Get Your Adrenaline Pumping at Checkpoint 2012
At Maintenance Connection we love our customers, and we always like to show how much we love you! That’s why at our Annual Training Seminar, Checkpoint, we host a Customer Appreciation Evening. This is a simple way of saying thank you to our customers for helping us continue to develop a great product.
At this years Checkpoint we are taking over Dreamworld, one of Australia’s best theme parks! We will introduce you to the Tigers, like the king of the Tiger Island Mohan, an 18 year old Bengal Tiger. If that’s not enough for you then you can kick your adrenaline into gear by jumping on the Tower of Terror 2 ride! Here is a little sneak peak of what you can look forward to:
If you haven’t signed up yet, there are still a few tickets left! So jump on board and register here. Grab your discount codes by emailing checkpoint@mcaus.com.au
Checkpoint 2012 – Special Guest: Sean Stayner
Sean Stayner is the Managing Director of a change management consulting company based in Australia and the US. He works predominantly with companies in mining, and manufacturing industries. His works to change companies from reactive and chaos fatigued cultures to a proactive model that promotes efficiency from the implementation of best practices.
Sean started his working life as a diesel fitter which led him to become a marine engineer in the Norwegian fishing industry. In this industry he worked on large modern factory trawlers. The experience with the Norwegians was very valuable. These companies had world leading asset life cycle management and world class maintenance processes.
When Sean returned to New Zealand he had the opportunity to apply his learning’s in the quickly evolving New Zealand Fishing industry. He quickly found that there were significant cultural differences between the Europeans and the Australasian. These differences required the development of an Australasian approach to making change.
“The Evolution of Maintenance™” change programme was born. From here change management successes take Sean through numerous roles from Maintenance Manager to Managing Director in a large variety of companies.
Sean and his company have recently been involved in an extensive study of the application of systems and processes in the mining industry. It was found that although the mining industry has good systems and processes they are seldom implemented to a point where they are imbedded.
Worse than this, it was found that many systems, critical to efficiency and safety, were not being followed at all. Sean’s company is now on a quest to assist these companies to transform themselves into world class facilities.
Sean will be presenting at one of our Keynote presentations at this years Checkpoint Training Seminar held on the Gold Coast on May 8-10. To register to attend along with other users from around Australia and New Zealand, click here.
CMMS Implementation in Ten Simple Steps
Especially if you’re new to computer maintenance management software, CMMS implementation can appear intimidating. In many organisations, inventory control, work order tracking, and preventative maintenance may be handled through entirely different processes, each with their own quirks and data standards. Without guidance, moving from this tame chaos to a smooth CMMS implementation may seem overly difficult, if not impossible, for your business.
In ten simple steps, we’ll walk you through a successful CMMS implementation. You’ll see how we’ve helped hundreds of asset-intensive organisations streamline operating expenses, increase asset lifetimes, and develop robust, optimised maintenance programs.
Using CMMS to manage projects – John Reeve, Plant Services
John Reeve explores how to satisfy your data management needs for successful project management within your CMMS system.
by John Reeve, Plant Services.com
The larger the task, the greater the risk. Successful project management requires many skills. A given project requires clear scope definition, identified stakeholders, a work breakdown structure, budgeting, forecasting, a risk/communications plan, key milestones, deadlines and stated assumptions. Many projects can be managed with just a schedule. But there are also issues concerning scope changes, approvals therein and dollar movement between cost accounts. There is an opportunity to satisfy many of these data management needs for successful project management within the CMMS system. Of course, the schedule would still exist and be properly integrated. Modern systems are flexible enough to be altered to meet any requirement. All we need is a roadmap forward.
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Things You Should Know About Asset Management System
Asset Management System provides the privilege of maintaining, upgrading and operating of physical assets. The system combines different sides of the assets such as economical theory, business, and engineering, basically, everything that is necessary to make a logical decision on an organisation’s scheme.
Web-based CMMS vs Web-Enabled CMMS
CMMS, or computerised maintenance management software, is the software that facilitates the access to important information by multiple, authorised users in an organisation at a given time, and this form of software can be categorised into web-based and web-enabled CMMS. Read the rest of this entry »
Proactive vs. Reactive Maintenance
The asset management system of an organisation is highly dependent upon the maintenance software, which arranges the relevant maintenance work that should be carried out for each asset. Currently, the types of maintenance system software that tend to be utilised in companies and firms can be grouped into two categories – proactive and reactive maintenance software. Read the rest of this entry »