When: 10/18/10 - 10/21/10

SMRP (Society of Maintenance & Reliability Professionals) is an independent, not-for-profit, professional society formed by practitioners, for practitioners. SMRP is dedicated to instilling excellence in M&R in all types of manufacturing and service organizations, and in promoting M&R excellence worldwide.

GenesisSolutions will be a sponsoring exhibitor and presenting on “Launching Maintenance Communities of Practice for Reliability Excellence” at this conference.

Please visit us in the exhibit hall at booth #212 and ask for details on our Hospitality Event Tuesday, October 19th at the Miller Time Pub at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center.

When: 08/08/10 - 08/10/10

The Mountain West Maximo Users Group was formed by Maximo users in the Utah and Rocky Mountain region.  We believe we are the only user group that is actually run by users, not vendors, of the software.  We remember what it was like to walk down the aisles at MRO World/Pulse and wonder who should we talk to and who could really help us.  We have spent the last five years learning from the school of hard knocks and attending MRO World/Pulse and various user group meetings to build a network of users and vendors who really know how to help you.  Although we feel like we know how to move around in the Maximo community, we also look forward to meeting new and old users to share successes as well the horror stories.  That is what a user group is all about. 

GenesisSolutions is a sponsor of this conference.

Building a foundation for success requires deliberate, concrete action to propel an organization in a desired direction. Organizations become firmly established and successful in their day-to-day business through careful planning and constant analysis of the work they do. Organizations are, in essence, laying the foundation for success when they use their mission and vision as the target goal; set clear and achievable objectives; have the right people in place to carry out the plans and the technology to support the work. This article demonstrates how a new company with a bold mission is keeping all of those variables in mind as it embraces maintenance excellence as a competitive advantage and a pathway to success.

Talecris Biotherapeutics is a global biotechnology company that discovers, develops and produces critical care treatment for people with life-threatening disorders in a variety of therapeutic areas including immunology, pulmonology, and hemostasis. Talecris is headquartered in the biotech hub Research Triangle Park, N.C., and employs more than 3,000 people worldwide. All of Talecris’ current marketed products are manufactured from human blood plasma – by definition a scarce resource. This precious starting material makes success in the manufacturing process critical.

Talecris Biotherapeutics

Here, we outline the process for building a firm foundation to provide long-term growth and flexibility in the area of Enterprise Asset Management. Talecris Biotherapeutics, Inc. has partnered with GenesisSolutions, one of North America’s leading providers of EAM services, to begin the organization’s transformation.

Read more.

A major North American medical distributor and medical recordkeeping firm needed to upgrade their CMMS system.  The primary driver was to enhance their CMMS system to be more stable and support additional sites.  Genesis was asked to perform the upgrade because of their long successful history with the customer during past upgrades and Genesis’ experience with compliant system.

Genesis Role

Genesis provided the customer with infrastructure and installation expertise, data mapping and migration expertise and integration development skills.  Genesis provided project design and management assistance to this large complex CMMS upgrade project.  Genesis provided data loading services for the new site being implemented during this project.  Genesis also provides long term support for this customer.

Actions Taken

• Upgraded  legacy enterprise CMMS to current release.
• Loaded “green field” data for new site.
• Upgraded and enhanced a work request interface.
• Upgraded reports.
• Provided training for power users.
• Provided business process assistance for one of the large sites.
• Archived historical records.
• Worked with customer architectural tests to design and tune the server systems.
• “Go-Live” support during rollout of new CMMS.

Results Achieved

• Archived 8 million historical work order records to recapture space and increase performance.
• Migrated data from old CMMS to the new CMMS.
• Assisted customer with user and performance testing.
• “Go-Live” support during rollout of new CMMS.
• Users successfully functioning on new CMMS system.
• Continue to provide long term support.

The Customer’s Nutritionals Plant wanted to implement a global Maintenance Excellence Program at all plant sites located in the Americas, Asia and Europe. In addition, the plant in the Philippines needed to significantly improve reliability in order to meet product commitments in the fast growing Asia region.

Genesis Role

Genesis was selected for this strategic project because of deep experience in reliability improvement in major industries worldwide. Our team is helping to define a maintenance excellence vision for each site and a detailed three-year implementation plan to achieve leading-edge reliability. Genesis also deployed a team of reliability and calibration professionals at the Philippines site to help improve reliability and product output in the short-term.

Actions Taken

The project consisted of the following major initiatives:

• Worked with Global Business Unit leadership to define to a Maintenance Excellence vision and implementation strategy
• Conducted a global workshop to introduce reliability and maintenance excellence
• Developed a maintenance excellence implementation plan for each plant in the operating unit.
• Implemented phase I of the program at the Philippines plant including a criticality analysis, calibration program enhancements, reliability engineering improvements on equipment and a PM optimization to improve craft efficiency.
• Developed the reliability program for a plant expansion.

Results Achieved

• Improved reliability and increased output at the Philippines plant. Eliminated the packaging line bottleneck. Eliminated all shipment backlog.
• Implemented cross-functional area improvement teams that are currently generating continuous improvement ideas and increasing product output.
• Completed a knowledge transfer to plant personnel to enable the site to sustain the maintenance excellence and reliability program.

Two organizations at a large government research facility needed to implement changes to their maintenance management processes.The first organization does not use a CMMS, relying heavily on manual procedures to manage its work planning and maintenance operations. It initiated an effort to develop a Work Planning system based on using the facility’s existing CMMS.

Genesis Role

Genesis provided this customer with a list of recommendations on how to use the facility’s existing CMMS to manage its work planning requirements. Genesis provided a Principal Consultant and additional technical personnel to migrate the customer from its manual operation to the CMMS based operation.

Actions Taken

The customer requested assistance in the following areas:

• Enhance the CMMS based on specific operational requirements
• Implement safety and efficiency improvementsImplement critical reports
• Populate the new system with base data
• Provide hands-on training

The second organization uses a CMMS; but, based on audit findings, needed to improve its operating procedures.

Genesis Role

Genesis provided the customer with a detailed plan addressing the development and implementation of a work management methodology based on consistent prioritization, planning and scheduling processes. Genesis provided a Principal consultant and additional technical personnel who worked with the customers’ operating and technical staff to implement the process improvements and to develop the required CMMS enhancements.

Actions Taken

The customer requested specific improvements in the following areas:

• Work planning and schedulingAutomate the preventive maintenance work process.
• Build a workflow process to track work orders from initiation through closure.
• Develop a process to capture non-work time
• Develop reports and KPI’s
• Provide training

Results Achieved

• Both projects launched successful on-time go-live events

— Irene B., Project Manager, Major Medical Provider

— Keith T., IT Manager, large bio-pharmaceutical company