Summit attracts industry experts
January 1st 2011 The keynote speaker line-up for a two day conference at
ERIKS MAINTEC SUMMIT, endorsed by IAM and organised by
IP&E, has now been confirmed – and it features some of the
UK’s foremost authorities on asset management and
maintenance issues
Scheduled for the 30th and 31st March
2011 at Birmingham’s NEC, the
Summit, sponsored by ERIKS and
chaired by the Institute of Asset Management
(IAM) will include papers and case studies
from leading lights in the fields of ‘lean’ plant
management, process management, health
and safety and thermal technology.
Between them they will 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.
easyFairs UK managing director Matt
Benyon, said: “This year’s SUMMIT has
attracted a line-up of pre-eminent voices in
the maintenance sector; the case study
presentations will show how many of the
UK’s leading manufacturing and process
industries are responding to their challenges.
“The ERIKS 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. The conference is sure
to add to what already looks set to be a great
MAINTEC show.”
The IAM will be chairing the event over
the two days. IAM are a not-for-profit,
professional body for those involved in
acquisition, operation and care of physical
assets.
David McKeown, CEO at IAM,
commented: “Maintenance is a crucial part
of the lifecycle and whole life costs of most
assets. Too often maintenance activities are
perceived as overheads that should be cut as
much as possible. The IAM sees maintenance
as another aspect of investment to achieve
the right outcomes for the owners and
stakeholders and is working to help
organisations take this view – in other words
that CAPEX and OPEX need to be balanced.
He continued:“Many leading
organisations now use BSI PAS 55:2008 and
have started to gain from embedding asset
management thinking in their business. An
important idea is the ‘Line of Sight’ that
should exist between boardroom policies and
activity at every level and enables the relative
importance and value of maintenance to be
seen. The Institute has a long-standing
association with MAINTEC and is delighted
to be helping develop the profile and
reputation of the ERIKS MAINTEC Summit.
This year’s theme should interest every
business that spends a significant proportion
of its turnover on maintenance.”
Putting lean in RCM
The first case study to kick start the
proceedings will be looking at how
maintenance thinking has evolved over time,
the introduction of Reliability Centred
Maintenance (RCM) and the lessons learned
by earlier pioneers of the process.
The paper will be presented by Richard
Kelly, managing director at EMS. He
commented: “The presentation, titled
‘Putting the Lean in Reliability Centred
Maintenance (RCM)’ will be looking at why
RCM is so drastically different to traditional
maintenance and what results can be
expected. I’ll also be discussing how Lean
thinking has transformed the application of
RCM and why the transfer of skills and
ownership is key to sustainability.”
To date, Kelly has trained several hundred
maintenance managers, engineers, maintainers and production team members
in the theory and application of Lean RCM.
Through EMS, Kelly has facilitated many
successful site-based RCM implementation
programmes in diverse industrial sectors.
Process improvement
The second Case Study being presented at
the Summit on Day 1 comes from Idhammer
Systems.
Alan France, operations director at
Idhammer Systems commented: “For our
presentation we will be presenting a joint
paper called ‘Process Improvement – Its Role
within Asset Maintenance. This will show
how Premier Foods & Idhammar Systems
worked together to improve production
performance in over 40 factories. Premier
Foods launched, some time ago, a project to
measure and improve the production process
in all their factories. This paper will show the
basics behind their OEE Attack Loop Process
and how it impacted on their asset
maintenance. The presentation will also
show the decisions made, methods used and
the progress attained.”
Design and maintenance
Rounding up Day 1’s Case Study
presentations will be IAM who will be
talking ‘Product Design and Maintenance –
The Vital Balance’.
Topics for Day 2
On Day 2 the opening case study will be
presented by Neal Stone, Director of Policy
& Research at the British Safety Council. His
presentation will be looking at ‘People – An
Asset to be Managed and Maintained.’
Elsewhere, IAM will be talking through
another Case Study of theirs titled
“Maintaining the UK’s Infrastructure –
Maintenance in the Public Sector, while
Summit sponsors ERIKS will be concluding
the conference with a presentation on ‘Risk
Based Approach to the Frequency of
Thermographic Surveys on Electrical
Devices.’
Book a place
To book a place at the ERIKS MAINTEC
SUMMIT, endorsed by IAM and organised
by IP&E, and to take advantage of ‘early bird’
delegate prices, please call Lucy Daley on the
number below or email her at:
lucy.daley@easyFairs.com
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