Training & Events

It is our always CE Mainenance's goal to meet your specific training goals for any level of your organization. We tailor our program outlines to ensure all of your objectives are met in a time-frame that meets your schedule.

We have complied a list of our most popular training programs as well as those we feel address the core issues being face by organizations, such as yours, today.

A brief overview is offered for each of the programs listed below, however, more detailed agendas are available upon request. Remember, if you:

• Can't take your people away from their jobs for several days to attend a program? Not a problem, we can work within your schedule even if it is 4th shift or weekends!
• Not sure exactly which program will best meet your unique circumstances? Just contact us and let's discuss what your challenges are and the best solutions to resolve those issues.

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling - The objective of this course is to raise the competence level of your Planners/Schedulers, Supervisors and Engineers in the area of planning and scheduling, material procurement, estimating and work measurement, small project management and communicative skills.

Smarter Asset Management - Smarter Asset Management will show you how to change your organization's existing culture from one of repair and reaction to organized, proactive maintenance management. This programs provides effective self-assessment and implementation tools, master plans and easy-to-use metrics to accurately measure your organization/facility's performance.

Shutdown Management and Planning - Processes and details necessary to properly plan, schedule and manage a major facility maintenance shutdown are presented in this program. Time is spent discovering how to determine the priorities of selected shutdown jobs as well as understanding the financial impact of long-term shutdowns.

Changing the Maintenance Culture - Critical to today's maintenance organization, we cover several areas which includes: The Current State of Maintenance Organizations in American Industry; Business Factors that Demand Changes in the Current Maintenance Culture and the individual components that support and make possible a world-class organization.

Maintenance Scorecards - We will bring to light the importance of tracking the activities and performance of your maintenance organization. We discuss the business reasons for measuring what you manage, explain the prerequisites needed to get started in the scorecard business, and explore in detail the top 10 maintenance scorecards used in industry today. In addition, methods for using these measurements along with the benefit to your facility and the maintenance organization will be discussed.

Managing Maintenance on a Reduced Budget - Do you know what is needed to take place in a maintenance organization when business conditions become difficult and reductions in maintenance staff and expenditures are required?  Learning how the immediate culture and priorities must change, and change rapidly, while still maintaining the facility and equipment will be crucial if your organization is facing or about to face these issues.

Leadership and Management for the Maintenance Supervisor - Designed for the maintenance supervisor or team leader, this program concentrates on management fundamentals in the often chaotic maintenance environment. We will discuss such items as: The Role of the Maintenance Supervisor, Management Basics, Working Under Pressure, Organizing the Maintenance Team, Emergency Procedures and SOP’s (standard operating procedures), Report Writing, Making Presentations, Contract and Purchase Order Management, Project Management, Employee Appraisals, Managing Upper Management, and Preparing for Your Future.

Fundamentals of a Mature Maintenance Organization - If your organization is contemplating changing your maintenance culture, this course will be beneficial. It develops the foundation from which a world-class organization can be built and presents the critical components of a well-designed, organized, and staffed maintenance organization. Key areas of this course are: Management Support, Organization, Maintenance Control Function, Supervision and Maintenance Engineering, PM and PdM (preventive and predictive maintenance) and, Management Control.

Out-Sourcing and Out-Tasking Maintenance Responsibilities - Unfortunately and often the reality today, this course presents the details of out-sourcing and out-tasking of the traditional plant engineering and maintenance function as well as other facility services.  We present and discuss the motivation for out-sourcing facility services. We will discuss the alternate contract structures available, and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Other key sections are: How to Structure, Implement, Manage, and Measure the performance of an out-sourced maintenance or facility services program, and Define the keys to a successful partnership.  In addition, time is also spent discussing the successes and failures of out-sourcing.

Maintenance Management -The Business Side - We designed this program to assist managers and/ or maintenance supervisors understand the business side of their jobs. We provide the tools so they will understand what financial managers are looking for and how they make the every day decisions that can affect your maintenance department.

Maintenance Management for the Non-Maintenance Manager - This course is designed to develop a core level of maintenance knowledge in manufacturing managers at all levels.  Most attending this class have little or no knowledge of maintenance basics and how the average maintenance organization should perform and support the manufacturing or facility structure, but will leave with a solid foundation of maintenance responsibilities.