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MPACT Schedule, April - June
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March 23, 2004v
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Are your Technicians really
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MPACT Seminar Schedule, April - June,
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Infrequently Offered Classes
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Enrollments and Directions
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National Public Radio sent a
feature editor to the Value Added Maintenance
workshop October 2, 2003. He interviewed Pete
Little and a number of others about the crisis
facing maintenance, and will air the feature in a
one-hour call-in show on the Roanoke NPR station,
WVTF, FM 89.1 at 7:00 PM on Tuesday March
30.
Joel Leonard and Pete Little were
kickoff speakers at the National Facilities
Management and Technology Conference in Baltimore
March 9. Their topic was "Averting the Maintenance
Crisis." Over 350 attended, and the feedback was
tremendous for the rest of our visit
there.
We're Moving in late
April...
... to the Pinehurst Building,
Centerview Drive, off Meadowview, in
Greensboro.
We'll give you directions in an
upcoming newsletter. We expect to start in the new
location on May 3.
Coming this summer:
Refresher Courses. We will offer a series of
one-day refresher courses in many of the subjects
we teach. The format will be question and answer,
with past students having the opportunity to
explore issues they are unsure of, and brainstorm
on solving actual plant problems to reduce costs.
Only students who have taken the full-length
course taught by MPACT will be admitted.
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VALUE ADDED MAINTENANCE
[VAM]: American industry is facing a Maintenance
Crisis. For every ten skilled technicians retiring
today, only three are entering the field - and
most of them need additional skills training.
Learn more about the crisis and what to do about
it at a VAM workshop. April 5 - normally $300,
free for those who register by April 1. First-come
first-served - seating is limited.
Rex
Gallaher, Director of Maintenance Technical
Training for the US Postal Service, will be one
keynote speaker. We also will have a return visit
from George Sanborn of Stantec Engineering, who
will talk about the Pros and Cons of Exporting US
Jobs.
SYSTEMATIC TROUBLESHOOTING [STS]: At
a recent STS seminar, a Maintenance Engineer said
this was a better course than Root Cause Failure
Analysis. After another seminar, the participants
brought in a real problem from their plant to the
class. They estimated this problem had cost
$80,000 over six months. The class members used
the STS process to solve the problem in 90
minutes
The class is scheduled April 13 - 15,
$875.
MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT: Do you never
have enough time for PM? Are you always fighting
fires? Are your technicians not well utilized? Is
your maintenance schedule a joke? Learn how to
correct these problems at this seminar, taught by
Pete Little, who has installed Maintenance
Management programs in almost 200 plants in three
major corporations. March 30 - April 2,
$990.
This seminar is appropriate for Plant
Engineers, Maintenance Managers, Maintenance
Engineers, Supervisors, Planners, and Clerks, as
well as production management personnel.
MAINTENANCE PLANNING: a follow-on course
to Maintenance Management. May 4 - 7,
$990.
This course is intended primarily for
Planners, and those who supervise them directly.
It includes detailed work order planning, job
estimating techniques, scheduling, and an
introduction to project work scheduling, with
group discussion and hands-on field exercises in a
manufacturing plant, designed to teach Maintenance
Planners to effectively plan and schedule
non-emergency jobs. The Maintenance Management
Seminar is a prerequisite for Maintenance
Planning.
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9001 Blueprint Reading and
Sketching April 6 - 8, June 2 - 4 $525
9002
Basic Electricity May 17 - 21 $1,100
9004 Basic
Electronics May 3 - 14 $2,100
9005 Electrical
Control Troubleshooting March 29 - April 1, June
14 - 17 $900
9006 D-C Drives June 21 - 23
$775
9008 Hydraulics June 7 - 11 $1,250
9011
Basic Mechanics March 29 - April 2, June 21 - 25
$975
9014 Electro-Mechanical Fluid Power June
14 - 18 $1,250
9015 Sheet Metal Layout May 10 -
15 $875
9017 Mechanical Pneumatics May 3 - 7
$1,100
9020 Practical Mechanics April 12 - 16,
May 24 - 28 (At Customer Site), June 28 - July 2
$1,075
9030 Digital Electronics 1 May 17 - 21
$1,275
9038 Programmable Logic Controllers 1
April 19 - 23, May 24 - 28 $1,375
9044
Microprocessor Troubleshooting 4 April 12 - 16
$1,275
9045 Systematic Troubleshooting April 13
- 15, May 10 - 12 (At Customer Site) $875
9047
Maintenance Management March 30 - April 2
$990
9048 Maintenance Planning May 4 - 7
$990
9049 AC Inverters June 1 - 4
$1,250
9054 Programmable Logic Controllers 2
June 7 - 11 $1,425
9511 Value Added Maintenance
April 5, June 8 $300 [no charge slots available
336-379-1444]
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