Welcome to the Pulp and Paper Reliability &
Maintenance Conference
Welcome Operations and Maintenance professionals to the 20th annual Pulp and Paper Reliability and Maintenance conference
and exhibit in Atlanta 2 - 5 October 2006.
Improved Production Reliability has become one of the most important
competitiveness factors. Improving Production Reliability is a joint
challenge for operations and maintenance professionals. Over the
years we have seen a steady increased participation of teams representing
operations and maintenance. More and more mills include operators
in basic maintenance work and have seen improved Production Reliability
and lower costs as a result.
If successfully implemented, better reliability and maintenance
practices can increase quality production throughput 2 – 10
% and reduce maintenance and operations costs by 10 – 30%.
To successfully implement sustainable improvements, skilled people
must work in an efficient work system. In the next five years many
pulp and paper mills will loose over 50% of its skilled employees
and only 14% of mills have professional training programs in place.
Only 4% of mills reported that they can easily find skilled people.
That is a challenge this year’s conference will address.
Many mill professionals will present case studies on how they improved
performance through implementation of better work practices, what
obstacles they had to overcome and what results they achieved.
How to sell reliability and maintenance improvements to top management
will be the focus of my seminar this year.
We welcome your operations and maintenance team to an exciting
Pulp and Paper Reliability and Maintenance event in Atlanta.
Why you should attend:
• Network and learn from your colleagues in the industry.
• Discover new ideas on what you can do and how to sell your
ideas to top management.
• Rediscover proven best practices and ask yourself why these
have not been implemented in your mill, or why they
did not generate the expected results.
• What you can do about the shortage of skilled people.
• Find new products in the reliability focused exhibit.
• How you build the vital Operations – Maintenance –
Engineering partnership.
• How to estimate financial return from your investment in
better Reliability and maintenance practices.
• And more…
Our goal is to become the marketplace for Reliability and Maintenance
solutions for your mill. So round up your colleagues and bring a
team to this years Pulp and Paper Reliability and Maintenance event.
We promise to provide an arsenal of improvement solutions to help
your mill improve financial performance and survive long term.
Christer Idhammar
Conference Chair |
