2009-09-10 - Maintenance Manager of the Year

   Thursday September 24th 2009 - 18h30 - SURF House, Brussels (Evere)

Program

1. Presentation

"How to grow from a Maintenance Manager to a Maintenance Leader?"
by Mr. Mike Aroney - Principal Consultant, GPAllied, LLC.

This presentation will provide a guideline for becoming an effective leader, especially during implementation of change and economically challenging times.

• The component in our manufacturing system with the largest variation in performance is the human.
• The best we can achieve in reducing variation in human performance is “3 Sigma” – following standards 95 % of the time – utilizing effective Leadership.
• What should the Maintenance Manager do to effectively lead in an economic recession?
  
• How to provide leadership that is appropriate for the situation.
  

About the speaker
Mike Aroney is a retired US Navy Officer. He held various leadership positions in maintenance, operations, and command, and is a graduate of the Italian Naval War College, and TOPGUN. He was graduated from Columbia University in New York City and earned graduate degrees in Science and Business Administration during his Navy Career. Mike is currently an adjunct Assistant Professor of Aeronautical Science at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL.
After the Navy, Mike was Director of Corporate Planning for a Global, Fortune 500 Company where he provided change leadership for a major business process re-engineering initiative that impacted 21,000 employees. He left to join the Navy Sea Systems Command as a Program Manager and led major process and systems changes in how the US Navy maintains its ships worldwide. Mike joined Life Cycle Engineering 9 years ago as a Principal Consultant for Change Management and Leadership and Managing Director of a $25 million Engineering and Maintenance Business Unit. He joined GP Allied in May 2009 as Principal Consultant and thought leader for Change Management and Leadership.
Mike has published several articles on Leadership and Change Management in various Engineering and Maintenance journals, and has provided keynote speeches and presentations for Maintenance and Reliability organizations around the world. He also teaches workshops on leadership and change management in the US, Europe, and Latin America, Australia, and Japan.

2. Proclamation of the Maintenance Manager of the Year

An independent jury has selected the winner out of 3 finalists. You will get to know thier maintenance strategies and you will be the first to know who is the winner…

3. Walking Dinner

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2009-09-08 - World Congress on Engineering Asset Management

The World Congress on Engineering Asset Management
is hosted at the Athens Ledra Marriott Hotel in Athens, Greece,
between 28-30 September 2009.

It is the fourth in the series, with previous WCEAM Congresses held in the

• Gold Coast, Australia (2006),
• Harrogate, UK (2007) and
• Beijing, China (2008).

It is the first to be organised under the auspices of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM)
who will host WCEAM on an annual basis as its forum for the advancement of knowledge in Engineering Asset Management, by bringing together leading academics, industry practitioners and research scientists from around the world.

Featuring distinguished keynotes in an era of global challenges posed by the financial crisis, the WCEAM theme for 2009 is

WCEAM 2009 is co-hosted by the Hellenic Maintenance Society and the program includes special sessions organised by

• EFNMS,
• EURENSEAM and the
• IMS Manufacturing Technology Platform M4SM and
• the iLearn2Main project
  

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2009-09-08 - SMRP 17th Annual Conference  Gateway to Reliability Excellence

October 18-23, 2009, St Louis, Missouri, USA

This is one of the largest pure Maintenance and Reliability conferences in North America. SMRP’s Annual Conference brings together Maintenance and Reliability professionals across all industry sectors.

Conference details

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