12th Reinventing Maintenance

Driving performance and controlling costs — best practice maintenance management in challenging times
Date: October 20, 21 & 22, 2015
Location: Mississauga
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Highlights

Find out how Canadian Tire is ensuring asset life extension through effective energy strategies

Hear how Patheon Inc. establishes and drives maintenance KPIs

Learn how Mondelez International Inc. is implementing implement effective lean planning and scheduling

Learn how Give and Go Prepared Foods is managing its people strategy in light of the skilled trades shortage

Hear how Blount Canada Ltd. is reaping the benefits of an effective TPM system

Discover how the City of Markham is becoming more energy efficient in its plants and facilities

Learn about effective asset management strategies at the City of Toronto

Hear how Canadian Nuclear Laboratories makes the case for reliability programs

Learn how IKO Industries maximizes its CMMS

Why Attend?

Maintenance managers often find themselves walking a tightrope — balancing the need to keep machines running for maximum output while avoiding expensive unplanned stoppages and costly repairs. The current sluggish economy has increased the difficulty of this high-wire act, making success even more critical — and failure even more dangerous.


The 12th Reinventing Maintenance conference brings together senior maintenance and engineering professionals from major Canadian companies who are successfully walking that tightrope and, in turn, proving to senior management the value of a well-managed maintenance department in times of economic uncertainty.


Join senior maintenance professionals from these leading Canadian organizations as they discuss how they are increasing operational time, reducing downtime and controlling costs:

Blount Canada Ltd.

Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

Canadian Tire

City of Markham

City of Toronto

Give and Go Prepared Foods

IKO Industries

Mondelez International Inc.

Patheon Inc.

And many more


Learn practical approaches for dealing with these difficult issues:


Moving towards prevention and predicting

Developing effective maintenance KPIs

Developing an energy efficiency strategy

Change management within the maintenance group

Strategic cost reduction practices in maintenance

Maximizing the effectiveness of a CMMS

Linking maintenance strategy with operations

Effective planning and scheduling in a lean maintenance strategy

With the level of practical experience at this conference, this is one event you cannot afford to miss. Register now by calling (416) 665-6868 or 1-800-363-0722.

P.S. Don’t miss our practical workshop sessions on Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management and Key Measures for Predictive Maintenance

Sessions

Session1
Aligning Maintenance with Business Goals
Don M. Barry, Associate Partner, Supply Chain Operations and Asset Management Solutions, IBM Canada Limited
9:00-9:45
Panel Discussion: Reinventing the Maintenance Manager

Don M. Barry, Associate Partner, Supply Chain Operations and Asset Management Solutions, IBM Canada Limited

Dharmen Dhaliah, Manager, Asset Management, City of Toronto

Kristopher Dominato, Maintenance Coordinator, Canadian Tire

Today, maintenance is a full-fledged business process that impacts a company’s profits, safety record, environmental compliance, costs of quality, employee health and much more. In response to this, today’s maintenance manager needs far more than the technical skills they used to begin their career. This panel discussion details the current roles and future responsibilities of maintenance in today’s organizations.

What responsibilities are there today?

Who is really responsible?

What expertise do you need to manage maintenance today?

How can you get what you need? Is there help out there?

A suggested role description for the new maintenance manager

9:45-10:30
Total Productive Maintenance

Daniel Lawson, Continuous Improvement Manager, Plant Services, Blount Canada Ltd.

Total Productive Maintenance, with its focus on getting managers, maintenance personnel and equipment users working together to prevent equipment problems and reduce expenditures, transforms maintenance into a crucial part of the business structure instead of being merely a non-profit activity. The critical tenet is to keep unscheduled and emergency maintenance to a minimum. This session will discuss the different aspects of TPM.

Benefits of an effective TPM system

TPM targets: zero defects, zero breakdowns and zero accidents

Aligning the maintenance team to priorities

Identifying causes and types of equipment failures

Implementing TPM: where to begin

Measuring TPM performance: the key to effective asset management

Communicating TPM

10:30-11:00 NETWORKING BREAK
11:00-11:45
Maintenance KPIs

Jet Singh, Manager Engineering & Facilities, Patheon Inc.

In today’s information overloaded society, there are more measures being taken throughout all types of industry than ever before. The question we need to explore is: what do we do with these measurements? This presentation will look at common measurements used in maintenance management and examine the dangers and benefits that they provide.

Are the measurements driving change in behaviour, strategy or results?

Confirming the hierarchy of measurements within the organization

Why we measure and how it is utilized

What we measure and what they drive in overall efficiencies

Work orders, inventory and physical measurements

11:45-12:30
Reliability Based Inventory Management

Don M. Barry, Associate Partner, Supply Chain Operations and Asset Management Solutions, IBM Canada Limited

Maintenance inventory is an area that many companies are looking to for cost reduction and avoidance. With new asset management strategies, maintenance can make a significant contribution to cost reduction through improved inventory. This presentation looks at optimally managing and controlling the maintenance inventory in order to provide reliability-based inventory management.

Performance measures for maintenance inventory

Investing in spare inventory and how that investment affects your bottom line

Establishing an effective spare parts evaluation program

How a reliability focus on inventory policy development will confirm what should be stocked

Practical methods for improving your inventory policy and costs

Planning and controlling your storeroom inventory effectively

12:30-1:30 Lunch
Session2
Best Practices in Managing the Maintenance Function
Bruce Smith, Principal, BRS Maintenance Solutions
1:30-2:15
Ensuring Asset Life Extension Through Effective Energy Strategies

Kristopher Dominato, Maintenance Coordinator, Canadian Tire

Reducing energy consumption of equipment on the “shop floor” requires a well-thought out strategy that focuses on understanding current consumption and finding ways to reduce energy use. This discussion details Canadian Tire’s strategies for its plant and engineering facilities.

Collecting consumption information for analysis

Understanding what needs to be replaced and repaired

Determining the most effective maintenance approaches

Eliminating inefficient practices

Applying appropriate control strategies

2:15-3:00
Implementing and Managing CMMS

Varun Shrivastava, Reliability Engineer, IKO Industries

The quality of the information in the maintenance plan of the CMMS will largely determine an organization's success in increasing reliability. This discussion will examine the concept of a reliability-centred knowledge solution.

Data acquisition and data integrity

Maintenance tool kits, including a focus on content, fault diagnosis and failure prediction

Increased value in the CMMS

Performance management and information feedback

Turning data into information you can use

3:00-3:30 NETWORKING BREAK
3:30-4:00
How Does Maintenance Support Asset Management

Dharmen Dhaliah, Manager, Asset Management, City of Toronto

In the last few years we have seen the emergence of Asset Management in many industries from private to public sector. However from a maintenance management perspective it seems that AM is causing more of a confusion than anything else. There seems to be difficulties to understand what are the functions of both Maintenance and Asset Management in an organization and they co-exist to support each other. This session will clarify some of the confusions and explain how Maintenance can support Asset Management.

What is the mandate of Maintenance Management?

What is the mandate of Asset Management?

What are the links between MM & AM

How MM can support AM?

How AM can support MM?

What are the challenges being faced?

4:00-4:30
Applying Physics of Failures to Enhance Asset Reliability

Bruce Smith, Principal, BRS Maintenance Solutions

Far too often manufacturers struggle with equipment that does not perform as expected, resulting in the maintenance department being under pressure to fix frequent breakdowns and to explain why machines keep breaking. This presentation will explore how the OEM engineering design can only go so far in creating a reliable machine and investigate the 5 Reliability Killers. By understanding the causes of equipment failure we can identify how to create reliability and extend asset life.

Defining equipment reliability

Understanding a machine as the sum of its parts

Importance of design vs. application

Operating stress and its effect on parts

Uncertainty caused by handling the equipment

Importance of standardized SOPs

4:30-5:00
Maintenance Scheduling

Brad McDonald, Principal Consultant, SAP PM, Vesta Partners

With the competitive nature of today’s manufacturing, there is less tolerance for unplanned downtime. No single facet of maintenance management offers greater opportunity for savings and profit than good planning and scheduling. As such, getting control of maintenance requires an organization with a definitive planning and scheduling effort.

Prioritizing maintenance work for scheduling purposes

Developing weekly and daily schedules

Controlling and managing backlog and achieving improved customer service

Planning and installing a long-term scheduling system

Implementation of a short-term scheduling system

Planning and scheduling major repairs, shutdowns and turnarounds

Latest maintenance planning and scheduling technologies

Session3
Increased Efficiency in Challenging Times
James Reyes-Picknell, President, Conscious Asset Management
9:00-9:45
Building the Business Case for Reliability

Stephen Kenny, Director of Waste Management and Decommissioning Operations, Chalk River Labs, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories

Sometimes reliability professionals may be called upon to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of their reliability programs to management. This session will provide step-by-step instructions on how to create an effective business case for reliability.

Determining cash requirements

Presenting information in a way that management will understand

Demonstrating the impact equipment reliability has on a company's objectives

Estimating the financial contribution of reliability programs

9:45-10:30
Energy Efficient Facility Operation and Maintenance

Atiq Rahman, Manager, Facility Maintenance, City of Markham

This discussion will include strategic planning and key approaches to:

Understanding of building requirements

Identifying energy efficiency opportunities in Facility Operation

Long-term life-cycle planning

Energy retrofits

Case studies

10:30-11:00 NETWORKING BREAK
11:00-11:45
Hiring Skilled Trades

Jerry Dover, Director of Engineering and Maintenance, Give and Go Prepared Foods

The percentage of maintenance workers in the manufacturing sector over the age of 55 has grown significantly in recent years, increasing the chances of skill shortages and high costs of replacing veteran employees after a wave of retirement. This session will examine practical strategies for hiring skilled workers.

Best practices for recruiting competent job applicants

Addressing knowledge transfer from experienced to less experienced employees

Sustaining expertise and competitive edge with key hirings to stem the tide of retirement

Use of mentoring programs

Strategies for ensuring new hires will be a good fit

Conducting a thorough job analysis for each position

Implementing an effective employee orientation and training program

11:45-12:30
Optimizing Asset Management 2.0

James Reyes-Picknell, President, Conscious Asset Management

Maintenance departments everywhere are moving away from their traditional “break and fix” approach to one that focuses on optimizing the effectiveness and efficiency of production assets. This discussion details how to develop an effective asset management plan for the maintenance function.

Conducting an inventory of all production assets

Leveraging reliability techniques in the development of maintenance

Requirements and schedules

Prioritizing and scheduling life-cycle activities

Revising the plan in response to new information

12:30-1:30 Lunch
Session4
Effective Asset Management
Liane Harris, President, ECS2 Group Inc. (Machine Healthcare)
1:30-2:15
Effective Information Modeling in Asset Management

David Armstrong, Senior Reliability Practioner, Bentley Canada

This discussion details the importance of information modeling to ensure a continuous program for reliability, integrity and performance of an asset, including:

Developing a common collaborative process

Managing the flow of data

Optimizing decisions on budgeting for equipment maintenance and replacement

2:15-3:00
Lean Maintenance: Lean Planning & Scheduling

Garvit Rawat, Business Unit Leader, Planning/Scheduling/MRO (Maintenance & Reliability), Mondelez International Inc.

While many companies have implemented the most common lean maintenance tactics, in most cases, they have failed to achieve their overall objectives. The key to achieving lean maintenance objectives is to implement effective planning and scheduling. This will ensure that maintenance tactics work is carried out in the minimum amount of time with the highest labour productivity. It requires addressing the work culture, reengineering the organizational structure and providing adequate software support.

Benefits of effective planning & scheduling

Organizational challenge

Planning and scheduling roles

Measuring the results achieved for continuous improvement

3:00-3:30 NETWORKING BREAK
3:30-4:00
Linking Maintenance Strategy With Operations

George Illaszewicz, Asset Management Engineer, Associated Engineering

Today, maintenance must add value to business in terms of quality, capacity and availability, thereby leveraging the company in the marketplace. To play this role, the maintenance department must develop best practices with significantly less manpower. This presentation will discuss how to link maintenance strategy to overall operations.

Incorporating reliability excellence as a business strategy

How maintenance and reliability can create value

Running the warehouse like a business

How to establish a proactive asset management strategy

Developing action plans required to support business goals and objectives

4:00-4:30
Preventive vs. Emergency Maintenance

Liane Harris, President, ECS2 Group Inc. (Machine Healthcare)

Preventive maintenance techniques are used to establish required servicing and inspection periods so that equipment shutdowns can be more effectively scheduled and planned, resulting in longer equipment life, fewer breakdowns and smoother operation, planning & scheduling. This discussion compares the benefits of a PM system versus emergency maintenance.

Designing a PM program: preventing the failure of equipment before it actually occurs

Preserving and enhancing equipment reliability by replacing worn components before they actually fail

Conducting equipment checks, partial or complete overhauls at specified periods

Keeping a record of equipment deterioration

Technological advances in tools for inspection and diagnosis

Controlling the cost of preventive maintenance

4:30-5:00
Effective Metallurgical Failure Analysis

Shane Turcott, Principal Metallurgist and Failure Analyst, Steel Image Inc.

Production equipment failures can result in costly production losses and safety hazards. Determining the precise cause of component failure is critical for developing cost-effective solutions to prevent repeat occurrences. This discussion details the processes used during metallurgical failure analysis.

Identifying causes of failure

Laboratory tools used to investigate post-failure

Preventing recurrence of similar failure or accidents in the future

Improving facility reliability

Integration with root cause failure analysis techniques

Workshops

Optional workshops:
9:00-noon
Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management

James Reyes-Picknell, President, Conscious Asset Management

Excellence in maintenance management is about delivering fewer breakdowns, more productive capacity, lower costs and improved environmental performance. It is about making use of increasingly complex technologies, such as mobile and cloud computing, to support maintenance departments and set the stage for compliance with emerging international standards for asset management. Discover, in this intensive workshop, how to develop an overall strategy for excellence in maintenance management based on practices observed in high-performing companies.

Introducing the Uptime Model of Excellence

How to deploy from strategic goals to actions at the shop floor

What it takes to transform maintenance

Excellence in Reliability Techniques

Asset management reflecting the new ISO standards

Key to asset management: good management of data and information

" Mr. James Reyes-Picknell is a co-founder of Conscious Asset, leading the firm with a simple, effective methodology of "educate, motivate, empower and coach." He facilitates human, process and technology improvements aimed at delivering safe, reliable uptime. James has a 36 years background in maintenance, reliability and physical asset management in a wide range of industries and locations around the world. His role is largely that of teacher and advisor working with a team of highly experienced consultants. "
1:30-4:30
Predictive Maintenance Key Measures

Paul Klein, Principal, Predictive Systems Engineering Ltd.

Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Predictive Maintenance (PdM) programs are proven tools for maintaining equipment reliability; however, the challenge for the maintenance team is to determine the effectiveness of these programs. The effectiveness of PM and PdM is determined by examining the equipment failures from previous years, as well as a review of the PM and PdM program guidelines. This workshop will detail how to develop an effective predictive maintenance approach.

Review of PM and PdM program guidelines

Review of internal and contracted PM and PdM work

Understanding risk vs. cost of the PM and PdM programs

Standardized reporting through the CMMS and summary reports

Review of repeating failures

" R. Paul Klein is the CEO of Predictive Systems Engineering Ltd. He works with Canadian and international clients to improve their execution of the asset management strategy by improving maintenance management. His area of focus is cost-effective predictive maintenance management practices. He has innovated in the maintenance field for more than 20 years, specializing in automated CBM diagnostics and prognostics for rotating machinery. "

Participants

Learn practical approaches for dealing with these difficult issues:


Moving towards prevention and predicting

Developing effective maintenance KPIs

Developing an energy efficiency strategy

Change management within the maintenance group

Strategic cost reduction practices in maintenance

Maximizing the effectiveness of a CMMS

Linking maintenance strategy with operations

Effective planning and scheduling in a lean maintenance strategy

Who should attend

Plant & Maintenance Managers; Engineers; Directors of Engineering, Operations & Production; Reliability Engineers; Facility Managers; Purchasers; Supply Chain Managers; Physical Asset Managers; Plant & Maintenance Managers; Engineers; Directors of Enginee

Price

Price list:-

  • Conference and 2 workshops: $2995
  • Conference and 1 workshop: $2520
  • Conference, 1 workshop and Proceedings: $2695
  • Conference, 2 workshop and Proceedings: $3170
  • Conference and Proceedings: $2150
  • Conference: $1975
  • Proceedings Only : $599
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