
An Intensive 5-day Training Course
Decision Analysis for Operation
& Maintenance Professionals
Prioritisation and Multiple Criteria Decision Making
UPCOMING SESSIONS
Date | Venue | Fee | |
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13-17 Oct 2025 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
15-19 Dec 2025 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
02-06 Feb 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
29 Mar-02 Apr 2026 | Riyadh - KSA | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
18-22 May 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
29 Jun-03 Jul 2026 | London - UK | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
07-11 Sep 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
12-16 Oct 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
14-18 Dec 2026 | Dubai - UAE | $5,950 | RESERVE A SEAT |
Training Course Overview
This Decision Analysis for Operation & Maintenance Professionals training course explores decision analysis techniques, with a focus on prioritization and the decision-making processes used by Operations, Maintenance, and Reliability Professionals. It offers a comprehensive overview of key decisions in areas related to operations, maintenance, and reliability activities, featuring examples and case studies that highlight both successes and failures.
Decision-making is a fundamental human activity, deeply rooted in our biology, and occurs both consciously and unconsciously. It's essential for our survival. Making decisions isn't just about choosing the best option; it often involves prioritizing alternatives to allocate resources across a portfolio of options or assessing the impact of changes on initial judgments. We must prioritize these solutions based on their effectiveness, taking into account their benefits, costs, risks, opportunities, and required resources.
This training course will feature:
- Breaking a problem down into its constituent parts or components, in the framework of a hierarchy
- Establishing importance or priority to rank the alternatives is a comprehensive & general way to look at the problem in a formal manner
- Application of Multi Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) to practical problems
- Introduction to different operational research & management science methods
- Enhance decision-making with goals and criteria & show how to measure and rank them
Training Course Objectives
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Improve productivity through use of better, timelier information
- Understand how world-class organisations solve common asset management problems
- Optimise planning and scheduling resources, carry out optimised failure analyses
- Optimise asset management budgets by avoidance of unplanned equipment failures in service
- Develop a practical approach of an action plan to utilise these technologies in their own areas of responsibility
Designed for
This training course is suitable to a wide range of technical professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Operation Professionals
- Maintenance Professionals
- Reliability Professionals
- Key Operations Supervisors
- Internal Improvement Consultants
Learning Methods
This Decision Analysis for Operation & Maintenance Professionals training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented. This includes hands-on, stimulating experience and using interactive user friendly decision analysis software. The training course is highly interactive with many discussion and facilitated practice sessions. Key points will be emphasised with case study examples. There will be a combination of presentation sessions and workshops during in this course.
The Course Outline
- Scope and significance of decisions
- The Decision making process
- The concept of best practice through learning from worst practice
- Introduction to reliability and Weibull analysis
- Case Studies and Group Exercises
- Definition of Decision Analysis
- How, and Why, Bad Decisions are Made
- Guidelines for Good Decision Analysis
- What is AHP?
- Benefit/Cost Analysis
- Resources Allocation
- Fault Tree Analysis
- Risk Priority Number
- The Criticality Matrix
- Modelling Reliability of Systems
- Series and Parallel Systems
- The Redundancy Concept
- What is ERP and how did it develop
- What is MRP System
- The Bill of Materials
- Master Production Schedule
- Practical Examples
- Case Studies and Group Exercises
- How to get the most of your CMMS?
- Benefits that can result from CMMS
- Optimum Decisions for Maintenance Policies
- Key Features of Next Generation Maintenance Systems
- How to transform Data to Decisions
- Examples of Approaches and Case Studies
The Certificate
- Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course
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