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Speakers receive complimentary
attendance to the conference!
October 20-23, 2008
The Cleveland Convention Center
• Cleveland, Ohio
After setting record attendance in 2007 with more
than 1,000 people, SMRP is searching for presenters for
the 16th Annual Conference taking place October 20-23, 2008
in Cleveland, Ohio.
The SMRP Annual conference is one of the largest
pure Maintenance & Reliability conferences in North
America, making it the ideal opportunity to present your
knowledge and network with industry peers.
BENEFITS OF PRESENTING:
- Recognition from your industry peers
- Complimentary attendance to the conference
- Presentation will be published in electronic proceedings
CRITERIA
- The SMRP Annual Conference Tracks are formatted around
the SMRPCO Body of Knowledge that contains five validated
pillars of information essential to the success of maintenance
and reliability professionals
- All presenters must be SMRP members
- Presentations must be non-commercial
- Supplier papers must be co-presented with a practitioner
- Abstract can be no longer than 300 words
- No more than two presenters per presentation is recommended
- The categories below are used as guidelines
- SMRP is willing to consider all topics related to maintenance
and reliability. If you feel that your topic does not
fit well into one of the categories below, please submit
your abstract using the general category in which you
would like to present.
- Accepted presenters must submit a written paper and
their PowerPoint presentation approximately 8 weeks prior
to the conference so that these items can be included
in the conference proceedings.
SUBMISSION
- Abstracts must be submitted online. Abstracts
not submitted via the online submission form will not
be considered.
- Online submission is available at www.smrp.org
- Online submission will close on Friday, March
7, 2008.
- Notification of acceptance will be sent to each submitter
after Friday, April 11, 2008.
- When submitting your abstract, please indicate the topic(s)
your presentation is best categorized within. Please rank
your presentation as Fundamentals or Beyond the Essentials.
- If your abstract does not fit one of the tracks, select
the "General" Category.
- All of the required information must be filled in on
the online form for your submission to be considered.
Maintenance & Reliability- Fundamentals &
Beyond the Essentials
Based on feedback from the attendees, there is a desire
to have this additional distinction to better select presentations
and content of interest. Classification of papers within
the five tracks will continue. To help guide you in the
classification of your paper, the following general guidelines
are provided. The key is to match the content of your paper
with the interests and needs of the attendee. Given the
broad diversity of our members, there is a need for both
fundamental and advanced topics within all five tracks.
Topics and content that provide a good foundation for growth
and development of the practitioner:
Fundamentals
- Asset Management Basics
- Key Performance Indicators
- MRO Material Management
- Planning & Scheduling
- Preventative & Predictive Technologies
- Machinery Repair Techniques/Strategies
- Benchmarking Best Practices
- Change Management Tactical
Beyond the Essentials
- Safety & Reliability
- OEE
- Strategic Industry Trends
- Shutdown, Turnarounds and Outage Management
- Project Management
- TPM
- Lean
- Six Sigma
- ERP/CMMS EAM Optimizations
- Strategic Business Objectives - competitive advantage,
growth, staffing
- Change Management Strategic
- Reliability/Maintenance Leadership
- ROI Determination/Financial Optimization
- Weibull/Monte Carlo Simulations, Crow/AMSAA
- RCM
TRACKS
Track #1 - "Business and Management"
Papers in this track should describe the skills used to
translate an organization’s business goals into appropriate
maintenance and reliability goals that support and contribute
to the organization’s business results. Subjects would
include:
- Creating strategic direction and plan
- Selling programs and change to stakeholders
- Creating measurement and performance evaluation systems
- Managing risk
- Business case preparation
- Communicate to stakeholders
- How to plan and budget resources
- Maintenance/operations performance agreements &
specifications
Examples of other topics that might fit into this track
are:
Contract maintenance
- Custodial maintenance
- Maintenance management
- Total productive maintenance
- Autonomous maintenance
- Benchmarking
- Case studies are welcome on any of these topics.
Track #2 - "Manufacturing
Process Reliability"
Papers in this track should cover subject areas that relate
maintenance and reliability activities as part of the quality
assurance and improvement of the manufacturing process of
the organization. Subjects would include:
- Maintain process and industry standards and specifications
- Understand the manufacturing process
- Manufacturing effectiveness techniques
- Safety, health, and environmental issues
- Manage effects of changes to processes and equipment
Examples of topics that might fit into this area also include:
- Equipment replacement
- Six Sigma programs
- Quality management
Case studies are welcome on any of the above topics.
Track #3 - "Equipment Reliability"
Papers in this track should cover activities used to assess
the current capabilities of equipment and processes in terms
of their reliability, availability, maintainability, and
criticality. This may include how to select and apply the
most appropriate maintenance practices, so that the equipment
and processes continue to deliver their intended capabilities
in the safest and most cost-effective manner. Subjects would
include:
- Determine equipment and process performance expectations
from the business plan.
- Establish current performance levels and analyze gaps.
- Establish a maintenance strategy to assure performance.
- Cost-justify (budget) tactics selected for implementation.
- Execute a maintenance strategy
- Review performance and adjust maintenance strategy.
Examples of topics that might fit into this area also include:
- Applied technology Preventive maintenance
- Reliability-centered maintenance
- Lubricant analysis
- Vibration analysis
- Infrared thermography
- Ultrasonics
- Alignment
- Balancing
Case Studies are welcome on any of the above topics.
Track #4 - "People Skills"
Papers in this track should describe the processes for assuring
that the maintenance and reliability staff is the most qualified
and best assigned to achieve the maintenance and reliability
organization’s goals. Subjects would include:
- Assess organizational competence and direction.
- Develop the maintenance and reliability organization
structure.
- Develop the maintenance and reliability staff.
- Communicate maintenance and reliability to the organization.
Examples of topics that might fit in this area are:
- General communication
- Writing
- Speaking
- The human side of maintenance
- People development/training
- Making presentations
- Leadership
- Influencing people
- Handling conflict
- Meeting management
- Performance management
Case studies related to any of the above topics are welcome.
Track #5 - "Work Management"
Papers in this track should focus on skills used to get
the maintenance and reliability work done. These include
scheduling and planning activities, quality assurance of
maintenance activities, and stores and inventory management.
Subjects would include:
- Comprehensive work identification.
- Plant-wide formal prioritization system.
- Effective work planning prior to scheduling.
- Effective, cooperative work scheduling and backlog management.
- Effective resource management (people, materials, financial).
- Document work execution and update records / history.
- Equipment history review and failure identification.
- Effective performance measures and follow-up.
- Capital project planning.
- Effective use of information technologies (CMMS, etc).
Examples of topics that might fit into this area are:
- Planning and scheduling
- Materials management, including warehouse
- Backlog management
- CMMS improvements, implementations, or usage
WORKSHOPS
SMRP will also be holding several post-conference one and
two day workshops. If you are interested in presenting
one of these workshops please contact Gabi Mahn at gmahn@meetingsmanagementgroup.com
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
SMRP may convene panel discussions during the conference.
If you are willing to serve as a panelist on a particular
discussion topic or topics, please complete the following
form and check off the panelist radio button. You will need
to submit separate forms for abstracts and panel discussion
topics.
CASE STUDIES
Case studies are welcome on any of the above topics.
SMRP conferences are geared to the educational needs of
Maintenance & Reliability practitioners. Take
advantage of this opportunity to promote your knowledge
to your industry peers at the 2008 SMRP Annual Conference!
QUESTIONS?
Contact Gabi Mahn at gmahn@meetingsmanagementgroup.com
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