Professional Consultant and Facilitator with over 20 years partnering with organizations in achieving strategic objectives and goals. We assist with process improvements that “lean” out the non-value activities that contribute to underutilization and inefficiencies. We achieve success together by developing strategies with supporting structure, management, and execution that ensures not only competence, but sustainability. We identify opportunities to close performance gaps for the organization and suggest recommendations for improvements that are logical for the organization and advise on a balanced implementation solution. We are a Practical Solutions Provider!
Too many organizations undervalue the importance of change management and the impact of change on the company but more importantly, the individual. Mr. Gager started his career working on the “Shop Floor” and working his way to senior leadership positions. We clearly understand the importance of inclusion from top down and bottom up when establishing organizational objectives and improvements.
Mr. Gager is certified with numerous recognized organizations:
- Certified Management & Reliability Professional (CMRP)
- Certified Planning & Inventory Management (CPIM)
- Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA)
- Certified Reliability Leader (CRL)
- Certified Six Sigma Green Belt (CSSGB)
The following are the courses being offered by AMG International Consulting.
Asset Integrity Management Course
Improving the effectiveness of asset management and integrity activities is vital to ensuring physical assets perform their required functions, operate reliably and thereby support corporate goals and objectives.
A successful Asset Integrity Management Program incorporates design, maintenance inspection, process, operations and management concept; all having a direct impact on the integrity of infrastructure and equipment. As a result, best practice facilities have implemented comprehensive, fully integrated systems and a culture directed at gaining greater lifetime effectiveness, value, safety, availability, profitability and return from production and manufacturing assets.
Asset Integrity Management is a 3 day training course designed to assist asset integrity managers with achieving maximum production capacity at the lowest lifecycle cost; while also maintaining the long term integrity of their assets. Attendees will learn new methods and techniques to gain an understanding of best practices for the most critical aspects of Asset Integrity Management.
Attendees will benefit from our interactive and adult learning techniques. Regardless of your level of expertise, this course will provide you with the framework to develop and deploy an Asset Integrity Management Program to take full advantage of the best practices and strengths of your organization.
Learning Objectives
• Identify the key elements of Asset Integrity
• Understand the importance of Integrity Assurance
• Assess whether an Integrity Assurance Framework is present
• Incorporate how Bow-Tie and Safety Cases are key inputs into an Integrity Assurance Program
• Acquire the reference integrity related KPIs
• Explore the need for monitoring Integrity Assurance
• Determine the key enablers to a sustainable Integrity Assurance Program
Who Should Attend
Vice Presidents, General Managers, Directors, Section Heads, Team Leaders, Senior Managers, Managers, Specialists and Engineers of:
• Asset Integrity Management, Maintenance / Maintenance Planner
• Inspection, Quality Assurance / Quality Control
• Maintenance Supervisors, Integrity and Reliability Engineers
• Instrument and Control &Plant Management
From cross-industries, especially:
• Oil & Gas, Refineries, Petrochemical & Chemical
• Engineering, Power & Utilities
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CAMA Training (Risk & Asset Management Review - Understanding the ISO Standards)
This three-day training program offers a thorough overview of the ISO55000 Asset Management and ISO 31000 Risk Management Standards. The long-term success of an organization relies on many things, from continually assessing and updating their strategies to optimizing their processes and equipment. As if this were not enough of a challenge, they also need to account for the unexpected in managing risk. This standards overview provides the details and understanding that enable course participants to perform the role of an auditor/assessor and undertake activities as an auditor or assessor.
The ISO 55000 series provides terminology, requirements, and guidance for implementing, maintaining and improving an effective asset management system, that can be applied to all types of assets and by all types and sizes of an organizations. In addition, the ISO 31000 standard provides a level of reassurance in terms of economic resilience, professional reputation, and environmental and safety considerations.
By using a combination of both the ISO 55000 & ISO 31000 standards can help organizations increase the likelihood of achieving objectives, improve the identification of opportunities and threats and effectively allocate and use resources for risk and asset management application.
This highly interactive course is designed to provide a training environment that maximizes the interaction between attendees and the instructor. Attendees will complete and review daily exercises designed to enhance and reinforce knowledge retention and provide the best opportunity for successfully passing the CAMA exam.
Course Objectives:
▪ Gain the Asset Management Knowledge required to become a Certified Asset Management Assessor (CAMA) from the World Partners in Asset Management (WPiAM)
▪ Identify the indicators and understand the benefits of integrating asset management processes and systems
▪ Acquire the knowledge to identify, analyze, and implement Risk Based Strategies
▪ Learn the principles of Asset Management, the requirements, and application of implementing an Asset Management System
▪ Demonstrate a comprehensive Asset Management System as a set of integrated technical and financial risk-based processes
▪ Apply strategic policies and plans to achieve Asset Management System best practices by integrating Risk Management with Organizational goals and objectives
Target Audience:
Risk & Asset Management Review was designed specifically for individuals participating in or aspiring to further their professional careers and accreditation.
By Job Titles:
- Directors - Senior Leadership
- Managers - Operation Supervisors
- Reliability Engineers - Finance
- Maintenance Leads/Supervisors - CI Leaders
- Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
By Sector:
- Manufacturing - Oil & Gas
- Consumer Goods - Facilities
- Utilities - Power Gen
- Food & Beverage - Petro Chemical
- Pharma - Transportation
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MRO Storeroom Best Practices
The sole purpose of a MRO Storeroom is Risk Mitigation. Maintenance organizations need the right material, in the proper quantity, at the right time that ensures assets are running at optimum levels and condition. If these basic conditions are not met, your maintenance effort will be ineffective.
A typical storeroom has 7%-12% part duplication. 58% of the inventory has not been touched in over three years. Of the remaining 42% that is considered “active”, 60% of that inventory is overstocked! This clearly is a very costly practice. A MRO storeroom is a business within a business that’s expected to have items available to maintain operating assets. This course is developed to meet any organizations goals and objectives by assuring the right materials are available at the right time by the most cost effective means. This is achieved through strategic practices and tactical processes.
MRO Storeroom Management is a 3 day training course designed to assist MRO Storeroom Operations with achieving maximum efficiency and effectiveness. Attendees will learn new methods and techniques to gain an understanding of best practices for well-organized Materials Management.
Attendees will benefit from our interactive and adult learning techniques, while also receiving a firsthand understanding at developing a world class storeroom operation. Regardless of your level of expertise, this course will provide you with the framework and tools to develop and deploy a best in class MRO Program and take full advantage of the best practices and strengths of your organization.
Learning Objectives
• Discuss the materials management challenges that organizations are facing
• Identify the key elements of materials management
• Discuss how Materials Management supports the overall goals & objectives for maintenance reliability
• Discover the characteristics and steps involved in effective materials management processes
• Describe the basic steps involved in implementing effective Inventory Control best practices
• Identify contributors to total cost of materials
• Practice techniques to manage inventory investment
• Understand the standard set of basic materials management key performance indicators
• Develop an inventory/investment management processes Action Plan
Who Should Attend
• Storeroom Manager, Storeroom Supervisors
• Maintenance Planners
• MRO Storeroom Attendants
• Maintenance & Operations Supervisors
• Purchasing Managers & Supervisors
• Accounting Personnel
• Plant Management
Industries:
• Oil & Gas
• Manufacturing
• Petrochemical & Chemical
• Pharma
• Power & Utilities
• Food & Beverage
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Shutdown / Turnaround / Outages
This three-day training program offers a thorough overview of the Shutdown/Turnaround/Outage (STO) process. To make the best business decisions in preparation, it is important to understand what stakeholder demands are. The most successful STO’s are those projects that thoroughly understand what influences the organization. These influences are usually a mixture of both internal and external factors.
With the combined impact both positively and negatively on the business and operations, STO’s gets the attention of high-level management. In some instances, the value of lost production potentially has greater consequences financially than the actual direct costs of the shutdown.
This highly interactive course is designed to provide a training environment that maximizes the interaction between attendees and the facilitator. Attendees will complete and review daily exercises designed to enhance and reinforce knowledge retention and provide the best opportunity for planning, scheduling, and executing a successful STO.
Course Objectives:
• Define work scope and responsibilities for all personnel involved in each stage of the STO
• Improve your plant reliability and equipment availability with an effective STO strategy
• Learn how selecting work through a prioritization system can better control future maintenance costs
• Minimize the possibility of liability by improving plant safety
• Evaluate the management of equipment lifecycle through effective STOs
Target Audience:
By Job Titles:
• Ops Leadership, Managers/Supervisors/Leadership
• Reliability Engineers, Maintenance Leads/Supervisors
• Financial, Operations Supervisors
• CI Leaders, Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
By Sector:
• Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Utilities & Power Gen
• Petrochemical/Chemical, Pharma, Food & Beverage
Target Audience:
Shutdown / Turnaround / Outage (STO) Management was designed specifically for individuals participating in or aspiring to the following:
• Mechanical, Electrical, Production or Project Engineers
• Procurement, SHE Advisors
• Construction/Contractor Managers and Supervisors
• Testing and Commission Engineers
• Maintenance Managers, Supervisors, Planners & Schedulers
• Key Operations Supervisors
• Materials Management Managers/Supervisors
• CMMS Administrator or Key Users
• Key Maintenance Support Assistants
• Maintenance Engineers (Functional and Reliability)
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Supervision, Leadership, & Management Review
Supervision is a framework that enables organizations to achieve their goals and objectives. The role of a leader starts with a thorough understanding of the organization’s needs, objectives and concerns, for which it is important to have excellent listening and facilitation skills. The purpose of this brilliant leadership training course is to show your delegates special methods that will help them to get the best performance from themselves, and the rest of the team.
This two-day leadership and management training program will give your team leader-managers the additional knowledge, skills, tools and techniques they need to feel more confident, motivated and self-assured.
During this popular and informative course, you will gain new insights relating to: Goal setting, the proper use of language, delegating, giving constructive criticism and how to positively motivate yourself and others.
Learning Objectives
• Understanding of key concepts of world class maintenance and operations
• Develop key leadership styles
• Learn conflict resolution techniques
• Tools to apply to get the most from your team
• When to delegate, motivate, direct, and hold people accountable
Who Should Attend
Supervision, Leadership, and Management was designed specifically for individuals participating in or aspiring to become better leaders and motivators. This course was developed using best practices for adult learning styles, applying immediately and high retention.
By Job Titles:
• Organization Leadership, Managers/Supervisors
• Technical Authorities, Maintenance Leads/Supervisors
• Lead Technicians & Operators, Operation Supervisors
• Improvement Leaders, Maintenance & Reliability Professionals
By Sectors:
• Oil & Gas Upstream & Downstream
• Manufacturing, Fast-moving Goods
• Facilities, Petrochemical/Chemical
• Bio/Pharma
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