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Manufacturing Council Leads
Local Roundtable in Wichita, Kansas
In February 2008, the Manufacturing Council (MFC) and the IFMA Chapter of Wichita, Kansas sponsored a Best Practices
and Benchmarking Roundtable for local manufacturing FM Professionals. Hosted by Gary Rudkin from Spirit
AeroSystems, the roundtable series allows FM Professionals to share and adopt best practices in services such as Production
Equipment and Building Maintenance, Plant Operations, Project Management, and Facilities Business Management.
In addition to facilities
services, the roundtable discusses and shares best practices in the following: - Energy management,
- Future
workforce planning
- Maintenance inventory and procurement
- Vendor and contractor management
- Technical training
- Safety practices
- Management development
and succession
Future workforce planning
was the topic discussed during the February kick-off meeting, and the area manufacturing companies are concerned that a shortage
of skilled industrial maintenance technicians will impede growth in the community.
The MFC is leading a proactive strategy to develop future maintenance technicians with Wichita Area Technical College (WATC).
Local manufacturers such as Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing, Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft and Triumph Structures are focusing
on three objectives- determine the future shortage in terms of open positions, develop an industrial maintenance curriculum,
and market technical careers to the youth. The team is 80% complete with the curriculum, and the first
course should be available in 2008.
For more information contact Craig
Daharsh, Spirit AeroSystems at craig.l.daharsh@spiritaero.com or 316-209-9256.
Energy management is the second topic that the MFC is focusing
on. A follow-up session in May was hosted by David Walker with Spirit AeroSystems. David
presented retro-commissioning to a group of manufacturing FM Professionals, and all attendees thought the information was
very useful. Follow-on meetings will be held through out the summer to allow the group to meet and share
energy management best practices.
For more information contact David
Walker, Spirit AeroSystems at david.l.walker@spiritaero.com or 316-208-4883.
The next roundtable topic
will be vendor and contractor management scheduled for July 2008.
For
more information about the roundtable series contact Gary Rudkin at gary.rudkin@spiritaero.com or 316-208-3813.
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