Work Management for Maintenance and Reliability New

Upcoming dates (1)

May 14-16, 2024

Madison, WI or Live Online

Course Overview

The programs dives deep into the best practices of each of the 10-primary maintenance work processes and gives attendees experience in creating workflows, RACI charts, and detailed activity narratives.  The instructor led course includes light lecture, lots of student participation in responding to questions on the topic of discussion as well as application exercises to help strengthen knowledge, understanding, and application.

Who Should Attend?

This course is encouraged for any professional who hopes for and expects to learn and perform asset reliability at a higher level.  Not restricted to maintenance personnel.

  • Maintenance managers, supervisors, engineers, and technicians
  • Reliability managers and engineers
  • Storeroom managers and associates
  • Plant Engineers
  • TPM coordinators

Additional Information

Work management is meant to be guided by process adherence.  The ability to guarantee a successful outcome, every time is predicated on the discipline to follow a process and to continually improve those processes.  This is the program that sets the stage for developing those exceptional work management processes.

This course is part of the Maintenance and Reliability Management Certificate. Enhance your maintenance skills while earning a recognized credential.

Course Outline

Introduction

  • Welcome and orientation
  • Philosophy
  • Definitions
  • Continuous Improvement
  • World Class

Process mapping

  • Principles of workflow
  • Symbology and flow chart shapes
  • Swim lanes
  • Sequence of activities

RACI charts

  • Rules for creating RACI charts
  • Why ‘C’ and ‘I’
  • Tie in the workflows
  • Uses of RACI charts
    • Roles and Responsibilities
    • Hiring
    • Training

Process guides

  • The anatomy of process guides
  • Communication

P-F curve with work management overlays

  • P-F curve explained
  • The connection between P-F and work management

Process best practices

Fundamentals of reliability

Process development

Instructor

John Ross

John L. Ross, Jr has been a practitioner of maintenance and reliability for almost four decades. He is a former Captain in the United States Air Force, a Distinguished Graduate of both the Aircraft Maintenance Officer School and the Squadron Officer School. John is a Gulf War veteran.

He is a published author of almost two dozen articles and two best-selling books: The Reliability Excellence Workbook, From Ideas to Action; Cover You’re A$$ets, Asset Management at Your Place and at Your Pace.

John is the President of the international reliability consulting company, Maintenance Innovators, Inc., a global thought leader in equipment reliability. John is the co-founder of the American Reliability & Maintenance Institute; creators and administrators of the Certified Storeroom Manager, Certified Storeroom Technician, and the Certified Professional Reliability Engineer certifications.

John is a certified Lean Manufacturing facilitator, Process Safety Management SME, and a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP). John holds a U.S. Patent, an A.S., B.S., M.S. and Ph.D.

Upcoming dates (1)

Program Director

Jon Wellik

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