Course Overview:
A 1-day special program for facility managers, operations superintendent, energy managers, strategic planners, supervisors, operation engineers, energy engineers and energy coordinators. The program starts with a reception the evening before and special guest speaker.
Asset Management refers to Best Practices for managing one's physical plant technologies. This course will encompass two areas. The primary area will be Operations; Energy and Utility Resource Optimization. The secondary area will be Maintenance; Process Optimization. The course will focus on methods for improving an enterprise's bottom line through teaching attendees how to develop strategies and implement actions that:
- Increase the efficiency of how their enterprise consumes energy;
- Reduce the price their enterprise is paying for the energy commodities they consume;
- Utilize the most effective technologies their enterprise has on-site with reference to external variables that will affect the cost of operation at a given point in time;
- Provide the most effective maintenance planning and tasking for optimizing their people and technology within budget constraints.
Students will learn how to apply paradigms of inductive and deductive reasoning for developing effective Action Strategies for Strategic Asset Management Planning that are integrated into an enterprises' operation and people Strategies
OUTLINE FOR STRATEGIC ASSET MANAGEMENT PLANNING COURSE
Section A: Increasing The Efficiency of How Your Enterprise Consumes Energy
- The Affect of the organizational structure
a) What are organizational barriers
b) Areas for program implementation
c) Competing for budgetary dollars
d) Simultaneous goal simulation example
- Cross-impacts from improved plant technology efficiency
a) What are cross-impacts and cross-effects
b) When do you use cross-impacts versus cross-effects
c) Example using cross-effects
d) Example using cross-impacts
- The impact of operations $ on the enterprise's bottom line
a) Revenue management
b) The color of money
c) Profit from energy projects versus enterprise projects
d) Project savings examples
- Utilizing Strategic Asset Planning (SAP) software
Section B: Reducing the Price Your Enterprise Pays For the Energy It Consumes
- The Deregulated Energy Marketplace versus The Regulated Energy Marketplace
a) What is deregulating
b) Where is deregulation occurring
c) Regulated monopolies, oligopolies, perfect competition
d) Why has success been limited
- Purchasing Strategies in the Deregulated Electric Marketplace
a) Hedging to minimize risk in pricing
b) Maximizing added value services
c) Real time pricing
d) Base-loading with distributed energy resources
- Purchasing Strategies in the Deregulated Natural Gas Marketplace
a) Interruptable versus un-interruptable service
b) Benefits of dual fuel systems
c) Retail wheeling
d) Bill components
- Bundling Added Value Services into your Utility Contracts
a) Outsourced services
b) Improving reliability
c) Types of providers
d) Types of contracts, i.e. fixed cost versus performance based
Section C: Optimizing Your Enterprises' Plant Technology Assets
- Strategies for improving stand-by power reliability
a) Available technologies
b) Strategies of utilization
c) Power quality as part of the equation
d) Estimating reliability
- Setting up your Building Automation System for Asset Management
a) Identifying your available control technologies
b) Control strategies for asset optimization
c) Integration and control
d) Understanding your building
- Energy Star Building Certification
a) Energy Star basics
b) Organizational benefits
c) Becoming certified
d) Website example
- Plant Technology Asset optimization Strategies
a) What assets are available for optimization
b) Process for strategy development
c) Process for implementation
d) Monitor & verify impacts
Section D: Effective Maintenance Program Strategies
- Benchmarking your maintenance program
- Developing maintenance program metrics
- Comparing maintenance strategies, Which One's Best for Your Organization?
- Developing maintenance position descriptions for your Staff
Each section will be approximately 20 minutes to 30 minutes. Total course 7 - 8 hours. Course includes handouts, and a certificate of completion.
