PC2
3/15/2010 1:00:00 PM - 3/15/2010 4:30:00 PM

Saving Money with Maintenance: Proper Planning, Scheduling and Storerooms Can Get You There

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Presenter(s): Andy Gager, Director of Consulting Services
Marshall Institute

Each year maintenance departments lose money because of ineffective planning and scheduling. We’ve all been there: going to a job without all the necessary parts or tools, too much travel time between jobs, waiting for parts or supplies to come in. There are steps you can take to make the maintenance department more effective and cost less.

The maintenance planning, scheduling and MRO Storeroom operations are so closely connected that we cannot expect to have a world class maintenance program without a world class storeroom. The planner and crafts must have the confidence that the storeroom will have the right parts, in the right location in the right quantity. The textbook definition of Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) is the average time needed to restore an asset to its full operational condition. How can we expect to optimize this meaningful metric if we constantly default to expedited freight or overnight deliveries?

Attend this pre-conference workshop to better understand the partnership required to maintain equipment at the lowest possible costs in order to produce the highest quality product.

Learning Objective:

1. Understand how to optimize the storeroom for significant cost reductions and cost avoidances while managing company assets and eliminate excess inventories, phantom storerooms, and premium freight charges

2. Visually understand the intrinsic value of having a true partnership between crafts, planners, and MRO Storeroom with the elimination of non-value added activities

3. Learn how to use both high and low tech methodologies to predict and plan for failures before they become catastrophic and plan the repair at the lowest possible cost

Audience:

CEU: 0.1