Good reasons to participate
Helsinki in Finland will be hosting a Maintenance and Physical Asset Management event from May 5th to 8th, 2014. The event is one of the biggest events of its kind in Europe. More than 100 experts from 30 countries will be presenting their latest findings and sharing their experiences on Asset Management within Maintenance.
IN ADDITION to these professional presentations there will be half day Forums on the six most topical global issues focused on the maintenance business. The aim of each “Forum” is to focus on one specific hot topic, which will be covered by different viewpoints by several international specialists. There will also be plenty of time reserved for the public to present questions and to express interactive opinions. Learning from others brings the value to participate!
How to beat the recession with help through maintenance
Companies which have specialized in maintenance have almost without exception, and in spite of the European recession, been successful.
For many companies maintenance services represent more than half of the company turnover and revenue. Many of the companies have also improved their efficiency by outsourcing or updating their maintenance operation and strategy. The knowledge of maintenance has become an important success factor for a large number of companies.
At the EuroMaintenance 2014 event more than ten companies, which have succeeded well during the present recession in Europe, will share their success stories. A couple of examples of the forthcoming presentations:
- Maintenance service as a competitive tool to improve profitability
- How to minimize the consequences of the recession with the right asset management actions and methods
There is always something you can learn from a good success story. Every success story has a moral!
The hottest topic of maintenance - Physical Asset Management
The talk of the globe and the focus on the latest development of maintenance is the Physical Asset Management. How to take into consideration and how to manage the life cycle cost during the entire lifespan of the investment? How to manage the physical asset management within maintenance operation?
This important subject will be covered in detail on the Effective Asset Management Forum and on several seminars given by numerous international specialists. Some of the topics:
- ISO5500 and PASS 55 standards. (Four top presentations including panel discussion)
- Risk-Based Management with Asset Management (Four top presentations including panel discussion)
- The Journey from Maintenance to Asset Management (Australia)
- Critical nature of leadership and culture (Brazil)
- The foundation of Physical Asset Management (United Kingdom)
The EuroMaintenance 2014 event provides a unique opportunity for an instant in-depth understanding of what Asset Management is all about. This unique four-day information package on Asset Management will help to understand how best to make use of Asset Management in order to improve maintenance operations and company profitability. Enjoy all benefits of this unique and comprehensive information package!
Professional maintenance calls for lifelong learning
The EU has in its Lifelong Learning Programme set a target to make the EU the most competitive and dynamic learning economy. One of the targets is to make the know-how of maintenance one of Europe’s competitive edges. As a contribution for reaching this goal, the EU is financing several educational projects with a target to improve maintenance education within Europe.
One of the targets is also to improve the mobility of maintenance professionals within Europe by introducing certificates and “passports”, which would ensure a unified level of knowledge of the professionals across country borders. The new official standards that will specify the knowledge requirements for maintenance professional are also in process to be finalized and published.
During the EuroMaintenance 2014 event you will receive detailed information on the outcome of the European education development projects as well as on the new education requirements of maintenance professionals. The European Federation of National Maintenance Societies with members from 21 European countries, have been heavily involved on the EU development projects. These specialists will organize the Forum: “Competence and Competiveness with Education, Training and Certification”. This Forum will deal with the new requirements concerning maintenance professionals, companies, consultants and educational institutions.
In addition to the Forum event, a number of professionals will present the results of their researches during the Euromaintenance 2014 congress on the development and the challenges of upcoming maintenance education globally. Why not update your knowledge on the new requirements on maintenance education?
You can ensure your performance only by comparing it with the best practices
Benchmarking is the most certain method to ensure how well you manage the latest maintenance trends and how well your company maintenance performance compares with the best practices. How is maintenance developing in the world? Which are the most important development trends and challenges?
EuroMaintenance 2014 offers you a unique opportunity to benchmark your own company maintenance methods as well as your knowledge and efficiency with international best practices. The Forum on Assessment and Benchmarking of Maintenance Activities will focus in detail on these benchmarking topics.
A unique added value and international contribution to the EuroMaintenance 2014 event brings the Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management. GFMAM is the global organization for Australia, Arabian Gulf Region, Brazil, South-Africa, USA and for the European Maintenance Societies (EFNMS). GFMAM is one of the official sponsor partners of the Euro- Maintenance 2014 event, as is also the “World Congress on Maintenance and Asset Management” organization, which organizes annual maintenance congresses outside Europe. These two global organizations, together with EFNMS bring to you a unique package of global knowledge on actual maintenance developments. Do not miss this unique benchmarking opportunity!
Networking is a must for enhanced performance of maintenance
Maintenance business is developing at a speed which no-one is able to manage alone. In order to develop a maintenance operation to peak performance, close networking is needed between companies, maintenance societies, universities, educational institutions and authorities. There have been a number of large projects started and financed by the EU to improve this kind of cooperation, More4Core being one of the most recent ones. The budget for this project is 2.5 million Euros.
At the EuroMaintenance 2014 event, the project management team of the More4Core project will explain the targets, implementation and financing of their project and also explain how you or your company can benefit and become involved in similar projects. There will be a special Forum event focusing indepth on the More4Core project setup. EuroMaintenance 2014 is the perfect place for networking!
KEYNOTE
CERN No Higgs & Co. without maintenance
Goran Perinić, German academic title is Dipl.-Ing. Job functions are senior engineer in quality and organizational processes section and co-leader of the maintenance management project. Company name: CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
Description of the content of the presentation: At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. They use the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments to study the basic constituents of matter - the fundamental particles. The particles are made to collide together at close to the speed of light to give the physicists clues about how the particles interact, and to provide insights into the fundamental laws of nature. The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors that require numerous technologies to play together like a Swiss watch mechanism to deliver the expected physics data to the scientists. Applying best practice maintenance methods is one of CERN’s strategies to ensure reliable operation today and for many years to come. After a presentation of CERN, CERN’s particle physics and a few examples of the technologies utilized, the way in which CERN is preparing for a harmonized maintenance management for the technical sector will be presented.
Short biography: Goran Perinić is a mechanical engineer with a diploma from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. In the first years of his career he acquired solid experience in designing, developing and operating process plants in the domain of cryogenic engineering at the JET joint undertaking fusion reactor in the UK, at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), as a contributor in standardization committees in Germany, France and Switzerland, as a lecturer for the German Engineers Association VDI and last but not least at CERN working for the Compact Muon Solenoid detector before becoming responsible for the operative maintenance of CERN’s cryogenic systems. The full implementation of a CMMS system for the cryogenics systems that Goran oversaw was one of the models for the technical sector’s transversal maintenance management project that he now co-leads.
