This valuable two- or three-day seminar strives to enliven preventive maintenance (PM) functions so they truly prevent failures and reduce lifecycle costs. Preventive maintenance means all actions intended to keep durable equipment in good operating condition.  A good PM program is the heart of effective maintenance for any equipment that “wears out” or can get overheated from friction loads, dirt accumulation, and similar faults.  This interactive seminar is intended for managers and project leaders in Engineering, Maintenance, and Operations who want to improve their PM programs to reduce downtime and costs. You will be stimulated in advance to identify your special PM needs so that we can together prepare PM plans that will directly provide you benefit. You can pay a little now for good PM, or a lot later for downtime, repair costs, and reduced productivity..

Some of the topics are:

• Five fingers of effective maintenance

                   Improvement to eliminate causes of failure

                   On-condition maintenance

                   Condition Monitor

                   Scheduled Periodic Actions

                   Unscheduled / Corrective / Repair 

• Interactions of reliability, maintainability, and availability
• Failure modes, patterns, effects, and criticality
• PM as a profitable investment
• Economics of PM
• Motivating PM personnel
• Parts for PMs
• Selling PM to management and operations
• Collaboration of people, parts, and information
• Planning and estimating
• Designing and implementing a new PM program
• Equipment design and installation for better PM
• Participants’ special concerns

Participants in this seminar will receive a copy of the book "Preventive Maintenance" (3rd Edition) by Joe Patton, plus copies of any additional presentation materials.

Preventive Maintenance, (3rd Edition) by Joe Patton; details ways to minimize downtime and improve productivity by eliminating the causes of failure and by reducing breakdowns.  This new edition shows how the investment in a PM program gains a high ROI in longer equipment life, smoother operation, higher productivity, and increased profits.  Softbound, 186 pp, ISBN 1-55617-875-7.  Order at the "Publications" tab.

For more information on this class call:

Joe Patton 843-384-6232