Effective Reliability Maintenance & Superior Maintenance Strategies
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Personnel who should attend are:
Day 1: Introduction to Maintenance and Reliability Management
The cost and risk of equipment failure
Pillars of excellence in maintenance
Best practice reliability and maintenance processes
Overview of FMECA, TPM, RCM, RBI, and RCFA
Day 2: Establish a Framework for Reliability
Build a competent team to drive reliability in each area
Asset identification, classification, and criticality grading
Define asset performance and efficiency standards
Anticipate the physical causes of failure and degradation
Anticipate the human causes
Analyze the effects and quantify the risks
Practical application of failure and risk analysis
Day 3: Failure Management Strategy Development
Risk-based approaches to failure management
Select proactive maintenance tactics on the basis of costs and risks
Preventive maintenance tasks and intervals
Predictive maintenance tasks and intervals
Failure detection and function testing tasks and intervals
Human error reduction through equipment, procedural and skill upgrades
Repair-after-failure strategies
Practical application and open discussion sessions of case study
Day 4: Failure Management Strategy Implementation
Aggressive defect reporting to feed the backlog
Plan for quality, time and safety
Budget for spare parts and make stocking decisions
Schedule maintenance to minimize operational downtime
Use appropriate metrics to drive defect elimination
Practical application and open discussion sessions
Day 5: Root Cause of Failure Analysis
Failure reporting analysis and corrective action system requirements
Use failure data and Pareto analysis identify and stratify improvement opportunities
Types of evidence, preservation and use
Organize the RCFA and apply the process
Practical RCFA case study using a MS Excel-based tool
Review of failure forensic techniques