EUROMAINTENANCE JOURNAL - DNV Germany

CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
adding activities, best practices and decision
making. Isn’t that what Lean Maintenance
should be all about?
Like real life
This dedicated maintenance game has
been played on maintenance events all
over the world so there is a record performance
to beat. It is dynamic like real
life. Strategy and decisions of all the
teams are entered in a simulation tool,
so your competitors will affect your situation.
The team that creates the most economic
value after a number of playing
rounds wins the prestigious VDM award.
Needless to say it is fun to play! And we
all know, learning by doing is more effective
than just listening to a presentation.
Actually the game is also perfectly
suitable for in-company events to gain
understanding why a way of working
Reliable Manufacturing Limited
presents a one day workshop:
‘The Manufacturing Game ® ’,
a highly interactive learning
experience which demonstrates
how to achieve benchmark
levels of performance in your
Organisation.
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must be improved, or to change the
way Production or Financial Management
thinks about Maintenance.
Building a coherent structure
To be able to play a simulation like
this, there must be a strong (planning
and control) methodology behind it.
But that’s the case in real life maintenance
improvement too. Or like Bengt
Svensson, Maintenance Manager Volvo
Cars Sweden, puts it: ‘Basically, VDM
is to maintenance what Windows is to
the computer, an operating system. The
concept is built on a coherent structure
that effectively interconnects a number
of different working practices, processes
and technologies. The basic idea is that
maintenance must add value”. VDM is
not only about calculating the value po-
inated by frontline driven action teams in
less than 90 days for little or no expense,
with a potentially huge fi nancial return for
the Organisation. The cumulative effect of
defect elimination deep in the Organisation
helps to accelerate change in the Operation
and, more importantly, in the culture of the
Organisation.
What You Will Learn
By attending this workshop you will gain an
understanding and experience of :
- The value of balancing a top down project
approach to performance improvement
with a proactive bottom up focus on defect
elimination
- How to engage your frontline operations
and maintenance teams and give them
the vision for their role in improving operational
effi ciency
tential of your maintenance situation to
convince your Board. It also delivers the
full toolset to implement the changes that
will deliver the added value and monitor
your improvements. From year to year,
along the journey to World Class Maintenance.
So, if you fi nally want to get
a grip on your maintenance performance,
visit us at Euromaintenance 2008
or www.mainnovation.com.