ICONacademy

We train your employees on Engineering, Maintenance and Asset Management!

ICONacademy

We train your employees on Engineering, Maintenance and Asset Management !

Skilled workforce is crucial for any organization

The demographic change due to the higher average age of employees and the threat of a shortage of skilled workers are current challenges for every maintenance organization . In the specialist discussions it is spoken of “war of the talents”.

In fact, these occupational fields were not always popular in the past due to the low development potential, despite the high importance for any manufacturing company. Organization, employees and knowledge management is therefore becoming more and more a strategic success factor in maintenance. Continuous opportunities in the development and further education of maintenance staff prevents an impending lack of skilled workers. The career opportunities within these technical business organizations create a more attractive work environment, reducing employee turnover. The knowledge management consists of strategies for personnel development as well as integrated training and qualification concepts for all specialists and executives.

Ultimately, the company and the success of the people lives!

Our offers

Personnel Development Programme


Defining personnel development and qualification strategies in the technical areas of your organization.

Individual development of training and further education plans for your specialists and executives.

Executive Training Programme

Goal orientation and strategy evaluation in asset management and maintenance.

Challenges for the necessary change processes in the organization.

Optimization of subareas and processes Design of individual concepts.

Incorporation of lateral entrants into the environment of asset management and maintenance.

Implementation of projects support and guidance of young executives.

In-house Seminars

In-house and individual in-house training on asset management and maintenance.
All seminars are also available as in-house trainings.

We design individual in-house training courses for asset management and maintenance - according to your requirements.

For in-house training inquiries get in touch with us!

Our Seminars

Maintenance organizations have to face and adapt to the ever-changing demands of the market. Since maintenance is one of the biggest influenceable cost factors, the question arises here of the optimal organizational form. An optimal maintenance organization depends strongly on given conditions or the requirements of the production and the management. The different framework conditions therefore require individual, tailor-made solutions. In this seminar you will learn how to plan, implement and control the development of an efficient maintenance organization.

Content

  • Organizational principles of service organizations
  • Basic forms of the maintenance organization
  • Task and function descriptions of the organizational structure
  • Competences, responsibilities and responsibilities
  • Processes in maintenance
  • The right mix of own and external maintenance

Participants

  • Specialists and executives from maintenance organizations
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Maintenance Engineers

Duration: 2 days

Price: 980.00 EUR

Are you already on the way to Maintenance 4.0?, are your machines and systems already “smart”, do you know the potentials and possibilities offered by digital technologies for increasing efficiency? In the coming years, investing in digital technologies will be a future for many companies for further competitiveness. A first step could be retrofittable sensors to turn Industry 2.0 and 3.0 into Industry 4.0 systems. This requires a holistic approach that picks up operations from their current state of development, introduces new processes and new technologies, raises employee and machine interaction to a new level of efficiency, and defines a holistic system for the Maintenance 4.0 era.

Content

  • Basics of maintenance
  • Basics Maintenance 4.0
  • Possible applications of digital and smart technologies in maintenance
  • Conception of a holistic implementation strategy for Maintenance 4.0
  • Case studies
  • Example demonstration of Maintenance 4.0 technologies

Participants

  • Plant Manager
  • Technical Manager
  • Executives in the technical field
  • Maintenance Manager
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Participants of the basic course maintenance management

Duration: 2 days

Price: 1,800.00 EUR

In the operative basic course you will learn about applied strategic control methods in maintenance. The seminar is aimed at junior executives and career changers. Goal achievement and budget compliance – is that possible? Modern maintenance management can do both! Increasing global competition is increasingly forcing companies to increase the reliability of their plants in order to increase the cost-efficiency of their machines and plants. This seminar teaches you the basics of maintenance management, and you get to know many success-critical improvement options. Our specialists will tell you which factors are used in modern maintenance management and how resources can be used efficiently and preventively. It depends not only on goal achievement, budget compliance or work preparation, but on many other influencing factors.

Content

  • Basics according to DIN 31051 and DIN EN13306: Repair, inspection, maintenance and improvement
  • Relevant standards and relevant regulations
  • Basic terms and abbreviations of maintenance management
  • Occupational health and safety
  • Condition-based maintenance strategies
  • Efficient spare parts and supplier management
  • Work preparation and planning of preventive work orders
  • Order management and internal processes
  • Practical exercise: Creating a CIP process
  • Maintenance Planning Systems (CMMS): Introduction, Optimization of Use
  • Practical examples

Participants

  • Maintenance Manager
  • Technical Manager
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Engineers
  • Technician with future management tasks in maintenance

Duration: 3 days

Price: 1,800.00 EUR

Based on the operational basic course, you will learn about applied strategic control methods in maintenance in this seminar for executives. Goal achievement and budget compliance – is that possible? Modern maintenance management can do both!

Derived from the business goals, goals are also defined in maintenance. In order to achieve this, strategic planning requirements are set. Selecting the right ones from the variety of philosophies and strategies (TPM, Lean Maintenance, PM, PdM, etc.) during the operational lifecycle phase is a challenge for any technical leader. We provide you with a systematic way to select the optimal strategy mix for your systems. This will give you the prerequisite to integrate efficient and effective proactive measures into your organization.

In addition, a strategic organizational structure should be chosen that promotes a preventive maintenance culture. Budget requirements as well as cost and performance measurements are provided by the maintenance controlling. Last but not least, occupational safety as well as risk and change management are key management issues. This seminar enables you to control the maintenance performance in a targeted manner and to recognize potential for improvement in your company.

Content

  • Maintenance goals and strategic planning specifications
  • Cost and performance indicators for organizational control
  • Application of a maintenance controlling
  • Practical exercise: Creating a reporting system
  • Proactive organizational structure
  • Personnel productivity and development
  • Holistic Approaches (TPM, Lean Maintenance etc.)
  • Risk management according to ISO 31000 and change management
  • Reliability-based maintenance strategies
  • outsourcing
  • Practical examples and discussion

Participants

  • Plant Manager
  • Technical Manager
  • Executives in the technical field
  • Maintenance Manager
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Participants of the basic course Maintenance Management

Duration: 2 days

Price: 980.00 EUR

Maintenance planning systems are the integrator of a maintenance organization. CMMS/EAM systems are designed to assist the maintenance organizations in all matters. They are used for central data storage, planning and control of all maintenance activities. Furthermore, they are an important factor to enable transparency and performance measurement of the maintenance organization. In short, the CMMS/EAM system is a key component of successful, modern and efficient maintenance organizations. In this seminar we will show you the basic functions and possibilities that an CMMS/EAM can (offer). You will learn how to optimally prepare your organization for the (re) introduction of an CMMS/EAM and which relevant aspects you should consider when choosing an CMMS/EAM provider in practice.

Content

  • Basics of maintenance using IPS systems
  • Functions and services of an IPS system
  • Basics for introducing an IPS system
  • Important practical aspects when choosing an IPS provider
  • Case study: Introduction of an IPS

Participants

  • Specialists and executives from maintenance organizations
  • Head of Maintenance
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Maintenance Engineers

Duration: 2 days

Price: 980.00 EUR

In this practical seminar, you will learn about the advantages and implementation possibilities of fault and weak point management in maintenance. You will learn how to introduce such error management as a sustainable tool in your organization. As a basis, we first teach you the essential theoretical basics of error and vulnerability management. B. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Ishikawa, 5W, 8D and others. Practical examples of the participants are used.

In addition, you work out the status quo of your respective organization in a workshop. Measures are derived to anchor error management as an instrument in the organization and to create the basis for a continuous improvement process in maintenance. In addition, you will receive supporting Excel tools for use in your own company in this seminar.

Content

  • Basics of error and vulnerability management for the analysis of technical weaknesses of machines and plants
  • Problem-solving methods, eg. B. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Other standard methods for analyzing errors
  • Quality and defect management culture
  • Determination of the status quo of the participant organization
  • Application of error and vulnerability management tools to practical examples of participants
  • Workshop on integrating error and vulnerability management into the participant organization
  • Implementation of a continuous improvement process in maintenance
  • Application of a failure analysis tool for maintenance (included in the seminar price)

Participants

  • Maintenance Manager
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Engineers
  • Reliability Engineers, Moderators for Error and Quality Management

Duration: 2 days

Price: 980.00 EUR

The seminar on spare parts management in maintenance is aimed at those responsible for external service costs and spare parts stocking. The difference between spare parts management in maintenance organizations and traditional materials management in the company is highlighted. A low level of planning, sometimes very low turnover rates, a large range of articles and high availability requirements pose major challenges to those responsible for warehouse organizations in the maintenance area. In this seminar, you will benefit from numerous examples and exercises and thus learn in practice how to achieve the optimum balance between the risk of default of the plant and the cost of capital.

Content

  • Fundamentals of materials management
  • Definition of spare parts strategies
  • Stock planning, order processing and processes
  • Storage and inventory management
  • Warehouse organization and structures
  • Key figures and analyzes
  • Materials management systems
  • Optimization of spare parts management
  • Alternative supply strategies

Participants

  • Warehouse Manager
  • Maintenance Manager
  • Maintenance Head
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Reliability Engineers

Duration: 2 days

Price: 980.00 EUR

The seminar project management in maintenance is aimed at all specialists and executives who deal with the implementation of projects in the area of maintenance in their area of responsibility. Holistic and efficient project planning and implementation is an important building block for the achieved project success in companies. Projects in the area of maintenance pose special challenges with regard to the number of interfaces, quality and time requirements. Through this seminar, we put you in a position to successfully implement and implement the learned methods of project management in maintenance in your professional practice. Let project management become a stress-factor for you!

Content

  • Basics of project management
  • Project planning, exercises
  • Project control, exercises
  • Special features of project management in maintenance
  • Case study on the implementation of PM methods in the maintenance area

Participants

  • Specialists and Managers in Maintenance
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Maintenance Engineers

Duration: 2 days

Price: 980.00 EUR

This operationally oriented seminar teaches you practice-oriented expert knowledge for work preparers and maintenance planners. Only the right planning process optimizes your order control and the use of resources in your maintenance organization. The goal is to optimally exploit the wear and tear stock by means of preventive maintenance strategies and dynamic maintenance management – thus sustainably increasing your availability. The seminar teaches you how to use scheduling and planning processes and to optimally design standard work schedules (SOPs) such as inspection and maintenance schedules. You will learn how to use work preparation in your organization sustainably.

Content

  • Requirements and instruments of the planned order control
  • Termination methods of planned measures
  • Shutdown planning
  • Create and optimize inspection and maintenance plans
  • Safety basics
  • Application of IT support
  • Documentation Management
  • Workshop for the integration of work preparation in the maintenance
  • Approaches to continuous improvement of vulnerabilities

Participants

  • Plant Manager
  • Maintenance Head
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Maintenance Engineers
  • Reliability Engineers

Duration: 2 days

Price: 980.00 EUR

The risk-based maintenance seminar is aimed at professionals and managers who want to deepen their knowledge of risk-based methods. Risk-based methods are particularly suitable for defining effective maintenance strategies and refining existing strategic approaches. In particular, the combination and symbiosis of classic maintenance strategies and risk-based maintenance strategies is in practice an efficient way of optimizing maintenance costs even closer to the actual physical condition of your machines, making the best possible use of wear stocks and optimizing maintenance plans. In the seminar you will learn the basic qualitative and quantitative methods of risk-based maintenance management. On the basis of the learned basics you deepen your knowledge in a practical application example with the character of a case study.

Content

  • Basics of maintenance and maintenance strategies
  • Introduction to the risk analysis
  • Basics Statistics and Probability Theory
  • Fundamentals of qualitative and quantitative risk analysis methods
  • Application in risk-based maintenance strategies
  • Combination of risk-based maintenance strategies and classic approaches
  • Case study

Participants

  • Maintenance Manager
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Engineers
  • Reliability Engineers, Moderators for Error and Quality Management

Duration: 2 days

Price: 1.250,00 EUR

Six-sigma methods have proven successful in the production environment. In this seminar, we will show you how you can also use Six Sigma methods for planning and controlling your maintenance organization. In this seminar you will learn the basics of the most important Six Sigma methods. Afterwards, we will show you practical examples of how and in which areas you can also use these methods for optimization in the maintenance area.

Content

  • Objective and origin of Six Sigma methods
  • Basics of Six Sigma Methods
  • Fields of application of Six Sigma in maintenance
  • Strengths and limitations of Six Sigma methods
  • Six Sigma organization
  • Case studies

Participants

  • Plant Manager
  • Technical Manager
  • Executives in the technical field
  • Maintenance Manager
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Participants of the basic course Maintenance Management

Duration: 3 days

Price: 1,800.00 EUR

Shopfloor management is an important component of modern and successful maintenance organization in the field of employee management and effective order processing. In this seminar, we will show you the building blocks and elements of shop floor management in terms of Total Productive Maintenance and Lean Maintenance. In case studies and workshops, you will develop tools and methods of visual management in a small group. Finally, we show you what is important in the effective and successful introduction of a shop floor management.

Content

  • Optimization of order processing by means of shopfloor management
  • Continuous improvement through systematic problem solving
  • Tools and Visual Management
  • Lead and coach employees
  • Case study Introduction and implementation of shop floor management

Participants

  • Specialists and executives from maintenance organizations
  • Master in maintenance
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Maintenance Engineers

Duration: 2 days


Price: 980.00 EUR

On the basis of the principles of the Lean Maintenance System, we show you, based on our many years of experience, how to significantly improve your maintenance organization. Particular emphasis is placed on minimizing waste and orienting maintenance to the value stream in your organization. Based on this requirement, you work together in a small group to develop optimized maintenance processes and develop value stream-oriented maintenance concepts.

Content

  • Basics Lean Maintenance / Total Productive Maintenance
  • Basics value stream oriented maintenance
  • Process improvement
  • Determination of employee capacity
  • Development of a ratio system
  • Case study

Participants

  • Specialists and executives from maintenance organizations
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Planner
  • Maintenance Engineers

Duration: 2 days

Price: 980.00 EUR

The risk-based maintenance seminar is aimed at professionals and managers who want to deepen their knowledge of condition-based maintenance methods. Plant monitoring with operational data analysis (BDE), sensor-based continuous monitoring or non-destructive testing methods is becoming increasingly important and relevant in the maintenance area in times of Industry 4.0. In this two-day seminar, we will show you the basic techniques for condition-based plant monitoring. From vibration monitoring to thermography investigations, you will learn a wide range of possible monitoring methods and their specific advantages and disadvantages. In the second part of the seminar you apply the learned new knowledge in a case study for the implementation and introduction of condition-based maintenance strategies to a practical example.

Content

  • Basics of maintenance and maintenance strategies
  • Introduction to the operational data analysis
  • Basics Statistics
  • Basics of sensor-based continuous monitoring procedures
  • Fundamentals of non-destructive testing technology
  • Application in condition-based maintenance strategies
  • Case study

Participants

  • Maintenance Manager
  • Master in Maintenance
  • Maintenance Engineers
  • Mechatronics
  • Measuring and Testing Engineers

Duration: 2 days

Price: 1.250,00 EUR

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