Early Equipment Management

The workshop provides practical tools to enhance existing Project Governance and project delivery processes. This complements other project delivery tools such as Prince2, Design Thinking, Lean Design, 3P and 6 Sigma Design. 

The learning goals for the workshop are to:

• Learn about Early Equipment Management (EEM) principles and how to apply best practice to future projects
• Understand the EEM road map and glide path to flawless operation.
• Know how to apply the EEM road map to enhance project value
• Be able to transfer lessons learned during the course to their next project.

The workshop will include theory, case studies, exercises to reinforce learning points and develop proposals to enhance current practices. 

The workshop covers core competency learning contednt for the DAK Academy EEM Skills Passport.

• Introduction to workshop
  • Agenda and Learning Goals
• The EEM Roadmap to Flawless Operation
  • What goes wrong.
  • The countermeasures
  • The EEM road map 
  • Project Governance 

• Getting the Right Design (Fixing the right issues)
  • Common project management weaknesses and how to avoid them.
  • Operations review
  • Setting the project scope (Action Mapping)
  • Applying EEM benchmarks to High Level Design Decisions

• Getting the Design Right
  • Project organisation.
  • Comparing options and selecting vendors.
  • Ease of use and Maintenance Prevention
  • Design to Life Cycle Cost to enhance project value
• Managing Project Delivery
  • Designing the project glide path and witnessed inspection
  • Installation and commissioning work packet design.
  • Aligning multiple work streams.
  • Troubleshooting and preparation for day 1 handover.
• Managing Operational Change
  
  • Factory readiness challenges.
  • Engaging local stakeholders with factory readiness plans.
  • Integrating Installation, commissioning, with factory readiness plans.
  • Ramping up production.
• Project Leadership 
  
  • Setting expectations and project goals
  • Developing local area capabilities
  • Becoming self sufficient.
  • Site Acceptance Testing.
• Action Planning
  • Assessing current capital project management processes.
  • Implementing improved project delivery processes.
  • 90 day action plan.

Dennis McCarthy- DAK Consulting

Dennis has supported Total Productive Maintenance, Lean Thinking and Continuous improvement programmes ranging in size from small single site applications to companywide multi-site transformation programmes in Europe, USA, India and China. This has included support for well-respected and award winning companies such as 3M, Ford, General Motors, GE, RHM and Dow Corning.

He is the author of 4 books on continuous improvement using Lean and TPM principles and Techniques. The course content is based on his most recent book, “Early Equipment Management, Continuous Improvement for Projects” published by Productivity Press. Within this are case study examples from his work helping well know and award winning organisations to deliver flawless operation from day one from capital projects. That includes Heineken, Ikea, Johnson Matthey, Mitsubishi and Rolls Royce Aerospace