Lord Bill Jordan to chair new easyFairs Maintec summit
January 30th 2009 Former trade union chief Lord Bill Jordan CBE will chair a new Summit Conference at easyFairs Maintec 2009 that brings together leading authorities in the field of plant maintenance and asset management.
Lord Jordan, who spent 20 years working with GKN in the West Midlands, is ex-president of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, member of the Foundation for Manufacturing and Industry, and General Secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. He’s also served on the General Council of the TUC and all its major committees.
He will oversee the easyFairs Maintec Summit Conference at the NEC on March 18. The Conference includes papers and case studies from leading lights in the fields of lean plant management, lubrication technology, condition monitoring, automation, and energy efficiency.
Between them they’ll address the need to understand the key challenges and opportunities impacting on the asset management and maintenance functions going into the next decade. And they’ll give guidance on how to get board-level attention to change the behaviour of front-line employees in order to deal with these challenges and exploit the opportunities.
Now Governor of the Ashridge Management College and president of RoSPA, Lord Jordan said: “The Maintec Summit promises delegates an opportunity to benchmark their asset management capability, set performance expectations, better manage the risks and regulatory pressures, and build a business case for change. And, crucially, it will highlight why asset management should be considered a value adding operation, not merely an overhead.”
Award-winning maintenance project Case Studies come from rubber belt and hose manufacturer Gates Power Transmission, in Dumfries, whose lean production initiative was pivotal in it being named ‘Best Engineering Plant’ at this year’s Best Factory Awards, and Schaeffler UK’s engine components plant in Llanelli. The latter won the ‘Best Manufacturing Award’ at the Wales Quality Awards 2008.
Elsewhere, John Woodhouse, md of The Woodhouse Partnership – an international authority on the management of industrial risk and asset performance – explains how plant managers can best judge where, when and how to apportion their maintenance budget.
The Institute of Asset Management will use various studies to show how UK factories must raise their game in order to remain competitive, with specific focus on how chronic and sporadic failures need addressing within a CIP.
And David Wright, chief executive of the West Midlands Manufacturing Advisory Service, delivers the Maintec 2009 Industry Address in which he considers the wider health of UK manufacturing and highlights performance enhancing opportunities.
To book a place at the Maintec Summit Conference, and to take advantage of ‘early bird’ delegate prices, call Lucy Daley on 0208 622 4468 or email lucy.daley@easyfairs.com. For a full itinerary of papers, including seminar times, go to www.easyfairs.com/maintecuk
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