Mainnovation, in association with Conference Communication, announces the launch of the Value Driven Maintenance® (VDM) Master Class.  This is a one-day case-study conference in the UK in October 2013, which features a complimentary follow-up one to one benchmarking service and access to a series of Master Class webinars.  There is also an option to attend the Maintenance Business Experience – the interactive business game for maintenance and reliability professionals – at a discounted rate.

On Wednesday, October 16, John Holmes from Mainnovation together with our client, one
of the industry leading natural gas companies, will give a lecture titled “Fueling Success with a Reliability Engineering Roadmap”.
The natural gas company will discuss how they utilized the Reliability Roadmap to create the maintenance program for a greenfield liquid natural gas fueling station.  The foundation of this project was the VMN Reliability Engineering Roadmap.  This was the first ever design of its kind use to fuel tractor trailer trucks with LNG for hauling process water for the oil and gas drilling operations in northwest Louisiana.  We will discuss the need for a comprehensive, standardized approach and how they were able to replicate the maintenance strategies developed to many additional fueling units derived from the fixed station design that started the project. 

On Thursday, October 17, Remco Jonker and John Holmes from Mainnovation will lead “The Maintenance Business Experience” (MBE).
The MBE is an interactive business game for professionals in the maintenance and reliability field. Various teams compete with each other to develop the most value adding maintenance and reliability strategy for a fictional company. In the annual strategy assessment, the teams learn how to interpret KPI’s and how benchmarking can be used to identify value potential and improvement areas.  The teams get feedback on the most effective maintenance organization and the do’s and don’ts around best practices like RCM, TPM and RBI. In this unique event participants learn how to steer their maintenance organizations using Key Performance Indicators, benchmarking data and maintenance best practices. Most importantly participants learn how to transform maintenance from a cost center into a value adding profit center.

SMRP Conference Bonus:  Participants of the MBE that bring in their own maintenance data will receive an initial benchmark assessment report with their industry peers at the end of the day.

On Tuesday, October 15, and on Wednesday, October 16, John Holmes will volunteer as a Track Leader for the Work Management Track (5) of the SMRP Annual Conference. This role started out months ago reviewing the potential abstracts for the representative tracks. The next step was to select who would be involved and coach and mentor them on the presentations that would become part of the 2013 SMRP conference.

During the conference Mainnovation exhibits her booth (# 912) in the Ballroom at The Indiana Convention Center. Come see us and find out how Mainnovation can help you professionalize your maintenance organization!

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Many organisations with multiple manufacturing operating plants are striving for Manufacturing & Maintenance Excellence. Although the potential of the combined benefits usually tends to be significant, it is not easy to get a multi site maintenance & reliability excellence program up and running effectively. The participating sites will be on different levels of proficiency, have different ways of working, cultures, tools, business priorities and CMMS systems in place. And you need to deal with the battle of the ideologies: should the excellence standard be based on TPM, RCM, Lean, PdM, RCA or use an 'all-inclusive' framework? This webinar will reveal practical guidance on how to achieve a common maintenance language & culture, a structured approach for assessing plants yearly, rating excellence by tangible KPI Metrics and CMMS based Dashboards, applying internal & external benchmarking and knowledge sharing on best practices. Mainnovation has facilitated several multi site maintenance excellence programs all over the globe and will share lessons learned from case studies of GlaxoSmithKline, Volvo Cars, DSM and AkzoNobel.

Maintenance Managers across industries are being forced to improve their performance. Fortunately many maintenance organizations contain a hidden value potential. Should you focus on uptime or on cost reduction?
What are your top 10 performance killers, and which equipment causes the biggest budget overrun? What is the root cause for these problems?
These are questions that can only be answered with the right maintenance management information. Although the data is often captured in SAP EAM, it is hardly transformed into meaningful reports that improve your decision making. The VDM Control Panel is a new and innovative Maintenance KPI Dashboard that is built in SAP BusinessObjects technology and is fully integrated with SAP EAM. It uses more than 100 Key Performance Indicators, graphs and drill-down analyses and is based on the successful Value Driven Maintenance® methodology from Mainnovation.
In this webinar you will learn how KPI's can be used to set targets and to monitor and leverage continuous improvement through a state of the art KPI dashboard.  

Value Driven Maintenance (VDM) is a state of the art framework that has been implemented by leading maintenance organizations all over the world with impressive results including:

• 30% Uptime Improvement
• 50% Cost Reduction
• 40% lower MRO stock value

During the presentation Remco will cover finding, building and implementing your winning maintenance strategy as well as monitoring the results. Several steps will be detailed, such as:

• Defining your strategy
• Creating your desired future state
• Monitoring results with a KPI dashboard

The entire process is based on Value Driven Maintenance and throughout the presentation Remco will reveal the VDM Roadmap, show VDM customer case study results and highlight dedicated VDM tools like the myVDM.com Benchmarking Database and the VDM Control Panel (KPI Dashboard). The VDM tools have proven to accelerate many multi-site Maintenance Excellence programs, bridging differences in plant size, culture and level of professionalism.

Click here to watch the recorded webinar.

On Wednesday June 5 John Holmes from Mainnovation and Jeremy Miller from a leading natural gas supplier gave a presentation titled ‘A One-Off Design with a World Class Maintenance Strategy’.

A leading energy producer and supplier of natural gas needed to build a maintenance program for a liquid natural gas fueling station that was first of its kind and required the highest levels of safety and performance. This project worked as a template for many similar stations allowing for a quick and broad deployment of the new maintenance strategy. The Reliability Engineering Roadmap provides a simple and easy to follow format to execute a reliability improvement to formulate reliable maintenance plans, improve existing plans where necessary, and give input to the equipment standardization policy and life cycle decisions. The process follows well known best practices such as reliability centered maintenance analysis (RCMA), preventative maintenance optimization (PMO), and root cause analysis (RCA) to develop the data that then formulate and/or optimize the maintenance plans. A good Reliability Roadmap is a comprehensive approach that contains all of the elements for success whether the team plans to analyze one performance killer or a group of critical equipment or systems.

The Maintenance Business Experience is an interactive business game for professionals.

You know the challenge of showing the value of the maintenance you do. We all struggle with it and the MBE will be able to show which decisions bring value and which don't, through learning by doing. 
Experienced trainers from Mainnovation and ESS to facilitate and guide us throughout the day. The team which creates the most economic value wins the game and goes home with a bucketful of learnings, a new way of thinking and the prestigious 'Most Valuable Maintenance Organisation' award.

All participants received a copy of the book "Value Driven Maintenance, New Faith In Maintenance" by Mark Haarman and Guy Delahay, the founders of Mainnovation.

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Maintenance Managers across industries are being forced to improve their performance. Fortunately many maintenance organizations contain a hidden value potential. Should you focus on uptime or on cost reduction?
What are your top 10 performance killers, and which equipment causes the biggest budget overrun? What is the root cause for these problems?
These are questions that can only be answered with the right maintenance management information. Although the data is often captured in Maximo, it is hardly transformed into meaningful reports that improve your decision making. The VDM Control Panel is a new and innovative Maintenance KPI Dashboard that is built in IBM Cognos technology and is fully integrated with Maximo. It uses more than 100 Key Performance Indicators, graphs and drill-down analyses and is based on the successful Value Driven Maintenance® methodology from Mainnovation.
In this webinar you will learn how KPI's can be used to set targets and to monitor and leverage continuous improvement through a state of the art KPI dashboard.

Click here to watch the recorded webinar.

Improve your maintenance performance and increase the return on your IT investment!

• An annual, four-day educational experience and professional-development opportunity.
• Created for plant and facility managers, maintenance leaders and crew members, reliability engineers, industrial technicians and other capacity-assurance professionals.
• Composed of two days of Conferences and two days of Workshops presented by industry professionals.

Mainnovation presented an informative session of the Reliability Roadmap to the audience at MARTS 2013. John Holmes discussed the need for a detailed and standardized approach to asset reliability improvement. The use of a comprehensive roadmap creates a route to success by properly classifying the assets in need, performing the necessary analysis (RCMA, FMEA, PMO), implementing the program and developing the performance management structure needed to monitor the status. This approach was highlighted with client examples of how this approach has been used for small pilot projects to complete plant and corporate reliability transformations.