Training in Reliability-focused Maintenance Storeroom Management

IDCON’s Training in Spare Parts Management

This unique two-day training seminar provides real solutions to maintenance Storeroom management problems and is intended for Maintenance, Maintenance Storeroom and Engineering people with responsibility for maintenance materials. It will provide them with new skills to dramatically improve management of spare parts and maintenance supplies.

With the knowledge from this seminar, you will achieve improved maintenance effectiveness and plant reliability while reducing spare parts inventory and maintenance costs.

This training focuses on building a partnership of your maintenance and Storeroom professionals with a common objective of maximizing plant reliability through logical and efficient management of the spare parts, materials and information required by maintenance people.

Typical Training Outline

Part 1 - With Management representatives

Introduction
Benefits of maintenance materials management
Course objectives
Organization and partnership
Alignment of objectives
Integration of materials and reliability management
Business processes
Information management

Part 2 - Maintenance, Maintenance Engineering and Materials-Management participants

Definitions
More on business processes
Database principles
Finding materials in the Storeroom catalog
Integration of materials information
Integrated zero-stock catalog
Reliability basics
To stock or not to stock?
Critical spares
Equipment selection and purchasing
Anti-friction bearings
Plant standards
Bills of Materials
Interchangeability
Use of non-OEM parts
Obsolete and surplus stock
Repair-and-return management
Assigning value to inventory
Work kits and on-site deliveries
Other Storeroom services

Part 3 – Parts and Materials-management participants

Stock activity graphs
Economic order quantity
Dual re-order points
Inventory automation
Open or closed Storeroom?
Physical storage
Return-to-Storeroom process
Cycle counting and inventory record accuracy
Summary of CMMS requirements
Other possibilities
Review of deferred items
Discussion and conclusion