Anyone engaged in maintenance and reliability of equipment and machinery who is contemplating sitting for the SMRP Certification Exam to become a Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional.

Anyone who is struggling with making an impact on company or plant performance and who wants to gain insights into the proven best practices of top performers in every industry.

Anyone who is interested in advancing their careers by bringing proven best practices to their own organization and contributing strategically to the organization’s financial performance.

Those who may be frustrated with working in a reactive maintenance work environment, constantly chasing today’s emergencies and never getting ahead.

You should attend if you are involved in operation, maintenance or reliability of industrial machinery and you are striving to make a positive impact on your plant’s or enterprise’s business performance.

History of Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (SMRP) and details of the Certified Maintenance & Reliability Professional (CMRP) exam.

The business case for reliability; the connections between the technical best practices and financial performance. 

Case Studies of Top Performers in many industries.

Technical Strategies and Tactics of The 5 Pillars of the SMRP Body of Knowledge,including:

Business Management:

•  Create Business Case, Create & Administer Strategic Plan 

•  Selling programs and change to stakeholders

•  Creating measurement and performance evaluation systems

•  Managing risk Preparing the business case for change

•  Communicating to stakeholders

•  Planning and budgeting of resources

•  Maintenance and Operations performance agreements

•  Manage Environmental, Health & Safety Risk

Manufacturing Process Reliability:

• Understand Processes & Process Parameters

• Identify Production Losses

• Manage Process & Equipment Changes

• Understand Processes & Process Parameters

• Understand Processes & Process Parameters

• Identify Production Losses

• Manage Process & Equipment Changes

• Maintain Compliance w/ Regulations and Industry standards

• Understanding the manufacturing process

• Manufacturing effectiveness techniques

• Safety, Security, Health, and Environmental (SSHE) issues

• Managing the effects of change (Management of Change and Change Management)

Equipment Reliability:

• Determining equipment and process performance expectations

• Establishing current performance levels and analyze gaps (Equipment/Process Reliability)

• Establishing a maintenance strategy to assure performance

• Maintenance strategy development process

• Asset Health Management

• Hierarchy Validation

• Criticality v. Priority

• Four Basic Elements of a maintenance strategy

• Lubrication Plans

• Condition monitoring/PdM methods and capabilities

• Failure Mode Based Maintenance Strategies

• Precision Maintenance

• Writing effective PMs

• Policies & Procedures

• Asset Health Reporting

• Justifying the new strategy

• Executing the new strategy

• Reviewing performance and adjusting the strategy

• FRACAS

• RCA

Organization & Leadership:

•  Assessing organization compliance and direction

•  Assessing organization compliance and direction

•  Aligning maintenance and reliability goals to organizational goals

• Developing the maintenance and reliability organizational structure

• Aligning the M&R organization to M&R goals

• Developing the maintenance and reliability staff

• Communicating maintenance and reliability to the organization

• Review of communication planning

• Organization & Leadership - People Skills

• Determine Required Orginazational & Staff Needs

• Inventory Skills & Determine Gaps

• Develop Personnel Training

• Lead & Manage People

Work Management:

• Establish Work ID Process

• Prioritize Work, Plan Work, Schedule Work Execute Work, Document Work

• Analyze Performance & Work Effectiveness

• Plan & Execute Projects

• Use Information Technologies effectively

• Ranking Index for Maintenance Expenditures (RIME)

• (EAM, CMMS, Condition Monitoring Software, etc.)

• Manage Materials & Contractors

• Determining the size of the backlog

• Daily Planning

• Shutdown/TAR planning

• Effectively managing resources

• Documenting work execution

• Work Order Closure

• Failure Reporting

• Reviewing history and identifying failures

• Maintenance Performance Metrics and reviewing performance

• Return on Net Assets (RONA)

• Economic Value Added (EVA)

• Planning capital projects

• Effectively using maintenance technologies

• CMMS/ERM systems

• Modeling tools

To learn the secrets of the consistently demonstrated best practices and habits of the best performers in various industries around the world.

To learn the methods of deploying these practices at your location, in order to contribute to dramatically-improved performance for your enterprise.

To understand the typical roadblocks and impediments to success, and techniques to overcome them.

1.  What the top performers are doing world-wide.

2.  How to build a business case for your location.

3.  The methods and techniques used to deploy these best practices at your location.

4.  What to expect about the CMRP Exam.

5.  How to overcome typical roadblocks to achieving best practices.

6.  How to promote your own value in the organization and contribute to improved business performance of your enterprise.