You have restructured manufacturing operations and brought down labor costs. You implemented an expensive integrated Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software to ensure that every one in the company works in a synchronized manner. You have purchased state-of-the-art equipments and physical assets to increase revenue, throughput and productivity. Next, you start thinking about going Lean Manufacturing

But wait...

Are your maintenance initiatives in place to ensure continued equipment/asset availability so that your plans above do not get jeopordized by downtime?

Introduction

Maintenance suffers from a deficiency of understanding and respect. It is probably fair to say that most people (even management) think the role of maintenance is to “fix things when they break.” That could hardly be further from the truth. When things break down, maintenance has failed. The maintenance job is to maintain it so that it never breaks.

A typical manufacturing plant has hundreds, even thousands, of equipment components that can create problems in myriad ways. Plant managers and production managers often do not understand the reasons behind these chronic problems and thus miss one of the biggest strategic opportunities available to make improvements in capacity, throughput, and profits—performance improvement through better maintenance and reliability.

In many of these companies, maintenance practices are highly informal, not well-organized, and not based on “best practice” approaches. Good systems of work control are either inadequate or not present at all. Breakdowns are frequent and the majority of maintenance activity is reactive. In the pressure of time, maintenance may be subjected to a “quick fix” mentality, an approach that actually exacerbates the situation—not exactly the formula for world class status.

As economic conditions continue to redefine manufacturing business strategy, companies are searching for innovative and practical solutions that allow them to reduce costs and boost the bottom line. Increasingly, one of the common targets for these cost savings initiatives is the maintenance department.

Seminar Objectives

This seminar will introduce you to the stategic part of maintenance management, concept of cost in productive maintenance, preventive maintenance system and failure analysis, setting up an effective maintenance framework and measuring the effects of facility maintenance.

Speaker's Profile

The speaker is a Production Control Department and Factory Planning Manager with one of the leading Japanese MNCs in Malaysia and has over 20 years of industrial experience. His experiences include over seeing overall efficiency of the factory, maintenance management, implementation of ERP systems, quality management representative, budget planning, forecast planning, production scheduling, logistic control and material management.

The speaker has had formal education in Southern Illinois University, USA in aviation electronics and is trained on Maintenance Management, Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Waste and Chemical Management and Industrial Safety, among others.

He is instrumental in having been the certified lead auditor for ISO QMS (ETRS Australia), ISO9000 (SIRIM Malaysia) and has headed and achieved certifications of ISO9002, ISO14001, ISO 9001: 2000 and TS16949:2002 for his company.

14^th July, 2005

Session One (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

• Introduction to the strategic part of maintenance management and its significance.
• Concept of costs in productive maintenance.
• Preventive maintenance system and failure analysis.

Session Two (1:00 PM – 4:00 PM)

• Setting up the framework for the journey to maintenance excellence.
• Measuring the effect of facility maintenance.

Fees and Payment

Fee : RM 488 per attendee

Discount : A 10% discount will apply for 3 or more attendees from the same corporate entity and the same location.

Payment : Payment can be made by enclosing a crossed check made payable to Phitomas Sdn Bhd and delivered to Unit 3A02, Level 3A, Block B, Kelana Square, 17, Jalan SS7/26, Kelana Jaya, 47301 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

Important: Please write down your company, tel no and name at the back of the cheque.

Terms & Conditions

By submitting the registration form below, you are agreeing to the following terms and conditions:

• Cancellation : Attendees who cancel prior to 4^th July, 2005 will have their fees refunded, less a 25% administration charge. No refunds will be made after this date but replacement attendees may be nominated.
• Phitomas' liability on any claim of any kind, including negligence, for any loss or damage arising out of, connected with, or resulting from the seminar, or from the performance or breach of contract covering the seminar shall in no case exceed the contract price of the seminar.
• Phitomas reserves the right to reschedule the seminar to another date or refund the customer paid registration fee due to cancellation at no extra costs, three days prior to the seminar date.

Early Birds

The first ten (10) seminar attendees to register are eligible to a free single-user web-based Computerized Maintenance Management Software (CMMS).

Demo: http://www.eam2go.com/demo_center.php

Lucky Draw

Attendees can participate in our seminar lucky draw and win an O2 XDA II Mini, the world's smallest PDA Handphone.