About TRSA’s Maintenance Management Institute (MMI)

The TRSA Annual Maintenance Management Institute offers engineers, plant and general managers, as well as others responsible for maintaining and operating linen, uniform and facility services laundry equipment the opportunity to refine their technical and management skills to optimize plant efficiency. MMI maximizes equipment life and reduces downtime by teaching plant systems and components, building technical skills, enhancing understanding of electronics and improving engineering management.

  • Identifies opportunities to reduce costs
  • Incorporates plant problem-solving in corporate culture
  • Builds understanding of common equipment failures
  • Identifies plant-wide and departmental improvements
Techniques to Increase Professionalism, Decrease Downtime

The TRSA Maintenance Management Institute (MMI) emphasizes the latest technologies and maintenance practices while minimizing time away from the plant and overall cost to attend. The program teaches a variety of techniques that empower laundry personnel to create more effective, efficient maintenance practices. Participation fosters their professional relationships with colleagues and the foremost engineering experts.

Solutions to Your Specific Problems

When attendees arrive at each MMI, they note issues or problems they face in their plants that the MMI class can discuss and advise on solving. Participants fill in forms that explain these challenges. The MMI Task Force of engineering experts reviews these submissions for presentation in the MMI troubleshooting panel discussion.

Who Should Attend
  • Plant/Regional/Corporate Engineers
  • Maintenance/Plant/General Managers
  • Owner-Operators
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

PDF Registration Form

Dress Code

Business casual attire for all sessions & Plant Tours.

 

 

Hotel Information

Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott
1 Hotel Rd

Newark, NJ 07114

Room Rate/Group Code

Attendees may call The Marriott Central reservation line at 800-228-9290 and reference the 2024 Production Summit & Plant Tours and MMI. All individual reservations must be guaranteed with a major credit card at time of reservation. After the due date of September 23, 2024, if a guaranteed room is not canceled 72 hours prior to arrival, payment for the full rate on that room will be charged. To book your room online click here.

Reference 2024 Production Summit & Plant Tours and MMI to get the TRSA room rate of $165 before September 23, 2024. Limited availability. After the September 23, 2024, deadline, regular room rates will apply.

Location/Airport
The Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott is located about 1 mile from Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR).

Location

Agenda

Tuesday, October 15

Session

7:00 am

Registration Opens

7:00 - 8:00 am

Breakfast

8:00 - 9:30 am

Welcome & Keynote Session

Developing You and Your Team for Success and Growth

Tommy Cocanougher

9:30 - 9:45 am

Networking Break

9:45 - 1:00 am

Basics of Robotics & Automation and How to Remain Relevant

Allan Gibson, Ready Robotics

11:00 - 11:15 am

Networking Break

11:15 am - 12:00 Noon

HazCom Essentials: Safety Communications for Maintenance Engineers

Brian Varner

12:00 - 12:45 pm

Lunch

12:45 - 2:00 pm

What is Old is New Again: Keeping Machinery up after 30 Years of Hard Use

Paul Jewison, Textile Care Services

2:00 - 2:15 pm

Networking Break

2:15 - 3:45 pm

Process & Improvement: Assessing Your Plant with Fresh Eyes

Tom Baron, Industry Consultant

3:45 - 4:00 pm

Networking Break

4:00 - 4:45 pm

Navigating Confined Spaces: Key Safety Practices for Laundry Plant Engineers

Brian Varner

5:00 - 6:00 pm

Networking Happy Hour

Wednesday, October 16

Session

7:00 - 7:30 am

Breakfast

7:30 - 7:45 am

Board Bus for Plant Tour

7:45 am

Depart for Plant

8:30 am - 12:00 Noon

Plant Tour

Unitex

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 - 2:15 pm

Group Breakouts

2:15 - 2:30 pm

Networking Break

2:30 - 4:00 pm

Group Breakouts

4:00 - 4:15 pm

Networking Break

4:15 - 4:45 pm

General Session (Feedback)

5:00 - 6:00 pm

Networking Happy Hour

Thursday, October 17

Session

7:00 - 8:00 am

Breakfast

8:00 - 8:45 am

Group Presentation Preparations

8:45 - 9:00 am

Introductions

9:00 - 9:45 am

Group A

9:45 - 10:00 am

Networking Break

10:00 - 10:45 am

Group B

10:45 - 11:00 am

Networking Break

11:00 - 11:45 am

Group C

11:45 am - 12:00 Noon

Final Questions / Closing Remarks

12:00 - 1:00 pm

Workshop Wrap-Up

Sponsorship Options

Cancellation Policy

Written cancellations received by September 27, 2024 will receive a full refund minus a 25% processing fee. Cancellations received after September 27, 2024 will not be refunded and cannot be credited to another TRSA program or event. We will accept substitutions. After this date, TRSA has incurred costs associated with hotel guarantees and other expenses. All cancellations will be addressed and processed within 30 business days after the event.