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Workshops:
8 April 2008 8am - 6pm
Pre-conference Masterclass A: Building Business Cases For Maintenance Improvement Projects
11 April 2008 8am - 6pm
Post-conference Masterclass B:
Choosing Excellence With Uptime – Get Out of Your Comfort Zone For Sustainable Results
Conference:
Day 1
9 April 2008 8am - 6pm
Day 2
10 April 2008 8am - 6pm
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Meet our speakers
Vice President, Surface Mining Segment, Asia Pacific Region,
Sandvik Asia Ltd
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Director - Business Development & Operations,
Monash University
Gerard Chitty has made significant contributions to managing structural integrity, risk and reliability of aging mobile plant for the mining industry. He has developed comprehensive risk management and maintenance strategies to maximize production within a safe working envelope, increase reliability and extend life of critical plant such as draglines, shovels, trucks, excavators and stacker/reclaimers for major mining organizations such as BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto, Anglo Coal, Xstrata, West Farmers, KCGM, Peabody in the US, etc.
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Vice President, Asset Reliability,
BHP Billiton
Larry acquired his technical training in Mechanical Engineering and later pursued an MBA. He began his working career over 18 years ago in the Petrochemical industry working as a project engineer for Chevron. Following the Petrochemical experience he went on to work for the Boeing Commercial Aircraft company working in the manufacturing and design of the 737 and 757 model aircraft. It is here he learned the craft of reliability and quality manufacturing principles for which he applies today. In 1994 Larry joined Rio Tinto and since then has worked between Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton in senior management positions or providing consultancy expertise in the maintenance and operations of their fixed and mobile operations around the world. Currently Larry as Vice President, is leading an asset management and reliability transformation across BHP Billitons Western Australian Iron Ore operations.
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Managing Director & Chair, Maintenance Engineering Society of New Zealand,
OpEx Group
Mike Killick (MBA, BE.Mech (Hons), M.MESNZ, M Inst D) is the Managing Director at OpEx Group Ltd, an organisation focussed on Operational Excellence in the industrial and manufacturing sector. OpEx Group comprises two organisations, OpEx Management Ltd (an asset management consultancy business focussed on “Creating Operational Excellence”) and OpEx Services Ltd (a professional, business focussed maintenance services organisation that is focussed on “Maintaining Operational Excellence”).
Mike has Masters of Business Administration, an Engineering Degree, and is a Member of the Institute of Directors. Mike is also the Chair of the Maintenance Engineers Society of New Zealand (MESNZ), a society focussed on improving the management and delivery of maintenance within New Zealand, and is a Director of Mainland Soccer.
Mike specialises in the area of Total Asset Management within the industrial manufacturing sector and has consulted to leading organisations within New Zealand and Australia. In these roles, Mike has undertaken a number of wide ranging management improvement projects that involve a review of the status quo maintenance management systems currently in use. Based on this review, a comprehensive management strategy is developed and implemented within the organisation. This strategy acts as the driver for maintenance excellence to assist the organisation in becoming the most cost effective business within their market sector through improvements in the overall operational effectiveness and availability of the assets resulting in increased profitability of the organisation.
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BMA Chair and Professor of Mining Engineering,
The University of Queensland
Dr Peter Knights has over 18 years experience in the Mining Industry, most of which have been dedicated to research and consulting in: maintenance management and reliability engineering in the mining industry; root cause failure analysis; maintenance resource requirements analysis; maintenance organisational structure; risk management in outsourcing decisions; developing maintenance strategy plans and maintenance audits; Reliability Centered Maintenance; optimum compoment changeout decisions, and; costing downtime and loss of service. In Chile, over a 10 year period, Dr Knights: consulted on maintenance improvement to Phelps Dodge Latin America; developed a manual for Minera Escondida to assess the risk/cost/benefit of maintenance improvement projects; assisted the Chilean Army to establish a maintenance research program and modernize maintenance practices; evaluated in-house versus outsourced maintenance alternatives for the Collahuasi mine; developed a streamlined RCM methodology and lead a pilot project to improve the reliability of two cathode stripping machines (MTBF increased from minutes to 8.5 hours); established a 3 year collaborative research agreement with Komatsu Chile and determined optimum armature replacement intervals for haul truck traction motores; developed the “Jack-Knife” (logarithmic scatterplot) methodology for establishing maintenance priorities, and; presented industry short courses in Chile, Argentina, Peru, Iran and Canada. Dr. Knights has published some 40 journal and 25 conference articles.
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Regional General Manager,
Atlas Copco
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Human Resources Manager,
Lepanto Consolidated Mining
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Consulting Engineer - Mechanical & Electrical,
Lonmin Platinum
In 1992, Mark obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Witwatersrand. He was appointed as a Section Engineer at Impala Platinum Limited after obtaining his Government Certificate of Competency: Mines & Works in 1996.
Mark was the Operations Engineer of a large platinum Concentrator for 4 years and was also appointed as the Operations Manager of the plant for a year. He joined Lonmin Platinum in 2001 as a Project Engineer and was instrumental in the design and construction of Lonmin’s new generation EPC & K4 Concentrators. In 2003, Mark was appointed as the Section Engineer of one of Lonmin’s larger vertical shafts, where he was responsible for the leading the maintenance and logistics of the shaft. At the end of 2005 he moved into the role of Systems Engineer for the Marikana mining division of Lonmin, where he led the Maintenance implementation team for all the shafts.
Mark was then appointed as the Consulting Engineer for Lonmin at the end of 2006. His accountabilities are to oversee the strategic integration of the recently implemented Maintenance system, to provide technical advice on various projects within Lonmin and to assist with the development of the Long Term Business plan.
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Region Manager - Asia Pacific, Mining Technology Marketing Division,
Caterpillar Global Mining
Matthew McLeod is currently the Asia Pacific Region Manager for Caterpillar's Mining Technology Marketing Division. He has held a variety of engineering, maintenance and application consulting roles with Caterpillar over an eight year period, including a role in Central Queensland, Australia, commissioning the first fleet of Caterpillar 797B mining trucks in Australia. Matthew has also worked with Original Equipment Manufacturers in the heavy transport and automotive industries. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Maintenance and Reliability Engineering. His current role involves leading a team of consultants who partner with Cat dealers and customers to deliver machine control and guidance products.
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Director, Mine and Forest Safety Performance,
New South Wales Department of Primary Industries
Rod Morrison holds the position of Director, Mine and Forest Safety Performance with the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries. Rod has been operating in this role for the past decade leading and managing the strategic approach to improve the safety and health performance in the New South Wales Mining Industry. In this time he has been managing a wide and changing reform agenda which has made a remarkable improvement to safety performance.
His background has largely been in the areas of human resources and change management, and he has held executive positions in a range of New South Wales public service organisations including the Public Service Board and the Department of Industrial Relations. In 1988 he was appointed Director, Public Employment Industrial Relations Services. In 1994 Rod became Assistant Director, Organisation Improvement, with the Department of Community Services, where he was responsible for undertaking major reviews and implementing change programs.
Rod has been at the forefront of change in the New South Wales Public Sector and has an impressive record of achievement:
He holds a Bachelor of Business Studies from the New South Wales Institute of Technology.
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Manager – Advanced Productivity Solutions,
Loadrite
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Deputy General Manager (Maintenance),
Essel Mining & Industires
M P Pandeys is automobile engineer having experience of 25 years in the field of maintenance of surface mining machineries in limestone, chromites & iron ore mining industry in india (asia).
He is currently working as deputy general manager (maintenance) in essel mining & industries, india of a.v.birla group , which is the largest producer & exporter of iron ore (c.l.o) in non captive sector.
He has also undergone various training i.e problem solving tools, integrated management system, total productive maintenance , bench marking & non destructive test through reputed institution /faculty of india.
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Lecturer, Griffith School of Engineering,
Griffith University
Dr. Anisur Rahman is a lecturer in engineering management at Griffith School of Engineering, Griffith University, Brisbane Australia. He obtained a PhD degree from the School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. He obtained a Master of Engineering by Research degree on modelling reliability and maintenance plan for infrastructure components from QUT, Australia. He obtained MSc Engineering degree in Engineering Management from QUT in 1999.
Dr. Rahman’s principal research interests lie in the area of Reliability and Engineering management. More specifically, he focuses on the development of the stochastic models of product/asset reliability and maintenance policies, maintenance cost analysis, lifecycle costing, risk analysis, warranty cost modelling and cost benefit analysis of maintenance decisions for high volume infrastructure components. He has authored and co-authored over 30 refereed journal and international conference publications.
He is an active member of Institute of Engineers Australia (IEAust), Australian society for operations research (ASOR), Maintenance engineer’s society of Australia (MESA) and Australian association for engineering education (AAEE).
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Mr James V Reyes-Picknell, Co-Author of “Uptime” and Founder & President,
Conscious Asset Management
James Reyes-Picknell is founder of Conscious Group Inc., a group of companies helping others realize what they are doing and changing to achieve more desirable results. The group operates in several fields ranging from individual coaching, to lifestyle products to corporate transformations. Conscious Asset Management is one of those companies that focuses exclusively on operational excellence in maintenance and reliability management for customers with large investments in physical plant, fleets and linear assets. James’ career spans over 30 years in the field as a marine engineer, a plant reliability engineer, a maintenance manager, a consultant and leader of a global consultancy. He is a professional engineer, a Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professional, a member of SMRP and the IAM. He is widely published and is author of the 2nd edition of, “Uptime – Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management”. Blending both “hard” technical knowledge and skills with “soft” very human focused approaches James has a long list of satisfied and repeat clients. He teaches and advises his clients, helping them realize what it takes to achieve substantial shifts in performance in their operations. His clients range from small local operations to large “world class” multi-national. James is based in Canada and has worked with clients throughout North and South America, South and South East Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe.
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General Manager, Mining & Safety ,
Hindustan Copper Ltd
Mr Pradeep K.Sharma is holding the position of Advisor (Mining) at Hindustan Copper Limited (HCL), a Government of India company. Prior to this, he was General Manager (Mines & Safety) at HCL, which is the only vertically integrated copper company in India having own mines, smelters and refineries.
Mr. Sharma has done mining engineering in India and France. He has also studied mining operations at various mines in Australia, Sweden, Finland, S. Africa, France, Uzbekistan etc.
Mr. Sharma has worked as mine planning engineer, mine manager and chief of mines in his earlier capacities. He has over 36 years of mining experience. He was the key person to introduce contract mining in HCL His other fields of interest are feasibility studies and mine planning.
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Mr Abraham Johannes Smit, Group Maintenance Manager,
Lonmin Platinum
Armand obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pretoria in 1985 and obtained his Government Certificate of Competency for Mines and Works in 1989. He has over 17 years experience in the South African mining industry and is currently the Maintenance Manager for Lonmin Platinum.
Besides running the Engineering maintenance activities of various operating shafts, he was appointed as Project Engineer for 3 years for the development of a new platinum mining complex. In June 2005 he was appointed as the team leader for the implementation of the SAP Plant Maintenance module within Lonmin as part of the overall ERP project. He was instrumental in the development of formalized maintenance strategies that supported the SAP PM implementation.
Currently Armand is appointed as the Maintenance Manager for Lonmin and fulfills a strategic maintenance role where he supports the various parts of the business with further maintenance system implementation and enhancements.
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