Workshop Outcomes
- Determine your asset management maturity level
- Understand the real challenges facing asset management today
- Sell maintenance to top management through understanding the real contribution that it makes to the profitability of the organisation
- Better understand asset management strategies and how to identify the gaps of where you are versus where you want to be
- Assess where you are in terms of basic maintenance planning
- Understand the requirements for good maintenance schedules and how these are produced
- Develop a strategy for continuous improvement
- Assess whether you are ready to embrace the philosophies of autonomous maintenance
- Determine what maintenance information you really need to measure the effectiveness of the asset management efforts
Who should attend this workshop?
- Asset and Maintenance Managers
- Maintenance and Production Engineers
- Operations Managers
- Senior Engineering Planners
- Anyone who wants to optimise their capital investment through the improvement of the performance of their physical assets.
Workshop outline
Challenges Facing Maintenance
- Development of maintenance
- The fight for survival
- Criticality of maintenance
- Growing expectations of maintenance
- The maintenance knowledge gap
Maintenance Contribution to Profitability
- Maintenance objectives
- Breakeven analysis
- The effect of improved plant availability
Maintenance Strategy and Policy
- The hierarchy of strategies
- Asset management maturity level
- Key Success Factors and Key Performance Areas
- Structure of an Asset Management Strategy
- Maintenance audit
Review of Maintenance Planning
- Goals and objectives of maintenance planning
- Types of maintenance and levels of planning
- Elements of a maintenance planning system
- Duties of the planning office
Developing Maintenance Schedules
- The characteristics of good maintenance schedules
- Reliability-centred maintenance
- Compiling maintenance schedules
Root Cause Failure Analysis
- The management of failures
- Selecting failures for study
- The RCFA process
Autonomous Maintenance
- Overview of Total Productive Maintenance
- 5Ss
- Steps to Autonomous Maintenance
- The OEE
Asset Management Information Systems
- What is really needed?
- Sources of information
- Management information indices
commonly used
About your facilitator
Eric Maclear is Managing Director of Resource Techniques SA (Pty) Ltd. He is a highly respected management consultant with more than 25 years experience. For the past 15 years he has been running his own consulting and training company. He is a trained and qualified Industrial Engineer having studied both locally and internationally. He holds a B. Eng degree and has completed a number of Business School Programmes.
Eric has had much experience in Asset and Maintenance Management and has a
particular interest in Reliability-centred Maintenance and Root Causes Failure
Analysis. He has held a number of senior management positions with high profile
international companies. He began his consulting career in 1980 with an Australian based management consultancy where he completed a number of assignments in implementing planned maintenance systems. He later worked for a prominent SA consulting firm consulting and training in the full spectrum of plant operations. During his career as a management consultant he has successfully completed many assignments across a broad spectrum of industries, facilitated many training courses, and was keynote speaker at international conventions. He has also written and published numerous papers on Root Cause Failure Analysis. Eric has facilitated training courses in Southern Africa, USA, UK, China and Middle East.
