KEYNOTE PRESENTERS
All 2009 Keynote presentations will be uploaded in early August 2009. For an insight in to the calibre and scope of the event, the following were the 5 keynote presentations delivered at the event in November.
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Dieter Haesslein - VP, EAM Solution Management, SAP AG (Germany)
High-Performing Assets - How to Leverage the SAP Business Suite
Dieter Haesslein is Vice President and leads Solution Management for the SAP solutions for Enterprise Asset Management, Environment Health and Safety, and Mobile. He is responsible for product strategy, planning and product definition. Dieter has been with SAP since 1998, where he has held various leadership positions for SAP solutions for logistics, procurement, after-sales service and accounting. Before joining SAP, Dieter gained first-hand business experience in operations and asset management by working with Shell International in Great Britain and the Netherlands. Dieter holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Business from the Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.
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HaJo Lockermann - Director, EAM Solution Management, SAP Labs, LLC (USA)
High-Performing Assets - How to Leverage the SAP Business Suite
HaJo holds a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. He’s been working in the enterprise application space for 19 years. Since joining SAP in 1998, he has been focusing on maintenance repair and overhaul topics in various positions. He spent 3 years in Tokyo, Japan supporting the A&D and E&C industries. He then transferred to Palo Alto, CA in 2002 concentrating on MRO in Aerospace and Defence Industries. From 2005 to 2007 he managed the worldwide EAM solution management team for SAP. He now is driving the high-performing assets theme in close cooperation with the EAM solution management team. |
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John Searls - General Manager - Business Solution Centre, Rio Tinto IS&T
Asset Management: Centre of the Universe - Or at Least the Core of Rio Tinto’s Whole-of-Business Solution
John has been with Rio Tinto for over 15 years. A mechanical engineer, John spent time in operations and maintenance roles before being involved in his first SAP project in 1997. Since then John has moved between SAP implementation and asset management roles, leading to the appointment as Program Director of Rio Tinto’s Aligning Business Systems Programme, which entails leading the teams that design, build and support the business processes and systems collectively known as the Rio Tinto Business Solution. John’s interests include cycling, rugby union, Australian rules football and off-road motorcycling. |
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Kahn Ellis - Senior Partner, COO, Vesta Partners, LLC (USA)
Are You Really Moving to EAM?
Kahn leads all consulting services provided by Vesta and is focused on helping customers improve maintenance and asset management. In addition, Kahn delivers maintenance education and value assessments to Vesta’s customers. As a recognised expert in maintenance and reliability, he is a frequently featured speaker at industry events and seminars. He is a CPMM (Certified Plant Maintenance Manager) and a CMRP (Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional). After working directly for SAP for 8 years in various roles associated with maintenance management, he is an expert in making companies successful using SAP for EAM. |
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Special Guest Speaker: Barbara Holborow: Those Tracks on My Face
Barbara Holborow has always been interested in children’s rights and was integral in the establishment of free legal aid for children in 1973. From then on, Barbara championed the cause of children, working almost exclusively in the Children’s Courts. She was appointed to the bench and was a Children’s Court Magistrate in Sydney for twelve years. Barbara spent a good part of her magisterial career presiding over the toughest children’s courts. Every day she viewed life as few people have witnessed it. Barbara Holborow fought to bring about changes and is proud of what she achieved. Her opinions are regularly sought by the media. She opened her court to the cameras of “60 Minutes”, thereby giving countless numbers of people the opportunity to witness and experience a world, that with any luck they would never become involved in themselves. “Those Tracks on My Face” was Barbara Holborow’s first book and is at times gritty and heartbreaking, but you will marvel at the courage and honour of this remarkable woman who continues to lobby so hard for justice for Australia’s youth. In 2008, Barbara Holborow was named an Australia Day Ambassador. |
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TRACK PRESENTATIONS:
All speakers and their abstracts will be uploaded in early August 2009.
Workshops/Forums
All forums & workshops will be uploaded in early August 2009. For an insight in to the calibre and scope of the forums & workshops this year, the following were the 4 delivered at the event in November:
Forums & workshops were facilitated by content experts and provided participants with the opportunity to interact with other SAP PM professionals in a more intimate environment. Running from 9.00am to 3.30pm, the in-depth forums allowed participants to take away answers and a plan for their organisation.
1. "What's New in EAM? See and Learn About Recent Additions to SAP's EAM Solution" Forum
Since the advent of the Enhancement Packages with ERP 6.0, SAP has been adding functionality to EAM in various areas leveraging this new delivery mechanism. In this workshop SAP Solution Managers will provide background information and show demos of all significant new EAM functionality in the
Enhancement Packages.
We will place particular focus on the management of rotables, a functionality requested by the mining industry:
- Managing internal refurbishment
- Subcontracting refurbishment
- Managing warranty claims
Handling of large maintenance events like shutdowns or turnarounds is now supported by a new type of workbench and master data:
- Maintenance Event Builder
- Hierarchical task lists
Other topics will include:
- Inspection/operator rounds
- Shift notes and logs
- Enhanced time-zone support
- Enhanced features for fleets of vehicles
- Enhanced authorisation concept
- New reporting
Target Audience: SAP analysts and consultants looking to understand the range of new functionality being released by SAP, enabling them to map the future path of their or their clients' SAP EAM solutions.
Facilitated by Andrew Barnard - Solution Architect, AssetCentric, Pty Ltd
2. Applying Core SAP Functionality - Technical Objects Forum
Appropriate set-up of the technical object master data is one of the key planks to achieve best operational and analysis outcomes for your system, and is essential if you want the system to perform asset management rather than just work management. When the set-up does not support your required outcomes, you will fight a losing battle all down the line and system acceptance, capability and benefits will be compromised.
This forum is aimed at new and intermediate maintenance users and analysts, with an interest in understanding the purpose and capability of SAP's technical objects and their data and in setting up and utilising these objects and their data to deliver the required outcomes and analysis for your specific business needs. The aim is to provide some ideas, tips and tricks to assist any user to gain a better understanding and get the most from this core functionality in its day-to-day usage.
Technical Object Hierarchies
- Purpose, usage of functional locations versus equipment
- FL/EQ hierarchies, inheritance, costing/history, hierarchy changes/relabelling
- Sample FL/EQ hierarchies from different industries
- Reporting/analysis against FL/EQ hierarchies
Classifying Technical Objects
- Purpose, considerations and methods for classifying technical objects
- Examples of classification systems
- Reporting/analysis against technical object classifications
Rotables/Repairables
- Purpose, considerations and methods for rotable/repairable tracking and management
- Business issues in rotable/repairable management
- Reporting/analysis against rotables/repairables
Bill of Materials (BOMs)
- Purpose, considerations and methods for BOMs and assemblies
- Usage and integration of BOMs
- Reporting/analysis against BOMs
Catalogues and Codes
- Purpose, usage of catalogues and codes
- Designing and assigning catalogues and codes
- Reporting/analysis against catalogues/codes
Target Audience: New or less experienced SAP users and analysts wishing to better understand the basic functionality and capabilities around the core SAP technical object functionality. The forum covers the scope of the available functionality, what it is capable of and tips and tricks for its application and usage.
Facilitated by: Leslie 'Scotty' Scott - Lead Technical Consultant, Oxygen Business solutions
3. Successful SAP PM Planning and Scheduling Workshop
Effective planning and scheduling can impact an organisation's ability to achieve the goals defined with its maintenance and asset management strategy. Come explore best practices and demonstrate how to best utilise SAP to support and enhance your planning and scheduling program. The workshop is designed for skilled SAP users that are looking to better utilise SAP for planning and scheduling. After reviewing tips for successful planning we will discuss capacity evaluations and then find practical ways to use capacity levelling (Planning Board). We will wrap up the workshop with observations and experiences around things to consider if you perform part of the scheduling process outside of SAP.
Maintenance Planning
- Goals and objectives
- Planning scope and activities
- Task list overview, functions and value to planning
- Bill of materials
- Work order planning
- Supporting the work order planning process
- Costs planning
Maintenance Scheduling
- Scheduling requirements
- Organisational measurement
- Weekly scheduling in SAP
- SAP date scheduling
- Preparing to schedule
- Finalising the schedule
- Communicating the schedule
- Work assignment to persons
- Execution/completion updates
- Scheduling options beyond standard SAP
Target Audience: SAP users who wish to apply the SAP functionality for managing day-to-day planning and scheduling. The workshop delivers proven approaches for practical hands-on application of the core SAP functionality to the real-world business needs of the maintenance planner.
Facilitated by Kahn Ellis - Senior Partner, COO, Vesta Partners, LLC (USA)
4. Applying Core SAP Functionality - Maintenance Processing Objects Forum
This forum is aimed at new and intermediate maintenance users and analysts, with an interest in understanding the purpose and capability of SAP's maintenance processing objects and their data and in setting up and utilising these objects and their data to deliver the required outcomes and analysis for your specific business needs.
The aim is to provide some ideas, tips and tricks to assist any user to gain a better understanding and get the most from this core functionality in its set-up and day-to-day usage.
Note: This forum focuses mainly on SAP functionality and capability. If you are a Maintenance Planner and want to know at a hands-on level how to apply SAP work order functionality in your workplace, then also consider Kahn Ellis' "Successful SAP PM Planning and Scheduling" workshop.
Task Lists and Maintenance Plans
- Purpose, usage, types, functionality and capability of task lists
- Purpose, usage, types, functionality and capability of maintenance plans
- Structuring maintenance plans and task lists
- Maintenance plans - what do all those scheduling parameters do?
- Reporting/analysis against task lists and maintenance plans
Notifications
- Purpose, usage and types of notifications
- Functionality and capabilities of notifications - downtime; impact; items; activities; tasks; classification
- Designing and assigning catalogs and codes
- Novel uses of notifications and user statuses
- Reporting/analysis against notifications
Work Orders
- Purpose, usage and types of work orders
- Functionality and capabilities of work orders - operations and sub-operations; resource planning; material planning; object lists; scheduling, revisions, network planning, job completion processes
- Printing work orders and documents
- Integration with financials (internal labour, settlement)
- Integration with materials (inventory, purchasing, services)
- Integration with HR
- Reporting/analysis against work orders
Target Audience: New or less experienced SAP users and analysts wishing to better understand the basic functionality and capabilities around the core SAP maintenance planning and processing functionality. The forum covers the scope of the available functionality, what it is capable of and tips and tricks for its application and usage.
Facilitated by: John Dwyer - Service Line Lead, Oxygen Business Solutions
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