OpEx Maintenance Seminar Focused on RCM, CMMS/EAM, Mill Storeroom, LCAM Systems

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The TAPPI OpEx Seminar (Operating Excellence through Advanced Asset Management), organized by TAPPI's Asset Management Committee, will be held May 2 - 3, 2011, in conjunction with the TAPPI PaperCon 2011 Conference and Exhibition at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Ky., USA.

 The OpEx Seminar includes close-up analyses of the latest evolutions and applications of reliability centered maintenance (RCM), CMMS/EAM systems and software, mill storeroom structure and operations, and life cycle asset management technologies and operating floor applications.

Integrated into this year's program is a three-hour special workshop on Plant Optimization for Managers. This workshop walks participants through the benchmarking (maintenance spending, inventory value, inventory carrying cost, overtime) and calculations for developing the value proposition for reliability. Reliability Improvement is the "what" and Asset Management is the "how."

Also included in the OpEx Seminar is a special Mill Asset Management Roundtable arranged and Conducted by the TAPPI Ohio Local Section. Roundtable participants include Larry Bryant, maintenance manager, Domtar Hawesville, Ky.; Bob Schidle, engineering and maintenance manager, Temple-Inland, Maysville, Ky.; Larry Schindler, engineering, maintenance, and utilities manager, Wausau Paper, Middletown, Ohio; Ted von Bargen, reliability superintendent, Appleton Papers, West Carrolton, Ohio; and Juan Mangual, maintenance superintendent, Appleton Papers, West Carrolton, Ohio.

More information and registration forms for the OpEx Seminar are available online.