Education & Training – Asset Management

  • (PAM) Physical Asset Management (University of Toronto Program) (1,2 and 4 days)
  • (AM) Asset Management Leading Practices (1 day)
  • (MAM) Municipal Asset Management Program (2-Days)

Sample of Training Agenda

Fundamentals of Maintenance Excellence

  • 10 key focus elements to success in Asset Management
  • The leading practices in Asset Management
  • The value of properly executed Planning and Scheduling of maintenance
  • Maintenance Leadership and Control
  • Executing Maintenance efficiently
  • Managing Equipment Risk and Reliability
  • Key metrics for Asset Management
  • Optimizing Methodologies
  • The value of ISO 55000

Optimizing Maintenance Strategy for your Organization
An approach to Total Asset Life-cycle Management
Implementing Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Management

  • How Change Enablement can be applied in Asset Management
  • Key initiatives to take back to your organization to improve your asset management

Don Barry is a Principal Consultant with Asset Acumen Consulting.  He is an experienced instructor of Asset Management principles and is a licensed RCM2 Practitioner.  Mr. Barry brings over 40 years of maintenance and consulting experience to the table with a focus on many asset intensive industries.

Education & Training – Maintenance Parts Management

Asset Acumen Consulting Inc. ‘Maintenance Parts Management Training Programs Available’:

  • (MPE) Maintenance Parts Excellence Program (the University of Toronto, 2-day and 5-day programs) 
  • Includes support materials from (WIP) book ‘Maintenance Parts Management Excellence: A Holistic Anatomy’ by Don M Barry

Sample of Training Agenda

Introduction to Parts Management

  • Simple self-assessment for a parts operation 

Organizing and Measuring Parts Management

  • KPIs, Warehousing, and Delivery
  • The role of Maintenance Parts Management

Inventory Policy Influences and Inventory Management

  • Analyzing inventory requirements and Asset Lifecycle
  • Maintenance Parts Sourcing and Parts Refurbishment Dynamics

 Systems and Tools to manage Maintenance Parts 

  • Case Study on how to prioritize Maintenance Parts needs in the journey towards leading practice  

Implementing Maintenance Optimization and Reliability Management

  • A strategic approach to achieving maintenance parts excellence: Getting the technology, process, and people mix right

Don Barry is a Principal Consultant with Asset Acumen Consulting.  He is an experienced instructor of Maintenance Parts Management principles and was the country Parts Manager for IBM Canada for more than 8 years.  Mr. Barry brings over 40 years of maintenance, parts, and consulting experience to the table, focusing on many asset-intensive industries.

Education & Training – Reliably Centered Maintenance

Asset Acumen Consulting Inc. ‘RCM2 and RCM3 Training Programs Available’:

  • Reliability Centered Maintenance (Introduction, Facilitator Training for RCM2 and optionally RCM3)

Sample of Training Agenda (3-day Introductory)

Defining the Problem and Gathering Basic Information

  • Defining functions and desired performance standards
  • Defining the ways in which assets can fail to deliver the desired performance (Functional Failures)
  • Establishing root causes of failure (Failure Modes)
  • What happens when failures occur (Failure Effects) 

Assessing Failure Consequences
Assessing the validity of different types of failure prevention, and setting task frequencies
Deciding what to do if a suitable preventive task cannot be found
Packaging tasks into maintenance schedules and implementing suitable planning systems
Implementing Reliability-Centred Maintenance

Don Barry is a Principal Consultant with Asset Acumen Consulting.  He is an experienced instructor of Asset Management principles and is a licensed RCM2 Practitioner.  Mr. Barry brings over 40 years of maintenance and consulting experience to the table with a focus on many asset intensive industries.

Education & Training – IT and IoT in Asset Management Training

Course Outline:

Donald Barry’s single-day presentation will examine the role of IT in support of their enterprise’s Asset Management mission.  Insights covered will include:

  • Asset Management and IT Trends
  • EAM solution considerations in Asset Management
  • Risk and Reliability contribution to IT solutions in Asset Management
  • Asset Performance Management considerations
  • Machine Learning and AI introduction
  • Overall IT Strategy to support Asset Management

 Key initiatives to take back to your organization!

Need more information or interested in running this workshop privately in your organization? Contact us by selecting Contact AAC

Don Barry is a Principal Consultant with Asset Acumen Consulting.  He is an experienced instructor of Asset Management principles, EAM program implementation oversight.  Mr. Barry brings over 40 years of IT, maintenance and consulting experience to the table with a focus on many asset-intensive industries.

Education & Training – EAM Asset Data Load Considerations

Asset Acumen Consulting Inc. ‘Asset data loading Training Programs Available’:

  • Data Considerations for an EAM Asset load.

Sample of Training Agenda (4-hour program)

  • Introduction to Asset data concepts and scope for an MMS &  Asset related data types/structures, Asset and Location Hierarchies, Numbering models for Hierarchies
  • Basic data requirements (Foundational, Supplier, Safety, Meter, Specifications)
  • Asset Health and Priorities data, Data related to Rotating Assets
  • Confirming Data requirements for the current transformation with targeted EAM solution (if known)
  • Discussion on current data availability and quality, Approach to data quality confirmation
  • Practicing Data Model Development, Data Loading Considerations
  • Future benefits of leveraging accurate asset data in an EAM environment
  • How automation in Asset Management depends on accurate and complete data models
  • Next Steps

Don Barry is a Principal Consultant with Asset Acumen Consulting.  He is an experienced instructor of Asset Management principles, EAM program implementation oversight.  Mr. Barry brings over 40 years of maintenance and consulting experience to the table with a focus on many asset-intensive industries.