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Links We LikeFor two action-packed days: a motorsports and manufacturing/equipment reliability experience in one place! Master the principles of team-based equipment reliability based on NASCAR racing teams' proven methods. Discover how manufacturing companies have significantly improved their performance by focusing on results by combining the principles of TPM, Lean, and Teamwork. More than 15 years and thousands of participants in hundreds of companies have benefited from these methods taught by Robert M. Williamson of Strategic Work Systems, Inc. Plus you will have the opportunity to train and participate in an actual hands-on pit crew experience. Learn where today's pit crews learn in Mooresville, NC, 20 minutes north of Charlotte.
Day 1 Lean Equipment Management: Learn the secrets for achieving world-class equipment performance and reliability in your manufacturing plants and facilities based on top NASCAR race teams' methods, the pillars of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Lean manufacturing. Because nearly 90 percent of the reasons for equipment losses are outside the direct control of the maintenance group, it makes sense to engage everyone who impacts the equipment in performance improvement efforts. Maintenance cannot do it alone. This session will be led by Robert Williamson of Strategic Work Systems, Inc.
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Day 2 Lean University Pit Crew Experience: Get in the pits and tune up your maintenance practices, for real. By using time-tested NASCAR pit crew techniques, you can transform your maintenance processes and focus on equipment reliability. Learn the principles of team-based equipment reliability in a Lean plant. Then look behind the scenes with today's pit crews, learn their secrets and suit up to execute you own pit stops on actual Nextel Cup class race cars on pit road with professional pit crew coaches. Offered in conjunction with MRO Today magazine's Lean University, this session's presenters include Robert Williamson (SWS, Inc.) and Breon Klopp, senior director of Motorsports Development for PIT Instruction & Training.
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Meet your instructors …
Robert (Bob) Williamson, president, Strategic Work Systems, Inc. (www.swspitcrew.com)
Bob Williamson has spent nearly 15 years studying the relationship between NASCAR Winston/Nextel Cup racing and improvements in manufacturing and maintenance. He has been teaching and consulting on the people side of Total Productive Maintenance for more than 13 years, most recently incorporating the NASCAR themes for improving equipment effectiveness for Lean Manufacturing operations. His 32 years in manufacturing and maintenance training, consulting and work culture design give him a keen insight to the solutions of today's challenges of equipment reliability. With experience in more than 400 different plant locations in the U.S., Jamaica, Canada, South America and Saudi Arabia, his examples provide rich, down-to-earth breakthroughs in equipment reliability thinking.
Breon Klopp, senior director, motor sports development, PIT Instruction & Training (www.5off5on.com)
Breon Klopp is your Pit Crew Experience coach and senior director of motor sports development for PIT Instruction & Training in Mooresville, N.C. Prior to his current position, Breon was founder and president of 5 OFF 5 ON Race Team Performance and PIT CREW U, which was purchased by PIT in 2003. PIT is the motor sports industry leader in pit team athlete training and motor sports empirical and performance programming. PIT is the official Crew Member Development Partner of Drive for Diversity in cooperation with NASCAR. Today, Breon develops corporate business relationships and presentations on high precision and Lean performance for corporations and manufacturers. He is also chairperson of the MSI Motor Sports Industry Committee and a member of the NASCAR Nextel All Star Race Local Organizing Committee.
Payment options: Company check, personal check, Visa, MasterCard, or American Express
Workshop fee: $825 (includes participant handout materials, breaks and lunches). Hotel, transportation and evening meals are the participants' responsibility.
What to bring: Casual, comfortable clothes, athletic shoes. (Fire suits and gloves will be provided)
Lodging: Area hotels are listed on the registration form.
Air transportation: Charlotte Douglas International Airport is approximately 20 minutes away
Workshop location: PIT Instruction & Training, 156 Byers Creek Rd - Mooresville, NC 28117
Download, print, copy the registration form and mail or fax to:
Strategic Work Systems, Inc.
PO Box 70, Columbus, NC 28722
Fax: (828) 894-2914
Phone: (828) 894-5338
E-mail: RobertMW2@cs.com
Web site: www.swspitcrew.com