Or we will design a course for you…

Customized programs are available for packaged prices: There are over 50 different two hour modules that make up these seminars. We can work with you to pick and choose the most important material to meet your training objective. Many of the modules are completely stand-alone and can be assembled in the order that best serves your needs. Audio tapes can be made of these customized sessions to be used as refreshers or for team members who could not attend. Check out these standard courses as building blocks.

Entirely new modules and new courses in the maintenance and supervision area may be developed at your request. New modules can be integrated with existing material or used on a stand-alone basis.

We can also present specific, urgent maintenance topics to non-traditional attendees within your organization such as top management, purchasing/stores management, operations management, and accounting or data processing personnel.

Longer format seminar, 3, 4, 5 or 6 days: This the most intensive type of maintenance training available from Springfield Resources.

Three in-house training options

Springfield Resources offers three ways to structure in-house training for maintenance management.The most cost-effective way is to discuss your needs on the phone (or via e-mail) and then present one of our standard courses. These courses are tried and tested, and have been used to good effect in maintenance situations around the world.

The second option involves a one or two day site-visit before holding your in-house class, which allows us to add examples from your facility and adjust the verbal presentation to better suit your needs, meet some of the key players and see some of the special problems you face. We highly recommend this option for its greater ease of understanding and implementation within your staff.

The third option is to conduct a week long maintenance audit and survey which looks at all aspects of maintenance, evaluates areas where improvements are possible and then (in some additional days designs a new course for you) slants your curriculum to focus on the competencies needed to implement improvement areas identified during the survey. This option is more costly initially, but often results in the greatest cost savings since the course is completely suited to your situation.

Longer format seminar, 3, 4, 5 or 6 days: This the most intensive type of maintenance training available from Springfield Resources.

Option 1 (Present any seminar - Description of service)

1. Discuss the maintenance situation by E-mail or on the telephone and use the information to make the session more useful and relevant.
2. Present contiguous in-house training to a maximum of 35 employees (and/or contractors). Customer will supply training facility, food, and refreshments for attendees and A/V equipment. Courses have a workshop text or a casebook plus a hardback book.

Option 2 (Present seminar adapted to site conditions - Description of service)

1. Visit site right before session for one day and visually inspect major assets and review current flow of information. Review CMMS, meet with key players within and outside the maintenance organization.
2. Present contiguous in-house training to a maximum of 35 employees (and/or contractors). Customer will supply training facility, food, and refreshments for attendees and A/V equipment. Courses have a workshop text or a casebook plus a hardback book.

Option 3 (Conduct maintenance survey, then design and deliver a customized training - Description of service)

1. Visit site on a separate trip (usually a week) to visually inspect major assets. Review current flow of information from user, through maintenance controls to the individual mechanics, completing the circle with your end-users. Review CMMS in relation to needs. Look at information behind the mechanics and their Maintenance Technical Library. Use questionnaires to determine in detail where your maintenance effort is now. Conduct personal interviews with key players within and outside the maintenance organization. Determine what formal or informal planning is going on and how that can be capitalized upon.
2. At the conclusion of the visit, prepare a verbal presentation with concrete suggestions based on where your organization is today and what needs to be improved. Specific training in Step 4 will follow each of these concrete suggestions.
3. Prepare a customized casebook using material designed for you, supplemented by material from existing courses.
4. Present contiguous in-house training (agreed choice of length) to a maximum of 35 employees and/or outside contractors. Customer will supply training facility, A/V equipment, food and refreshments for attendees. Courses will have a workshop text or a casebook plus possibly one or more hardback books supplied by consultant.
5. We will work with you to pick and choose the most im¬portant material and length to meet your training objective. Most of our training modules are completely stand-alone and can be assembled in al¬most any order to serve your needs.