Uptime - Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management

At popular request we are bringing this course to you as a live webcast!

Summary

This webcast will help you:

1. Deliver more uptime - availability of physical assets for your business
2. Reduce maintenance costs through successful practices
3. Reduce the risks to safety, environmental compliance and business performance due to equipment failures
4. Shift from reactive to proactive approaches in managing
5. Identify what you can do today to get the changes started

Objectives

1. Show how conventional management thinking and approaches are often destructive – ruining efforts to operate equipment and systems reliably and sustainably. 
2. Introduce new concepts about equipment and human behavior and how to use them effectively. 
3. Show the differences required in managing both older and younger components of your workforce. 
4. Get you past "benchmark thinking".  We will introduce successful practices from a variety of industries and show what makes those practices successful.
5. Demonstrate how spending a little a can save a lot.  We'll show how to optimize maintenance practices to get the optimal performance from your assets.

Background

Getting it right requires cooperation between production, maintenance, engineering and purchasing groups, often difficult to achieve without a common set of guiding principles and techniques. Employing a valid discounted cash flow model, backed up by realistic operating inputs, and developing an excellent maintenance and asset management strategy, are keys to achieving industry-leading results.

Pre-Course e-Learning

Prior to the course, registered delegates have access to the online e-learning material consisting of an introductory course titled Uptime - Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management.

UBC Certificate in Mining Studies

This course qualifies for one day of short course credit for the UBC Certificate in Mining Studies, a continuing education initiative by the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining at the University of British Columbia. more details »

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

This course meets the requirements for formal CPD activity for most Canadian provincial associations and US state boards and may contribute the equivalent in hours towards your CPD requirement.

Who Should Attend

The course will be of particular interest to purchasing, maintenance, engineering and production professionals from mining companies that operate fleets of large haul trucks and mobile mining equipment, vehicles, plant and facilities. It will also be of interest to suppliers of mining equipment, financial analysts, insurers and lenders to the mining industry to help gain an understanding of what mining companies can do to actively reduce business risks.