About

Asset networks comprise a huge investment for most companies and millions of dollars are spent annually in maintenance and asset management programmes. There is no doubt that maintaining and operating an asset base swallows up a massive percentage of annual expenditure, so it is critical that these assets are managed to support organisational performance and enhance your bottom line.

Develop and operate a sustainable asset care strategy by learning the fundamental principles of strategic asset management in this interactive and intensive two-day course. It’s about decision making - what assets to increase, what to reduce and what to modify, all in order to provide cost effective services in the right place at the right time to best suit your organisation’s strategic and business needs. Improve your return on assets by registering for Operational Asset Management today

Key Learning Objectives

• Understand how to develop and implement your own strategic asset management plan
• Learn key tools and techniques to assist you in achieving your asset management plan and strategy
• Understand how your assets are being utilised now and into the future
• Improve decision making on asset selection, maintenance and utilisation through the use of KPIs and performance metrics that relate to the success of your business
• Learn how to implement simple, effective yet practical change management techniques to improve team performance and their acceptance to change
• Understand the fundamentals of high performance teams and how to create such a team within your asset management team

Who should attend?

• Asset Managers
• Facilities Managers
• Property / Building Managers
• Project Managers
• Financial Controllers
• Finance and Administration Officers
• Engineers
• Corporate Planners
• Strategic Planning Managers
• Maintenance Managers

Outline

Developing your asset management strategy
• What is best practice asset management?
• An overview of various best practice processes and tools
• Understand the benefits of “customised” best practice
• Understand your business strategy in order to develop your asset management strategy
• Linking your organisations strategy, goals and objectives to your asset management strategy
• What should an asset management strategy contain?
• Developing a strategy that is specific to your organisation and your assets

Asset usage and the asset management plan
• Understand how your assets are being utilised now and into the future
• What are the requirements of the end user?
• What assets are truly critical to your business?
• Understand how supply chain management impacts on asset utilisation
• Understand the importance of supply chain management, planning and communication in order to improve asset utilisation and therefore performance
• Implementing the asset management strategy via your asset management plan
• Understanding what an asset management plan is
• Understanding how an asset management plan is used in day-to-day business
• Understanding the tools and techniques that can be used to assist with implementing the asset management plan
• Developing and implementing key performance indicators and performance metrics that support the achievement of the plan and the strategy
• Communicating and managing the asset management plan to achieve the defined goals and objectives

Maintaining your assets for effective asset utilisation
• Understand the difference between 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation maintenance
• Learn how to develop your 4th generation maintenance strategy/plan that is specific to your assets
• Understand how to determine what assets are critical and how this impacts on you maintenance plans
• Understand the importance of a maintenance planning framework and the need for a “planners plan”
• Internal v. external resources - Understand “when to use what”
• External resources - How to manage these resources via formal service level agreements
• Learn how information management and technology can assist with the management of your maintenance programme
• Developing and implementing key performance indicators and performance metrics that support the maintenance plan

People and asset management - Implementing the change process
• Developing and implementing asset management plans requires people to change - How will you manage this change process?
• Understand some of the fundamental requirements of managing change within your team
• Learn how to implement simple, effective yet practical change management techniques to improve team performance and their acceptance to change
• Understand the fundamentals of high performance teams and how to create such a team within your asset management team

Seminar closure
• Tying it all together into your own action plan to implement your learning’s from the seminar
• What, when, who?
• Discussions on your way forward approach from this point on
• Seminar wrap-up

Facilitator

Mike Killick, MBA, BE.Mech (Hons), M.IoD, Principal Adviser, OpEx Management Ltd

 

Mike is the Director / Principal Adviser at OpEx Management Ltd, an organisation focussed on “Creating Operational Excellence” in the industrial and manufacturing sector. Mike has a Masters of Business Administration, an Engineering Degree, and is a Member of the Institute of Directors. Mike is also co-owner / Director of Deep South Ice Cream, one of New Zealand’s leading manufacturers of premium ice cream and a Director of Mainland Football.

 

Mike specialises in the area of Total Asset Management within the industrial manufacturing sector and has consulted to leading organisations within New Zealand. In these roles, Mike has undertaken a number of wide ranging management improvement projects that involve a review of the status quo maintenance management systems currently in use.

Mike Killick, MBA, BE.Mech (Hons), M.IoD is also facilitating:

• Managing Efficient Shutdowns & Turnarounds
• Reliability Centred Maintenance

In-house Training