend
- Convincing and infl uencing your business managers and senior management of the worthwhile investment from the outset
- Insights into the models for measuring and extending the life of their assets
- Assessing the merits and impact of standards, OHSA projects and their potential impact to you
- Ensuring your plan is fl exible to cope with changing market conditions
Instill a Reliability Culture Throughout Your Business
- Understanding your assets and maximising the information from your RCM (Reliability Centred Maintenance)
- Building relationships with identical critical assets and knowing why output is variable
- Implementing effective practices with TPM, 5S and lean manufacturing
- Drive reliability improvement with correct data from your CMMS/ERP systems
- Sustaining discussions with your team to measure for continuous improvement
- Setting the skill sets needed for your new reliability engineers
- Instilling ownership within your teams
- Measuring your reliability improvement process and its intrinsic link to successfully communicate the reasons for change
Creating Benefit From Your ERP/CMMS Maintenance Programs
- Instilling a communication strategy to engage your team
- Technologies to ensure the quality of the data
- Practical examples of how to survive a corporate sponsored software project
- Setting-up and utilising your system to manage the whole life-cycle of your assets
- Getting people engaged and motivated
- Ensuring your system complies and communicates with existing systems
Getting Maintenance & Production Teams Working Together
- Managing the roles of responsibility between operators and maintenance
- Deriving benefits from maintenance and operations assisting in project teams
- Collecting and relaying clear and accurate data right across the organisation
- Effective methods of communicating with both teams, exposing the beneficial synergies
Keep Your Intellectual Property Within a Changing Workforce
- Developing your own library of critical knowledge to reduce corporate memory loss
- You’re only as good as your best information, evaluating the risks and rewards if knowledge resides with only a few select people
- Take-away tools to enable you to identify the key learning styles for each individual - managing those individuals with different learning styles
- Introducing new technologies available to you and who to employ in the process
- Ensuring the right data (accurate and realistic) and information is collected and benchmarked
Communicating the Value of Maintenance to Management
- Effectively negotiating with a management team afraid of innovation and risk
- Case studies from organisations that have developed a business case which justifies maintenance dollars
- Reporting tools to display real-time performance improvements
- Optimising relationships with operations to provide solid evidence for investment
You Are Only as Good as Your People
- The strategies to help make engineers the best managers they can be
- Building effective people managers - moving them from the shop floor to management
- Influencing management to provide greater clarity to achieve the desired result for the business
- Motivating your team through the demonstration of clear career routes for future management stars
- Ensuring your people do not get left behind with their skills knowledge
Build the Best Relationship with Your Contractors & Alliances
- Building suffi cient flexibility in the contract and KPIs
- Organisations with primary evidence of an experienced and skilled reliability team
- Determining the skill sets of your personnel - are they the right skills for the job?
- Establishing “Service Level Agreements” to benefi t both you and your contractor
- Keeping project knowledge onsite and available to you in the future
Adapting & Managing Economic & Environmental Change
- How companies have employed technology to enable accurate decision making
- Preparing for the eventuality of standards, OHSA harmonisations and future government initiatives
- Ensuring your people are prepared for changing paradigms, roles and responsibilities
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