Valuable Course for:  Inexperienced maintenance and engineering personnel interested in an introductory course which overviews operations training, accurate maintenance estimating, scheduling, and best practice maintenance planning.

This Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive interactive hands-on training in such areas as:
• Introductory elements and processes of Maintenance Planning, Estimating and Scheduling;
• The method of using Value=Benefit-Cost strategy in justifying your maintenance activities;
• Introductory Asset Performance Management;
• The typical roles and responsibilities of a maintenance planner and estimator;
• Critical path schedule, and man power (budget) correction methods;
• How Maintenance Planning directly affects Plant & Equipment Life Cycle costing;
• How Estimating and Scheduling responsibilities fit into Maintenance workflows.

Valuable Course for:  Personnel seeking hands-on, practical, top-quartile training in the area of commissioning and start-up planning skills.

This three day Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive hands-on training with practical case studies in such areas as:
• The key stages of the commissioning process;
• Developing an overall commissioning and plant start-up strategy;
• Dealing with machinery and equipment specific commissioning issues;
• Managing issues dealing with the commissioning of typical Process Plant and Utilities Systems;
• Developing an overall commissioning management plan, resource plan and budget;
• Troubleshooting and Problem Solving strategies which can be applied during commissioning;
• Managing risks associated with commissioning;
• Identifying safety and training requirements;
• Developing maintenance programs and job plans;
• Developing activity/progress charts;
• Close down activities.

Valuable Course for:  Industry personnel seeking hands-on, practical, top-quartile training in the area of Microsoft Project Software Tool.

In this Carver workshop Students will create a basic project and will be provided with comprehensive, interactive hands-on training with practical case studies in such areas as:
• The basics of MS Project Professional: how to work with menus and commands, how to enter tasks and task durations, how to outline tasks, and how to define task relationships;
• Learning how to set up and assign resources, and enter resource and project cost information;
• Using MS Project’s more advanced tools to resolve resource conflicts automatically and manually;
• Saving a baseline and tracking projects with the intent of keeping projects within scope;
• Customizing reports, views, printing, sorting, filtering, and grouping.

Valuable Course for:  Inexperienced 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:
• Identifying the different types of inventory;
• Understanding  if and what cost reduction strategies may apply to your inventory;
• Describing typical maintenance inventory behavior;
• Describing 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;
• Describing and defining how technology interrelates to inventory management;
• Understanding the physical requirements of a facility parts warehouse;
• Defining the Economic Order Quantity formula and describe its application;
• Calculating the optimum minimum spare parts levels for maintenance spares.

Valuable Course for:  Experienced Industry Personnel seeking hands-on, practical, top-quartile training relating to maximizing production up time, managing information, risk and time. This workshop promotes teamwork between operations and maintenance departments.

Valuable Course for:  Experienced Industry Personnel seeking hands-on, practical, top-quartile training relating the monitoring, identifying, documenting and implementing of improvements for equipment, process or human failures (RCM facilitation).

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:
• Defining Root Cause Failure Analysis;
• Using “Value = Benefit – Cost” to justify RCFA;
• Defining the types of failures;
• Utilizing Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA);
• Responding to incidents;
• Organizing teams;
• Analyzing a failure and determine the root cause;
• Making recommendations for implementation.

Valuable Course for:  Experienced Maintenance and Engineering personnel required to provide accurate Maintenance Estimating and Maintenance Scheduling in order to ensure that scheduled down time remains on track.

This Advanced Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive hands-on training with practical case studies in such areas as:
• How to achieve maximum payback from your maintenance program thorough applying the elements and processes of estimating and scheduling;
• The cause and effects of schedule overruns, and how to effectively get the job back on schedule;
• Scheduling and estimating techniques and tools used to effectively control a maintenance project;
• How to control the accuracy and quality of your estimates;
• Critical Path schedule and man-hour (budget) correction methods;
• How to build maintenance projects using flowcharting techniques;
• Considering the long term versus the short-term costs of implementing an O&M job or task assuming many conditions;
• Using the philosophy of estimating the net value of a company when choosing the resources to complete a job;
• How to improve job workflow and resource allocation, including calculating standby time and overall scheduling % efficiency;
• Explaining critical path, define project critical milestones, predecessors and successor relationships;
• Identifying project risk points and explaining how planning to manage or control the identified risk is part of the overall project;
• Managing the importance of information linkages of the project.
• Appling scheduling and control methods to impact deliverables such as implementation costs, time and quality.

Valuable Course for:  Experienced Maintenance and Engineering personnel required to develop and implement best practice maintenance planning to ensure the right maintenance is preformed on the correct equipment at the most effective and cost effective agenda.

This Advanced Carver workshop will provide you with comprehensive, interactive hands-on training with practical case studies in such areas as:
• Best practice, world class maintenance planning processes;
• Evaluating and justifying your maintenance programs using Value = Benefit - Cost strategy;
• Applying equipment life cycle planning, risk management and costing in daily planning;
• The "Plan, Do, Review" cycle of continuous improvement for Maintenance Planners;
• Where and how to apply maintenance performance management;
• Cost-justify different maintenance planning programs such as Run-to-Fail, On-Condition, and Predictive Maintenance;
• The basics of failure analysis;
• How to target and improve equipment performance;
• Understanding and Appling practical asset performance management.

Valuable Course for:  Highly Experienced Maintenance, Planning, and Engineering personnel looking for top quartile developed training on specific and detailed world class asset management, maintenance planning, estimating and scheduling concepts and practices.

This highly advanced Carver five day workshop will provide you with the most top-quartile, and advanced interactive hands-on training with practical and industry specific case studies in such areas as:
• Utilizing estimating and scheduling to achieve maximum payback and  maximum control from your maintenance programs;
• Analyzing the cause and effects of schedule overruns, and the most effective and efficient way to get the job back on schedule;
• Applying quality control to the accuracy of your estimates;
• Critical Path schedule and man-hour (budget) correction methods;
• Utilizing flowcharting techniques for the production of maintenance programs;
• Analyzing the implementation of O&M job or task with consideration of long term and short-term costs;
• Estimating the net value of a company when choosing the resources to complete a job;
• Effectively improving job workflow and resource allocation, through calculating standby time and overall scheduling % efficiency;
• Explaining critical path, define project critical milestones, predecessors and successor relationships;
• Identifying project risk points and their importance to the overall project;
• Analyzing importance of information linkages of the project;
• Positively impacting deliverables as implementation costs, time and quality through scheduling and control methods;
• Applying Value = Benefit - Cost strategy to effectively evaluate and justify your maintenance programs;
• Applying equipment life cycle planning, risk management and costing in daily planning;
• The continuous improvement cycle of Maintenance Planners, "Plan, Do, Review”;
• Where and how to efficiently apply maintenance performance management;
• Evaluating and cost-justifying such maintenance planning programs as Run-to-Fail, On-Condition, and Predictive Maintenance;
• The specifics of failure analysis;
• Utilizing highly effective targeting for improving equipment performance.

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.