Autonomous Maintenance

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• Course Description

• Learning Objectives

• Who Should Attend

• Cancellation Policy

Course Description

Autonomous maintenance is a team-based approach to maintenance activities and part of a total productive maintenance (TPM) process. The process is a partnership between operators, maintenance technicians, engineers and leaders in the operation and maintenance of the equipment. The goal of autonomous maintenance is to prepare operators to do some equipment care independently of the maintenance staff. Learn the steps necessary to involve operators in maintaining their own equipment through daily inspections, lubrications, detecting abnormalities, and precision checks. The result is restoration of equipment to its ideal state, establishment of basic conditions for maintaining it, and preventing equipment deterioration. Properly implemented AM eliminates the causes of 40-60% of unplanned downtime, freeing skilled trades for more specialized activities, including major overhauls, upgrades, predictive programs and new equipment planning and design.

Learning Objectives

In this workshop, participants will learn:

• the role of autonomous maintenance in a total productive maintenance program
• the value of a team-based process for autonomous maintenance
• a continuous improvement approach to improving equipment reliability
• how to build diagnostic and problem-solving skills
• the value of routine cleaning as inspection
• the value of correcting slight abnormalities
• methods for controlling contamination
• the value of developing provisional standards
• the value of visual control methods
• a step-by-step approach to restoration linked with operator training on equipment subsystems

Who should attend?

Plant Managers, Operations Managers, Lean and Continuous Improvement Managers, Production Managers, Maintenance Managers, Green and Black Belts, or any anyone responsible for building and maintaining a continuous improvement program and culture in their organization.

Cancellation Policy:

Conference registrations may be transferred to another colleague without charge. To be considered for a refund, we must receive notice of cancellation in writing no later than 21 business days prior to the event. Cancellations received within 21 business days are subject to the full registration fee and money will be held on account for up to one year for use at a future workshop or conference. If no notification of cancellation is provided, registration fees will be forfeited. There is a $200 processing fee for all cancellations. On rare occasions, circumstances may make it necessary to cancel or postpone an event. As such, we encourage attendees to book refundable/reusable airline tickets. We will not be responsible for incidental costs incurred by registrants.

By registering for this event, the registrant hereby acknowledges and agrees that any photographs or videos taken during the event may be used in marketing efforts, including but not limited to news and promotions (web/print) without compensation to the registrant.

Note: Consultants and university faculty are not permitted to attend.