Workshops

Many organizations want to improve their lubrication programs but struggle with where to start or what success should look like. This workshop will transform vague ideas into a clear vision for an optimized lubrication program. Attendees will learn how to identify and avoid common pitfalls, justify improvement costs, and determine the best starting point for their efforts.

Designed for those who work in or manage lubrication programs in industrial facilities, this session provides practical steps to turn lubrication management into a strategic advantage for reliability and performance.

A practical introduction to global maintenance & reliability best practices for new and emerging professionals

Newcomers to the maintenance and reliability profession often enter the field with enthusiasm but limited structured guidance. They face a world of complex assets, evolving technologies, and rising expectations for safety, uptime, and performance. Without a strong foundation, even the most motivated professionals struggle to contribute effectively. Maintenance & Reliability Fundamentals: Building the Foundation for Excellence in Motion™ is a hands-on, beginner-friendly workshop that introduces participants to the essential principles, practices, and mindsets that drive world-class reliability. Grounded in the author’s globally recognized work, Maintenance & Reliability Best Practices, this workshop provides a clear, practical roadmap for understanding how maintenance, reliability, and asset management fit together to support organizational success.

This workshop is designed for novices and seasoned professionals alike as a refresher.

Participants will learn:

• The core concepts of maintenance, reliability, and asset lifecycle management
• The difference between reactive, preventive, predictive, and proactive maintenance
• How work management, planning & scheduling, and basic reliability tools improve performance
• The role of people, culture, and communication in achieving reliability excellence
• How global best practices translate into daily behaviors for technicians, planners, and supervisors
• How fundamentals connect to advanced topics like ISO 55000, the 10 Rights of Asset Management, and Strategic Asset Management

Attendees will leave with a strong conceptual foundation, practical tools, and the confidence to grow into more advanced reliability and asset-management roles.

In mining and heavy industrial operations, contamination remains one of the most common and costly drivers of reduced lubricant life, accelerated component wear, premature failure, and unplanned downtime. While many organizations generate oil analysis data, far fewer consistently turn that information into timely, disciplined maintenance decisions that reduce risk and improve reliability.

This interactive 3.5-hour workshop is designed to close that gap. Drawing from real-world field experience across mining and harsh-duty industrial environments, the session will examine how contaminants such as dirt, dust, moisture, and process debris enter systems, how they impact both lubricant health and machine condition, and what practical steps can be taken to control those risks through better storage, handling, filtration, breathers, sampling practices, and maintenance discipline.

The content is deliberately relevant to surface mining fleets, underground mobile equipment, fixed plant assets, crushers, conveyors, mills, hydraulics, gearboxes, roasters, autoclaves, lube rooms, and bulk storage and delivery systems. The workshop then moves beyond contamination control alone and into interpretation. Attendees will learn how to read oil analysis results in context, recognize meaningful trends and exceptions, assess severity, and determine the next best corrective action.

The final portion of the workshop places attendees into breakout groups to evaluate actual report scenarios, discuss likely root causes, prioritize response, and recommend practical next steps. The goal is simple: stronger contamination control, better interpretation, and a clearer path from oil analysis data to reliability action.

If you have rotating machinery, equipment must be precision lubricated, aligned, balanced, and fastened to achieve the longest trouble-free life and lowest maintenance costs. This hands-on workshop provides a detailed introduction to each of these technical areas using Mobius Institute simulations and animations that make complex topics easy to understand.

Learn precision lubrication and contamination control, precision shaft alignment, rotor balancing, mechanical and electrical fastening, and 5S and the visual workplace principles. Whether you are a maintenance technician, planner, scheduler, condition monitoring practitioner, or reliability engineer, you will gain practical skills to improve rotating equipment reliability and reduce maintenance costs.

“How to effectively evaluate technology offerings when each vendor tells you their wireless vibration system is the best?"

Approaching the adoption of new technology with conflicting priorities and unclear objectives helps explain the hesitancy on the part of many industrial enterprises today to adopt and deploy wireless Condition Monitoring systems.

In a survey of practitioners conducted Spring of 2024, one of the biggest reasons given for delay in engaging this technology was that ‘the organization is not ready’. Your asset mix is unique, and so are the failure modes you want to invest your time, energy and money wisely.Join this vendor-neutral workshop to get an independent framework for assessing technology options, ensuring a good fit for your organization, assets and operations.

In this hands-on workshop, Ed and John will coach you and your team through a process to: -Assess your organizational readiness to expand your PdM program with wireless condition monitoring technology -Lead the preparation necessary to adopt the new data collection technology -Learn what questions to ask regarding technology features and benefits, the fit to your critical assets and the impact on your operational effectiveness