Upskill and Drive Profits

Introduction

One common question that we have been asked many times over the past several years is “where can I send my workforce for training to learn more about the maintenance management industry that we are involved in”.

Well, we may have struggled to answer that question in the past but today we can definitely answer that question.

Welcome to Strobe Academy of Learning

Strobe Academy of Learning has been established based on many years of managerial and industry experience and is now part of the Maintenance Connection Africa range of products

A Symphony of Maintenance

At Strobe we have developed a series of 6 training courses that have been specifically designed for the maintenance management industry. The series is called ‘A Symphony of Maintenance’ and consists of the following programs:

• The Fundamental Principles of Maintenance Management
• The Wonderful World of Asset Management
• The Destructive Force of Failure
• Smooth Running for Success – Project Management and Best Practices
• Effective Planning and Scheduling
• Project Shutdown

The Symphony of Maintenance series of training courses are designed specifically to meet the needs of the asset maintenance management industry.

These courses will provide a great introduction to our industry for new employees just starting off with their career and will also be instrumental in enabling more senior managers to upskill their workforce, as well as a general updating and refresher course for everyone.

Business Focus and Efficiency Savings

Keeping pace with technological advancement can be a daunting task and is a huge challenge for organizations today. Profit margins are being squeezed with worldwide competitive markets and fine margins can sometimes dictate the difference between profitability and loss. While technology creates powerful business opportunities, it also creates skill gaps and if those gaps are not filled, any organization will struggle to keep pace with competition and maintain healthy profit margins.

Some questions need to be asked 

• Is your organisation not running as efficiently as it should?
• Is your workforce skilled for the job at hand?
• Is your workforce continuously being updated with new skills to match new technological innovation?
• Do you have a need to drive increased profits?

The spotlight today is firmly focused on Efficiency Savings.

And Maintenance Management is all about maintaining the resources of the company so that production proceeds effectively and that no money is wasted on inefficiencies.

Our resources are our most valuable assets and wise investment into the upskilling of our workforce will assist in our continual drive towards improving efficiencies and profitability.

Fundamental Principles of Maintenance Management

Is downtime getting you down?

Do you have excessive emergency call-outs with an uncontrolled budget, just watching your dollars fly out of the window?

Wouldn’t you like to have a maintenance operation where assets are available, reliable, and operating in a safe efficient environment with an improved image and where operating and maintenance costs are controlled and kept at a minimum.

Welcome to the start of your journey towards a World Class Maintenance Facility

The Wonderful World of Asset Management

Well maintained assets are key to effective production levels

Do you have an integrated up-to-date detailed register of assets?

Do you know where all your assets are and what condition they are in?

Poorly maintained assets will have a detrimental and sometimes devastating effect on production and company profits, due to machine breaks, waste material, and a host of other issues. Effective Asset Management is critical to ensure machine availability, reliability, and optimized operational and maintenance costs.

If you are seeking to improve the effectiveness of your organization or maintenance function 

Welcome to The Wonderful World of Asset Management

The Destructive Force of Failure

Equipment Failure refers to any event in which any equipment cannot accomplish its intended purpose or task such as:

Equipment not working, not performing, not meeting target expectations

Is equipment failure impacting your production output?

Is your product quality being compromised?

The objective of maintenance is to minimize equipment failure but when this does not happen Production reliability, costs and profits, just to mention a few, become a thing of the past

If you are striving to improve the effectiveness of your organization or your maintenance function

Welcome to The Destructive Force of Failure

Learn about tools and methods that you can use to control and limit the impact of Destructive Failure in your organization which is vital to your ongoing productivity and profitability

Smooth Running for Success

Project management is the practice of leading the work of a team to achieve goals and meet success criteria at a specified time and the primary challenge is to achieve all of the project goals within the given constraints

Are your projects normally completed successfully on time?

Is all your documentation up to date and based on Best Practice principles?

What about audit compliance?

This training program is all about Project Management and Best Practices and starts from the basis of PAS 55 The world and industry benchmark standard.

Welcome to Smooth Running For Success

Effective Planning and Scheduling

Planning involves the identification of tasks that need to occur.

Scheduling involves assigning the future action needed to enable the tasks to occur on a certain date and time.

Are planning and scheduling working effectively for you?

Correct maintenance and scheduling will increase productivity

Provide improved product quality

Reduce costs and give global competitiveness

Planning and scheduling ensures the right work gets done, at the right time, with the right tools, materials, and people

Welcome to Effective Planning and Scheduling

Learn practical planning guidelines and a down to earth scheduling methodology

No more poor quality and missed deadlines

Quite the opposite

Project Shutdown

Shutdowns are often very complex to handle and plan and although most of the work can be pre-planned, there will always be a large unknown element of work that will arise

No matter how well a plant is run or how high its efficiency is a shutdown period will be required to maintain it

Are your production levels not meeting required standards?

Do you need to restore production to acceptable levels?

Is your plant not running as efficiently as it should?

Do you have a legal requirement to inspect or complete specific maintenance which cannot be dealt with through normal maintenance processes?

All of the above questions and more are solid reasons for initiating a shutdown project

Welcome to Project Shutdown

Explore the process required to plan for and achieve a successful Shutdown operation.

Summary

Now more than ever before, we are being challenged to do things differently and to become progressively more creative in our jobs and careers. The face of business and industry is changing rapidly as we all adapt to the new normal. What better way to prepare ourselves to meet this exciting new future than to upskill our professional talents and abilities in a simple, easy to use and cost-effective way.

Strobe Academy of Learning has been designed to do exactly this, by providing easy-to-use video-based training courses.

You determine your own pace of learning in your own time. Dream big, study well, be smart and become successful. You will never know how much you can achieve until you commit to pushing your limits

The courses are available either:

• On Line
• In House

For more information email us at info@strobe-al.co.za or visit www.strobe-al.co.za