CE Institute

What is CE Institute?
The Construction Equipment Institute (CEI) is a highly specialized management development program designed for individuals who manage fleets of heavy equipment in the construction, mining, and quarrying industries. Group work, presentations by industry experts, and panel discussions comprise this highly interactive four-day course. Registration is limited to 50 seats. To download the registration form, click here.

When is the next CE Institute?
The next CEI will January 6-9 2009 in Austin, TX. To download the 2009 CEI brochure with registration form click here.

CEI 2009 would like to thank Michelin as a program sponsor.

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Who should attend?

Equipment Managers responsible for the operational, planning, and policy decisions that affect the cost, reliability, and performance of equipment fleets.

Operations Managers in the construction, mining and quarrying industries who seek a better understand of techniques to reduce equipment ownership and operating costs and improve productivity.

Fleet Owners who are seeking to maximize their return on assets as well as improve the productivity of their fleet and gain a competitive advantage.

Learn to:

Develop budgets and business plans for equipment operations
Evaluate some of the leading equipment and fleet management software systems available
Develop and use information systems to support critical repair, rebuild and replace decisions
Evaluate financial alternatives and complete financial impact and equipment-operating costs
Analyze equipment intensive operations to improve production and unit costs
Use historical data to calculate operating cost
Balance cost and reliability throughout an optimum economic life
Set internal rental rates for individual machines and fleets
Improve the value of the equipment management function to the company as a whole
Improve team building between operations, equipment dealers, and manufacturers

Agenda

		Tuesday , January 6, 2009
8am	9am	Breakfast
9am	10:30am	Welcome and introductions
10:30am	12noon	Managing the fleet within the organization.
		The fact that the fleet must be managed within the organization as a whole will be stressed and a number of issues associated with organization design, responsibility and authority will be discussed. Fleet management functions will be discussed in detail.
12noon	1pm	Lunch
1pm	2:30pm	Implications of organization structure.
		This session provides an opportunity for open debate on the role of the equipment function and the many issues surrounding the advantages and disadvantages of a centralized, specialized equipment group in the company.
2:30pm	3pm	Break
3pm	5pm	Owning and operating costs
		The factors that impact owning costs will be reviewed. The need to determine and include residual market value and return on invested capital will be stressed as will the impact of utilization on the hourly cost of ownership.
6pm		Cocktails and group dinner

		Wednesday, January 7, 2009
7am	8am	Breakfast
8am	10am	Owning and operating costs & economic life
		This session will show how hourly operating costs can be estimated by using field data and a knowledge of component replacement cost to determine the relat- ionship between repair cost and machine age. This relationship will be used to define the economic life and answer these interdependent questions: "How much does it cost" and “How long should I keep it"? .
10am	10:30am	Break
10:30am	12:30pm	Maintain, repair, rebuild, replace
		Maintain, repair, rebuild, replace will be defined and presented as a spectrum of decisions made in the normal course of fleet management. The importance of preventive maintenance as the first line of defense will be stressed and it will be shown how the cumula- tive cost model can be used to evaluate repair- rebuild decisions. Issues such as the balance between age, cost and reliability and the importance of fleet average age will be discussed.
12:30pm	1:30pm	Lunch
1:30pm	3:30pm	Implementing the basics: Acquisition/ disposal & fleet asset management
		This session focuses on practical tools for implement- ing material covered and for success in areas such as buying, selling, renting, setting standard specs, man- aging rental equipment, managing downtime, warranty and comparing cost per hour calculations.
3:30pm	4pm	Break
4pm	5:30pm	Working with & implementing emissions regulations
		The session will provide an overview of the emissions issues facing most U.S. contractors today. Air quality standards, compliance, regulatory issues, and retrofit devices will be discussed.
6pm		Dinner on your own

		Thursday, January 8, 2009
7am	8am	Breakfast
8am	9:30am	Equipment accounting and finance.
		The session will emphasize the accounting, finance and cash flow aspects of equipment ownership and develop the language needed to improve understanding between equipment operations, finance and accounting.
9:30am	10am	Break
10am	12noon	Maintenance and repair management.
		The emphasis on implementation is continued with discussion on issues such as defining responsibility and accountability within the maintenance function, developing and maintaining OEM and dealer relationships, managing work order based labor and equipment reports, controlling contaminants and defining the critical features of a preventive maintenance program
12noon	1pm	Lunch
1pm	2:30pm	Oil analysis & condition-based maintenance
		The session focuses on the tools, technologies and organizational structure needed to implement a condi- tion-based maintenance program that uses advanced sensing, sampling and measurement tools to assess the condition of a machine and define maintenance requirements.
2:30pm	3pm	Break
3pm	5pm	Hands on implementation session.
		This session provides an opportunity to discuss and review material covered and address specific implementation challenges. Tools and techniques for effective implementation will be reviewed.
5:30pm		Cocktails and snacks followed by dinner on your own.

		Friday, January 9, 2009
7am	8am	Breakfast
8am	10am	Implementing the basics: Transport/logistics and field maintenance operations
		Factors that influence cost and efficiency in the mainte nance and field support functions are covered with par- ticular attention given to dispatch, transport load secure- ment, fuels and preventive maintenance systems. PM system features are covered extensively.
10am	10:30am	Break
10:30am	12noon	What will you implement on Monday.
		Each attendee will be asked to review material covered and develop a plan to implement at least one performance improvement on return to work on Monday morning.
12noon		Adjourn

Expert Instruction

	Mike Vorster is the David H. Burrows Professor of Construction Engineering and Management at Virginia Tech University. He is acknowledged as an expert in equipment management and has more than 25 years experience in the field. Mike effectively combines academic and operational perspectives in his approach to the subject. In addition, he is a skilled presenter and facilitator. Read Mike Vorster's columns at Magazine Archives/Equipment Executive.
	Andy Agoos is the Vice-President/Fleet for Neff Rental, a top 10 national heavy equipment rental organization with over 13,000 major pieces. Previously, he spent 17 years as the Senior VP for Equipment Operations for Hubbard Construction, 13 years as president of the centralized equipment company for the Austin Industries Company, and 10 years as region/general service manager for Caterpillar Overseas and two southeastern Caterpillar dealers. He holds a B.M.E. from Georgia Institute of Technology, is a charter member and former president of the Association of Construction Equipment Managers, and is a 20 year AEMP member.
	Andy's emphasis throughout his career is to develop uncomplicated systems and programs that can be easily implemented by large and small construction companies. His "How-to" approaches come from 40 years of successful implementation and will usually fit most equipment manager's problems.

If you have any questions about the event, please contact Dawn Batchelder by email or call: (630) 288-8141.

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