Highlighted at Maintenance show!

The MCP Consulting Group are to launch six major cost reduction and business enhancement services at at Maintec 2017 in Birmingham (GB) - 21-23 March 2017.

Aimed at helping businesses take the first step to implementing an effective and sustainable cost saving strategy by exploiting new technologies, their drive efficiencies and increase profits by pinpointing what’s holding it back.

OPEX: Operational Performance Excellence Programme. OPEX is guaranteed to give an investment return of at least 5:1 within 12 months through benchmarking and supporting the manufacturing improvement process and people performance.

APEX: Asset Performance Excellence. A revolutionary 12-week programme which will achieve OEE increases of >20%, through production wide audit and analysis, with practical benefits from Week 1.

Reliability Improvement Programme: MCP has developed a proven methodology for improving an asset’s reliability, which has often led to the worst performing asset quickly becoming the best performing asset. This leads to improvements not only in uptime but reduced annual maintenance costs.

LEAN Manufacturing Performance: Lean encompasses a range of tools and techniques aimed at identifying and eliminating non-value adding activities.

SmartStores™. The key to ‘freeing the store room’ is inventory control and MCP’s new, near-field RFID reader enables staff to allocate parts through one touch as well improving inventory management.

SmartStores™ Programme. Often delivered in conjunction with MCP’s new near-field RFID reader, this has been developed to provide business with the tools and support to reduce their inventory, increase service levels and reduce equipment downtime.

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Maintenance and facilities management software

SoftSols Group has launched a new version of its Agility Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS), which has a range of new features and alerts to help users improve the management of their facilities and maintenance.

Agility 3.4 provides a new dashboard layout and new Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to enable users to focus on the factors which are most critical to their own business. It also provides new features that allow end users to configure their own view of the data, all within the same easy-to-use browser based interface as previous versions of Agility.

Other new features include:

·       Visual KPI Charts - which track labour utilisation, stock levels, planned and reactive maintenance;

·       New Service Level monitoring tools - which track response times using real-time logging on PCs or PDA devices;

·       New conditional formatting - which can be used to highlight data in various colours and give visual prompts, for example highlighting urgent overdue activities or low inventory alerts Conditional email alerts: allowing any change of data to prompt an e-mail alert;

·       Improved automatic purchasing - with a one-step stock level review and automated purchase order generation process to email directly to the preferred supplier;

·       New system health check - a new component on the homepage gives a quick overview of key system parameters, reminding you to back up and confirming that the automatic generation of PPM work orders has been activated.

Agility makes it straightforward for users to manage breakdown and preventive maintenance work orders and the associated spare parts and resources by providing up to-the-minute information about all assets, work orders and planned schedules. It is used by organisations of all sizes, from small maintenance departments to multi-site corporate businesses. SoftSols has a 30-year track record of success in the market and is committed to delivering simple, affordable software solutions which provide an outstanding return on investment.

David Hipkin, SoftSols (EMEA) Limited Group Managing Director, comments, “We’ve listened to feedback from our customers and added a range of new features to Agility which will help them tailor it to their specific requirements. In these challenging economic times managing maintenance effectively and keeping equipment running is vital to business success, and we believe Agility is the most cost-effective and easy to use solution available.”

SoftSols will be demonstrating Agility 3.4 at Maintec 2011  in Birmingham (GB) on 29th-31st March (Hall 8 and on stand D6). The SoftSols team will also be presenting 3.4 at customer workshops throughout 2011 in Manchester, Northampton, Newcastle, Peterborough, Glasgow, West London, Telford, Bristol, Leicester and Dublin.

#Maintec Focus on FM

In the current economic climate the care and good husbandry of an organisation’s assets can pay rich rewards. In this often neglected area, MCP consultants can quickly show where savings could be made with good paybacks possibly seen in months and with a real ROI increasing to a typical 200% in 2 years!

Among the highlights on this year’s stand at Maintec (Stand 3 - 2-4 March 2011) will be a Focus on FM- a new 3 day Facilities Management Assessment. This facilities assessment is based on MCPs AMIS Audit (Maintenance Benchmarking Service) and has been used by countless organisations, world-wide to measure and improve their Maintenance and Asset Management Performance.

Now MCP’s AMIS FM is available for, Facilities Management service providers and organisations with Facilities Management services.

Visitors are invited to take the test on our stand and answer a number of questions to see how many ‘ticks’ you achieve. Our consultants will help you decide on the last ‘big’ question. “Perhaps I should consider the benchmarking exercise?”

Following on the theme MCP launches a new City and Guilds-Asset Management Tools Course. MCP’s Customised Asset Management Tools and Techniques Course explains why a Maintenance Strategy is critical for successful business performance. The City and Guilds Accredited course is designed to introduce best practice theory. There will be discounts available on the stand for early adopters!

For those visitors wanting to find out more about the new BSI, PAS55 programme, The Institute of Asset Management has appointed MCP , as one of only 10 endorsed training providers in the world for delivering courses which map clearly to the latest IAM Competences Framework (November 2008), and complement those of BSI PAS 55:2008.

#Maintec Easy maintenance on compressed air systems

Michell Instruments’ range of dew-point and relative humidity instruments and their oxygen analyzers are designed to make many routine maintenance and monitoring tasks quick and simple. Michell are exhibiting a range of these products at Maintec, from 29 to 31 March 2011, on stand C23.

Included on the stand will be Michell’s smallest and fastest portable dew-point hygrometer, the MDM300. At just 21cm by 17cm, weighing 1.5kg, and with a battery life of up to 48 hours typical usage, it enables the user to take field moisture measurements with the minimum of fuss. The fast response means that many more measurements can be taken each day – allowing for more productivity and also more time free for other tasks.

The unit is easy to use: its ergonomic design means that all the buttons are easily operated with the thumbs while the instrument is held comfortably in both hands. All measurement parameters are available at the touch of a button and the password-protected set-up menu is simple to navigate and intuitive to use. Both instrument set-up and downloading of logged data are easy with a Bluetooth connection that comes as standard.

Their range of Easidew Dew-Point Transmitters are ideal for a host of applications where constant monitoring of moisture levels are key – such as compressed air systems and dessicant dryers. All Easidew Transmitters are available as part of a calibration exchange program, which enables users to keep up-to-date calibration certification with virtually no downtime and at a fraction of the cost of buying new replacement sensors.

The Calibration Exchange programme is ideal where periodic re-certification is required to maintain traceability. Before the re-calibration of an instrument is due, the customer orders an Exchange Sensor from Michell Instruments or one of its local representatives. Once received at the customer's premises the original sensor is removed and replaced with the Exchange Sensor, and the original sensor returned to Michell Instruments. Each calibration exchange sensor comes with a traceable calibration certificate as standard.

Michell are represented in Ireland by Instrument Technology Ltd.

Training at Maintec

Visitors to the MCP stand at Maintec 2010 in Birmingham (GB 2/3 Marckh 2010), will be able to spend time talking to hands-on training and consultancy experts. Of particular relevance, in the current climate, is that MCP can show how effective maintenance can reduce business costs, with typical ROI of 200% within 2 years.

New courses launched
Newly launched are the 2 day courses focused on Maintenance Explained for Operators, Technicians and Maintenances Staff, and how these can help develop a lean manufacturing strategy. These are run in parallel with Managing Plant Reliability courses which cover the new EC machinery directives.

National skills academy champion
As the champion for the Food and Drinks Manufacturing National Skills Academy, MCP can provide specialist advice for those in interested in improving the performance of their operatives in these sectors. The aim is to multi-skill operators and technicians to undertake maintenance, electrical and mechanical tasks safely.

Mechanical to electrical conversion
For the technician and engineer, specific technical training course are offered at centres around Britain. In particular City and Guilds mechanical to electrical conversion course are proving popular. Other courses include PLCs, Control and Instrumentation and 17th Edition electrical training

Speaker session
The speaker session at the seminars will be given by Peter Jackson: This is entitled
‘What about maintenance skills?’ In the current climate the desire to be ‘Lean’ means necessitates people needing a wider range of skills. Asset management encompasses a vast number of techniques and principles which require a clear understanding in order to be effective. To produce the desired results manufacturers need a structured approach to maintenance training. He will explain how a training framework (developed by MCP and NSA Food and Drink Manufacturing) will help deliver manufacturing excellence.

Condition monitoring

Participation in British maintenance event


With the growing awareness of the importance of condition monitoring of rotating machinery and especially that of electric motors, Whitelegg Machines have again invited Tim Thomas, Senior Engineer of Baker Instrument Company, to join them at Maintec 2010 (02- 04/03/2010) Tim will be able to bring his wide expertise to focus on visitors’ queries on the stand.

Seminar
In addition Tim will be giving a Learn Shop presentation on aspects of Motor Condition Monitoring.

New system launch
As well as showing a range of instruments for on and off line testing and monitoring of electric motors, Whitelegg will be launching the new Online Motor Monitoring Network-Based System, the NetEP.

This is an automated system for the monitoring of electrical rotating equipment. The instrument will monitor 40+ parameters on up to 32 motors, and on up to 7 voltage busses. Benefits to the user include automated evaluation of critical assets from the convenience of your office or anywhere an internet connection is available. With the ability to monitor multiple motors simultaneously, this instrument will supply valuable data along with saving a tremendous amount of time in comparison with route-based instrumentation.

It will notify the user of alarm situations, maintain all database functionality and trend all data for enhanced analysis. Tests include power quality, rotor bar integrity, torque ripple, and transient analysis of motor start ups.

Whitelegg Machines Ltd are British and Ireland, Sales and Support Agents for Baker Instrument Company.