The Asset Healthcare Stage II: Business Driven Reliability Workshop is a 3 day class that will review Maintenance and Reliability tools as well as show how they can be used to build the profit-making potential of the organization. Using a business-case driven approach, the workshop will show how to use the science of Reliability as a business tool. Organizations with large investments in production capital can make dramatic increases in financial performance and prevent unnecessary capital outlay if they optimize the productivity of the equipment they own. This workshop will serve as a tool kit.

• Clarifying the roles and responsibilities related to Maintenance Planning & Scheduling
• Overcoming challenges and barriers to success
• Using communication skills for effective maintenance planning and scheduling
• Benefiting from operating in a planned vs. fire fighting environment
• Using planning as a strategic tool for moving from a reactive to a proactive environment
• Using the Zone Maintenance work management process
• Assessing work prioritization
• Planning work orders
• Aggressive identification of defects to improve reliability
• Managing backlog
• Supporting the scheduling process

The Maintenance Planning and Scheduling workshop will provide participants with a clear understanding of the strategic role that planning and scheduling plays in today’s industrial organizations.

The workshop will provide instruction and practical exercises for participants covering:

• Continuous reliability improvement
• Asset strategy development and automation
• Asset integrity and statutory support
• Condition-Based Maintenance
• Failure analysis and system abnormality response
• Equipment history maintenance and automation
• Skills enhancement to support new technology
• Business case support for maintenance and reliability

In today’s economic climate Asset Health Care must deliver exciting bottom-line results. This workshop shows how to create this kind of change within your company.

Workshop participants will learn the next set of steps within the Asset Healthcare continuum, providing powerful tools for using Reliability thinking to focus Maintenance activities where they will do the most good for the business. This body of knowledge can transform an inward-looking Reliability organization into a relevant, integral part of production and maintenance for the organization. The strategic importance of such a Reliability function is huge for organizations that are trying to do more with less staffing and capital than in the past. Capital utilization is a survival issue today. Reliability is one of the key issues to promote yield from your organization’s investments.