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QualPro Leadership Symposium

Process Improvement for Maintenance Processes (#14)

Maintenance processes can yield sensational results through the use of simple statistical techniques.

The Value of Attending This Three-Day Seminar
As automation increases throughout the world's manufacturing and service industries, the importance of maintenance activities continues to grow rapidly.

Costs of maintenance processes occupy an increasingly large proportion of budgets. In fact, it is no longer unusual to find maintenance budgets taking a 20% or higher share of total operating costs in some industries ... as the costs rise even higher.

In today's business environment, what company can purchase spare equipment to cover downtime resulting from sub-optimal maintenance processes? And if that isn't enough to get our attention, nearly every day we read newspaper headlines describing environmental and safety disasters arising from ineffective maintenance practices.

It doesn't matter whether we are talking about equipment for manufacturing, transportation, communication, information services, or even facilities. In order to compete in today's cutthroat marketplace, assets must last longer, run more efficiently, and break down less often than those of rival companies.

QualPro's 12-Step Procedure for Improving a Process© (including MVT^® experimentation) has been used time after time to increase run time, decrease repair and maintenance costs, and increase the useful life of equipment. By attending this critical seminar, you will take a crucial step toward optimizing the return on your equipment investment.

Course Topics

Variation and its effect on maintenance processes
Systems thinking as it applies to maintenance
Use of QualPro's 12-Step Procedure to improve maintenance processes
Control charts and their role in process improvement
Evaluating measurement systems of maintenance processes
Maintenance cost optimization
Equipment failure patterns
Failure rates and mean time between failure
Determining system reliability
Preparing processes for MVT^® experimentation
Introduction to MVT^® experimentation

Since 1982, QualPro has used Multivariable Testing (MVT®) with 1000+ companies to test 100,000+ improvement ideas. MVT® tests between 20 and 40 ideas simultaneously, accurately predicting the bottom-line impact of potential process changes in weeks. Take existing process initiatives, like Six Sigma, to a whole new level. All process improvement tools and approaches (TQM, DOE, Six Sigma, Re-Engineering, SPC) can be enhanced through the use of Multivariable Testing by QualPro.