Brad earned the CPMM credential this spring. He’s a big believer in its value — not just for himself, but for his whole organization. He said to the magazine:

"I told our general manager and manufacturing manager we not only need to move in this direction, but for us to do so, all four of my senior mechanics would have to take the CPMM, too. The department needed to be on the same page and understand where we were headed."

What an important message! Brad’s right — the CPMM will be evidence of an individual’s competence. But that individual shouldn’t have to fight to convey to others what he has learned when he returns to work after receiving the training. Ideally, all the key people in a facility department should earn the CPMM so they work in unison. With the same core values, knowledge and skills, their efficiency as a team will soar.

That’s the kind of high-level functioning that catches the CEO’s eye and reminds him just who’s responsible for the smooth operation of his capital assets.

When the CPMM program was developed last year by AFE’s certification board and Engineer’s Digest we made sure that it would defines standards of competence for industrial, commercial and institutional maintenance management. How? By addressing these critically relevant topics in its curriculum: maintenance management, preventive maintenance, inventory and procurement, work orders/work flows, computerized maintenance management, training and work cultures, predictive maintenance, reliability centered maintenance, total productive maintenance and maintenance financials/return on investment. The procedure for earning the CPMM is much the same as for our highly respected Certified Plant Engineer program. We can offer you a review course at a conference; you can take the exam there or under certain proctored conditions near your home. You must meet minimum criteria to be eligible, you must pass the test and you must continue to receive training to be recertified periodically.