Euromaint has a focus on the professional skills for Maintenance Managers all over Europe

 25 th of June 2009
The 2nd Pan European workshop about Maintenance Management, competences and education. Registration possible untill the 15th of May 2009
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Pan European Network

We are delight to announce to build a Pan European network on Maintenance upon the achievements of the EuroMaint project and the Pan European Workshop on Maintenance Management Education and Training, that took place the 12th of September in 2008. This was decided by 38 persons from 15 different countries, all high level actors in the area of Maintenance Management education and training. A final statement was made:   

European collaboration reinforces professional maintenance management in Europe with the development of knowledge exchange between universities and the maintenance societies. To do so we have to realize:

-       a (partly virtual) network between universities on maintenance (partnership tender)

-       an European network in collaboration with the European Training Committee EFNMS;

-       various comparable Maintenance Courses on universities, acceptable for the working field

-       comparable methods and criteria on Quality Assurance for those Maintenance courses

If you believe that cooperation with (other) universities and with the EFNMS on Maintenance is important for your institute or university please let us know and contact us. 

Euromaint Project Abstract

The overall intention of this project (2006 - 2008) was to contribute to the innovation of the vocational practice within the sector of Maintenance. Euromaint leads to international consensus about required competences and educational material, by designing a competence profile for the professional Maintenance Managers and the development of an educational route to develop those competences.

Key Milestones

• March 2007: European consensus about the competences as required by industry

• May 2007: definition of the educational products, needed to reach those competences.

• October 2007 - Personal competence development plan, clearness about assessment and qualification

• March 2008 - deliverables ready, including the European Qualification system

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What happened in EuroMaint?

• The project started at the 30^th of November in Utrecht, the Netherlands

• Five workshops in various countries are organised to discuss the competences of the Maintenance Manager required by industry.

• Based on those workshops and the CEN proposal, the competences are listed as required by European industry.

• The content of a course is developed, that fits with the competences as desired for a Maintenance Manager.

• An inventory is made of the different courses, modules, and study possibilities all over Europe for Maintenance Managers and Maintenance Engineers.

• Consultation took place between various universities and maintenance societies all over Europe about the education and certification of a Maintenance Manager

• A study is done about the career of the Maintenance Managers in Europe, resulting in a personal competence plan

• A proposal is made by EFNMSvzw how to certificate the Maintenance Manager, in relation with the European Qualification Framework in the higher education area.

• Final meeting the 11th of September in Florence - Italy

• A market investigation is done to test out the conclusions of the project.

• Presentation of the results and follow up: the 12th of September, Florence - Italy

The first Pan European workshop about Maintenance Management, competences and education was hold the 12 th of September 2008   Information

Our book:

The Guide to Maintenance Management

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Introduction: the function of a Maintenance Manager is to provide an optimum on asset utilization which should result in a maximum profit to the company. The skills set determines on how succesfull he or she will be. Therefore the education with all the aspects described in the Guide to Maintenance Management will enable the maintenance manager to fulfil his function. In this publication you will find a complete overview of the competencies as required by industry. It is to these competencies the Maintenance Manager must respond. Throughout the framework of the EuroMaint project, the competencies for Maintenance Managers, including a procedure for a personal development plan, are discussed and focused on industrial needs. We then describe the way in which a Maintenance Manager can be certificated. One way to become a good Mainatenance Manager is to educate oneself. In this publication we show the possibilities for learning and we give a Maintenance Management curriculum developed within this project, with recommended literature. The learning approach is based on actual experiences. To support this, various examples are given of case studies collected from situations all over Europe, and they show the way how Maintenance Management produces that added value.  

For international students we offer in the Netherlands a two weeks during summerschool on Maintenance and asset management.In profitability based Maintenance, the main scope will be to achieve the highest possible utilization of the system at the lowest possible operational cost. This course gives an overview in the important aspects of Maintenance and Asset Management. The following topics are covered: Maintenance Management, Asset Utilization and Optimizing, Life Cycle Engineering, Methods for Design Optimizing, Condition Based Maintenance, Reliability Assessment and Safety. More information