MARTS 2010 CONFERENCE Presentation Power Points (with updates noted)

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MARTS 2010 Workshop descriptions

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS BY DAY: Tuesday April 27, 2010

1. Liquid Gold: Implementing a Winning Lube Strategy for Maximum Gain
Instructor: Ken Bannister, Principal Consultant, Engtech Industries, Inc.
Known as Dr. Lube to thousands of maintenance professionals, Ken Bannister will explain in this Workshop why lubrication is the key to industrial maintenance, and how common lubrication myths derail maintenance efforts. He'll follow that with the in-depth knowledge needed to create an effective lubrication program and apply it in any industrial environment. Part of the Workshop will be devoted to a discussion of real-life lubrication issues submitted by attendees. To submit yours, e-mail it to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it prior to April 15, 2010 -- and be sure to sign up so you don't miss Ken's diagnosis. Each attendee will receive a copy of Bannister's book, Lubrication for Industry.

About Ken Bannister:
An experienced consultant, engineer, and lecturer on maintenance management, maintenance engineering, lubrication, and maintenance technologies, Ken Bannister specializes in helping companies build successful lubrication-management programs. Dr. Lube to the readers of Maintenance Technology and Lubrication Management & Technology magazines, Bannister is also the author of Lubrication for Industry, and wrote the chapter on lubrication in Machinery's Handbook.

2. Leading Organizational Change
Instructor: Scott Franklin, Principal Consultant, Life Cycle Engineering
Note: This Workshop runs from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Major changes in an organization require changes in the culture. But much like an iceberg, only about 10% of the culture is visible. The remainder is undetectable, until you try to change it. Then the organizational defenses of the current culture engage and will easily overwhelm the change. Without preparing for and actively addressing the non-technical side of change, the change (as designed) is lost. This workshop is for maintenance and reliability professionals who are interested in learning how to manage the non-technical (people) side of change.

About Scott Franklin:
With over 20 years experience in organizational design, change management, and a dedicated focus on delivering sustainable improvements, Scott is a well-respected authority on organizational change, specializing in the role leaders play in change management. As Principal Consultant at Life Cycle Engineering (LCE), Scott brings specific expertise in the areas of creating a combined learning organization in parallel with a strength-based organization, while simultaneously creating a culture of execution. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former nuclear-trained submarine officer, Scott has been with LCE since 1986.

3. Getting Started With Predictive Maintenance
Instructors: Mike Gilley and Mike Dixon, Principals, Fox River Systems
This session takes a provocative and holistic look at Predictive Maintenance, and will confront the challenging questions of "Why PdM?" and "How do you start the PdM journey?" Grounded and realistic, the session provides an introduction to the predominant technologies used in PdM, including: infrared thermography, ultrasonics, vibration analysis and field balancing. Consideration is given to financial justification of investment in PdM hardware, software and services.

About Mike Gilley and Mike Dixon:
As principals of Fox River Systems, a consulting and systems integration firm, Mike Gilley and Mike Dixon use their practitioner-based experience with vibration analysis, ultrasound and infrared thermography to guide clients. Their expertise has led them to work with both commercial and government operations, providing technical education as well as start-up/implementation for Predictive Maintenance (PdM) programs.

4. Reliability Centered Maintenance
Instructor: Anthony "Mac" Smith, Senior Consultant, AMS Associates
Smith guides you through the concepts and fundamentals of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) in this full-day Workshop. Drawing on his extensive experience, Smith builds on the RCM model with practical, how-to knowledge that will enable you to use RCM in your own maintenance operations.

About Mac Smith:
Mac Smith brings over 50 years of relevant technical and management experience in reliability/availability/maintainability (RAM), component and system design, hardware test and evaluation, data management, product assurance, system safety, product RAM and operational readiness reviews, and plant maintenance optimization via the RCM methodology. Widely regarded as one of the pioneers of RCM and advanced maintenance practices, he is author of the book Reliability Centered Maintenance and coauthor of RCM-Gateway To World Class Maintenance. Over the last 27 years, Smith has directed and contributed to a wide variety of consulting projects in the energy, aerospace and industrial sectors.

5. 4 Lean Tools to Revolutionize Your Maintenance System (Part I)
Instructor: Ed Stanek, President, LAI Reliability
Note: This Workshop is offered in two parts. The first is conducted on Tuesday, the second on Friday. Attendees may attend one or both. Pricing options for single- or multi-day passes economically accommodate either choice.
Lean Tool 1: Value-Stream Mapping for Maintenance -- In this Workshop, you will identify, demonstrate and decrease waste in your maintenance system through Value-Stream Mapping (VSM), a lean visualization tool which helps you understand and streamline work processes by applying lean tools to your maintenance system. VSM is a process that depicts actual events, cycle times and flow, providing the information to identify and eliminate waste, evolving into a future-state model.
Lean Tool 2: Planning & Scheduling Optimization -- Learn to improve or begin planning & scheduling through The Work Management Planning & Scheduling Simulation℠, an innovative, interactive means to transfer the many concepts of effective maintenance work management. The WM Simulation takes the concept of hands-on learning to the next level through systems observations, engagement, and behavioral adjustments. Participants will see firsthand the negative effects of "doing what we've always done" in a typical reactive maintenance environment.

About Ed Stanek:
Ed has been developing reliability and maintenance systems for the past 22 years. His primary experience is with results-driven, reliability-focused processes. As co-owner and president of LAI Relibility, Ed is also an instructor on Maintenance & Reliability, PMOptimization, TPM, Maintenance Systems and Asset Management. He is a past chairman of the Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineers and has worked with the SME, the International Institute of Research, Northern Illinois University, Iowa State University, the University of Michigan, as well as maintenance & reliability conferences and manufacturing associations around the world.

6. Lean Equipment Management: The Prescription for Rapid and Sustainable Gains
Instructor: Robert M. Williamson, Founder, Strategic Work Systems, Inc.
Eliminate equipment problems? That's right. But merely implementing maintenance best practices is no guarantee that problems will be eliminated. Business leaders must be prepared to answer how much unplanned downtime, inefficiency and waste is acceptable. This is the first step in the Lean Equipment Management journey to reliability. Mr. Williamson will help participants understand the basics of Lean Manufacturing, Lean Equipment Management and the roots of Lean Maintenance found in the frequently misunderstood elements of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). Examples of actual reliability improvement actions and results will be shared from various industries as well as NASCAR race teams. Participants will learn how to develop a "reliability culture" that thrives on improving equipment performance and reliability.

About Robert M. Williamson:
Former mechanic and tooling/machine designer, Williamson is a workplace educator, consultant and workshop trainer with more than 38 years in technical education and equipment reliability improvement. His career spans 400 plant locations in 45 different industries. He teaches proper applications of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Lean Equipment Management. For more than 18 years he has studied and taught the principles of "team-based equipment reliability" based on NASCAR race teams to companies and workgroups all over the U.S. and Canada. A contributor to Maintenance Technology magazine and other journals, he is also a frequent keynote speaker and teacher of manufacturing reliability courses and workshops at selected universities.

POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS BY DAY: Friday April 30, 2010

1. Contractor Management Strategy
Instructors: Dirk Frame, Managing Partner, and Jerry Wanichko, Manager, T.A. Cook Consultants, Inc.
As greater numbers of asset-intensive process industries outsource major portions of maintenance and shutdown/turnaround functions, an effective Contractor Management Strategy becomes critical to an organization's competitive advantage. Properly designed and implemented, such strategy can generate up to 25% savings of fixed and/or operational costs. This presentation provides an overview of Contractor Management Strategy best practices and its key phases, including ways to lever sustainable cost reduction, partnership development, analysis and KPI development. It will also analyze the three basic types of contracts now in common use, covering advantages and disadvantages of each.

About Jerry Wanichko:
Jerry Wanichko has more than 20 years of international consulting experience working in multiple industries. He has spent most of his career consulting to continuous-process manufacturing industries, and has designed and led multi-site, multi-issue programs dealing with business transformation and business-process improvement. Wanichko has worked across Europe and South America.

2. Ensuring Reliability Through Systematic Work Control
Instructor: Dave Krings, CMRP, BSME; President, Nobreakdowns.com
Dave Krings will lead the group through an entertaining, proven technique for establishing truly systematic work control within any maintenance organization. This systematic foundation must exist before advanced predictive tools and analysis can be successful. Attendees will learn how to determine if their maintenance program is compromised using a unique and easy-to-master modeling process. Called a Work Control Process (WCP), the model will guide users to develop accurate roles and responsibilities for all team members and level the workload so every person is fully utilized. The Workshop will conclude with a discussion of how maintenance teams can use planning skills to develop consistent procedures for managing the maintenance program.

About Dave Krings:
Krings is a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. He served in both project engineering and maintenance roles within the pulp and paper industry before founding Nobreakdowns.com. Nobreakdowns.com is a maintenance and reliability solutions provider for manufacturers, utilities, government agencies and others. Dave specializes in building proactive maintenance organizations, supported by systematic work-control processes.

3. Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
Instructor: R. D. (Doc) Palmer, PE, CMRP; Partner, People and Processes, Inc.
Maintenance planning and scheduling should dramatically improve the productivity of maintenance. For example, a group of 30 maintenance technicians can perform the work of 47 persons when aided by a single planner. Yet most maintenance organizations do not have a planning function and most that do are frustrated. Author of the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, Doc Palmer reviews fundamentals, then leads class exercises to illustrate the principles and techniques to achieve success. This Workshop not only covers the theory and vision, but the nuts and bolts of how planning and scheduling work. It allows class participants to take specific practices home to their own organizations.

About Doc Palmer:
Doc Palmer has nearly three decades of industrial experience as a practitioner primarily within the maintenance department of the Jacksonville (FL) Electric Authority, a major U.S. electric utility. From 1990 through 1994, Palmer was responsible for overhauling the existing maintenance planning organization. The resulting success played a role in expanding planning to all crafts and stations owned and operated by the utility. Publisher McGraw-Hill subsequently sought out Palmer to author the Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook, now in its second edition. Currently Palmer consults, mentors and trains companies internationally.

4. Motor System Maintenance and Management
Instructor: Howard Penrose, Ph.D., CMRP; Vice President, Engineering and Reliability, Dreisilker Electric Motors, Inc.
Electric motor systems have potentially the most significant impact on the profitability of your company. The challenge of system maintenance has largely been addressed by increasing the number of spare components, through work-arounds and/or living with substandard operations. A robust motor system maintenance and management program looks beyond inventory, repair specifications and energy costs. Instead, it requires a comprehensive understanding of the motor system and a strategy that will show results in profitability, environment, capacity and/or competitiveness. This presentation will discuss the necessary components and roadmap for a comprehensive motor system maintenance and management program by looking at the seven key elements, as well as new challenges that begin this year.

About Howard Penrose:
A renowned expert in electric motor management and repair, Howard Penrose is the author of the award-winning book Physical Asset Management for the Executive (Caution: Do Not Read This On An Airplane), and Electrical Motor Diagnostics, 2nd Edition, a Foreword Book of the Year Finalist.

5. IR Thermography for Electrical and Mechanical Systems
Instructor: R. James Seffrin, Director, Infraspection Institute
As thermography has matured, it has gained acceptance across many industries. It is routinely used to detect evidence of incipient failures in electrical and mechanical systems. Although modern infrared test equipment has become more user friendly, proper conduct of an infrared inspection still depends on the skills of the thermographer. This course will provide an introduction to thermography; proper selection and use of test equipment; diagnosing and prioritizing electrical and mechanical exceptions; safety during inspections; and current industry standards. A must for thermographers and facility managers seeking to initiate or expand their CBM or PdM programs, it is designed for in-house and contract thermographers as well as PPM and PdM professionals.

About Jim Seffrin:
R. James Seffrin is a Level III Certified Infrared Thermographer® with more than 25 years experience in performing infrared inspections for a wide variety of commercial, industrial and residential applications. He is a co-author of several industry standards and is qualified as an expert witness on the subject of thermography.

About Ed Stanek:
Ed has been developing reliability and maintenance systems for the past 22 years. His primary experience is with results-driven, reliability-focused processes. As co-owner and president of LAI Relibility, Ed is also an instructor on Maintenance & Reliability, PMOptimization, TPM, Maintenance Systems and Asset Management. He is a past chairman of the Society of Tribology and Lubrication Engineers and has worked with the SME, the International Institute of Research, Northern Illinois University, Iowa State University, the University of Michigan, as well as maintenance & reliability conferences and manufacturing associations around the world.