It is all too common that companies fortunate enough to have Reliability Engineers haven’t engaged them properly. It has become acceptable practice to misuse skills and talent and even labels. Instead, we create high priced part-finders, over-qualified maintenance supervisors, and number crunchers churning out metrics no one really cares about. It is time we start putting reliability back into Reliability Engineer. A Certified Professional Reliability Engineer understands the math involved and can compel organizations to follow a path forward.

In this masterclass, you’ll gain ammunition needed to make a compelling case to finally let Reliability Engineers do some reliability engineering.

• The science of failures.
• The appreciation for inherent reliability.
• The mathematical relationship between Reliability, Availability, & Maintainability.
• A reliability culture that is hell-bent on making data driven decisions.
• Constructing an effect Asset Reference Plan.
• Compel others to see the vision.
• The confidence to make a fiscal argument for greater reliability efforts.

John is a best-selling author and the creator of the Certified Professional Reliability Engineer certification program. He has more than three decades of Maintenance and Reliability experience. He is a former Captain in the United States Air Force, a commander of the F-111F Field Training Detachment, and a Gulf War veteran. He is also a college professor at North Carolina State University’s Maintenance and Reliability Management (MRM).

To effectively transfer the knowledge and skills necessary for organisations to build profitable and sustainable maintenance and reliability programs, we need to understand 'what needs to be done' and 'why it needs to be done.'

• If it's best practice, then why isn't it our standard practice?
• How to make good work management happen.
• Creating a maintenance philosophy.
• The 10 major work management processes.
• Getting away from buy-in and getting to work.
• Measuring for success.

John is a best-selling author and the creator of the Certified Professional Reliability Engineer certification program. He has more than three decades of Maintenance and Reliability experience. He is a former Captain in the United States Air Force, a commander of the F-111F Field Training Detachment, and a Gulf War veteran. He is also a college professor at North Carolina State University’s Maintenance and Reliability Management (MRM).

This six-hour dive into Asset Management, specifically the Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) is designed to be a fun and informative look at what it takes to establish a successful and forward-thinking strategy towards all vital equipment and, as importantly, get the necessary and needed stakeholders to be fired up about it. With their newly found passion and energy, stakeholders are more likely to stay within the ‘lines’ of the plan, contribute to its execution, measure the effectiveness of the SAMP and suggest ideas to make improvements as time goes by. Generating ideas is seldom ever an organization’s problem. Consistently executing the plan, year in and year out, is another issue altogether.

Participants in this workshop will gain practical and ready-to-use knowledge through six specific learning objectives:

• Design, Build, and Install for the highest level of inherent reliability
• Translating organizational objectives into Strategic Asset Management Plans (also referred to as: Asset Reference Plan)
• The value of knowing an asset’s Life Cycle and Life Cycle Cost
• Establishing the necessary ‘control activities,’ or the stuff we actually do (Preventive, Predictive maintenance)
• Determining spare part requirements
• Auditing the SAMP
• Evaluating performance
• Continuous Improvement

ISO 55000 states that the SAMP ‘shall’ be in alignment with the organizational objectives. There isn’t a lot of wiggle room to get out from under a ‘shall’ directive. Unfortunately, high-level organizational objectives are often written in corporate ‘speak’ and are hard to translate into exact maintenance activities. This workshop offers a crash course in translating abilities.

An asset’s location on its Life Cycle helps to determine if the equipment has enough value left to be of value to the company. Clearly, some assets have left companies feeling ‘nickel and dimed to death.’ Attendees will understand how to estimate Life Cycle Cost and value. The control activities are the actual maintenance actions taken by all maintenance organizations. In the scheme of things, a maintenance department has a finite number of activity types to bring to bear. This workshop will discuss each of them.

The workshop will conclude with an engaging discussion on the general review and audit practices around measuring the application of the plan and the measurements of its intended effects. From those effects, an organization will take action to either leverage positive outcomes or compensate with improvement actions for negative results. This is continuous improvement.

This workshop encapsulates almost the entirety of Asset Management, choosing to focus on the line from organizational objectives to continuous improvement by focusing on the Strategic Asset Management Plan.