Targeted Competencies:

• Fundamentals of maintenance, reliability and asset management
• Reliability modeling and failure modes for rotating and stationary machinery
• Learning from major failures
• Condition-based maintenance technologies
• Selection of appropriate maintenance strategies in asset management

By the end of this course delegates will be able to:

• Understand the Maintenance optimization best practice techniques
• Understand a range of equipment failures and their implications to the operational organization
• Design a maintenance plan for the upkeep and maintenance inspections of static and rotating plant
• Learn a practical approach to developing an action plan to utilize these technologies in their areas of responsibility, fitting them into the overall maintenance strategy, and measuring benefits
• Integrate the Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)

• 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

Unit 1: 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

Unit 2: 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
• Reflection on Why Systems Fail

Unit 3: Statistical Failure Analysis and Reliability:

• Further Reliability Definitions and Standards
• Examples of the Planning Process
• Hazard Function and Bath Tub Curve
• Weibull Analysis
• Rotating Equipment
• Major Failures in other Industries

Unit 4: Condition Based Maintenance:

• General Purpose CBM
• The P-F Curve
• Principles of Vibration Monitoring
• Thermal Monitoring
• Acoustic Emission
• Lubricant Monitoring

Unit 5: Decision Analysis in Asset Management:

• Main Criticism of Existing Management of Computerized Maintenance Systems
• The Asset Management Framework
• The Decision-Making Grid Approaches
• Selection of Appropriate Maintenance Strategies
• Integration of RCM, TPM and CBM Approaches

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration.