Hi, my name is Rob Bloomquist and I’m Track Leader for Track 4 - People Skills, at this year’s Annual Conference in St. Louis.
It is well-known the ability to change an organization’s culture – that is being able to implement a new way of working and making it stick - is critical to any large-scale initiative and especially to a comprehensive maintenance and reliability improvement effort. What is less well-known and even less put into practice are practical approaches to addressing the people side of large-scale change.
This year’s line-up of papers in Track 4 offer insightful, practical approaches to this challenge including how to foster improved job satisfaction and engagement, the critical role of Training, creating “win-win” scenarios, the importance of communication, and more.
Please join me and my Track 4 co-leads, Steve Gillette, CMRP, of the City of Roseville (CA), and Bill Dockrey, CMRP, of Luminant Power, for these and other valuable presentations in the People Skills track.
Rob Bloomquist, CMRP
MRG, Inc.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Leapfrog Maintenance Effectiveness to the Next Level
Join Bob Hansen, PE, CMRP, to “Leapfrog Maintenance Effectiveness to the Next Level”, a workshop that has never failed to provide improved Strategies and Tools to bridge the Gap between current and future state for maintenance organizations. The focus is about Significantly increasing your ‘Service Effectiveness’ and your contribution as a ‘Capacity Producer.’ This workshop is designed to move maintenance from being a necessary evil (cost center) to being a contributing partner for higher Profits.
You will learn how to quantify maintenance efforts in business terms to prioritize strategy alternatives, set SMART goals and communicate metrics and results to Plant leadership teams to gain synergistic support.
Part of the workshop will provide tools and techniques to pull key information from your performance databases exposing variability and establishing capability targets to help Launch your Improvement Revolution. The key objective is to Identify your most important opportunity, set strategy to Exploit current resources, Subordinate false success activities, move resources as needed to Elevate target service, and Monitor your progress through completion before moving to the next target.
This workshop is scheduled for October 23, 2009. Mark that date to ‘Leapfrog’.
You will learn how to quantify maintenance efforts in business terms to prioritize strategy alternatives, set SMART goals and communicate metrics and results to Plant leadership teams to gain synergistic support.
Part of the workshop will provide tools and techniques to pull key information from your performance databases exposing variability and establishing capability targets to help Launch your Improvement Revolution. The key objective is to Identify your most important opportunity, set strategy to Exploit current resources, Subordinate false success activities, move resources as needed to Elevate target service, and Monitor your progress through completion before moving to the next target.
This workshop is scheduled for October 23, 2009. Mark that date to ‘Leapfrog’.
NEW this year: Onsite Bookstore
We are happy to announce that as an addition to this year’s Annual Conference we’ll be adding an onsite bookstore to our list of offerings. In partnership with Reliabilityweb.com the bookstore run by MRO Zone (http://books.mro-zone.com/category_s/34.htm) will feature books to satisfy all your M&R needs.
With books from authors and conference speakers, Terry Wireman, Ramesh Gulati, Ricky Smith, and Winston Ledet, just to name a few, you’ll be able to purchase titles and then hear from the authors themselves.
Planning to take the CMRP Exam? The book store is a great one stop shop to pick up books on the five pillars of our body of knowledge to assist you in your certification preparation.
We hope this offering is just one more reason why SMRP’s Annual Conference is on your “must attend” list for 2009!
A special thank you to our friends at Reliablityweb.com and MRO Zone for partnering with us on this exciting new addition.
Maureen Gribble
SMRP
With books from authors and conference speakers, Terry Wireman, Ramesh Gulati, Ricky Smith, and Winston Ledet, just to name a few, you’ll be able to purchase titles and then hear from the authors themselves.
Planning to take the CMRP Exam? The book store is a great one stop shop to pick up books on the five pillars of our body of knowledge to assist you in your certification preparation.
We hope this offering is just one more reason why SMRP’s Annual Conference is on your “must attend” list for 2009!
A special thank you to our friends at Reliablityweb.com and MRO Zone for partnering with us on this exciting new addition.
Maureen Gribble
SMRP
Monday, September 21, 2009
Exhibiting 101
We are looking forward to welcome close to 70 of our industry partner organizations to our expo floor this year. We love our exhibitors and so we thought we’d provide a quick “Expo 101” to ensure that everyone is prepared for a successful show.
The most important thing to consider is COMFORT! Keep in mind your expo staff will be on their feet for roughly 20 hours when all is said and done and the last thing you want is for everyone’s dogs to be barking. Be kind—order padded carpet. Might we also recommend comfortable shoes? Seems like that would be intuitive, but I’ve certainly seen my fair share of high heels on the show floor! Comfort before style folks!
Next to comfort (and perhaps this is more important, but you decide) setting clear goals for your team ahead of time is critical to your success. Why are you exhibiting? What do you hope to gain by being at our show? How can you make those goals happen? Have a clear set of objectives and a map for how you’re going to meet them.
Whatever you do, don’t get caught crossing your arms or focusing more on your Blackberry than the show floor. You’ve got to be approachable—make eye contact and remember to SMILE, seriously, it works!
We also highly recommend having some kind of “give away” in your booth—attendees LOVE coming away with “chotchkies” (anyone know how you spell that or if it is even a real word?) or at the very least candy!
Anyone else have helpful hints they’d like to share? I’m sure this list barely cracks the surface!
Maureen Gribble
SMRP
The most important thing to consider is COMFORT! Keep in mind your expo staff will be on their feet for roughly 20 hours when all is said and done and the last thing you want is for everyone’s dogs to be barking. Be kind—order padded carpet. Might we also recommend comfortable shoes? Seems like that would be intuitive, but I’ve certainly seen my fair share of high heels on the show floor! Comfort before style folks!
Next to comfort (and perhaps this is more important, but you decide) setting clear goals for your team ahead of time is critical to your success. Why are you exhibiting? What do you hope to gain by being at our show? How can you make those goals happen? Have a clear set of objectives and a map for how you’re going to meet them.
Whatever you do, don’t get caught crossing your arms or focusing more on your Blackberry than the show floor. You’ve got to be approachable—make eye contact and remember to SMILE, seriously, it works!
We also highly recommend having some kind of “give away” in your booth—attendees LOVE coming away with “chotchkies” (anyone know how you spell that or if it is even a real word?) or at the very least candy!
Anyone else have helpful hints they’d like to share? I’m sure this list barely cracks the surface!
Maureen Gribble
SMRP
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Fair Minded
For the first time ever, SMRP will host a Job Fair in conjunction with our Annual Conference. Unemployed maintenance and reliability professionals, members and non-members alike, are invited to attend the job fair free of charge. The Job Fair will be held in the Exhibit Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 21st, 2009 from 10am to 2pm. Registrants may pick up their badges and packets starting at 9am on the 21st.
Unfortunately, we do not have the budget to provide a full-meal for everyone, but refreshments will be available in the exhibit hall at 10am. Make sure you plan to have lunch on your own, unless you are attending the full conference.
SMRP has invited all of our exhibiting companies to participate in the job fair as a part of their exhibitor package, and has opened up paid Employer Registration to other companies as well. You can find both the job-seeker and employer registration forms on our conference website.
If you want more information, or have questions, email me at equinn@smrp.org, or call me at 703-610-1260.
Erin Quinn
SMRP
Unfortunately, we do not have the budget to provide a full-meal for everyone, but refreshments will be available in the exhibit hall at 10am. Make sure you plan to have lunch on your own, unless you are attending the full conference.
SMRP has invited all of our exhibiting companies to participate in the job fair as a part of their exhibitor package, and has opened up paid Employer Registration to other companies as well. You can find both the job-seeker and employer registration forms on our conference website.
If you want more information, or have questions, email me at equinn@smrp.org, or call me at 703-610-1260.
Erin Quinn
SMRP
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Fore!
Those of you reliability folks that enjoy the outdoors, a great event, and a great golf course, make plans to join your fellow SMRP duffers at Annbriar Golf Course on Monday, October 19th for our 6th Annual SMRP Golf Outing.
This outing will give you the opportunity to meet your fellow SMRP colleagues, practitioners, and industry partners. Annbriar has a 4 ½ star rating as provided by Golf Digest, and is ranked the #7 course in Illinois and the #1 course in the St. Louis area.
Past attendees have come from a wide variety of backgrounds and geographical locations. Each of these events has provided some great memories for those that participated. Come have a good time, play some good golf (or some not so good golf, we don’t care!), enjoy good food and most importantly, good company.
A bonus, we do award prizes for the top finishing teams, not to mention you’ll have bragging rights for the remainder of the conference!
See you on the links!
Mike Mills, CMRP
Chairman, Golf Outing Committee
The Mundy Companies
This outing will give you the opportunity to meet your fellow SMRP colleagues, practitioners, and industry partners. Annbriar has a 4 ½ star rating as provided by Golf Digest, and is ranked the #7 course in Illinois and the #1 course in the St. Louis area.
Past attendees have come from a wide variety of backgrounds and geographical locations. Each of these events has provided some great memories for those that participated. Come have a good time, play some good golf (or some not so good golf, we don’t care!), enjoy good food and most importantly, good company.
A bonus, we do award prizes for the top finishing teams, not to mention you’ll have bragging rights for the remainder of the conference!
See you on the links!
Mike Mills, CMRP
Chairman, Golf Outing Committee
The Mundy Companies
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Register EARLY and WIN!
The first 500 to register for the Conference by Friday, September, 11, are automatically going to be entered to win a door prize! Three will be chosen to win an iPod, GPS device or discounted 2010 Annual Conference Registration! So if you haven’t registered yet, what are you waiting for!?
Don’t forget, early bird pricing also ends on September 11, so get your registration form in by then to enjoy the discounted registration fee of $850. After September 11 the price goes up to $995. Don’t miss this great chance to SAVE!
Maureen Gribble
SMRP
Don’t forget, early bird pricing also ends on September 11, so get your registration form in by then to enjoy the discounted registration fee of $850. After September 11 the price goes up to $995. Don’t miss this great chance to SAVE!
Maureen Gribble
SMRP
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