Two-Day Maintenance Benchmarking Course Set For June 22 At UofT

Toronto, ON — Benchmarking: Analytical Approach to achieve World Class Reliability and Maintenance Excellence, is a C-MORE (Centre for Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Engineering) Masterclass taking place at the University of Toronto June 22-23, 2009, with Serge Mathieu as the instructor. Mathieu is a leader in Operations Management for ABB Reliability Consulting.

Understanding where you currently stand in important reliability and maintenance areas is essential to determining effective strategies for improvement. This session focuses on World Class Reliability (WCR) Benchmarking Reference Bases, including Management Leadership, Roles & Responsibilities, Preventive & Predictive Maintenance, Suppliers & Services Integration, Physical Asset Program, Continuing Education and Performance Assurance.

Participants will have the opportunity to discuss case studies from ABB’s industrial WCR Benchmarking assignments, for a deeper understanding of the WCR process and the results that can be achieved.

Masterclasses at C-MORE are based on its history of application-based research in the field of maintenance management and its connections to leading practitioners and consultants in the field. The objective of the programs is to combine quality content delivered by leading instructors with the academic rigour of the University of Toronto, a world-class university.

The programs are designed to provide practitioners with first-hand knowledge to make them more effective in their workplaces in a short period of time through an intensive, interactive training environment.

For details on this class, visit www.mie.utoronto.ca/cmore/masterclass_main.html.