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Course Modules

This training course is split into the following modules:

Our 10-day training courses consist of 2 modules that can be booked as a complete 10-day program or as individual 5-day courses.

Introduction

Maintenance best practices are essential for the success of both individuals and companies. This Maintenance Management & Technology: A to Z of Best Practices training course is designed to benefit both newly qualified professionals and seasoned experts who may want to refresh their skills. It covers all the core principles of maintenance, starting with the basics and progressing step by step to help establish a fully functional maintenance organization.

This comprehensive training course consists of two modules which can be booked as a 10 Day Training event, or as individual, 5 Day training courses.

Module 1 - Maintenance Management Best Practices: Systems, Tools & Techniques

Module 2 - Maintenance, Reliability and Asset Management Technology Best Practices

What are the Goals?

This training course will:

  • Provide a step-by-step guide to maintenance best practice starting with foundations and building up to best practice that will deliver maximum business benefits
  • Instruct Maintenance optimization best practice techniques
  • Provide opportunities to discuss the application of these best practices
  • Provide an opportunity to learn these concepts through practical exercises

Who is this Training Course for?

It is highly recommended that all Maintenance, Reliability, Engineering and technical support staff including leadership and management attend This Maintenance Management & Technology: A to Z of Best Practices training course. If you and your company are interested in greatly increasing productivity, this will be a very valuable training course.

This Maintenance Management & Technology: A to Z of Best Practices training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Maintenance supervisors and superintendents
  • Reliability engineers
  • Operational professionals who are interested in maintenance reliability and asset management
  • Safety and integrity professionals
  • Other professionals involved in process improvement

How will this Training Course be Presented?

This Maintenance Management & Technology: A to Z of Best Practices training course is designed to be a hands-on, stimulating experience. The training course is highly interactive with many discussion and facilitated practice sessions.

Course Content

MODULE I

Maintenance Management Best Practices

Day 1
An Overview of Key Maintenance Work Processes
  • Introduction to Maintenance Management
  • Definitions of key terms
  • Types of Maintenance – Reactive, planned and improvement jobs, Preventive and Proactive
  • A comprehensive maintenance control system
  • Priorities when implement a systematic preventative maintenance program
  • Case Studies Learning from Failures
Day 2
Maintenance Performance Measures Systems & Human Factors
  • Developing Maintenance Key Performance Indicators
  • The Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
  • Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
  • The Concept of ‘Ask Why 5 times!’
  • Teamwork and Continuous Improvement
  • Case Studies from Different Industries
Day 3
Key Terms and techniques in Reliability Systems and Maintenance Management
  • What is Reliability, Redundancy, Failure, Maintainability and Availability?
  • Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) & Mean Time to Repair (MTTR)
  • The Concept of the Bathtub Curve
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
  • Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)
Day 4
Maintenance Management Systems
  • Computerized maintenance Management Systems
  • Selection of Appropriate Maintenance Strategy
  • The Decision-Making Grid (DMG)
  • Integration of TPM, RCM and CBM
  • Case Studies from Different Industries
  • The Concept of Benchmarking
Day 5
Maintenance Planning and Control
  • Project Management in Maintenance & Shutdowns
  • Phases of Projects
  • Project management tools for planning
  • The concept of critical path method (CPM)
  • Resource Allocation
  • Project Crashing
MODULE II

Maintenance, Reliability & Asset Management Technology Best Practices

Day 6
Failure of Machines and Inspection Based Failure Analysis - Causes of Machinery Failure in Rotating Equipment
  • Cavitation in pumps
  • Tripping of turbines
  • Surging in compressors
  • Wear Mechanisms : Fatigue, Fretting, and Corrosion
  • Fundamental Machine Problems: Balance Problems, Alignment Problems, Machinery Mounting Problems
  • Fundamentals of maintenance and asset management
Day 7
Failure Analysis and Reliability
  • Elementary Statistics and standards
  • Reliability Models
  • Learning from major failures case studies in process industries
  • Learning from major failures case studies in oil and gas industries
  • Root cause analysis and extractions of specific and generic lessons
Day 8
Statistical Failure Analysis and Reliability
  • Further reliability definitions and standards
  • Hazard function and Bathtub curve
  • Weibull Analysis
  • Case studies from rotating equipment
  • Case studies of major failures in other industries and lessons learned
Day 9
Condition Based Maintenance
  • General Purpose
  • What is Vibration
  • Thermal Monitoring
  • Lubricant Monitoring
  • The Essentials of Vibration Monitoring
Day 10
Decision Analysis in Asset Management
  • Main criticism of existing management of computerised maintenance systems.
  • The Asset Management framework.
  • The decision making grid approach.
  • Selection of appropriate maintenance strategies.
  • Integration of RCM, TPM, and CBM approaches

The Certificate

Recognition
  • Anderson Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
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