Please join us for CMMS-2006, the Computerized Maintenance Management Summit from December 5 through December 8, 2006 in Daytona Beach Florida.

With over 60% of all CMMS implementation falling far short of expectations, we have created a conference to address the strategies, tactics and technology for more productive maintenance work process automation through Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).

CMMS-2006, the Computerized Maintenance Management Summit is the only event dedicated to Computerized Maintenance Management, Maintenance Inventory, Maintenance Planning & Scheduling and Maintenance Work Management.

You will take away new solutions for maintenance information management that you can put to immediate use as peers and industry experts share knowledge and experience in a non-commercial environment.

Learn more about CMMS-2006 online

Please join Terrence O’Hanlon in a lively 30 minute interview with Ron Moore about the role of leadership and purpose to achieve operational excellence. Aligning maintenance, reliability with operations and overall business objectives are also discussed.

We are pleased to host two IMC-2006 workshops by Mr. Ron Moore, an extraordinary visionary and book author with a common sense approach to aligning maintenance and reliability with operations and overall business purpose.

Ron is building on his first book “Making Common Sense Common Practice: Models for Manufacturing Excellence” with the debut of his brand new second book, “What Tool? When? Selecting the Right Manufacturing Improvement Tools” to be unveiled at IMC-2006.

Listen to the Audio Interview: Ron Moore on Reliability Leadership

“Each and every year billions of dollars are lost from companies because of downtime” said Stephen Ninnes at the recent MEX CMMS Software Seminar. “And the sad truth is that the majority of this can be avoided”.

Downtime costs in production and time is evident when something fails and the plant stops, but the true cost is wide and varying, and usually expensive. From the failure to deliver and staff discontent through to overtime increases and environmental issues.

While this can never be stopped in total, it can be significantly reduced through the effort of applying a simple Preventative maintenance program, good management of it and the ability to analyse where the faults lie. MEX is a CMMS solution that can assist immensely in helping to achieve these aims. “We have been able to achieve the halving of downtime in a plant over a 12 month period just by introducing MEX and applying processes to the maintenance work being done,” said Stephen Ninnes; owner and founder of Maintenance Experts Pty Ltd.

Now, with over 4,000 system users across the globe, from Wales to China to Oregon, MEX is providing solutions to virtually every industry sector including manufacturing plants, building facilities, local governments, fleet managers and maintenance contractors.

MEX will deliver benefits to any size company, from stand-alone installations to multi-site regionalised organisations. Whether a maintenance operation services five or 50,000 pieces of equipment, the MEX system gives users the power to take control, utilising either MEX Access or MEX Enterprise SQL Server.

For more information about MEX CMMS contact us via email at or…

Visit the MEX website to download a trial version

by Neil B. Bloom

RCM should be for everyone, not just for the corporate titans with megabucks to spend and an abundance of personnel available to them…but also for the “every man” who is in charge of preventive maintenance and reliability at a small or mid-sized facility.

Whether you work at a large plant for a large corporation, or a mid-size plant or a small plant, RCM is a universally accepted methodology for everyone who wants to establish a premier preventive maintenance program.

In this 1 hour training course, you will be introduced to the world of RCM, its origin, its present day applicability, and its importance in the future of global corporate competition.

• You will learn how and why RCM was developed for the commercial aviation industry.

• You will learn what the 3 phases of an RCM are.

• You will learn the seven SAE questions of RCM and why they were established.

This course includes a narrated lecture with slides (in Flash and Windows Media Player format), an e-Book, a quiz with scoring, practical exercises and the ability to communicate and interact directly with the instructor and other course participants.

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Audio CD and e-Book

Maintenance can be a pressure cooker. Emergencies, short staffing, vendor problems, high customer expectations all contribute to be stressors on the job. While removing the stressors is impossible, changing your attitude might be possible.

A person who feels mastery over his/her environment transforms the `bad’ stress into good excitement. Workings on time management as a skill helps people feel mastery. The goal is not to feel in control because that is an illusion. The goal of time management is feeling that you can master anything that comes at you.

This special audio CD and e-Book by maintenance expert Joel Levitt includes a one hour presentation, a comprehensive printable e-Book (PDF) and several practical exercises to begin your journey toward mastering time in your life.

Course Content:

1) The Nature of Time- how do you spend it?

2) 7 Daily Habits of Success

3) Scheduling Tips

4) Taming time killers

5) Resources

Note: This program runs on any standard Audio CD Player including car players.

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The Reliability Excellence Experience at IMC-2006
December 5-8, 2006
Daytona Beach Florida

Participate in the 4 day Reliability Excellence Experience - Develop a Business Case For Reliability for your organization!

IMC-2006 in conjunction with Life Cycle Engineering is offering an exclusive 4 day learning experience that allows you to participate in IMC keynotes, networking sessions, the Daytona USA Speedway Track night and attend the IMC-2006/CMMS-2006 Expo while attending a intensive dedicated 4 day Reliability Excellence learning session.

As a participant in the “Powered by Reliability Excellence” work stream of the International Maintenance Conference you will receive instruction and tools to build the business case for Midwest Manufacturing, a fictitious company, based on data provided during the conference. Then, using these same methods, you will be asked to develop the business case for your organization.

Through the use of the Excellence Model, basic mathematics, and benchmark data, this workshop will help you:

• Define the Excellence Model for implementing Reliability Excellence in your organization

• Understand the impact of direct labor utilization on maintenance costs

• Understand the value of leaning out the PM Program

• Understand how to apply benchmark data to improve reliability

• Understand how to determine the number of Planners, Engineers, and PdM Technicians needed to support the proactive workflow model

• Understand the value of optimizing maintenance spares to reduce the total cost of maintenance

• Understand the linkage between Reliability Excellence and initiatives like Lean, Six Sigma, and TPM

Space is limited to 40 people so sign up early to reserve your seat! Learn More here