Reinventing Maintenance September 10th, 11th and 12th, 2008 Mississauga

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Conference Agenda

Session 3:

9:00-9:45 - Case Study: Responding to climate change and being Energy Efficient
Richard Lu, VP, Business Development, ARISE Technologies Corporation

Reducing the energy consumption in response to the threat of climate change demands that businesses focus their maintenance practices on energy efficiency. Adapting maintenance practices is one of the most cost-effective methods for ensuring reliability safety, and energy efficiency within your plants, as inadequate maintenance of energy-using systems is a major cause of energy waste in industry. This case study will examine maintenance practices that can generate substantial energy savings and can be implemented almost immediately.

· Life-cycle, cost-effective mix of preventive, predictive and reliability-centred maintenance technologies, coupled with equipment calibration, tracking and computerized maintenance management capabilities targeting system efficiency
· Eliminating inefficient practices
· Applying appropriate control strategies
· Identifying maintenance problems and upgrading maintenance practices
· Locating and remedying maintenance-related energy consumption problems


9:45-10:30 - Impact of high Canadian Dollar and strategies on how to deal with it
Simon Fridlyand, President, S.A.F.E. Engineering Inc.

The significant increase in the value of the Canadian dollar compared to the US dollar has greatly affected Canadian competitiveness, negatively impacting the export market and significantly lowering profitability. This has in turned caused businesses to actively seek ways to improve their bottom line. One effective way of doing this is through reducing maintenance costs and increasing plant efficiencies. This session will look at the role that improvements to your maintenance practices can have on competitiveness.

· Achieving productivity increases and liability diversion
· Involving operators, engineers and maintenance professionals in the process
· How to upgrade an old machine or process to comply with today's requirements while increasing productivity
· Purchasing new and compliant equipment
· Minimizing the cost of the compliance process
· Staying compliant, safe and productive



10:30-11:00 NETWORKING BREAK

11:00-11:45 - DECREASING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT AND INCREASING RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES IN THE PRODUCTION LINE
-Steve Kogon, Environment, Health & Safety Manager, Dana Canada Corporation -Kapinder Parthak, Maintenance Manager, ABC Group Inc.

For many business leaders, engineers and industrial ecologists, efficiency improvements are often seen as win-win situations, as they allow for economic and environmental gains to continue unimpeded while reducing resource consumption. This discussion details how to minimize environmental footprint by promoting resource efficiencies.

· Setting demanding but realistic objectives for reduced costs and impacts
· Improving relative resource efficiency for all resources used
· Reducing the amount of resources used in absolute terms: materials, energy efficiency, waste minimization
· Introducing cleaner design concepts at the design level to reduce future costs
· Minimizing the number of manufacturing steps



11:45-12:30 - Best practices for scheduling maintenance
Ben Stevens, President, OMDEC Inc. Claudio Caronello, Building Superintendent, Hotel Arts

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. This presentation will examine best practices for scheduling maintenance.

? 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



12:30-1:30 Lunch