Asset Management
Knowledge Development

As part of PEMAC's participation in the Global Forum on Maintenance and Asset Management we are recruiting members to participate in the next stage of development of the 'Asset Management Landscape'. email executive.director@pemac.org to learn more.

Welcome Julie West

PEMAC Events Coordinator

We are thrilled to welcome Julie West to our staff as PEMAC Events Coordinator. Julie's goal is to increase the number, geographic distribution and quality of opportunities for PEMAC members to connect and learn. 

Julie's early focus has been to infuse new energy into our signature MainTrain conference. She has already made great strides! General (Ret) Rick Hillier and Nezar Al-Shemmasi (Director of Croporate Maintenance Support at Saudi Aramco) have been confirmed as keynote speakers, paper submissions on the topic of 'implementing change' are rolling in and sponsor and exhibitors are lining up as well.  Watch for unfolding news about MainTrain 2013 (Calgary, November 18 - 21) at www.maintrain.ca  But don't wait for the news. Trust us! Mark your calendar and request the time now! You won't want to miss it.

Supporting chapter development is also on Julie's list of things to do. For example, for its upcoming February dinner meeting the Fort McMurray chapter suggested a speaker, a venue and a sponsor and Julie did the rest, negotiating with the hotel, securing the sponsorship contract, consolidating the interest list, emailing out announcements and tracking registrations. Julie has also met with a PEMAC volunteer interested in getting the Toronto Chapter back up and running, and she's working with the Alberta Chapter on an event for April in conjunction with the ISO meetings that will be held there. Events for potential Sudbury, Saskatchewan and BC Chapters is also on the work plan for the coming year. Check out the new Chapter page on the PEMAC website in case this new development (staff help from PEMAC) might induce you to start a Chapter in your community. http://www.pemac.org/chapters

Julie has amazing energy and she is efficient and fun at the same time. If you have ideas for MainTrain, or Chapter event speakers you can reach her at events@pemac.org

Recognition: 2012 Awards Ceremony

Lifetime Membership Awards

The Life Membership is an award granted upon retirement from a formal leadership position within the Association to recognize an individual member’s contribution to PEMAC, and by extension their contribution to the Maintenance and Asset Management profession. At the Annual Banquet in Toronto in November some very special PEMAC contributers were recognized as follows:

Brian Malloch

Brian Malloch retired from the Board of Directors in November 2011 after serving as a Director or President for over 8 years. For all of those years it would be fair to say that Brian was the face of the Association, never refusing an opportunity to travel to all parts of the country to promote PEMAC’s vision and mission and its core product, the Maintenance Management Professional Certificate program. This mechanism, Brian’s famous talk delivered in person whenever possible and wherever asked, was key to the geographic spread of the MMP program and the association over the last 20 years.

Colin Carington

Brian could not have acted alone in growing the MMP program. There had to be a program, well-defined and well organized and there had to be someone following through on the relationships that were formed with the colleges, ensuring agreements were signed, the process of program delivery was understood. This person had to help the colleges source the right instructors and provide those instructors with well-thought out teaching materials, lesson plans, power point presentations. Committees of subject matter experts had to be assembled to discuss what should be in the program, in what order it should be presented. And this person had to respond to constant feedback from the colleges, participants and instructors to continuously improve the program living up to the principles that were taught within it. For many years that person was Colin Carrington, the second recipient of the Lifetime Membership Awards held at our 2012 banquet. 

Norm Clegg

Norm Clegg, PEMAC's recently retired Executive Director was honoured as the third recipient of the Lifetime Membership Award. As Executive Director, Norm worked tirelessly on a limited budget to grow the association from humble beginnings. Norm represented PEMAC, recruited and encouraged instructors and volunteers, established and maintained partnerships and led the organization of the MainTrain conference. As President Rob Lash said during the award presentation, the way that he got involved was a call from Norm to the effect of, "Rob we need someone to lead the Succession Planning committee... and we think you would be perfect for that!" In the discussion that followed the Awards presentation, many in the room laughed and compared notes about those encouraging calls from Norm. In his humble way Norm credits the volunteers for building the association but it took his special commitment and skills to call them to service, to supervise a growing staff and to himself carry out many of the day to day activities of the association.

Congratulations to the three recipients of the Lifetime Membership Awards!

Sergio Guy Memorial Award

Cliff Williams

At the PEMAC Awards Banquet on November 20th Cliff Williams, long-time PEMAC member currently serving as a director on the PEMAC Board, was designated as the Sergio Guy Award recipient for 2012 for his contributions to the maintenance profession.

Cliff's nominator had this to say:

"Cliff’s dedication to plant maintenance and reliability is proven by his continued promotion of the industry’s must valued asset, the human asset. From his iconic series of articles ‘Help Wanted’ to his recent speaking engagements in Australia, Cliff’s message is spoken to an international audience. His dedication to the development of this asset is not limited to the international realm as he continues to teach and mentor PEMAC’s industry standard-setting course, the MMP Program. Cliff has proven his ability to promote PEMAC’s vision of global leadership, education and certification both nationally and internationally.

"I worked with Cliff at ERCO Worldwide. I wasn’t a direct report however unofficially I looked to him as a mentor. I think why I was drawn to Cliff is that he had a good understanding of the effort that it takes for people to grow people. What he really helped me out with personally is understanding how I influence others in the work group. Real life situations, how I either managed –or- mismanaged them. Cliff’s ‘Help Wanted’ articles are about our mentality in the maintenance world and how we try to navigate through it – the difficulties. With Cliff ‘s help I was able to navigate from a tradesperson into a leadership role. He helped me to see that it was okay for me not to have all the answers; the most important thing was that I was asking questions."

Editor's Note: After his installment as the 2012 Sergio Guy winner, Cliff's first book, "People: A Reliability Success Story" was published and the first printing has already sold out. Congratulations again, Cliff, on another important contribution!

Interested in leading Chapter Activity?

Notice that there are now some resources available on the website at http://www.pemac.org/chapters that give you some great information about getting a Chapter started.