New Employee Spotlight: Art Young
Principal Consultant, Program Manager
Art Young recently joined the GenesisSolutions Infor EAM practice and is assigned as the Program Manager for one of Genesis’s key pharmaceutical customers. Art brings over 15 years of maintenance management consulting experience to Genesis, including six years leading the Professional Services Group at Datastream Systems (now Infor). Art has a wide variety of experience implementing Datastream’s MP2, as well as Datastream 7i, which is now known as Infor EAM. Additionally, Art has experience with other EAM products, including IBM’s Maximo, Ventyx’s Passport and EMPAC. In addition to his maintenance management experience, Art has led the development of custom applications that enable large-scale business process reengineering for manufacturers and was the founder of a company that provided web-based team collaboration applications to over 1000 clients worldwide. Art’s industry experience includes paper manufacturing, oil and gas, plastics manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, facilities management and general manufacturing.
Art began his career in product engineering for the Ingersoll-Rand Company’s air compressor division, following his 1984 graduation from North Carolina State University with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Art also earned an MBA from the McColl Graduate School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte and holds the Project Management Professional credential from the Project Management Institute.
In his current role, Art manages the migration and integration of over 25 newly acquired manufacturing facilities into the existing Infor EAM implementation at one of Genesis’ strategic EAM customers.
The Value of Maintenance Site Assessments
On the Path of Continuous Improvement
by Mike Greenholtz
An essential tool for defining the path forward for your maintenance organization strategy is the Site Assessment. Understanding where both the strengths and opportunities reside is an important first step in a transformation effort. The GenesisSolutions assessment is focused on providing our customers with a keen understanding of their performance across the following 7 Maintenance elements:
- Organizational Readiness
- EAM Database Management
- Work Management
- Maintenance and Reliability
- Inventory Management
- Planning and Scheduling
- Metrics and Performance Improvement
Our organizational readiness review looks at your maintenance department’s organizational culture, communication tools, employee development and training capabilities. The intent is to understand how the maintenance group is currently positioned to maximize the utilization of the CMMS and RCM strategies to support your company’s stated business objectives. Providing additional depth to the assessment incorporates our analysis of the existing EAM database and work management process flows, which are foundational elements of a Maintenance and Reliability program. We then evaluate the maturity level of the inventory management, planning and scheduling process and execution. Finally, we review the management controls and reporting systems that are in place to gauge your overall maintenance program effectiveness and business impact.
Our two person team comprised of an EAM and Reliability professional can complete a site assessment in 2 to 3 days, depending on the scale of the host site. Our methodology and experience provides a comprehensive scorecard and detailed report that includes a prioritized list of actionable items. A performance tracking chart is generated for each element and one for your overall program. Most importantly, our findings and recommendations can be used as the basis for your updated Maintenance Master Plan.
We encourage our customers to periodically self assess in order to monitor progress of their continuous improvement journey. Our decade plus of CMMS implementation experience combined with deployments of RCM strategies provides us with a unique perspective for conducting these assessments. Our EAM database management evaluation has provided our customers additional insight as to how to further leverage their CMMS investment for greater ROI.
To learn more about our Site Assessment Tool and Methodology, please contact Mike Greenholtz at mgreenholtz@genesissolutions.com
Upcoming August 2010 Events
Mountain West Maximo User Group (MWMUG)
GenesisSolutions will be sponsoring and attending the Mountain West Maximo User Group (MWMUG) Fall Meeting August 8-10, 2010 in Park City, UT.
More information available at: http://mwmug.org/
Airport Maximo User Group (AMUG)
GenesisSolutions will be attending the Airport Maximo User Group (AMUG) Mid-Year Meeting August 19, 2010 hosted by Denver International Airport.
More information available at: http://www.tivoli-ug.org/groups?groupid=230
July 2010
New Employee Spotlight: Art Young
Principal Consultant, Program Manager
Art Young recently joined the GenesisSolutions Infor EAM practice and is assigned as the Program Manager for one of Genesis’s key pharmaceutical customers. Art brings over 15 years of maintenance management consulting experience to Genesis, including six years leading the Professional Services Group at Datastream Systems (now Infor). Art has a wide variety of experience implementing Datastream’s MP2, as well as Datastream 7i, which is now known as Infor EAM. Additionally, Art has experience with other EAM products, including IBM’s Maximo, Ventyx’s Passport and EMPAC. In addition to his maintenance management experience, Art has led the development of custom applications that enable large-scale business process reengineering for manufacturers and was the founder of a company that provided web-based team collaboration applications to over 1000 clients worldwide. Art’s industry experience includes paper manufacturing, oil and gas, plastics manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, facilities management and general manufacturing.
Art began his career in product engineering for the Ingersoll-Rand Company’s air compressor division, following his 1984 graduation from North Carolina State University with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Art also earned an MBA from the McColl Graduate School of Business at Queens University of Charlotte and holds the Project Management Professional credential from the Project Management Institute.
In his current role, Art manages the migration and integration of over 25 newly acquired manufacturing facilities into the existing Infor EAM implementation at one of Genesis’ strategic EAM customers.
The Value of Maintenance Site Assessments
On the Path of Continuous Improvement
by Mike Greenholtz
An essential tool for defining the path forward for your maintenance organization strategy is the Site Assessment. Understanding where both the strengths and opportunities reside is an important first step in a transformation effort. The GenesisSolutions assessment is focused on providing our customers with a keen understanding of their performance across the following 7 Maintenance elements:
Our organizational readiness review looks at your maintenance department’s organizational culture, communication tools, employee development and training capabilities. The intent is to understand how the maintenance group is currently positioned to maximize the utilization of the CMMS and RCM strategies to support your company’s stated business objectives. Providing additional depth to the assessment incorporates our analysis of the existing EAM database and work management process flows, which are foundational elements of a Maintenance and Reliability program. We then evaluate the maturity level of the inventory management, planning and scheduling process and execution. Finally, we review the management controls and reporting systems that are in place to gauge your overall maintenance program effectiveness and business impact.
Our two person team comprised of an EAM and Reliability professional can complete a site assessment in 2 to 3 days, depending on the scale of the host site. Our methodology and experience provides a comprehensive scorecard and detailed report that includes a prioritized list of actionable items. A performance tracking chart is generated for each element and one for your overall program. Most importantly, our findings and recommendations can be used as the basis for your updated Maintenance Master Plan.
We encourage our customers to periodically self assess in order to monitor progress of their continuous improvement journey. Our decade plus of CMMS implementation experience combined with deployments of RCM strategies provides us with a unique perspective for conducting these assessments. Our EAM database management evaluation has provided our customers additional insight as to how to further leverage their CMMS investment for greater ROI.
To learn more about our Site Assessment Tool and Methodology, please contact Mike Greenholtz at mgreenholtz@genesissolutions.com
Upcoming August 2010 Events
Mountain West Maximo User Group (MWMUG)
GenesisSolutions will be sponsoring and attending the Mountain West Maximo User Group (MWMUG) Fall Meeting August 8-10, 2010 in Park City, UT.
More information available at: http://mwmug.org/
Airport Maximo User Group (AMUG)
GenesisSolutions will be attending the Airport Maximo User Group (AMUG) Mid-Year Meeting August 19, 2010 hosted by Denver International Airport.
More information available at: http://www.tivoli-ug.org/groups?groupid=230