LEAN MRO/MAINTENANCE -- Monday, Dec. 12

Learn the tools and strategies to eliminate waste from your maintenance processes

Morning Workshop:  8 am-Noon
• Hosted by Chevron/Texaco -- Lubrication Links to Reliability: Impact on Lean Manufacturing
This morning workshop will cover case studies of best practices, using predictive methods and CMMS to eliminate non-essential lubricant-related PM's, and bringing it all together with lubricant focused CMMS. Learn how manufacturers like you have done "more with less" by employing these lubrication best practices. The case studies are applicable to all industries, highlighting the steel, automotive, chemical, and cement industries. The methodology described here can have immediate bottom-line impact if employed upon return to your facility. Learn how best-in-class manufacturers are evaluating their PM programs to eliminate wasteful and/or meaningless LMs that have been done by rote over time. This is an aspect of Lean Manufacturing, considering only the highest priority PMs can be done with limited resources. Learn how to more effectively coordinate predictive methods such that the right PMs are done, only when needed. And, learn how a newly developed, Web-based, lubrication focused CMMS can effectively address the often missing aspect of lubrication in today's mainstream CMMS offerings. The large expense and time needed to develop a CMMS-specific lubrication module can be avoided. Whether using this newly developed software or developing your own module, this session describes the critical success factors for development and desired outcomes of a fully functional lube management CMMS.

THREE Afternoon Presentations
• American Airlines: “New Model for Lean Maintenance”
Content includes the creation and launch of AA’s landmark Working Together program with its labor union, initial successes of cooperative Lean Maintenance initiatives and progress toward the company’s goal of turning its Tulsa Maintenance & Engineering Base from a cost center to $500 million in savings and revenues by the end of 2006. This presentation is a must-attend for any company with a union shop.

• NAVSEA Surface Warfare Center (NSWC)
Ben Harkness, manager of the microwave technologies division for NSWC, will present a case study of the Crane, Ind., facility. Crane is a multi-mission, multi-service product center with both a fleet support and industrial base mission. In fulfilling its industrial base mission, NSWC Crane acts as a steward of microwave tubes, printed wiring boards, pyrotechnics, radiation hardened devices and batteries. NSWC Crane is unique in all of the Defense Department installations in its co-location of a range of diverse capabilities complemented by NSWC Crane's acquisition professionals, materials logistics expertise and product test ranges on a 100-square-mile property.

• Raytheon Missile Systems: "A Lean Journey"
A look at facility services in Raytheon Missile Systems and the connection to Raytheon principles of manufacturing for a Lean environment. This presentation includes actions leading up to Raytheon Missile Systems being awarded the SHINGO Prize for Manufacturing excellence, and the role Lean Maintenance played and continues to play in the complex defense industry.

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Slides

Chevron/Texaco

American Airlines

Raytheon