Calling all CMRPs

The annual conference will bring some opportunities to interface with the exam team and have your personal input integrated into the questions being developed.

Some events of interest to all is an Exam Team meeting where we will discuss questions and changes to make them more international in content and understanding. Anyone is welcomed (so long as you are a CMRP) to this meeting and your input will be greatly appreciated.

Another event that will be held in two different time slots is the Cut Score Workshops. These sessions last approximately 40 minutes. You must be a CMRP to attend these sessions. The participants will look at 20 questions, answer the question, see the correct answer, and then rate the question in difficulty for your specific industry. You may also give your comments on the question at this time.

These are great opportunities for you to help in the development of the CMRP certification. Not to mention these are all great opportunities for you to earn credit towards your CMRP recertification.

Terry Harris, CMRP
SMRPCO Exam Director

Work Management--Track 5

This year’s Work Management track is shaping up to be very instructive. Wrench time, one of the hot topics in recent years will be thoroughly aired out. Several papers address different aspects of wrench time coming from practitioners involved in studies. These papers not only cover the why of such studies, but the practical aspects of conducting them. Other papers cover implementing weekly scheduling, work flow mapping, and other timely topics for improvement opportunities.

Check out the full list of papers that will be presented during Track 5 by clicking here: http://www.smrp.org/Conference/2009/Track%205.doc
I am very excited to serve again as Track Leader and look forward to working with my fellow track co-leads, John Pearl, CMRP, of Moose & Associates and John Johannemann, CMRP, of Ascend Performance Materials, L.L.C.

Doc Palmer, CMRP, PE, MBA
Richard Palmer and Associates

SMRP Best Practices Committee

Recognizing the importance of standard metric definitions for benchmarking and other purposes, SMRP charged the Best Practices Committee with the identification and development of standard definitions for common maintenance and reliability metrics.

SMRP is pleased to announce that 70 maintenance and reliability metrics definitions are being developed by the Best Practices Committee and some are now available through the SMRP on-line store. Each metric definition is a comprehensive document including the definition of the metric, the objective of the metric, the mathematical formula for calculating the metric, component definitions, metric qualifications, sample calculation, and references.

To further enhance the value of the metrics to our members and the profession as a whole, the Best Practices Committee has “harmonized” the metrics with those developed by our colleagues in the European Federation of National Maintenance Societies (EFNMS). These maintenance and reliability metrics definitions are on their way to becoming global standards!

As an SMRP member you have access to a wide range of valuable tangible deliverables. Come to this session to hear about the latest activities of the Best Practices Committee and learn what specifically is available to you as an SMRP member that you can use at your facility.
Al Poling, CMRP
SMRP Technical Director

History: Your Key to Improving Work Identification

We all know that knowing and understanding our history is the best way to avoid repeating past failures and continuing practices that have been proven successful. We can apply this same theory to how we view Work Identification.

Presenter, Dick Olver, CMRP of Agrium, will be discussing the importance of keeping good structured data through notification in SAP. The presentation will introduce the importance of understanding the principles of RCM, failure modes, failure patterns, hidden failures in what information is captured and Agrium’s success with guidelines for reporting history and the need to set audit to standards on history reporting.

Recognizing the significant opportunities in having accurate and complete data for work identification is one key step in any reliability effort. Not only this is recognized at Agrium but also the importance of developing a data integrity process, objectively measuring work order data for completeness and accuracy, and communicating the results throughout the enterprise using various metrics. In my experience, prior to data collection, the careful transition from using failure modes, actions and other catalogs, rigorous training and the development of clear, comprehensive and standardized data collection procedures are all essential elements of a successful data collection process and reporting.

Finally, despite good procedures and adequate training, you can still end up with bad data. To ensure data integrity you must establish quality control activities before and after data collection. I congratulate Agrium on this effort as many other companies spend money and resources on quality control activities prior to data collection, but fail to implement any quality control measures or successfully use the information after data collection.

Ramon Diaz, CMRP
Meridium

One on One Consulting Sessions--NEW!

New this year we are offering both our exhibitors and our attendees a new opportunity to learn from one another in private one-on-one consulting sessions.

This is a great chance for our attendees to meet face-to-face with an industry partner and delve deeper into their individual needs. This setting fosters a more open and candid dialogue than the exhibit floor allows. Not intended to be a "sales pitch," these one-on-one consulting sessions can benefit both parties involved: inquisitive customers in need and organizations eager to help.

So far we have industry experts from first class organizations like Commtest, Royal Purple, Life Cycle Engineering, Marshall Institute, and JMS Software. The expertise ranges from RCM to lubrication and vibration analysis to change management and leadership training. If you need counsel, these are the folks to help--and it's FREE!

If you are interested in participating in this program as either a consultant or a participant, just shoot me an email at mgribble@smrp.org.

We look forward to this great addition to our conference line-up!

Maureen Gribble
SMRP

Effective Maintenance Planning

This year's annual conference includes 10 top notch full day (one is a two day) workshops to enhance your conference experience. Part of this year's line-up is "Effective Maintenance Planning" presented by Dave Rousseau, CMRP, Performance Consulting Associates, and Jay Padesky, CMRP, USG Corporation.

Utilizing the training used by USG in over 50 locations for over 100 planners, this workshop is sure to provide you with the tools you need to enhance your skills as a planner--or better yet, to provide someone new to the field a road map for how to become an outstanding planner.

This workshop will be highly interactive and will give participants an opportunity to share common problems and solutions, develop an individualized action plan for self improvement, enhance skills and learn new techniques to plan jobs effectively, and gain positive reinforcement of the planning function's contribution to the overall profitability of the plant.

Whether you are an experienced or new planner, front-line supervisor, technician, or project engineer performing planning functions, this is one workshop you won't want to miss.

Hoping to achieve your CMRP certification? This workshop is a great way to bone up on your "Work Management" skills--one of the five areas of the body of knowledge covered on the examination.

When planning your conference experience, be sure to pencil this workshop in, taking place on Thursday, October 22 from 8:00-5:00 p.m.

Maureen Gribble
SMRP

Benchmarking--how does your facility measure up?

Benchmarking is the process of identifying best practices that can be adopted to improve performance. The Benchmarking Committee is focused on benchmarking as it relates to the maintenance and reliability (M&R) community and has developed a new and improved on-line benchmarking process available to maintenance and reliability professionals world-wide.

The new benchmarking survey questionnaire focuses on performance in key areas aligned with the Maintenance and Reliability Body of Knowledge and SMRP’s Best Practice Metrics. All responses to the survey are treated confidentially and all reports will be blinded and normalized to ensure the security of participants. Both standard and ad hoc reports will be available.


Ultimately SMRP plans to provide specialized benchmarking services whereby our members can be surveyed and their responses garnered and analyzed on a specific set of questions. As an SMRP member you have access to a wide range of valuable tangible deliverables.


Come to this session to hear about the latest activities of the Benchmarking Committee and learn what specifically is available to you as an SMRP member that you can use at your facility.


Al Poling, CMRP
SMRP Technical Director