Valuable Course for:  Experienced Maintenance, Operations and Engineering personnel considering or implementing RCM and seeking comprehensive, interactive hands-on training of the different reliability centered maintenance implementation steps, and common strategies.

Valuable Course for:  Experienced personnel seeking to boost their project management skills through hands-on, practical, top-quartile training utilizing factual industry case studies.

This Advanced Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive hands-on training with practical case studies in such areas as:
• The concept and objectives of project management;
• Understanding how project management directly impacts project costs and deliverables such as quality;
• The integration of project planning and control systems;
• Applying various project management tactics;
• Defining scope of work to ensure success;
• The role of Project Leaders in terms of value to a project;
• Managing the information linkages between sections of the project departments;
• Defining the major variables considered in industrial O&M project management;
• Understanding critical paths of a project plan;
• Using a Gantt charts.

Valuable Course for:  Experienced Industry Personnel seeking hands-on, practical, top-quartile training relating to the theory and concepts for applying a risk-based approach to job plan building as well as to provide a procedure and guidelines for building risk based job plans.

This advanced Carver workshop will provide students with the top-quartile, interactive hands-on training with practical and industry specific case studies in such areas as:
• Explaining the advantages to using job plans from a cost, time & quality perspective;
• The basic concepts of a risk-based approach to job plan building;
• Defining the job plan building process;
• Defining job risk;
• Determining the appropriate level of job plan content based on criticality;
• The components and layout of an instruction set;
• Defining naming conventions to be consistent throughout processes.

Valuable Course for:  Experienced industry personnel seeking hands-on, practical, top-quartile training covering the many aspects of Industrial Inventory and Warehouse Management.

This Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive interactive hands-on training in such areas as:

• Defining and describing the different types of inventory;
• Understanding what cost reduction strategies may apply to your inventory;
• Appling Risk Management Philosophy to O&M inventory decisions;
• Understanding how Equipment Life Cycle Performance dramatically effects maintenance and spare parts decisions;
• The true costs and associated cost components of industrial inventory;
• Describing typical maintenance inventory behavior;
• The typical workflows associated with supply chain;
• Understanding Activity Based Costing (ABC) and how it applies to inventory management;
• Understanding why O&M and warehouse parts philosophies and needs should have common performance measures;
• How technology interrelates to inventory management;
• The physical requirements of a facility parts warehouse;
• The Economic Order Quantity formula and its application;
• Calculating the optimum minimum spare parts levels for maintenance spares;
• Using a PC model to evaluate critical spare parts decisions.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES