Understanding Failures
- Machine Failure Analysis
- Wear and tribology
- Fatigue mechanisms
- Plain, tilt-pad and anti-friction bearing and seal failures
Failure Mechanics
- Wear & Failure Mechanisms
- Imperfections and Defects, Corrosion Mechanisms
- Failure Modes, Fatigue, Fretting, Creep & Thermal fatigue,
- Stress Corrosion Cracking, Other modes
- Material properties, and selection
- Carbon & Alloy steels, Nickel, Titanium, and Specialty alloys
- Aluminium, aluminium alloys, Copper, copper alloys
- Plastic piping, Alternative options-linings, cladding
- Limitations and safeguards, Material selection - economics-life cycle costing
Failure Prevention by Design
- Failure Causes - Design, Operation; Maintenance, Other Causes
- Material properties, and selection
- Physical properties and limitations of components
- Physical properties of steel and alloy piping and tubing
- Physical properties of fittings, Basic Design
- Pressure Vessels, Piping Systems, Liquid Storage Tanks
- Operation and Maintenance of Process Equipment
- Damage Mechanisms Affecting Process Equipment
Avoiding Failures
- Analysis and identification of failures
- FMEA and FMECA to identify failure modes and criticality analysis
- Trouble shooting techniques, Statistical analysis of failures
- Reliability, availability and maintainability
Understanding Planned Maintenances
- Planned Maintenance Concepts
- Introduction, Maintenance Strategies
- Planned Maintenance – background and history
- Planned Maintenance Technologies – an overview
- CMMS, Potential Failure Analysis
- Deciding which technologies to apply to avoid failures
Using Predictive Maintenance
- Vibration Analysis, Introduction to Vibration Analysis
- Frequency Analysis and the Fast Fourier Transform
- Vibration Transducers, Basic Failure Mechanisms with examples
- Vibration Standards and Alarm Levels, Vibration Diagnostics
- Amplitude Demodulation – aka Enveloping, SSE, HFD, Peak-Vue
- Vibration on Rolling Element Bearings
- Resonance – identification & cure
- Other Predictive Maintenance Techniques
- Infrared Thermography, Thermo graphic applications
- Passive Ultrasonic - contact and non-contact
- Ultrasonic Applications, Tribology – oil analysis
Inspection, Assessment and Maintenance
- Inspection Strategies Plans and Procedures – Risk Based Inspection (API 580)
- Developing an RBI Plan
- Fitness-For-Service Assessment(API 579)
- NDT Methods and Techniques
- Probability of Detection, Damage Characterization
- Selecting the correct technique(s)
- Pigging of Pipelines, Smart pigging
- Cleaning, Operational procedures.
Control Mechanisms
- Managing Planned Maintenance
- Performance and Efficiency Monitoring
- Managing the Planned Maintenance effort
- Cost Analysis, Reporting Techniques
- Integrating Predictive Maintenance into the Maintenance Plan