John
H. Schultz and Dennis Belanger
Allied Services Group
BIOGRAPHY
and PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION
Mr.
Schultz holds Bachelors’ Degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Economics
from Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. Mr.
Schultz started his engineering endeavors with Bemis Company as a Systems
Analyst where he mathematically modeled their entire production process and
helped develop the software that was later used for production scheduling and
product pricing. Upon graduation
from Rose Hulman, Mr. Schultz started his career with Eli Lilly & Company,
where he held several engineering assignments.
In his final role with Eli Lilly in the area of Maintenance and
Reliability, Mr. Schultz was instrumental in the design and deployment of an
Asset Management initiative that was recognized as one of the best in
Mr.
Schultz left Eli Lilly & Company in 1997 to form Allied Services Group - a
reliability consortium with the sole purpose of optimizing the Asset Management
initiatives across a wide range of industries.
As President, Mr. Schultz’ responsibilities include working with
customers to develop a manageable Asset Management Project scope that will
generate maximum ROI, working with the member companies of Allied Services Group
to resource those initiatives, continuously improving the offering of Allied
Services Group’s member companies, auditing, and perhaps his most important
responsibility is educating the customer base in the areas of Reliability and
Asset Management.
Mr. Dennis Belanger is a Sr. Account Manager and
Engagement Manager for Management Resources Group (MRG).
With over 20 years of experience in senior maintenance and reliability
roles, he has expertise in a wide range of advanced maintenance and reliability
management practices such as CMMS implementation, work management, materials
management, predictive maintenance and condition monitoring.
Mr. Belanger’s background includes Manager of Consulting and Training
for MRG and work for Mobil Chemical, The Quaker Oats Company, and the US Navy.
Mr. Belanger utilizes his broad and diverse background
to bring clients solutions that are financially viable and sustainable.
Having led many reliability improvement initiatives he knows what it
takes to “sell”, “justify” and “deliver” cost effective improvement
to the bottom line through the use of reliability-based practices.
Dennis has written and published papers and articles
for industry publications such as Maintenance Technology Magazine and
ReliabilityWeb.com. He has also been
a featured speaker at a number of industry conferences including SMRP,
Reliability World, IMC, MARCON, National Manufacturing Week, MRC, TAPPI –
PIMA, and the Oklahoma Predictive Maintenance Users Group.
Asset Management
initiatives, namely doing Maintenance and Reliability right, have been
documented to have Returns on Investment (ROI) ranging from 4:1 to 50:1.
In fact, many organizations have found that a Total Equipment Asset Management
(TEAM) initiative proves to be the best investment made in their facility.
In this presentation, Allied Services Group (ASG) and Management Resources Group
(MRG) will discuss and explore the “Business Case for Reliability” from
several different angles answering the following questions:
1.
What is ROI?
2.
What are the elements of a successful TEAM
initiative?
3.
What are the typical costs associated with each
element?
4.
Where are these costs offset with savings?
5.
What areas should you expect to see the most
significant savings?
6.
What types of saving are likely in each area?
7.
What is the “typical” Rate of Return (ROR)
8.
What elements control ROR?
9.
Where do you start?
Participants will gain a
fundamental understanding of why a Reliability initiative makes financial sense
for their business, what elements are essential for their success, what they can
control, and how to start. If a plant already has a reliability initiative
in place, but the results are not meeting expectations, then calculating the
business case may provide insight into why results are not being achieved.