Workshops

Presenter: R. D. (Doc) Palmer, PE, MBA, CMRP

Date: 8:00 AM-4:30 PM, August 31, 2009

The author of McGraw-Hill's Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, Doc Palmer, helps "change agents" develop tools to make planning and scheduling successful. The workshop offers more detail than a review of the fundamentals of planning and scheduling. After explicitly defining their purpose, the class spends time evaluating the workflow necessary for their contributions to work.

The workshop then develops a barriers and aids analysis for the different aspects of a successful program. The workshop concludes with identifying and illustrating the calculations of key process indicators to guide world class planning and scheduling.

All participants will receive a copy of McGraw-Hill’s Maintenance Planning and Scheduling ($85 value), authored by Doc Palmer.

Participants will learn

• Planning's strategy to create better job plans over time including the proper level of plan detail and the accuracy of time estimates
• Scheduling's particular role in boosting productivity and the balance of the weekly schedule with the daily schedule
• Helpful guidance regarding planned maintenance workflow particularly involving acquisition of parts and intermediate job priorities that cannot wait until next week
• What will help planning work orders and what will hinder
• What will help scheduling work orders and what will hinder
• What will help establish and sustain a planning organization and what will hinder
• What are the key process indicators and how should they be calculated and why including schedule compliance, wrench time, and others

Presenter: Robert Levandoski, Fuss & O’Neill Manufacturing Solutions

Date: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM, August 31, 2009

This workshop presents different approaches to integrate continuous improvement with safety to tackle OSHA’s low hanging fruit as well as present examples of solutions other businesses developed to safely perform lubrication, preventive maintenance, repairs, etc. while machines are still in operation.

Companies are seeking to improve a vast array of performance metrics through the integration of lean principles; for example Value Stream Mapping, 5S, and many others.

Companies struggle with the acceptance of non-value added time consumed by traditional safety program requirements including procedural development, training, audits, and accident investigation. Many of these programs neglect to incorporate and use the existing tools and methodologies readily available from the lean side of the business.

Presenter: John Kravontka, Fuss & O’Neill Manufacturing Solutions

Date: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM, August 31, 2009

Total Productive Maintenance is a data driven process for improving the productivity of your manufacturing or facility equipment. So the question remains, how do you measure productivity? OEE is that measurement system. But there are a lot of misconceptions about OEE.

In this hands-on workshop you will work with case studies, calculate OEE%, categorize losses, and develop improvement plans. You’ll learn the basics of OEE (measuring the 6 major losses) and see real life examples (pictures, data from the shop floor). You’ll also discuss the categories of losses & how to approach each loss and eliminate or minimize them.