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Lean Reliability: Using Lean Thinking & Principles to Reach a New Plateau in Reliability

A Webinar by Ivara

Date: Friday June 2nd
Time: 11 am EST (GMT -5)
Duration: Less than one hour with Q&A
Cost: FREE

Click here to register today - space is limited

Attend this webinar to learn how to revolutionize your current Reliability thinking, strategy and initiatives to reach the next plateau – Lean Reliability. 

Lean thinking has been widely adopted in manufacturing operations. Now, it’s time to apply traditional Lean principles to the equipment reliability process - focusing on waste reduction as well as continuous improvement processes to address the 7 losses of production.  Applying Lean thinking to the reliability area requires that we bring together Maintenance and Operations personnel to achieve operational excellence through: 

• Production efficiency
• Reducing manufacturing costs
• Ensuring a safe environment
• Ensuring environmental performance
• Ensuring product quality

In this webinar you will learn how to:

• Eliminate waste in the form of non-value added work tasks by building technically sound Asset Reliability Programs.
• Eliminate the waste associated with collecting inspection data that is never used by moving to automated data management capabilities that collect and manage asset condition data automatically.
• Apply concepts of kaizen and six sigma to the maintenance process
• Work with operations to continuously improve your capability to detect and prevent asset failures
• Team up with operations to achieve an understanding of asset health
• Improve your personal work environment - less fire fighting, and increased job security
• Set targets for improvements and measure your progress with KPIs

Attend this webinar to reach a whole new level of reliability – Lean Reliability. Leverage a sense of shared ownership in Lean Reliability to achieve breakthrough performance. 

About the Webinar Leaders

Paul R. Casto CRE, CMRP has more than 25 years in manufacturing with hands-on experience in engineering, maintenance, production and reliability.  He has worked in the steel, aluminum, automotive, chemical, aerospace and consumer goods industries. He has worked internationally in Europe, Japan, South America, South Africa and Russia.  Currently, his main area of focus is bottom-line value creation through the application of reliability technologies, the integration of Six Sigma and TOC techniques into reliability and the application of Lean principles to maintenance.  This work encompasses methods to translate value to the profit line of the income statement, techniques to assess M&R performance and methods to improve M&R work processes. 

Paul holds Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University, a Masters degree in Engineering Management from Marshall University Graduate College, a MBA from Clemson University and a Masters in Maintenance Management and Reliability Engineering from the University of Tennessee/Monash University program.  Paul is a certified and practicing Six Sigma Green Belt and holds ASQ Certified Reliability Engineer and SMRP Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional accreditation.

Ricky Smith, CMRP, CPMM, Reliability Strategy Leader, Ivara Corporation

Ricky Smith is renowned in the world of reliability and maintenance. He has more than 30 years of experience working in over 400 plants world wide in reliability and maintenance management and training —and holds designations as a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional from the Society for Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP) and a Certified Plant Maintenance Manager from the Association of Facilities Engineering (AFE). Well-known on the speaking and lecture circuits, Ricky is also a well-respected author of “Lean Maintenance” and “Industrial Repair, Best Maintenance Repair Practices”.

Brian Maguire, Vice President of Sales and Marketing Ivara Corporation

Brian Maguire has a wide experience of the software industry in a variety of sectors, including fifteen years focused on maintenance and reliability applications. Brian works with the other members of the executive team to ensure the Ivara business strategy provides maximum value to customers and partners - at the same time differentiating the company from its competitors. As a certified Reliability Centered Maintenance Practitioner, Brian assists customers in realizing the results of improved equipment performance through an increased focus on asset reliability. 

Click here to register today - space is limited