Maintenance Management and Cultures:Kaizen, 5S, 6σ, RCM, TPM, and more

A two-day lecture seminar, organized by the Engineering Society, was conducted by Mrs. Lizette Ivy C. Pascual, particularly for Engineering Staff and Students, on the 24th of February and 3rd of March 2022, from 12 noon to 1:30 pm at the Multi-Purpose Hall of the Engineering Department Building.  

The topic, “Maintenance Management and Cultures”, is multi-disciplinary in scope; thus, anybody in the college who was interested were welcomed as well.

Maintenance Management and Cultures is a broad topic that covers a wide area, and Mrs. Lizette presented the following:

• Change Management
• Strategies and Tactics
• Planning and Scheduling
• Measures and Benchmarking
• Data Management
• Preventive Maintenance (PM) and Corrective Maintenance (CM)
• Kaizen and 5S
• Six Sigma (6σ)
• Reliability-Centered Maintenance (RCM)
• Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
• Other Maintenance Management Systems and Cultures (Proactive Maintenance, Terotechnology, Logistics Engineering, Expert Systems, Contract Management, Total Quality Management, and etc.)

It was noted that most of the courses in the curriculum of the different engineering specializations, except in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, these concepts were never covered or mentioned.  However, the graduates, looking for employment or upon entering into employment in major industries and corporations, have little or no knowledge or prior learning regarding these important practices.  It prompted the Engineering Society that the best way for them to know of these things is by presenting these to them like a crash course through a couple of lecture seminars.