Tuesday July 26 , 2005

Registration and Pre-Conference Workshops

3:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Welcome Reception

Wednesday July 27 , 2005

6:30 am - 7:30 am Continental Breakfast in the Registration Area and Learning Labs

7:30 am - 9:00 am  Short Courses

Unlocking The Secrets of CMMS Data by Joel Levitt

Your CMMS may include a great amount of data but is it telling you anything?  Join maintenance expert and  noted author Joel Levitt for a 90 minute short course designed to teach you how to use CMMS data to measure maintenance effectiveness and to make better management decisions.

Benchmarking Best Practices Maintenance by Terry Wireman

How does your maintenance compare with hundreds of other plants?  Terry Wireman, instructor, maintenance analysts and best selling author explains a 16 part benchmarking survey that you will be able use in your plant upon your return.

BOMs – A Maintenance Inventory Savings Model
by Bob DiStefano

Only a handful of plants have complete Bill of Materials available, which incorporated the majority of the spare parts in their MRO inventory. The focus of this course is on the differentiators that separate these few pacesetters from their competitors.

9:00 am  – 10:00 am  Snack & Refreshment Break in Expo Area and Learning Labs

10:00 am – 10:45 am Learning Zone Sessions

Improved CMMS and Asset Management Systems - Do They Lead To Success  
by Len Bradshaw

Join Australian Maintenance Journal Editor and Maintenance instructor Len Bradshaw as he shares his unique insights into the where the CMMS market came from, the state of the current CMMS offerings.  Len will also cover ways users can position themselves for greater success with maintenance information management systems.

11:00 am - 11:45 pm Learning Zone Sessions

Application Service Provider (ASP) model for CMMS/EAM
Hannelore Fineman

As Internet access and network bandwidth increasingly becomes available to the maintenance and engineering departments, the Application Service Provider (ASP) model for CMMS/EAM systems is becoming a very attractive alternative for these organizations.

When considering an ASP solution, companies should fully understand the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for hosted vs. premises-based CMMS Solutions.  Many companies are unaware of the total costs involved in implementing a CMMS system. This presentation explains what the ASP model is and presents a side-by-side comparison of all costs associated with deploying a full featured hosted or a premises-based CMMS system over a five-year period. 

"What is actually the added value of maintenance?" is a frequently heard question in boardrooms the world over. While there is widespread recognition that maintenance is often critically important, only few maintenance managers are able to answer the question convincingly.

Value Driven Maintenance^® methodology (VDM) builds a bridge between traditional maintenance philosophies and managing by shareholder value. Not only does VDM simplify the boardroom discussion, it also shows that far from being a cost center, maintenance is actually a major economic value within the overall business performance.

Datastream, MRO-Software and SAP Europe are developing core functionality to support VDM adequately.

Inventory Management-- A Critical Component to Your EAM Strategy by Joe Catalanotti, MRO Software

 11:45 pm - 12:15 pm

Join Mark Parrot and Hannelore Finneman to get in-depth answers to your questions about Web Based CMMS

Join Dennis Belanger, Terry Wireman and Randy Walker to get in-depth answers to your questions about Maintenance Inventory

12:00 pm  – 1:30 pm  Lunch in Expo Area

1:00 pm - 1:20 pm Dessert Session

1:30 pm - 2:15 pm Learning Zone Sessions

Key Elements To Successful CMMS Implementations
by John Clark

This presentation will evaluate CMMS systems and some key elements that create successful implementations including a look at the philosophical side of maintenance and how best practices effect the implementations.

We will also discuss how maintenance planning and scheduling is combined with maintenance execution of the work to form a nucleolus to achieve maintenance KPI”s, and how the software is used to produce data that can be used with the KPI’s to make good business and economic decisions. This session also explores how the “Train-to-Work” methodology plays a vital role in the continuous success of a project. The session will conclude with “What are the essential steps to be taken to ensure that the CMMS system is maintained, new and current releases are installed, and that training is continuous and on-going.

Leveraging Enterprise Information to Enhance Asset Management by Dave Loesch, Director of Maintenance Solutions, Oracle Corporation

Maintenance departments must look beyond basic asset and work management requirements to understand how they should interoperate with the enterprise-wide information strategy. How can production and maintenance interact to leverage available resources and optimize capacity? How can lease and depreciation information affect maintenance schedules and strategies? How does human resource and training information extend maintenance effectiveness? How can enterprise supply chains be leveraged to reduce material expense without sacrificing downtime? What does finance need from maintenance to support governance initiatives? How does total cost of ownership affect maintenance’s ability to leverage new technology?

Selecting the Right Maintenance Information System by Carla Fair-Wright

The old maintenance information system has gasped from sheer exhaustion. There are no more patches or upgrades available or perhaps the company has decided to take the predictive maintenance route. Whatever the reason, it is time for a new system. The question now becomes, what makes a good maintenance management system?

Using proven guidelines for evaluation and selection, finding a suitable EAM/CMMS need not become an overwhelming or difficult task. This session explains how.

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm Learning Zone Sessions

CMMS/EAM Functional Implementation Startup / Re-Start by Christopher N. Winston

For many years now, CMMS/EAM implementations have often been at facilities that already have a computerized system in place. That system may have fallen into a limited use mode as resources are further and further constrained based on economic climate and other factors.  We will also cover how re-implementations can occur without changing the system you have in place. The focus here will be on what to evaluate first, and additional tools to assist in the effort.

CMMS, by itself, does not guarantee optimal inventory management practices. Gonnella Frozen Products in Schaumburg, IL wanted to improve its inventory management practices but did not know how to move forward. Desire to automate inventory management processes and to make them more efficient existed, however, a missing link existed. Recognizing this, Gonnella Frozen Products made a strategic move and partnered with an outside CMMS consulting firm to create Best Inventory Management Practices, CMMS Training, Workflow Analysis, Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) and Barcode Implementation

Now, Gonnella Frozen Products takes full advantage of the inventory management features of its CMMS and has achieved reduced downtime by having available parts on order. In addition maintenance technicians now find parts quickly and easily. The workflow of reordering parts has been optimized and bottlenecks and redundant procedures eliminated. Stocked parts are automatically reordered. Join us to learn more about the journey!

There are many CMMS systems on the market, all of which promise to save you money, time and effort. How do you decide which one is right for you? This session outlines a series of steps you can take to maximize the chance the system you select will mesh with the way your organization does business, with your maintenance goals and needs, and with the available manpower. The method is non-product specific and in a simple step-by-step format. The steps include how to perform a functional analysis and write a detailed specification, identify and screen the vendors against that specification, develop a short list of vendors and decide which ones you want to see demonstrated. You’ll see how to conduct a demonstration so it covers what you want to see, not what the salesman wants to show you. And finally, how to make and validate your final selection.

3:15 pm  – 4:00 pm Snack & Refreshment Break in Expo Area and Learning Labs

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm CMMS-2005 Keynote - Mastering Computerized Maintenance Excellence

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm CMMS-2005 Casino Night Sponsored by: ChevronTexaco, MasteringMaintenance.com, RELIABILITY® Magazine and Reliabilityweb.com

Thursday July 28 , 2005

6:30 am - 7:30 am Continental Breakfast in the Registration Area and Learning Labs

7:30 am - 9:00 am Short Courses

Managing the Maintenance Information Jungle by Joel Levitt

In this short course, Joel leads us through the maze of documentation required for maintenance management.  He lays out a solid strategy for managing all types of data to ensure a smooth maintenance operation.

The goal of any maintenance organization is to deliver the equipment reliability targets for the least amount of money.

This challenge will be addressed in this paper and presentation. The design of SAP Plant Maintenance application best practices will be discussed that will link maintenance and reliability fundamentals to the software application. Each of the 12 focus areas of SAP PM Application will be discussed and business justification cases presented.

Maintenance Inventory and Purchasing by Terry Wireman

Join Terry Wireman in a short course designed to demonstrate how inventory and purchasing functions provide a service to the maintenance function. The discussion leads to allowing maintenance to control its own resources, even becoming a profit center, enhancing the maintenance effectiveness and corporate profitability.

9:00 am  – 10:00 am  Snack & Refreshment Break in Expo Area and Learning Labs

10:00 am – 10:45 am Learning Zone Sessions

Take control of work, maintenance and asset management with a Computerized Work Management System (CWMS) by Roopchan Lutchman,

The CWMS must be interfaced to other business applications (e.g. financials, process control) where important data is required from these applications to support the business processes conducted in the CWMS. A structured process for selection and implementation of the system is critical to finding the right vendor to partner with and the right product to enable your key business processes. These two activities should be designed to quickly transfer knowledge from your vendor and CWMS expert to your staff in order to maximize ownership and potential results from the system. When done right, a CWMS project can yield returns on investment in the range of 30 to 60% or more.

The Role Of CMMS In Support Of An Improvement Initiative by Scott Franklin

The development and continuous improvement in Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) in the last few years has been remarkable. However, one has to wonder am I getting everything I need? What is everything? What can I do with more information, and how will it help me with all the different maintenance initiatives I’m juggling right now. Maintenance cannot function in a vacuum and must rely on accurate data to make critical decisions as well as track progress relating to any maintenance initiative. This powerful tool needs to be integrated, understood, and utilized to provide data to make these decisions. One must understand the basic structure necessary to ensure the system is established and configured to enable this tool to provide total functionality.

11:00 am - 11:45 am Learning Zone Sessions

Strategies and Tactics for Achieving Results!  by C. Paul Oberg

Major opportunities and subsequent benefits result when there is FOCUS on selective KPI’s, FOCUS on a tactical plan supporting the KPI’s and FOCUS on measuring and analyzing results.  Most EAM/CMMS applications collect and present overwhelming amounts of data but may users fail to take advantage of key information for key assets or processes.  Join CMMS Expert C, Paul Oberg to learn strategies and tactics for achieving results!  Look for benefits in asset reliability, labor productivity, materials management and contractor management.

SAP offers a comprehensive Enterprise Asset Management Solution that helps companies manage assets over their entire life cycle.  Join SAP Enterprise Asset Management expert Kahn Ellis for a enlightening session to explore how to weave your existing SAP modules into a comprehensive EAM strategy. Kahn will also discuss several of the new 3rd party plug ins for improved user interface, catalog management and reliability centered and optimized maintenance. 

Problem Solving Methods for IP Networks is intended to provide IT personnel the requisite skills and knowledge to examine IP network failures using a structured analysis approach.

The learning zone session focuses on a 7 step analysis method that allows the IT analyst to focus on critical IT processes and the underlying failure modes related to support hardware and software.

Exposure to multiple analysis processes (event tree, fault tree, logic tree) that guides them through the technique of solving problems within IP network design and IPSEC based VPN reliability.
 

11:45 am  – 1:00 pm  Lunch in Expo Area

12:30 pm - 12:50 pm Ice Cream Session Sponsored by

From Computerized Maintenance Management to Enterprise Asset Management
by Alan Johnston MIMOSA

As a maintenance and reliability professional why should you care about information standards?  The short answer is that information standards provide a clear way to show how you and your tools directly contribute to your organizations enterprise value.  This presentation will address how information standards provide a clear path to elevate the vendors, products, and maintenance and reliability professional end-users status by closing the vision gap between CMMS and the original vision of EAM as well as addressing new evolving needs of your organizations. 

1:00 pm - 1:45 pm Learning Zone Sessions

Generating Failure Codes for CMMS Implementation by Bill Keeter, CMRP

One of the most important parts of CMMS implementation is the generation of failure codes for the craftsmen to record.  Picking good codes means that you will have information that is useful for continuous improvement activities.  Picking inadequate codes means that crafts people will soon grow tired of carefully entering codes that are not perceived to generate value for the organization.

In this session Bill will show you how to use Failure Modes and Effects Analysis to generate useful codes that will provide a path forward for continuous improvement.  You will see how good codes can help you generate useful failure statistics so that you can forecast future failures and develop preventive/predictive activities that will minimize the business impact of failures.

Managing and Executing Maintenance Training with the CMMS or EAM by Ricky Smith CMRP, CPMM

The CMMS or EAM is a powerful tool that when used properly can provide unbelievable results but where many companies do not know is that this tool can be used to assist in the management and execution of skills and regulatory training.  In this session you will be provided the tools necessary to implement a process to manage and execute all types of training by utilizing your CMMS or EAM.  Lessons Learned will be discussed as to what works and what does not work in this process. In this exciting program you will be provided with examples to take home. Plan to attend and add your experiences to this program.

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm Learning Zone Sessions

Smart training: Implementation touch points pave the way for effective CMMS training by Rod Smith

CMMS software implementations are a critical business event. Your CMMS investment will directly impact the daily life of your entire user population, not to mention your bottom line. Training is a task that should occur early and often – from product selection, through implementation, followed by ongoing continuous improvement. But, take heart, it’s not as bearish as it sounds. By leveraging the deliverables produced throughout your CMMS selection and implementation, you can supply tailor-made and cost-effective employee training – exactly when it’s needed.

Computerized Asset Management for Public Works Departments: A Proactive Approach to Preventative Maintenance by Bill Manson

Effective asset management is an important component of preventing such disasters but for many agencies, asset management is a time consuming and inefficient task. Computerized systems provide an automated solution for asset management and can help agencies take a more strategic, proactive approach to preventative maintenance and asset maintenance.  This presentation will present an overview of how Asset Management can help public works agencies.