Maintenance Management Institute (MMI)
From hydraulics to electrical and computer maintenance, classroom and distance-learning for managers responsible for keeping facilities in top shape and on schedule.
2012 Session Dates TBA
TRSA's MMI is the laundry industry’s premier training program for those involved with maintaining and operating industrial, linen and health care laundries. MMI focuses on the technical and management skills needed to maintain critical systems and ensure they are operating at peak performance.
The program enhances and develops attendees' understanding of their role in improving plant operations, profitability, and developing leadership skills. Past students and industry leaders hail MMI for its near immediate return on investment. MMI is intended for a wide variety of students including both industry veterans and novices. The training is intended primarily for:
- Plant Engineers
- Regional Engineers
- Corporate Engineers
But it is equally appropriate for:
- General Managers
- Plant Managers
- Owner/Operators
In fact, for those who have already completed TRSA's Production Management Institute (PMI), MMI is a logical next step. Previous participants have described their personal enrichment from MMI as follows:
- Makes me more aware of ways I can save my company money
- Allows me to become better organized
- Educates me enough to make an immediate positive change and difference
- More knowledgeable and realization of common problems
- Helps in managing people better and help correct problems and problem areas that we have in our plant
- Identifies many areas I can improve in our facility as well as share with my department
- Renewed vigor, cost savings, time savings
Reintroduced Program
A TRSA MMI Curriculum Development Task Force consisting of Operator and Associate members, instructors, past attendees and staff analyzed previous MMI curriculum to refocus and reintroduce the MMI program in 2011; it had been dormant since 2008. Building from the development of the PMI program; the Task Force is pursuing a year-round learning initiative combining classroom, hands-on and distance learning.
MMI Program Structure
When students register for MMI they are enrolled in one of two modules of Core Topics and receive online preparation materials for these. A social network of registrants is set up to facilitate dialog between the participants before they arrive for their first in-person MMI. It consists of 2.5 days of classroom including these classes plus General Electives, orientation, interactive sessions, hands-on tours and group projects. Over the next year, distance learning takes place including group and individual projects with assessment. Students then return for their second in-person MMI for the other Core Topics module and more General Electives, interactive sessions, hands-on tours and group projects.
