Getting Lean through Value Driven Maintenance®
Create value, reduce waste  

Warwick University
Scarman House Conference Centre
November 4, 2008    

Today many companies move to ‘Lean Manufacturing’ to compete in the global economy and to increase profits. But what is ‘getting lean’ exactly and how does is affect Maintenance, how can Maintenance contribute to it and how to derive the maintenance strategy from it?

Many maintenance managers are struggling with those questions in daily practice.  Is ‘Lean’ just a set of well known best practices that are now suddenly tagged and hyped as being ‘lean’ or are there actually maintenance management methodologies available that really link up with lean thinking? Well, that methodology is available today, it’s Value Driven Maintenance®.    On November 4, 2008, Conference Communication, in conjunction with Mainnovation will be organizing the Getting Lean via Value Driven Maintenance® (VDM) conference in the UK.  

Program

09.00 – 09.25 Keynote address by the Conference Chairman; Lord Bill Jordan
09.25 – 10.10 Getting Lean through Value Driven Maintenance®; Kamran Gharachorlou; Mainnovation
10.10 -  10.55 Akzo Nobel’s Growth To Cost Leadership Via Lean Maintenance; Wilco Hekkert, Maintenance & Services Manager, Akzo Nobel Polymer Chemicals
10.55 – 11.15 Mid-morning refreshments
11.15 – 12.00 Fat Results From Lean Thinking; Kevin Duffy, Global Vice President, Industrial Practice, Kepner-Tregoe
12.00 – 12.45 A Risk-Based Approach To Getting Lean; Peter van der Linden, Reliability Engineer, Centocor Pharmaceuticals (a Johnson & Johnson company)
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 14.30 Setting up Service Level Agreements at Volvo Aero, a contractor’s view; Berndt Johansson, Coor Service Management
14.30 – 15.15 Monitoring & controlling maintenance and logistic performance via the VDM Control Panel; Marc Boer, Project Manager VDM, Royal Boskalis Westminster
15.15 – 15.30 Mid-afternoon refreshments
15.30 – 16.30 Panel Discussion – Benchmarking Your Maintenance Performance /Interactive benchmark and value calculations based on real-life case studies; Facilitator: Remco Jonker, Partner, Mainnovation
16.30 – 17.00 Conclusions & Closing Remarks
17.00 CLOSE

Would you like to discover how your maintenance operations can benefit from Lean via Value Driven Maintenance® and have the opportunity to network and share knowledge with fellow maintenance colleagues? If so, we will be delighted to welcome you to Scarman House Conference Centre at Warwick University on Tuesday November 4, 2008.

For more information and registration: www.maintenanceonline.co.uk