Conference Day Two: Wednesday 13 May 2010

8:30 Arrival Coffee

9:00 Opening Remarks From The Conference Chair

MAINTENANCE & PROJECT MANAGEMENT

9:10 Integrating Maintenance With Project Management To Increase Fleet Up-Time, Compliance And Mine Site Productivity

  • Detailing a range of maintenance tactics to optimise fl eet uptime
  • Planning and scheduling maintenance without interruption to operation and productivity
  • Assessing the role of the Operations Manager and Maintenance Manager in optimising fl eet performance
  • Looking at the impact of the skills shortage on compliance and effective maintenance scheduling

Trent Knack
Maintenance Superintendent
NEW ACLAND COAL

9:50 Improving To Reliability Centered Maintenance

  • Extending service time to improve work quality and service time
  • Developing an improvement process plan to optimise fl eet performance
  • Developing a Reliability culture within Maintenance Departments
  • Extending the Reliability culture to Production

Adam Chater
Liability Engineer
RIO TINTO IRON ORE

10:30 Morning Coffee & Networking Opportunity

11:00 Achieving A Value Focus For Heavy Vehicle Maintenance

  • Understand how to construct business cases for maintenance improvement initiative
  • Streamline maintenance performance indices to key business drivers
  • Evaluating equipment capital recovery factors and value considerations
  • Leveraging operating and maintenance cost projection methods

Prof. Peter Knights
BMA Chair and Professor of Mining Engineering
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

VEHICLE DESIGN, AUTOMATION & INNOVATION

11:40 Assessing The Role Of Automation In Minimising Fatal Incidents On Mine Sites And Increasing Productivity

  • Evaluating the role of automation in reducing maintenance costs of heavy vehicles
  • Boosting operator productivity by optimising vehicle availability
  • Increasing safety and reducing fatal incidents with increased visibility of heavy vehicles through remote monitoring technology

Victor Schweikart
Manager Automation
RIO TINTO IRON ORE

12:20 Lunch And Networking Opportunity

INCLUSIVE MASTERCLASS PART II: Whole of Life Forecasting - Helping Asset Management Teams Infl uence Better Business Outcomes

Rob Bechman
Former Asset Management Specialist Rio Tinto Coal & Managing Director
RED BUTTON GROUP

1:20 The Whole Of Life Forecasting Process

  • How to take current business information, and use it in new ways
  • What is the process and Tools available to achieve results
  • Approaching WoL as a project – or a programme

2:50 Afternoon Tea & Networking Opportunity

3:20 Whole Of Life – Using This Tool For Many Business Decisions

  • Discuss the application for Whole of Life Forecasting in wider business decisions
  • How to infl uence the decisions that effect maintenance
  • Where does WoL forecasting add the most value?

4:50 End Of Masterclass & Conference