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

• Consider the total true cost impact of equipment failures
• Review basic equipment design to discover what is necessary for its proper operation
• Look at equipment in a production environment to understand the operating impact
• Investigate expectations for the performance of plant and equipment
• Determine maintenance requirements and the operating environment
• Establish frequencies and a program for PM/PdM
• Identify processes, information, physical resources and job skills required for PM/PdM
• Recognize other business processes and information which link to PM/PdM
• Track and trend PM/PdM performance, outcomes and savings
• Identify necessary documentation, its content and its arrangement for PM/PdM
• Initiate the continuous improvement of PM/PdM systems and processes
• Imbed best practice maintenance into your organization

OE champions, Maintenance managers, engineers & planners, reliability and maintenance engineers, facilities and utilities managers, top level maintenance technicians, operations and production managers & engineers, plant engineers, design engineers, reliability engineers & technicians, operators, safety engineers, risk engineers, CMMS and spare parts personnel, safety engineers and anyone who is involved in reliability engineering

Key Design and Engineering Concepts for High Reliability

• Life-cycle Effect on Costs and Profits
• Designing to minimize operating costs
• Operating and maintenance requirements
• Defect and Failure True Costs
• Business-wide impact of breakdowns
• Cost surge from failure
• Variability and Defect Creation
• Defect generation model
• Defect elimination strategy
• Risk and Probability of Failure
• Frequency reduction strategies
• Consequence reduction strategies
• Physics of Failure
• Materials of construction limitations
• Design requirements and selection
• Degradation Curve, Degradation Causes
• Rate of equipment failure
• Condition monitoring frequency
• Reliability Growth Cause Analysis
• Minimizing deformation and stress in parts
• Precision practices for reducing stress
• Reliability Engineering
• Basic reliability concepts
• Improving equipment reliability
• Series and Parallel Reliability
• Series systems, Parallel systems
• Process Mapping for Reliability, Equipment
• Work activities
• FMECA/FMEA/RCM
• Methodologies explained
• Requirements for successful application of the methodologies
• Maintainability and Supportability
• Business processes for minimizing production downtime
• Improving maintenance response
• Failure Root Cause Analysis
• RCFA explained
• 5 Why explained
• Creative Disassembly explained

Installation, Operating and Maintenance Requirements

• Degradation and Degradation Management
• Condition monitoring for degradation
• Plant operation for maximum reliability
• Maintenance and Reliability Strategy
• Component Failure Curves
• Defect Elimination
• System Reliability
• Life Cycle Costs
• Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance
• Choosing suitable CM technologies
• Selecting parts replacement
• Preventive Maintenance Strategy
• Reliability through PM activities
• Selecting PM frequency
• Maintenance Procedures for Work Quality Assurance
• Accuracy controlled work quality
• Writing accuracy controlled procedures
• Lubrication Standard
• Lubrication cleanliness
• Lubrication management
• Balancing Standard
• Balance limits
• Common errors causing out-of-balance
• Alignment Standard
• Shaft alignment limits
• Common errors causing misalignment
• Bearing Vibration Standard
• Causes of bearing vibration
• Control of bearing vibration
• Precision Maintenance
• 12 requirements for precision maintenance
• Introducing precision maintenance to the workforce
• Stores and Storage Practices
• Storage for parts reliability
• Parts management for PM activities