World Class Maintenance Management Training

Available in your facility or online, to on your schedule, to your people, customized with the topics you need

Benefits from sponsoring courses in-house:

Our promise for these programs is that your staff will have a new and more in-depth understanding of managing maintenance effectively. With this understanding will come increased ability to control the activity of the training.

In-house courses also have significant advantages over traveling to take the training:

  • Save money if you need to train six people or more.
  • Save time since students do not have to lose a day or two in transit to and from the training venue.
  • 100% of the course can pertain to your industry and your maintenance situation.
  • It can be adapted to your maintenance language and forms to be easily understandable.
  • Manuals can incorporate your forms as examples to further enhance the training.
  • Individual issues can be discussed on a confidential basis with the instructor.
  • Individual issues can be discussed on a confidential basis with the instructor.
  • Schedule to be convenient to your business cycle. Unusual schedules can be accommodated, such as night or evening training, ½ day training for two alternating crews.
  • Useful as a team-building experience.
  • Help create a shared a common language and vision for maintenance.

Webinar Training is also available in 1-hour sessions online to as many as 250 connections at one time: your schedule, no travel, no lost time, ultimate efficiency.

Testimonial

” I would just like to take the opportunity to congratulate you on a very well-run workshop. The content was applicable and understandable. I have already used some of your knowledge to “assist” our maintenance department. The highlight of the presentation for me was the way in which the course was delivered. You certainly know how to get the message across and make the attendees comfortable. Once again my congratulations and thanks. John Russell, Peabody Energy Australia Coal “

Listing of seminars available in your facility from Springfield Resources

All courses include a workbook, and many of the classes have a printed textbook.  

Why Choose Us

Any class or any module in any class can be presented in a live setting or virtually. You can pick exactly what you want.

Virtual Training on-line

short, specific, live, cost-effective training in maintenance, reliability, and asset management

What is it?

Virtual Training on-line is short, to the point, and specific online training in all aspects of managing maintenance, reliability, and asset management. It is the right information into the right hands at the right time at the correct cost. Training focuses on your people at their locations and their convenience.

Training Reality:

With changes in technology, strategy, software, and culture, training is an essential element of long-term success. You and your team are too busy to get away for multi-day training. It isn’t easy in some plants to take anyone out, even for the essential training. The idea of getting everyone on the same page at the same time about anything is just a dream

Here is how we solve your training problems:

With our, master trainer Joel Levitt provides maintenance, reliability, and asset management modules to your specification. You choose the module; we can provide customization or not (we can include your forms, photographs, video, and examples from your organization). We offer a platform (or we can use yours) for up to 250 computer connections worldwide. Multiple people can participate in each connection.

Your staff logs in, and Joel will be there, teaching his world-class maintenance and reliability training and providing time for specific questions at the end of each module. No need to fly people offsite for training. No need to lose staff for full days away from the job.

All classes or modules can be presented in a Laser-focused format.
You can pick what you want.

  • Bring the precise training you need to your team in bite-sized (1 hour) chunks
  • NO travel costs and no travel time
  • No downtime or loss of coverage except while in session. 1-hour at a time
  • All training performed live, professionally produced, in 1-hour webinars on the topic you need for 1-250 people (one or more on each connection)
  • In short, you can train the whole team, wherever they are in the world at one time (or at several times convenient to the teams' shift assignments and time zones).
  • Each session can be recorded
  • You can organize sections to cover whole topics (weekly, monthly, or to your schedule)
  • Your entire team hears the same message
  • Listening to the same message promotes a common vocabulary
  • Ask the expert questions (we can extend the training to suit your needs)
  • Pay for only and exactly the training you need
  • Costs are low compared to conventional training
  • Cost per student gets lower as class size increases
  • Designed for anyone, anywhere there is an Internet connection

How to order Virtual Training on-line

  • You will start with a conversation to determine what specific training(s) you need.
  • We can customize the session with your forms, language, and in some cases, your approach
  • You choose the time(s), and we will run the class.
  • We run the program; you get the training and a digital recording
  • We can optionally provide certificates of completion

What topics are available?

Any class in this catalog or any module within any class can be presented as a Laser-focused webinar. You can pick what you want and need.

Examples of full programs  (with hardback textbooks, workbooks, individual session power points, printed textbooks, homework) Each session is about 1 hour, and there are 3 to 10 sessions per class.

  • Introduction to Maintenance Management
  • Introduction to Facilities Management
  • Introduction to Fleet Maintenance
  • Introduction to Maintenance for Manufacturing and Process Industry
  • Introduction to Maintenance Planning and Scheduling
  • Introduction to Preventive Maintenance
  • 10 Minutes a Week to Great Meetings
  • 10 Minutes a Week to Great Time Management
  • Surviving the Spare Parts Crisis
  • Lean Maintenance
  • Maintenance Supervision

Some important individual topics

(each of these is one session)

  • Safety and reliability
  • Maintenance workflow, where does work come from, and job control
  • Backlog, determine crew size with backlog trend
  • Prioritization of work
  • Maintenance photography
  • Goal setting and projects
  • Work order, audit, and case study on evaluation of work orders*
  • Ethics for maintenance management
  • Maximizing your benefit from CMMS
  • 20 Attributes of World Class Maintenance Mentoring
  • Quality and mistakes in maintenance
  • Problems - We need more issues to be the best we can be.

* Versions for any CMMS and any industry are available and should be customized to your operating environment with your fields, codes, and conventions.

What topics are available?

PM

PM basics

PM report card                    

Task lists
Common PM tasks
Explicit versus implicit tasks                                              Types of task lists, where to get the original
Mandatory versus discretionary tasks
A special kind of failure:  Hidden failures

PM frequency

Using failure history

PM clocks in use

CMMS approaches to PM and PdM                                

Thoughts on installing a PM program

Reporting deterioration

Tying CM to the PM ticket

TLC (Tighten, Lubricate, Clean)      

Tasklist development, class of equipment, process

Hidden protective devices

Tasklist: Full analysis (all aspects) Conduct a workshop for existing task lists

Case study test of simple task lists – improve?

Review of real task lists

Questions to ask and examples      

P-F Curve

Reliability enhancement programs RCM

PMO

TPM
Consequences: P/PM economics Past Sins- unfunded maintenance liabilities

Costs of PM system (your company)

Breakdown costs and consequences

Alternatives with cost justifications                  

How to sell PM to management

Predictive Maintenance Technologies                                             Detective Maintenance Questions before you start

Chemical and particle analysis                        

Vibration
Temperature

Visual techniques

Management of PM activity                                                                Planning and scheduling PM activity

Access to equipment

Interruptive, non-interruptive maintenance

Metrics

CMMS approaches to PM and PdM

Installing or upgrading CMMS                          

Short Repairs and high productivity

PM People issues                                                               

Staffing the PM Effort

Personality to look for in a PM inspector

Ensure that PMs are done as designed

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling

Glossary of terms                                                       

Reality of Maintenance                                              

Breakdowns, iceberg                                                 

Justify planner                                                             

Preparation for planning                                           

Maintenance Planning

Setting up planning/scheduling

Steps ongoing planning/scheduling environment 

Planner: Roles, responsibilities, qualifications      

Planner’s checklist, planning provides Emergency planning                              

Hints from the trenches                                             

What is a planned job package?                              

Estimating techniques, using estimates                 

JSA and safety in planning                                       

Planning -construction estimates            

Detailed planning questionnaire and gap analysis

Scheduling (how is it different from planning)

Maintenance calendar                               

Ready backlog, validate backlog                             

Develop a work program                                           

Coordination and agenda for a weekly coordination meeting                                            

Scheduling  

Jobs of the scheduler

How Planning and scheduling improves productivity

The way productivity increases                                

Ideas – sorting jobs, scheduling together, what is the key to having a schedule?          

Scheduling uncovers problems in your operation 

Detailed scheduling and coordination Questionnaire, gap analysis                                  

Metrics                                                                  

Schedule compliance,

Direct and indirect measures of planning effectiveness                                                                      

Maintenance Supervision

Introduction, goals, roles

Motivation, successful motivation techniques

Self-assessment

Role models

Decision making, delegation, One Minute Manager

The complete PM cycle

Dealing with difficult people/situations

Transition, orientation, discipline,

Special supervision issues

10 years of experience of teaching maintenance management certification courses online.

29 years of experience of teaching maintenance management certification courses in Tuscaloosa, AL in live seminars

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10 years of experience of teaching maintenance management certification courses online.