Day 1 - November 19, 2024

7:00 AM

Breakfast

Sponsored by MRM-EAM Consulting

60 min

8:00 AM

Welcome to the ECMUG

Opening remarks

Jean-François Désilets – President, TriNmax

Martin Dupuis – Managing Director, IBM Technology Quebec

45 min

8:45 AM

IBM Maximo Roadmap

Presentation of the Maximo Application Suite roadmap and its current and upcoming modules.

Dave Persaud, Partner – Technical Specialist, Sustainability Software

55 min

9:40 AM

Purchasing Process Optimization

Jack Fucale – Director Finance Shared Services, American Iron & Metal (AIM)

55 min

10:35 AM

Morning Break

20 min

10:55 AM

Weekly Planning and Scheduling with Maximo

PRESENTATION IN FRENCH

Discover the basic principles of the weekly planning and scheduling process, learn how to implement them in Maximo, and explore how QSL, a leader in freight management in North America, successfully accomplished it.

Master backlog management and establish a forecast horizon of six to eight weeks, all within the framework of a continuous improvement process.

David Leduc – Vice President, Business Development, CiM Maintenance

55 min

12:00 PM

Lunch

75 min

1:15 PM

Meet Our Sponsors!

Discover how our sponsors are shaping the asset management industry by showcasing their unique offerings and innovative solutions. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the leaders driving change!

40 min

2:00 PM

Accelerate the Deployment of Reliability Strategies with MAS Manage 9 (Maximo 9)

PRESENTATION IN FRENCH

Learn how the MAS 9 reliability strategies repository can help you establish a foundation for your asset reliability program.

Access a library of failure details and asset-specific mitigation activities to build your asset maintenance repository more quickly.

This library is developed by industry and domain experts and contains hundreds of assets and tens of thousands of possible failures across all known operational contexts. With Custom Strategies, you can also create your own strategies and manage their versions and approvals.

Stéphan Mercier – Director of Operations

55 min

3:00 PM

Wrap up

Logistic and vendor night review

30 min

3:30 PM

Vendor Night

1.5 hours

5:30 PM

Official ECMUG Social Night at Vertigo

Day 2 - November 20, 2024

7:00 AM

Breakfast

60 min

8:00 AM

Opening remarks

Logistic and agenda review

15 min

8:15 AM

Red Hat OpenShift Basics for Maximo Administrators

Learn how the transition for a Maximo Administrator for Infrastructure (ie. WebSphere) is now handled with IBM MAS and RedHat OpenShift.

Useful for any organization that has or will be upgrading to MAS 8.x.

Michael Marsonet – President, MRM-EAM Consulting

70 min

9:25 AM

Maximo Mobile - New Era in Maintenance Management

Introduction of Maximo Mobile, present main features, functionalities and roadmap.

Maximo Mobile is one of the main areas of investments in Maximo Application Suite and will be for the foreseeable future. Maximo Mobile is a lightweight and fully configurable application where users can perform their work and report directly into the system, especially in offline mode.

Avinash Kumar Senior AI Apps Partner Technical Specialist, IBM

55 min

10:15 AM

Morning Break

20 min

10:35 AM

How to Speed Up Receiving Operations and Simplify Documentation

PRESENTATION IN FRENCH

Explanation of the initial context, the idea, the developed solution, and how we eliminated our backlog and improved the documentation of delivery receipts in the system.

In less than a week, we successfully eliminated a continuous backlog of 30 pallets of material. We went from having to work overtime every week and considering the addition of two more employees to being fully in control of our goods reception and able to undertake continuous improvement projects with the same resources.

Jean-Philippe Rochette – Supply Chain Superintendent, SFPPN

55 min

11:30 AM

Raffle Draw

30 min

12:00 PM

Lunch

60 min

1:00 PM

MAS Manage Day 2 Operation & Beyond

In this session Michael will walk through a day in a life of a Maximo Administrator and will cover topics for patching (Security and application), SSL Certificates, Backups, and User Management.

Michael Marsonet – President, MRM-EAM Consulting

55 min

1:55 PM

Northland Power's Maximo Journey

Join Derrick Becking as he goes through the Maximo Journey at Northland Power, showcasing how they’ve leveraged Maximo to optimize their operations.

Derrick Becking – Site Supervisor, Northland Power

55 min

2:50 PM

Afternoon Break

20 min

3:10 PM

Preparing for Your Migration to the Maximo Application Suite

Panel with industry experts to explore the essential steps an organization must plan to ensure a successful transition to the Maximo Application Suite.

55 min

4:05 PM

Conference Closing

15 min