International Maintenance Conference: The Speed of Reliability

International Maintenance Conference 2025: The Speed of Reliability

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Creating a Roadmap of Work Execution for Reliability & Maintenance

Creating a Roadmap of Work Execution for Reliability & Maintenance

Not sure where to begin with Work Execution Management? Michael Guns shows how to start with clarity, align leadership and end users, and use planning, scheduling, and data to make work flow. Learn the five W’s, roles and responsibilities, KPIs, and how a planner boosts productivity.

The Most Cost-Effective Way to Improve Your Maintenance Operations Performance in the Industry 4.0 Era

The Most Cost-Effective Way to Improve Your Maintenance Operations Performance in the Industry 4.0 Era

Implementing a sustainable Planning and Scheduling process requires flawless execution and teamwork. This workshop presents the fundamental elements for creating an efficient multi-week schedule, using Industry 4.0 tools to ensure every role maximizes equipment uptime and production output across multi-site organizations.

Failure to Launch: From Maintenance Fundamentals to Reliability 4.0

Failure to Launch: From Maintenance Fundamentals to Reliability 4.0

In the age of AI and IIoT, why are businesses still highly reactive? This session reveals that the core issue is often a failure to master maintenance fundamentals. Learn how to address common gaps in work management to gain control of processes, reduce unplanned downtime, and free up hidden plant capacity.

Duty Standby Equipment Management

Duty Standby Equipment Management

Duty Standby is a low-tech rotation strategy that acts as an independent check on work processes. Join MEG Energy'sjourney to discover how this approach—from inception to cultural buy-in—uncovers misses in procedures, optimizes planning, and builds a culture of informed, low-risk decision-making.

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When Scheduling and Planning Fall Short

When Scheduling and Planning Fall Short

Materials are ordered and manpower is allocated, but does your frontline staff know the plan? This session addresses the critical communication gap between management and trades that causes confusion, wasted time, and safety risks. Learn the easy, common-sense steps, the RCM way, that DC Water is taking to close this loophole and cultivate a world-class reliability culture.

How to Baseline Your Craft Productivity (Wrench Time)

How to Baseline Your Craft Productivity (Wrench Time)

Struggling with the 30% productivity average? This session offers a practical methodology to establish your team's baseline without resorting to individual time studies. Learn how GEMBA exercises build trust, reveal the 8 wastes in your workflow, and provide the visibility needed to drive defect elimination and improve planning.

The Impact Of AI-Assisted Maintenance For Plant Management

The Impact Of AI-Assisted Maintenance For Plant Management

Is OEM dependency costing you time and money? This session reveals how a chronic labor shortage and proprietary data are increasing machine downtime to a staggering 81 minutes. Discover how a new AI-powered approach, based on the OODA loop, is bridging the human-to-machine knowledge gap by automating root cause analysis and providing technicians with instant, data-rich troubleshooting guidance to get your assets back online faster.

Enhancing Maintenance Planning: Address These Top 10 Reasons for Ineffectiveness

Enhancing Maintenance Planning: Address These Top 10 Reasons for Ineffectiveness

Maintenance planning is the heart of efficient and effective asset management. However, there are times when maintenance planning falls short of expectations, resulting in unplanned downtime, inefficient resource allocation, and increased costs.

Strategic Maintenance Management: A Journey to Reliability

Strategic Maintenance Management: A Journey to Reliability

What is reliability and why reliability is important in the strategic maintenance management implementation?

Central San’s Improvement in Work Execution: Strategy to Tactics

Central San’s Improvement in Work Execution: Strategy to Tactics

Our motto of: “The right maintenance, right equipment at the right time.”

Maintaining a Healthy Backlog through Planning and Scheduling

Maintaining a Healthy Backlog through Planning and Scheduling

If someone told you that you could do more with less people, you would think they were a fool, right? Well, actually, that person is correct and some basic planning and scheduling strategies is proof of it.

Planning & Scheduling Basics - Harness Time!

Planning & Scheduling Basics - Harness Time!

Save your most precious resource, time! WEM guru Michael Guns shares the fundamentals

Maximize the ROI of Your SAP PM

Maximize the ROI of Your SAP PM

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, like system applications and products in data processing (SAP), are critical systems for managing a business and its operations.

Reliability and the Planning and Scheduling Process

Reliability and the Planning and Scheduling Process

Planning and Scheduling are critical. You may have already heard that planning and scheduling improves equipment reliability, reduces the risk of unexpected failures, and enhances overall operation efficiency. This article explores how.

Schedule management

TARGET SKILLS, the schedule management specialist, is expanding internationally

PlanningPME is already used by more than 5,000 customers worldwide such as SMEs and large groups. It provides an answer to the schedule management problems encountered daily in companies: planning of human and material resources, tasks, interventions, appointments, projects, work sites, absences etc.

Reliability Radio EP 279: Matt Boehne, Banetti

Reliability Radio EP 279: Matt Boehne, Banetti

Matt Boehne speaks about the number one problem in the business side is culture. The importance of cross-functional teams. It’s all about people.

Reliability Radio EP 278: Michael Guns, University of Delaware

Reliability Radio EP 278: Michael Guns, University of Delaware

Michael Guns, Associate Director of Maintenance Strategy and Planning for the University of Delaware, speaks about how awareness training is critical for your team in order to focus and crystalize your strategy.

Implementation of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling in an Academic Hospital

Implementation of Maintenance Planning and Scheduling in an Academic Hospital

Stanford Health Care’s transformational planning and scheduling program reduced reactive maintenance from 50 percent to target of 30 percent within 5 months and reached 24 percent by 11 months.