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Change Leadership (3 days) - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF)
Manufacturing companies that know how to engage their workforces to effectively drive performance improvement have the only sustainable competitive weapon. This course provides awareness and understanding of critical change leadership techniques for those who must guide their organizations to and through step-change improvement.

High Impact Lean Manufacturing Certificate (HILC) - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF)
In five workshops you will receive an overview of lean, experience a technique for identifying and prioritizing lean projects; learn lean improvement methods and tools; and receive experience and coaching applying lean to your workplace. Training is application based with real-life simulations or case studies.

Maintenance Planning for Planners (4 days) - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF)
A recent study of top performers in industry revealed that all top quartile performers in plant reliability and maintenance cost had formalized maintenance planning training. This course teaches important planning concepts and tools while building the confidence needed for success on the job.Companies that send four or more participants to this workshop will receive Fluor's On-Job Performance Qualification Guide for planners without charge.This tool is invaluable for reinforcing planner's training and removing roadblocks to success.

Managing Asset Performance (2 days) - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF)
NOTE: This course is listed in the brochure as "MAINTENANCE PLANNING FOR MANAGERS." It is included in this course.
Managers, supervisors, and engineers make the decisions that drive productivity, operating costs, quality, reliability, and safety of the plant. This course assures understanding of the reliability and maintenance work management techniques necessary for effective decisions in a lean environment.

Managing Total Performance: Getting to the Next Level - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF)
Companies whose managers use the best total performance management practices achieve an average of a 93% improvement in gross profit margin. Leaders will learn the "how-to's" for managing employee focus, accountability, support and follow-through. This process integrates company strategy, implementation/execution and assessment, going far beyond traditional employee performance management. Class consists of sixteen contact hours.

PRIMEed for Industry - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF)
Whether administered at your facility or in partnership with your local community college or technical school (where available), PRIMEed will help you reduce training costs and improve employee performance with online training coupled with unique, hands-on performance evaluations. In addition to knowledge assessments and a comprehensive curriculum, only PRIMEed offers hands-on evaluations, ensuring your employees can immediately apply their new skills.

Process Based Leadership: The Keys to Sustaining High Performance - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF)
This is a highly interactive workshop designed to provide a road map for companies to follow as they develop and reinforce a business-focused team infrastructure. Participants learn the importance of specific non-negotiable process standards and leadership actions necessary for sustaining the cultural change throughout all levels, functional areas, and shifts within an organization.

Reliability Engineering (4 days) - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF) Reliability engineers utilize basic and advanced reliability tools to improve the reliability and profitability of a plant's assets. This course includes basic reliability engineering fundamentals and covers three tools in detail: reliability centered maintenance, life cycle costing, and systematic failure elimination. Participants should have a basic knowledge of root cause failure analysis and preventive/predictive technologies.

Root Cause Failure Analysis (2 days) - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF)
Employees will use root cause failure analysis (RCFA) to determine the true causes of a failure to reduce the number of recurring equipment breakdowns, yield losses, accidents, environmental incidents, business system failures, and other incidents that impact profitability. Managers will learn to use a mapped process to systematically eliminate failures.

Step-Change (3 days) - Enroll | Course Brochure (PDF)
Asset performance in industry is first and foremost about financial performance. In an industrial environment, asset performance can be dimensioned into families of financial drivers to optimize collectively for maximum performance of physical assets such as plant, property, and equipment. This course introduces the key measures of asset performance and outlines a proven approach for enhancing performance.